Director: Danny Boyle Starring: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell Running Time: 115 minutes There are few more defining images of popular cinema in the new millennium than that of Cillian Murphy’s Jim, freshly out of a month-long coma, wandering the vacant streets of a London ravaged by disaster as the…
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Drinking 9 Pints of Blood: Casting The First Stone in ‘Sinners’
Director: Ryan Coogler Starring: Michael B. Jordans, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Wummi Mosaku, Li Jun Li, Miles Caton Running Time: 137 minutes After a decade and change of the blockbuster film landscape being almost entirely lead by 30+ year old franchise Intellectual Property still reigning in its dozenth iteration, I began to wonder…
Spaceboat Robbie: Octodecuple Trouble in Mickey 17
Director: Bong Joon-Ho Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo Running Time: 137 minutes After a troubled road to release, being ping ponged from month to month and year to year on the release calendar by WB, Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to his world-beating awards hit Parasite has fortuitously made its way…
The East Asia Film Festival returns to the IFI for 2025 this month
Forever a hotbed for global cinema fans, a weekend of new and exciting films from East Asia will be making their way to the Temple Bar screens of the IFI at the end of the month thanks to the East Asia Film Festival’s 9th edition. With films that premiered in big festivals like Berlin, Cannes,…
DIFF 2025: Postcards from Happy Endings in Neo Sora and Radu Jude’s new films
Happyend Director: Neo Sora Starring: Kurihara Hayato, Hidaka Yukito, Ayumu Nakajima, Makiko Watanabe, Shirō Sano. Running Time: 113 minutes The senior prank, one of the great fascinations of American cinema. It feels rare to see these burning displays of late adolescence in other realms of global cinema, but Neo Sora’s (Ryuichi Sakamoto:Opus) debut retools those well worn senioritis japes for…
Sundown on the Strip: Facing the end in The Last Showgirl
Director: Gia Coppola Starring: Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman Running Time: 89 minutes It has felt a little hard lately to avoid the fact that everything is getting worse all the time. For me, at least. Every day it feels as if an additional piece…
The Killing of Several Dozen Sacred Sheep: Farmland Fury in ‘Bring Them Down’
Director: Christopher Andrews Starring: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Aaron Heffernan, Colm Meaney Running Time: 106 minutes Watching the exports of the European arthouse over the last few years, one of the big strains of film I’ve seen pop up has been the rural paranoid thriller. These are dour films shot in…