Back to Black - Movie Review
Music biopics are a fickle business in the film world. Our parasocial relationship with celebrities has led us to dramatize even the minutest moments of someone’s life for the sake of a profit margin. It’s a duel between truth or fiction, real and fake, that…
Jeanne Du Barry - Movie Review
During the Nouvelle Vague the French filmmakers of Cahier Du Cinema rebelled against what they were seeing from their indigenous cinema. Costume dramas directed by journeymen directors with no real applicable identity to their work were the standard. Since the French New Wave France has…
Immaculate Review
Since her breakout role in HBO’s Euphoria Sydney Sweeney has been climbing the Hollywood social ladder in recent years. She’s been quite a bankable actress for the Hollywood filler releases in the off months. Anyone but You (2023) was critically panned but killed at the…
TWIG Movie Review
The shining star of this year’s DIFF opening gala, Marian Quinns TWIG has been touted to be one of the must-see Irish films of the 2024. Following a 17-year hiatus from 2007’s A32, TWIG is Quinns modern retelling of the Greek tragedy of Antigone set…
Origin Review
The work of Ava DuVernay has been a champion of American cinema for years now. She’s done it all: an award-winning documentary, the hard-hitting biopic/historical drama, a Disney movie with Oprah and a Netflix miniseries. The varied nature of all that sounds like a lot,…
Double Blind Review
In the vast expanse of low to mid budget horror there’s a plethora of bad concept horrors. For every The Platform there’s an Escape Room, for every Get Out there’s a Master and so on. Irish horror is no different in this (see my previous…
Let the Wrong One In Review
In the past few years Ireland has seen a long overdue transition where filmmakers look internally for stories and move away from trying to impress the international marketplace. Movies like Paddy Breathnach’s Rosie, Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, Frank Berry’s Michael Inside and Rachel Carey’s Deadly Cuts…
How to Tell a Secret Review
In recent times there has been a surge in media relating to the treatment of the LGBTQ+ community during the HIV and AIDS crisis of the 80’s and 90s. Films like Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM and Matthew Warchus’s Pride, series like Russell T Davies’s It’s…
