“We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat”: A Series On The Movies of 1975 and Their 2025 Comps

“We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat”: A Series On The Movies of 1975 and Their 2025 Comps

#1: Chicken Jockeys and Psych Wards The year 1975 is widely ascribed to be the first canonical ‘Great Movie Year’ – that is the first to have its movies lauded, interrogated and discussed widely as a collective. The dawn of the modern blockbuster with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws arrived alongside a raft of exciting auteur-driven projects,…

Run Silent, Run Deep: DIFF’s Silent Shorts Gala Demonstrates How A Festival Can Effectively Bring Classic Cinema to a New Audience

Run Silent, Run Deep: DIFF’s Silent Shorts Gala Demonstrates How A Festival Can Effectively Bring Classic Cinema to a New Audience

The 2025 Dublin International Film Festival has gotten off to a roaring start. Thursday’s Opening Night Gala saw Light House Cinema’s Screen 1 hosting everyone’s favourite ‘King of the Conclave’, Ralph Fiennes, in attendance for the Irish premiere of his new film, The Return, alongside the film’s director, Uberto Pasolini. Friday saw a fantastic celebration…

Charades, shifts and sinking ships – Valentine’s viewing from the Film In Dublin team

Charades, shifts and sinking ships – Valentine’s viewing from the Film In Dublin team

Love is in the air in the fair city of film. Across Dublin’s cinemas, there’s plenty of Valentine’s Day screenings afoot, whether it’s The People’s Joker at the Light House, romance rescreenings at the Stella, or 80th anniversary screenings of heartbreaking classic Brief Encounter at the IFI. The new Bridget Jones is out, as is…

Beasts & Babygirls – do audiences know their own desires?

Beasts & Babygirls – do audiences know their own desires?

“Get on your knees” Harris Dickinson orders Nicole Kidman, as their characters tentatively crawl into a sub-dom affair in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. His character means it, but in the moment he does something disarming; he laughs, his cocky intern Samuel struck by the absurdity of ordering the older, steely CEO Romy Mathis around sexually, when…