Director: Alexander Payne Starring: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph Running Time: 142 minutes “Life is like a henhouse ladder: shitty & short.” This is just some of the sage wisdom that sprouts from Mr. Hunham, the middle-aged classics teacher at the heart of Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Mr. Hunham – played expertly by…
An all-online offering of French cinema arrives on the IFI’s online platform this Friday. It’s an early festival for film fans that you can experience all from the comfort of your home. Organised by Unifrance, the organisation responsible for promoting French cinema and television content worldwide, MyFrenchFilmFestival 2024 will offer 11 French films to rent…
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Starring: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Jerrod Carmichael Running Time: 142 minutes Yorgos Lanthimos’ rise to the status of a relative household name, awards darling and crowd-pleaser is an improbable one. Absurd and sadomasochistic dark comedies (in Greek) aren’t generally building blocks to beloved box office success,…
More announcements are coming out about the programme for the 2024 edition of the Dublin International Film Festival. The biggest festival in the fair city of film will provide a festival spotlight this year on African cinema, with award winning entries from across the continent. Over 40 short films are also set to screen during…
As we continue through another awards season, it’s a great time to be Irish as a film fan. Whether it be acting on stage, on screen, or acting like Barry’s and Lyons tea taste in any way different to each other, the Irish are among the greatest performers around, and the awards circuit is a…
The biggest event in the calendar in the fair city of film, the Dublin International Film Festival will take place in 2024 from Thursday 22nd February to Saturday 2nd March. In advance of announcing the full programme in January, the Festival like to announce early programme highlights before Christmas, and today they have revealed that screen legend…
Première domhanda Kneecap ag féile scannán Sundance. The boys from Belfast are heading to one of the world’s most famous film festivals. Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap will have its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in Utah next month where it will screen on the opening night on Thursday 18th January. Based on the origin…
