Aladdin
May 30th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
How is it possible for something to be both the same, and less? It’s a curious philosophical achievement Disney have …
May 30th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
How is it possible for something to be both the same, and less? It’s a curious philosophical achievement Disney have …
May 3rd, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
Confusão: chaos, anarchy, confusion. The word runs through Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow’s Another Day of Life like a …
April 26th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
God bless Robert Downey Jr. As Tony Stark, the lonely tin man with a hole in his chest, Downey Jr. …
April 22nd, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Wrapping up this year’s Belfast Film Festival, Michele Devlin and Mark Cousins took to the podium and paid tribute, in …
April 18th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
If you are someone who finds the multi-pronged genius of Bo Burnham gallingly unjust, then brace yourself. The comedian has …
April 17th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Plagues, locusts and temptation in the desert: Birds of Passage is biblical in its grandeur and moral ruin. The current …
April 15th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Opening the 19th Belfast Film Festival, Mark Cousins, newly installed Chairperson and mega-watt generator of cinematic enthusiasm, advertised the rectangular …
April 9th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Reality slips and slides in Happy as Lazzaro (“Lazzaro Felice”), the third feature from Italian film-maker Alice Rohrwacher, a …
April 9th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Bam! A flash of lightning hits and, just like that, D.C.’s moviescape jolts into life, pumped up on the wisecrack …
March 28th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
The Irish bog is fertile metaphorical soil. It’s dank, ancient, unforgiving. It brings you down and sucks you in and …