Director: Bong Joon-Ho Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo Running Time: 137 minutes After a troubled road to release, being ping ponged from month to month and year to year on the release calendar by WB, Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to his world-beating awards hit Parasite has fortuitously made its way…
In 1979’s sci-fi classic Alien, Ian Holm played the role of a machine, wearing the skin of a human, designed to prioritise the corporation it served. On the face of it, the movie is about a monster battling the crew of a spaceship, but underneath is the allegory of corporate greed consuming human life. Unlike…
The September season at the Light House Cinema offers a real celebration of artists and artistry, quite unlike the modern concept of AI and its data scraping plagiarism. During their More Human Than Human season, the Smithfield spot will be screening a succession of science fiction films that explore our relationship to technology, innovation and…
An Irish made sci-fi with interesting ideas is coming to cinemas next month. After screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival, it will be exciting to see another locally grown genre film on our screens. LOLA is the feature debut of Andrew Legge (The Chronoscope), and won the prestigious Méliès d’argent award at the Trieste…
Director: Lana Wachowski Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris Running Time: 148 minutes ‘Nothing comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia.’ It feels like all we talk about at the movies these days. Mining the same stories for the same moments, images, lines that we recognise, trying…
