The Film In Dublin team came together before Christmas to pick out their favourite films from the last year.

The Film In Dublin team came together before Christmas to pick out their favourite films from the last year.
Director: Marie Kreutzer Starring: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Jeanne Werner Running Time: 112 minutes Most of us know well enough on this side of the Irish Sea that there’s something mortifying about monarchy, a stifling drag performance of power. Corsage literally opens with a royal struggling to breath under the weight of it all, Vicky…
A season of films that bring to mind the Rashomon Effect will be screening at the Smithfield cinema in January. At least, that’s the way they tell it. Akira Kurosawa’s hugely influential 1950 historical drama is returning to cinemas in January; an unconventional, interesting and radical film that has rippled out into many great films…
Directors: Michelle Lesh & Trevor Frost Featuring: Harry Turner, Samantha Zwicker, Keanu the Ocelot Running Time: 105 minutes An always enticing, potentially volatile feature of documentary filmmaking is the way that the story can run away from both the director and the subject. An elevator premise pitch never stays static when faced with the changeable…
If you’re heading to Smithfield for cinema this month, you’ve likely been taking in some of the Christmas classics of this year’s Naughty or Nice season at the Light House. There’s one final programme for the cinema to fit in before 2022 is out however, with a selection of some of their favourite films of…
Director: James Cameron Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Cliff Curtis Running Time: 192 minutes Was Avatar notably un-notable or un-notably notable? That’s been the conversation about the highest grossing movie of all time since before it was even out of cinemas in 2009. Where once the divide was between…
Pretty Deadly Films celebrates the best of blockbusters and beyond. Our latest issue is available now. Our twelth issue is packed with art and articles celebrating the movies that get mouths watering! You can order a digital download or print edition now from our ko-fi shop. In PDF 12: Pay what you can and get your copy…
Director: Luke McManus Featuring: Lisa O’Neill, John Francis Flynn, Séan Ó Túama, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Ian Lynch, Gemma Dunleavy Running Time: 80 minutes “Those in power write the history, those who struggle write the songs”. North Circular quotes Frank Harte’s assertion, and in its journey through the length of the North Circular Road, stopping off…
A powerful examination of the experiences of people who are living with HIV in Ireland today, How to Tell A Secret is a hybrid documentary film that looks at social stigma and the art of telling your story. The highly anticipated film will open on limited release in select Irish cinemas from Thursday 1st December, coinciding with World AIDS Day 2022. Robbie Lawlor…