Charades, shifts and sinking ships – Valentine’s viewing from the Film In Dublin team

Charades, shifts and sinking ships – Valentine’s viewing from the Film In Dublin team

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…

“Come and Raid My Closet!” (for Blu-Rays) – A Criterion Criteria

“Come and Raid My Closet!” (for Blu-Rays) – A Criterion Criteria

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…

‘Sure, if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry!’: Ireland’s new wave of Horror-Comedy

‘Sure, if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry!’: Ireland’s new wave of Horror-Comedy

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…

5 things movies show us could be worse to come out of the Dublin-New York Portal than a lad showing hole

5 things movies show us could be worse to come out of the Dublin-New York Portal than a lad showing hole

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…