My top ten(ish) of Irish Movies. Not exactly set in stone. Some of these could move up, down, or off the list! 10. One hundred Mornings (2009) 09. Disco pigs (2001) 08. The Butcher Boy (1997) 07. Crushproof (1998) 06. Sensation (2010) 05. Inside I'm Dancing (2004) 04. What Richard did (2012) 03. The Commitments...
Dear movie fans, I have a confession. I don't like the The Godfather movies. Testosterone filled bollocks. We're tough guys. We stand tall and talk funny, we hard men, we cave men, we cartoon characters. The way they kill people...
United 93 was on telly tonight. I can remember being blown away by this movie when it came out. For me, expectation can really make or break or a movie. This was a year that I had an unlimited ticket...
Update: This clip wasn't available at the time but someone put it up recently. Maybe this post will make sense now. A classic scene from 80's teens. Uh, what's this, sir? Drink it. That's a very sweet thought, but I...
Voting is now open at Storyland. Five months ago the call went out for new and established programme makers with exciting ideas to take part in a unique web drama competition. The talented finalists have produced some brilliant content with...
Eastern promises is a Big bucket of steaming pish from David Kronenburg. I thought Naomi Watts would have known better - but then she doesn’t come off looking too bad working her way around a terrible script as a midwife...
At the risk of going on about Meadows and Considine a bit too much... (See my Considine, This is England, and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands posts)... here's one more! I went to the darklight screening of Dead...
I saw Fitzcarraldo a few weeks ago. It's about a crazy German dude, played by Klaus Kinski (you know, the blonde Ken Dodd?) and his attempts to setup an opera in the Peruvian rain forest while somehow coalescing (genuine) local...
Funny Games is one of those films where you get exactly what you expected to get and that’s just fine. There are a couple of cinematic tricks, and possibly some deeper ponderings about the treatment of violence in film but...