All posts in June 2024
GAZE launch programme for 2024 Festival
The GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival is returning on the August Bank Holiday for its 32nd edition, showcasing the best in new Irish filmmaking and in queer international cinema. As always Ireland’s long standing queer film festival will cover a spectrum of eras and identities, from spotlighting new works by Elliot Page to celebrating the history of…
KAT3 DOLAN to join M3GAN Universe with SOULM8TE
Two queens of horror are coming together to maximise their joint slay. Ireland’s own Kate Dolan will be directing a new film in the M3GAN series, as Atomic Monster and Blumhouse begin work on SOULM8TE, a spin-off set in the same world as the para-sociopathic doll. As reported by Deadline, the companies are aiming for an early 2026 release…
Pride Previews for Crossing across Ireland
One of this year’s most anticipated films comes early across Ireland this month. To celebrate Pride month, MUBI & GAZE Film Festival are delighted to present special preview screenings of Crossing, a heartfelt vision of forgiveness from acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced, Sweden’s 2019 Academy Award® entry). Audiences can enjoy an exclusive first look of…
A Serial Summer at the IFI with Serial Saturdays
A new strand at the Irish Film Institute will bring back the fun of film serials this summer. It’s a bowl of blockbuster breakfasts on offer this June and July with the IFI’s Saturday Serial. In the first decades of cinema, serial series would keep audiences coming back to the cinema week after week, eager…
Film gets lit at the Bloomsday Film Festival this June
Joyce fans rejoice. Ireland’s most literary film festival returns to the fair city of film next week. The festival aims to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature. They’ll…
They ain’t going nowhere – Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Directors: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Running Time: 115 minutes Every movie in the now-4-part Bad Boys series is a mindless action movie, but it is important to distinguish the different flavours of mindlessness. The first two, as directed by Michael Bay are pure meathead madness, slickly produced, gleefully cruel intentional excess. Since…
Watch Out! The Watchers or The Watched? What Are We Watching: Livewatch
The Watchers, the feature directorial debut of M. Knight Shyamalan’s daughter Ishana Shyamalan, is coming soon to Irish cinemas. The film began production in Galway in summer 2023, and wrapped principal photography in September of that year. The film stars Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds) as Mina, a 28-year-old artist, as she gets stranded…