Hector and the Search for Happiness
August 14th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Soon into Hector and the Search for Happiness, the baffling new leading man vehicle for Simon Pegg from director Peter …
Film / Theatre Reviews
Happy Days Festival: Catastrophe
August 12th, 2014 | by Ian Patterson
It seemed certain that somebody would let the cat out of the bag. A tongue would slip and the secret …
Guardians of the Galaxy
August 4th, 2014 | by Brian Coney
Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s big summer movie, is a hot-blooded, swaggering space-opera blockbuster and a finely-judged exercise in controlled …
Happy Days Festival: Donal O’Kelly reads Samuel Beckett’s Sedendo et Quiescendo
August 4th, 2014 | by Ian Patterson
For some, purgatory might well be a dawn rise to catch a 7am boat on Lough Erne, one that ferries …
The Purge: Anarchy
July 30th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
2011’s The Purge, written and directed by relatively green film-maker James DeMonaco, was a concept in search of a movie. …
Boyhood
July 29th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is both an aesthetic and logistical triumph. That it exists at all is a victory of sorts, …
I am Divine
July 28th, 2014 | by Richard Davis
Prolific filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz turns his attention to the life and career of drag artist Divine, the cinematic muse of …
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
July 16th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
The first of this Planet of the Apes trilogy, 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, benefited enormously from …
Transformers: Age of Extinction
July 14th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
That the Transformers films, brought to us jointly by Hasbro’s accountancy department and the jock-bro personality of Michael Bay, are …
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie: A Dissection
July 3rd, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
It is hard to imagine a less fashionable sitcom than Mrs. Brown’s Boys, Brendan O’Carroll’s cash-spewing granny-drag comedy in which …