Director: Marie Kreutzer Starring: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Jeanne Werner Running Time: 112 minutes Most of us know well enough on this side of the Irish Sea that there’s something mortifying about monarchy, a stifling drag performance of power. Corsage literally opens with a royal struggling to breath under the weight of it all, Vicky…
Directors: Michelle Lesh & Trevor Frost Featuring: Harry Turner, Samantha Zwicker, Keanu the Ocelot Running Time: 105 minutes An always enticing, potentially volatile feature of documentary filmmaking is the way that the story can run away from both the director and the subject. An elevator premise pitch never stays static when faced with the changeable…
Director: James Cameron Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Cliff Curtis Running Time: 192 minutes Was Avatar notably un-notable or un-notably notable? That’s been the conversation about the highest grossing movie of all time since before it was even out of cinemas in 2009. Where once the divide was between…
Director: Luke McManus Featuring: Lisa O’Neill, John Francis Flynn, Séan Ó Túama, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Ian Lynch, Gemma Dunleavy Running Time: 80 minutes “Those in power write the history, those who struggle write the songs”. North Circular quotes Frank Harte’s assertion, and in its journey through the length of the North Circular Road, stopping off…
Director: Anna Rodgers and Shaun Dunne Starring: Shaun Dunne, Robbie Lawlor, Lady Veda, Jade Jordan, Eva-Jane Gaffney, Lauren Larkin Running Time: 101 minutes Breaking a stigma is about removing walls. In How To Tell A Secret, performance and interview are interwoven. Stories of living with HIV pass through acting, re-enacting and interview, from performance to…
Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daniel Craig, Ed Norton, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, Leslie Odom Jr., Madelyn Cline, Janelle Monáe Running Time: 139 minutes Steve Jobs is dead. Tough break for him, but it does make brand management at Apple easier. The public perception of the ‘genius billionaire’ – innovative, enigmatic, benevolent…
Director: Luca Guadagnino Starring: Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance Running Time: 130 minutes The opening scenes of Bones and All take care to show us lead character Maren first and foremost as a young woman without a strong sense of self. Shy and sheltered, she’s led a life constantly on the move, her mom…
Deeply personal and profound, Charlotte Wells pulls us into memories both keenly felt and half understood, with real and heart wrenching performances by Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio.
Director: Seamus Murphy Starring: Pat Ingoldsby Running Time: 96 minutes One of Dublin’s most recognisable faces gets a moment in the spotlight in The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby. The poet, a fixture on the streets of the city for decades, is interviewed along with close friends and family in Seamus Murphy’s documentary. It…
Director: Ruben Östlund Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly De Leon, Zlatko Buric, Woody Harrelson Running Time: 149 minutes The ‘triangle of sadness’ gets a title drop early doors in Ruben Östlund’s latest satire. Journeyman male model Carl is asked to relax his while trying to book a job – his immediate financial security depends…
