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…
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About Olivia O'Ríada
Olivia Ó'Ríada is a film programmer and editor from Navan, splitting her time between there and Belfast via Dublin. Her programming work has been found at the Queen's Film Theatre and at the upcoming Trans Image/Trans Experience Film Festival.
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…