Pretty Deadly Films celebrates the best of blockbusters and beyond. Our latest issue is available now. Our eleventh issue is packed with art and articles inspired by what you would call ‘necessary sex’ on the big screen – moments in movies where the characters are overcome by need, scenes that set your pulse racing, wherever that…
In his original review in 1997, the late, great Roger Ebert praised the patience and precision of Jackie Brown. The film’s ability to let a moment sit, to allow a character to reason out the story that’s playing out around them, is a talent that writer and director Quentin Tarantino has turned to plenty in…
We hear a lot these days that movie stars don’t exist anymore. They’re on-screen victims of the endless IP onslaught, unable to sell tickets and steal hearts off their own wattage alone. But is that really true? Not to suggest that it’s the pictures that got small, but there’s so much ‘content’ rolled out all…
Dónal Foreman takes an unconventional approach to telling Irish stories. In his acclaimed doc The Image You Missed, Foreman cracks into the archives of his father’s own documenting of The Troubles, resulting in a deeply intimate encounter. In Out of Here, he improvised with young Irish actors for whom the film’s exploration of recession-hit Dublin hit hard…
Film In Dublin’s Pretty Deadly Films zine is back again this autumn and submissions are now open for articles and artwork. Issue 11’s theme is all about scenes where the magic happens at the movies. Each issue of PDF looks at film through the lens of a particular theme, with contributors submitting various features on their favourite movies, the…
As part of ongoing events to mark the centenary of the death of General Michael Collins, Fine Gael have teamed up with Omniplex Cinemas to show the 1996 biopic Michael Collins at the same time in 19 cinemas across the country. The Neil Jordan film will receive a special sync’d screening on Tuesday 6th September…
This July saw the Irish film industry come together in the summer sun out west, for the return in person of the Galway Film Fleadh. Always a big opportunity for rising Irish talents on and off screen, this year was no different, and one of the big winners was Laura O’Shea, director of the short…
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…
Summer is here and for the Film In Dublin team that means spending plenty of time indoors at the movies where our pale complexions are safe from sunburn and heavy rain alike. Luke, Jess and Ethan picked out some of the movies they’re most interested to see this summer. Previews and points are made, despite…
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,…
