As we prepare to step into 2025, the Film in Dublin team have come together to compile a list combining our favourite films of 2024. From eye-opening documentaries, nail-biting horrors, sexy thrillers and thumping tunes, there’s something for everybody in this collection from Luke, Jess, Ethan, Néil and Keelan. We hope you see some of…
He could play Jimmy Stewart, our Cillian Murphy. With his lanky features, his presence and poise and those bright blue eyes, always either steeled in determination or pooled into despair on the big screen, he could easily step into the shoes of the great American everyman for some middling biopic. Who Murphy did play this…
Director: J.C. Chandor Starring: Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Russell Crowe, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott Running Time: 126 minutes Sergei ‘Kraven’ Kravinoff is a hunter. The press in the film (rather unimaginatively) refers to him as ‘The Hunter’. Sergei himself prefers ‘Kraven’, though with the proviso that, “anyone who knows that name is…
Film curation and sharing has experienced a rapid increase in popularity in recent years. The popularity of the film-logging social media site, Letterboxd, has made film obsession a modern personality trait, and the ‘Four Favourites’ arrangement on Letterboxd profiles has become a new way to wear our pop-culture loves on our sleeves, like patches on…
“There’s an irony in the best British film being Irish,” Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt said last night, after accepting the Best British Independent Film award at the BIFAs. Which, yeah. The Daily Mail have described the success story as only they can, “Anti-British Irish language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film…
Women in Film & Television Ireland (WFT Ireland) is proud to present WFT Ireland 2024 Short Film Showcase at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) on Monday 9 December. Now in its 7th year, the showcase celebrates the diverse and dynamic work being created by women filmmakers in Ireland today. WFT Ireland is part of a global…
Ralph Fiennes shines in this joyously juicy tale of Papal Succession. Director: Edward Berger Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rosellini, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Carlos Diehz, Lucian Msamati Running Time: 120 minutes At the modern movieplex a false choice is often presented to the audience, that they must only either ‘turn their brain off’…
Throughout the year, the Irish Film Institute share some of the best of cinema from around the world, particularly at their dedicated festival seasons. The annual Kinopolis Film Festival showcases films from the region, the best new works and some underseen classics from years gone by, and this year’s edition has a packed programme early…
Science Week is a national celebration of science with hundreds of events for people of all ages taking place across Ireland. The week is currently happening and will run until 17th November, and this weekend film gets in on the fun in Dundrum. On Saturday 16th November, the documentary Burkitt will be showing at Movies@Dundrum. Directed…
Stand-ups, Breathnach’s and more, oh my. The 5th edition of the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival is on the way this winter. Since 2020 the DICFF has offered some much needed winter levity, showing films and live stand-up alike alongside Q&A’s, a live script comedy competition, networking events and awards. The Dublin International Comedy Film…
