Land of Mine
August 11th, 2017 | by Kev Lovski
World War 2 films could be seen to have been at saturation point for quite some time but writer/director Martin …
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
August 4th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Modern blockbuster film-making is calling out for a new The Fifth Element, but Valerian and the City of a Thousand …
Hounds of Love
August 2nd, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
For his debut feature, Australian film-maker Ben Young returns to his Perth roots, subjecting his hometown to a predator’s gaze. …
Captain Underpants
July 31st, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Unsurprising news: Captain Underpants is a silly movie. Surprising news: it’s also not bad. Based on Dav Pilkey’s popular children’s …
Girls Trip
July 28th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Some movies are made for audiences. Not in a buck-passing ‘we made it for the fans, not the critics’ way …
Dunkirk
July 20th, 2017 | by Kevin Murray
Dunkirk, one of the summer’s most hyped and star-strewn aspiring blockbusters, is about that iconic crossroads moment of the early …
Galway Film Fleadh: Maudie
July 19th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
The real-life tale of an arthritic misunderstood woman who finds meaning and recognition through art, Maudie could’ve have easily fallen …
The Graduate
July 18th, 2017 | by Richard Davis
Fifty years have passed since the original release of The Graduate, the film that launched Dustin Hoffman as a star, …
Galway Film Fleadh: The Big Sick
July 14th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Pakistani-American comic Kumail Nanjiani and writer Emily V. Gordon, married co-hosts of popular podcast ‘The Indoor Kids’, have mined the dramatic beginning …
Spider-Man: Homecoming
July 14th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
‘The world’s changing’, announces Michael Keaton’s Vulture, Spider-Man: Homecoming’s feather-ruffed villain, ‘and we have to change with it’. Change is …