Million Dollar Pigeon Review
Million Dollar Pigeon is an incredibly charming documentary directed by Gavin Fitzgerald who should be extremely proud of his team as this gem has all the elements of a great feature documentary with comedy, action and the most interesting subjects who talk and coo. It’s…
It’s In Us All Review
In the world of film debut’s there tends to be a certain pressure put on filmmakers with promise. Not everyone can make a Citizen Kane or a Reservoir Dogs, it can take an artist some time to find themselves in their work and build tropes…
Joyride Film Review
Directed by Emer Reynolds (The Farthest), written by Ailbhe Keogan (Run and Jump) and starring the Oscar winning actress Olivia Colman and newcomer Charlie Reid, Joyride is a road movie that tells the story of a young boy called Mully (Charlie Reid) who runs away…
The Railway Children Return Review
Directed by Morgan Matthews (X + Y) and starring Sheridan Smith (Cilla), Jenny Agutter (Call The Midwife), Tom Courtenay (45 Years, Billy Liar) and John Bradley (Game of Thrones) The Railway Children Return centres around three children from Manchester Lily (Beau Gadsdon), Pattie (Eden Hamilton)…
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…