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…
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5 Irish Buy-opics to enter the Brand New Wave
Stingy studios stiffing strikers, films written off for tax breaks, ‘cameos’ by actors that have been dead for decades, Mel Gibson still being cast in things – we’re living in a Golden Age of Bankruptcy not seen since the Recession. And why should ‘moral’ have all the fun, when ‘creative’ can get involved too? For…
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…
IFI Family Film Festival 2023 will be a before-back-to-school blast
The Irish Film Institute’s annual all-ages festival is a great opportunity for parents to encourage their kids’ interest in arts, storytelling and animation, take in family films from other parts of the world, and get a few cinema screenings in at the tail end of the summer. The 2023 edition of the IFI Family Film…
Popcorn at the Irish Film Institute – Everything you need to know
EXHIBIT. EDUCATE. PRESERVE. POPCORN. The IFI announced yesterday a long awaited addition to the Institution. The Dublin cinema will now be offering popcorn and concessions at the box office. New visitors to the Temple Bar cinema have been surprised over the years at the lack of traditional concessions on offer, but now in addition to…
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…
It’s the end of the world as they nose it – Apocalypse Clown in cinemas September
Apocalypse Clown – not the name your ex is under on your phone, but the upcoming comedy that’s sold out its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh – has a release date across the UK and Ireland this autumn. Vertigo Releasing and Wildcard Distribution have announced that George Kane’s end of the world clown comedy…