Director: Gavin O’Connor Starring: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, J.K. Simmons, Daniela Pineda, Robert Morgan Running Time: 124 minutes We have already seen a fair share of sequels produced for the movies of 2016. M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological horror Split was followed by Glass in 2019. Fantastic Beasts and Deadpool both launched financially successful…
This article contains spoilers for Sinners, in Irish cinemas now. A beloved Irish standard, ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’ describes the travails and troubles of a young man who leaves home to seek his fortune. Along the way he drinks, dances and tries to catch the eye of the lassies with his curious style, but he…
Ireland’s most literary film festival returns this summer, promising another celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s Father of modernism, James Joyce. The Bloomsday Film Festival is the cinematic branch of the wider celebrations every year of the iconic author. For 2025, they have a high profile…
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…
Finally, a screening at the Light House devoted entirely to your fella and his mates. No but it’s actually much better news than that for all the lovers, the dreamers, and me. The Smithfield cinema have announced that coming up in the month of May, they’re going to be screening five of the feature films…
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog is set for a visit to the IFI for a special conversation taking place on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025 from 10:30 to 12:30. Tickets are free and flying out fast for this event, held by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland as part of Section 481 Skills Development Screen Talks. Herzog is currently in the fair city…
The Japanese Film Festival is bringing screenings of some of the best new films from Japan all across Ireland, and from today the Dublin leg of this year’s festival begins in Dublin. All through April JFF are screening feature films across Cork, Dundalk, Dublin, Bray, Waterford, Ballina, Galway, Wexford and Sligo. That includes fourteen new…
If you’re up for a look through Irish cinema history, Film Ireland have you covered. They’re hosting an exhibition of 100 covers of the former Film Ireland magazine, covering decades of great Irish film to mark the ongoing development of their Film Ireland Digital Archive, in association with DBS School of Arts and the PARC25…
It’s Mother’s Day in Ireland tomorrow – we know you didn’t forget – and it’s an opportunity to celebrate the matriarchal figures in your life, whether it’s taking your real-life mammy out for tea or putting on your Aliens DVD and insisting that the Alien Queen did nothing wrong, in the dark, to yourself. Mothers…
The Irish Film Institute is your best bet in Dublin for seeing collated and curated international cinema, whether that’s in their ongoing programming or in their dedicated seasons like the French Film Festival, or Kinopolis. This spring they’re adding a new festival to their calendar to share the best of contemporary South American and Spanish…
