This June will see the second edition of the Queer Spectrum Film Festival, as they make their way to the Irish Film Institute on the 13th-14th June. A celebration of queer stories in motion, Ireland’s first film festival especially dedicated to LGBTQIA+ people of colour and immigrant voices, QSFF aims to highlight powerful narratives shaped by…
The 2025 International Literature Festival Dublin is soon taking place, and in this year’s packed programme there’s a number of interesting screenings for film fans to explore. Since 1998, the festival has celebrated the best of Irish and international fiction, and non-fiction authors, poets, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters through a myriad of exciting events. This…
This May marks a landmark moment in Ireland’s LGBTQ+ history, with the 10-year anniversary of the YES vote for marriage equality. What better way to celebrate a landmark in May than with a movie? Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre is partnering with the Irish Film Institute (IFI) to host a special screening of the documentary The 34th: The…
The Bleeding Pig Film Festival has spent the last few years bringing independent Irish film to the local community of Donabate. The festival returns this year on Monday 19th May through to Wednesday 21st May 2025, and their programme this year includes plenty of short films, as well as a fantastic Irish feature in Darren…
There are many cultural touchstones to be found in Phibsborough – popular pubs, a hopping flea market, a clothing line for influencers that occasionally poses as a football club – and these hotspots and more will be showcased during the latest Phizzfest, the D7 celebration. The Phibsborough Community and Arts Festival returns across the neighbourhood…
Director: Lorcan Finnegan Starring: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little Running Time: 103 minutes ‘Cage Rage’ flicks have become a sub-genre of their own in recent years. The star’s manic, erratic line delivery coupled with some truly unhinged facial expressions have elevated middling films in the past, carved ‘Nic was here’ into the annals of…
#1: Chicken Jockeys and Psych Wards The year 1975 is widely ascribed to be the first canonical ‘Great Movie Year’ – that is the first to have its movies lauded, interrogated and discussed widely as a collective. The dawn of the modern blockbuster with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws arrived alongside a raft of exciting auteur-driven projects,…
Director: Aislinn Clarke Starring: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya Running Time: 103 minutes With Irish horror going through its Golden Age, the current trend for horror to be up front about its metaphors for trauma (of which our island has plenty), and an increased experience on screen in tapping into our rich resources…
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…
