Longlegs – Review
I’ve stated recently that there is always going to be a market for horror in film. It’s a sadistic pastime that a lot of people enjoy and a state of mind most people don’t experience in their day to day: simulated terror. Most of us…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It Lives Inside Movie Review
“It Lives Inside” is a supernatural horror and marks the feature-length directorial debut of Bishal Butta, who also penned the script. It tells the story of Samidha (Megan Suri), an American/Indian teenager, navigating the delicate balance between integrating into Western culture and the expectations from…
