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…
Love is in the air in the fair city of film. Across Dublin’s cinemas, there’s plenty of Valentine’s Day screenings afoot, whether it’s The People’s Joker at the Light House, romance rescreenings at the Stella, or 80th anniversary screenings of heartbreaking classic Brief Encounter at the IFI. The new Bridget Jones is out, as is…
In my review of A Complete Unknown, I noted that early critiques of the film prior to its release surrounded screenwriters James Mangold and Jay Cocks’ decision to focus on the early career of Bob Dylan. The Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s which Dylan arrives into at the beginning of the film,…
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…
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…
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. Genre crossovers have been attempted to varying success throughout film history. Sometimes, a screenwriter or director’s experimentation…
In news that this writer immediately sent to everyone he knew in an unbecoming frenzy, they’re making a film about the most important event in 21st century Irish history: Roy Keane being sent home before the World Cup. Saipan, a new film about the events leading up to Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign, will…
A portal to another world has suddenly appeared in Dublin. And while that other world may just be New York City, any self-respecting film fanatic knows that when a portal suddenly appears, it’s time to take notice. There may be great danger, or a flimsy excuse for a listicle, on the edge of emerging. Since…
Eighty-five pieces of Ireland’s advertising legacy now available to view on the IFI Archive Player, as decades-worth of classic Guinness ads have been added to the IFI film archive. Ads from the 50s through to the 90s are on show now in the Guinness Adverts project and the vibes are immaculate across the board. The…
Stingy studios stiffing strikers, films written off for tax breaks, ‘cameos’ by actors that have been dead for decades, Mel Gibson still being cast in things – we’re living in a Golden Age of Bankruptcy not seen since the Recession. And why should ‘moral’ have all the fun, when ‘creative’ can get involved too? For…
