The Apprentice Review
DISCLAIMER: References to SA. The US is in an awful state right now. As of writing a number of climate disaster have left many without basic resources. Statewide abortion bans are forcing literal children and victims of SA to carry the offspring of their attackers….
Sting – Movie Review
The landscape of American horror is in a weird state these days. The most inflated of the popular genres consistently since its inception, its marketplace is now flooded by straight to stream chancers hoping for a quick buck off the basis of a its AI…
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…
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…
Baghead – Movie Review
Baghead is a horror offering from a team of writers including Bryce Mcguire (of Night Swim fame), and directed by Alberto Corredor (of no real fame that I am aware). It is adapted from the original 2017 short of the same name. The story is…
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…
