Leave No Traces (2021) Review
Poland’s Jan P. Matuszynski arrives with his 2nd major feature film after 2016’s The Last Family with film involving one of Poland’s most infamous cases of state brutality and intimidation. The murder and state cover-up of Grzegorz Przemyk, an anti-communist young poet at the hands…
The Cellar (2022) Review
Ireland in the last couple of years has seen a small boom in horror films. A genre that given our history (both mythological and real) would be perfect for big screen adaptions. Lee Cronin’s The Hole in the Ground (2019) and Lorcan Finnegans Vivarium (2019)…
You Are Not My Mother – Review
You Are Not My Mother is written and directed by Kate Dolan and stars Hazel Doupe (Float Like a Butterfly, Calm with Horses), Carolyn Bracken (Dublin Murders), Paul Reid (Vikings, Ritual), Ingrid Craigie (Blood, Seven Days in Entebbe) and Jordanne Jones (Metal Heart, I Used To Live Here)….
The Electric Life of Louis Wain – Review
I find it odd going into a film not knowing anything about it. I always have a sense of anxiety or unease thinking: “Am I just going to sit here and be bored or is my mind going to explode with the level of artistry…
Last Night in Soho – Review
As people, we often reminisce about how good things once were. As a child, my parents would complain about my music, because the music of their generation is better according to them. I’m sure their parents, my grandparents, had the same complaints as well. I…
Everything in the End – Review
A breathtaking meditation on apocalypse & grief from a refreshingly simple & movingly human perspective. I went to see ‘Everything in the End’ at IndieCork last month knowing very little about the film or the director Mylissa Fitzsimmons. I was intrigued by the synopsis and…
Spencer – Review
Directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie) and starring Kristen Stewart in the lead role, Spencer is an imagined account of what happened over the three days during Christmas in 1991 when divorce rumours were rife between Diana and Charles. Set in the Queens residence of Sandringham…
Deadly Cuts – Review
Written and directed by Rachel Carey and starring Angeline Ball (The Commitments), Erika Roe (Herself, Dublin Murders) Shauna Higgins (Dating Amber, Red Rock) and Lauren Larkin (Love/Hate) in the central roles. Set in Piglinstown, a fictional working-class suburb of Dublin, Deadly Cuts centres on four…