Achill Island Film Festival social media account courts controversy defending high-profile transphobes

The Achill Island Film Festival has for the last two years aimed to provide a showcase of Irish and international filmmakers off the west coast of Ireland. Recent social media posts from the festival’s official X (formerly Twitter) account have caused concern among the Irish filmmaking community however. Early in the morning of the 17th…

Stars gaze and named names blaze at cinemas this August in the fair city of film

In the time it takes you to read this sentence it will have rained the heaviest amount in recorded history and hit temperatures so high as to dry everything off again. Irish seasons are becoming even more unpredictable than ever, and August, a bewildering holiday limbo of summer/autumn indecisiveness remains a seasonal uncertainty, but at…

Boyne Valley International Film Festival set for this weekend 11 – 13 August

Featuring work from filmmakers including Mia Mullarkey, Hannah Mammalis, Derek Ugochukwu, Pollyanna McIntosh, Myles O’Reilly, Aaron Monaghan and Clare Monnelly amongst many others, the Boyne Valley International Film Festival (BVIFF) returns this August from the 11-13.  After a hugely successful inaugural festival in 2022, co-directors, Collette Farrell and Frank W. Kelly are delighted to welcome both filmmakers…

Nolan builds & burns Oppenheimer’s Pro-Me Thesis

Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Bennie Safdie, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Tom Conti Running Time: 180 minutes The mega-blockbusters of Christopher Nolan have always been works of ambition, and contradiction. Cold crowd pleasers, IMAX on…

Ireland’s first sex worker film festival is currently fundraising

This October will see Red Umbrella Film Festival take place as Ireland’s first-ever sex worker film festival. Taking place 19th – 22nd October 2023 in Dublin, RUFF is organised by a collective of current and former sex workers and aims to be a celebratory as well as informative festival, with films, workshops, panel discussions, and…

North Circular to have theatrical release in New York City

Luke McManus’ multi-award winning journey through Dublin’s history, working-class culture and unbreakable creative spirit will open in New York on Friday, 28th July at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema. The festival favourite has been around the world recently, including a trip to China, and McManus and some of the musicians featured in the film will be in…