Irish animation continues to gain worldwide recognition this year with Jack O’Shea’s A Coat Made Dark being featured at Sundance Film Festival 2016, Brown Bag’s Peter Rabbit receiving it’s fifth Emmy Award and Cartoon Saloon’s feature Song of the Sea being recognised in Belgium’s Magritte awards and the UK’s Empire awards 2 years after its…
All posts in August 2016
Watch This: Stranger Things In A Small Irish Village
If you’re like us you’ve been making your way through the latest Netflix show Stranger Things. It’s combination of Spielberg style charm and John Carpenter style mood have created a hit that we just can’t help binge-watching. Opening in Irish cinemas August 26th is Irish documentary Strange Occurences In A Small Irish Village, Aoife Kelleher’s look at life in the…
‘STRANGE OCCURRENCES IN A SMALL IRISH VILLAGE’ SKIMS THE SURFACE OF A MIRACLE
Director: Aoife Kelleher Release Date: Aug 26th Run Time: 90 mins Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village is the latest documentary from Aoife Kelleher, Director of the award winning One Million Dubliners. The small village in question is Knock, Co Mayo. One dark evening in August of 1879 this rural Irish town was host to an…
Short and Sweet: Culture Night at the IFI September 16th
The Irish Film Institute is screening a selection of family-friendly Irish shorts in celebration of Culture Night on Friday the 16th of September. The programme is in three parts; 6:15pm, 7pm and 7:45pm. Free tickets are available at the IFI box office. The evening will begin with an introduction from the IFI’s programming team and will…
Life On The Road Is Tough For David Brent
Director: Ricky Gervais Starring: Ricky Gervais, Doc Brown, Tom Basden Running Time: 96 minutes It’s hard to say goodbye if you don’t leave and though David Brent has been laying low since the original version of The Office ended in 2003, so much of him is tied up in Ricky Gervais’ comedic persona that we’ve never really had time to…
Two More Irish Productions Selected For TIFF
Following on from the announcement last month that Irish films The Secret Scripture, Unless and Maudie as well as Northern Irish film The Journey were selected for the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, it was announced today that two more Irish productions will be having their world premieres at TIFF. Irish film Without Name and the Irish co-production Forever Pure have joined the list of films chosen to be…
Viggo Mortensen Makes His Way To Dublin
The star of A History of Violence, The Road, Eastern Promises and The Lord of the Rings trilogy’s Aragorn, Viggo Mortensen is making his way to Dublin next week.
Bobby Sands 66 Days Breaks Box-Office Records
Following its release on Friday, Bobby Sands 66 Days has achieved the highest ever opening weekend at the Irish box office for a home made documentary and now holds the second highest opening weekend of all time for documentaries, with Fahrenheit 9/11 in the top spot for documentaries overall and last year’s Amy Winehouse documentary Amy just behind in third place.
Centenary Cinema: Happenings Present In The Name Of The Father
With the year that’s in it, Happenings will be showing some of the greatest Irish films of the last 100 years between August and October 2016. This special edition of Happenings’ popular Open Air Cinema Screenings, called ‘Centenary Cinema’, will celebrate the best of Irish film. Guests involved with the making of the films will be in…
SUICIDE SQUAD: A WATCHABLE MESS
Director: David Ayer Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jay Hernandez, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne Run Time: 130 minutes. There are reviews out there that would have you believe that this film is a travesty; something to be avoided at all costs. Thankfully, it’s not quite that bad. Ok yes, if we’re being…