As we prepare to step into 2025, the Film in Dublin team have come together to compile a list combining our favourite films of 2024. From eye-opening documentaries, nail-biting horrors, sexy thrillers and thumping tunes, there’s something for everybody in this collection from Luke, Jess, Ethan, Néil and Keelan. We hope you see some of…
‘Fame makes monkeys of us all’ serves as both the tagline of the film Better Man, and also the conceit behind its most significant choice. Even if one had no knowledge of Robbie Williams or never saw the film, it was hard to argue that having the man himself represented by a Caesar-esque CGI ape…
As the year winds down, we’re already looking ahead at Film In Dublin in anticipation for the next Dublin International Film Festival. One of the first big events on the calendar every year for Irish film fans, the 2025 edition of DIFF will be taking place from 20 February – 2 March. Early announcements for…
He could play Jimmy Stewart, our Cillian Murphy. With his lanky features, his presence and poise and those bright blue eyes, always either steeled in determination or pooled into despair on the big screen, he could easily step into the shoes of the great American everyman for some middling biopic. Who Murphy did play this…
Director: Justin Kurzel Starring: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, Marc Maron Running Time: 116 minutes In previous films like True History of the Kelly Gang, Macbeth, and even in glimpses during his odd and unsatisfying adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, Aussie director Justin Kurzel has played power fantasies as fever dreams,…
Striking Galway cinema the Pálás is set to close its doors soon, after they announced this week the ‘difficult decision’ this week. Citing the ‘stark reality’ of rising business costs and oversaturation of the cinema market for shutting down, the Pálás Cinema confirmed on Wednesday that ongoing financial losses will see them close for good…
Director: J.C. Chandor Starring: Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Russell Crowe, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott Running Time: 126 minutes Sergei ‘Kraven’ Kravinoff is a hunter. The press in the film (rather unimaginatively) refers to him as ‘The Hunter’. Sergei himself prefers ‘Kraven’, though with the proviso that, “anyone who knows that name is…
Film curation and sharing has experienced a rapid increase in popularity in recent years. The popularity of the film-logging social media site, Letterboxd, has made film obsession a modern personality trait, and the ‘Four Favourites’ arrangement on Letterboxd profiles has become a new way to wear our pop-culture loves on our sleeves, like patches on…
The latest book by historic Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn will be making its way to shelves in the new year. Across decades of a career in film, photography, television and more, Quinn has seen the arts on the island expand, and his new book will chart those experiences. The Count Me Out: Selected Writings of…
“There’s an irony in the best British film being Irish,” Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt said last night, after accepting the Best British Independent Film award at the BIFAs. Which, yeah. The Daily Mail have described the success story as only they can, “Anti-British Irish language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film…
