The 34th Galway Film Fleadh will be taking place from 5th – 10th July in the Town Hall Theatre and Pálás Cinema, Galway. With the full programme now revealed, top talents from home and abroad will be shown as the Fleadh celebrates cinema this summer. The Fleadh programmers have assembled a large programme, with plenty of Irish…
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It’s a teenage dream this summer at the Light House’s Not Another Teen Season
The Light House have announced their summer season and it’s more packed than a pimple and more exciting than a sweaty first shift at a disco. All the way from July to September at the Smithfield cinema it’s Not Another Teen Season, a celebration of teen movies across genre, across decades and all across the…
Sleazy riders, raging bops – More New Hollywood directors that CMAT could write songs about
Ireland’s favourite global pop sensation CMAT has released the music video for Peter Bogdanovich, one of the tracks from her album If My Wife New I’d Be Dead. Part personal lament, part auteur call-out post, the Peter Bogdanovich video is an offbeat exploration of one of the forefathers of the New Hollywood era, and a…
Shorts in bloom at Bloomsday Film Festival 2022
Bloomsday is here again this summer and with it comes Ireland’s most literary film festival, back for its third year. 2022 marks the centenarian celebration of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and the Bloomsday Film Festival 2022 has expanded its efforts to serve as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation accordingly.…
Director Tara O’Callaghan calls the shots in sex work doc Call Me Mommy
Tara O’Callaghan is a director on the up, working with the rising Motherland and directing eye-catching docs like Call Me Mommy. With Motherland and sister company Event Junkies recently merging in an effort to create one of Ireland’s most progressive production companies for production, post-production, delivery of film, commercials, online content and music videos, their…
5 films you must watch for the Platinum Jubilee
Ever since Ireland’s own 4 day bank holiday earlier in the year it’s been difficult to shake that feeling that life should just be this way all the time, and our friends across the Irish Sea get to experience that from today, as their aged leader grants them a fleeting sense of joy. Do not,…
It’s showtime at the IFI this June for their Bob Fosse season
The Irish Film Institute will be hosting a retrospective on one of the great names in musical cinema throughout June. The American dancer, choreographer and director Bob Fosse will be featured throughout the next month as all five feature films directed by Fosse will screen at the IFI. The season starts on Thursday 9th June…
‘Leave No Traces’ – powerful Polish political thriller in Irish cinemas June 10th
access>CINEMA is releasing Polish political thriller Leave No Traces in Irish cinemas from June 10th. The film, which was Poland’s submission for Best International Feature for this year’s Oscars, recounts a notorious chapter in modern Polish history. Directed by Jan P. Matuszynski, Leave No Traces begins in May 1983. High school student Grzegorz Przemyk and his older friend Jurek…
Top Gun: Maverick is top fun
Director: Joe Kosinski Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connolly, Glen Powell Running Time: 121 minutes The original Top Gun is the kind of capital-A Action Movie that ruled the 80s and early 90s, a kind of visual hair metal and a perfect fit both for its director Tony Scott and for star…
Submissions open now for Pretty Deadly Films #10 – Marty Party
Film In Dublin’s Pretty Deadly Films zine will be returning for the 4th of July and we’re accepting submissions from contributors now. Our next issue will be celebrating one of the great directors in the summer’s hottest party (at least in online PDF form). Each issue of PDF looks at film through the lens of a particular theme, with…