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Ged Murray is a Dublin based filmmaker. 'Filmmaker' was the No.1 option on a school career aptitude test. No. 2 was 'Pig Unit Operator'.
His short film 'Small Time', starring Alan Stanford, won Irish and International awards and played at Palm Springs. He is currently found co-directing music videos as half of 'Spiceburger'.

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Film Review | Bloodless Blockbuster The Meg Lacks Teeth

Ged Murray Aug 11, 2018 0

How can a movie about Jason Statham fighting a giant, prehistoric shark be this dull? For those not in the know, here's the premise; Jason Statham fights a giant, prehistoric shark. As infantile shlockbuster pitches go 'The Meg's is…

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Film Review | Cruelty and Kindness Mingle in the Wonderful Summer 1993

Ged Murray Jul 20, 2018 0

Summer 1993 is a portrait of a child having her world upended that manages to be kind without puling punches and sad without being maudlin. It's a great achievement for the feature debut of Spanish director Carla Simón. The story…

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Film Review | I Feel Pretty Swaps Its’ Star’s Charisma for a Preachy Message

Ged Murray Apr 30, 2018 0

The premise of I Feel Pretty has raised many an eyebrow since the first publicity materials found their way online. The elevator pitch is something like this; 'an insecure, overweight woman, after being dinged on the head, wakes up…

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Film Review | Cowboys Ride in to a Bulgarian Village in Western

Ged Murray Apr 13, 2018 0

In spite of it's title, Valeska Grisebach's Western takes place in Bulgaria; an area that was once a frontier of sorts for Germany during a brief and particularly dark moment in history. The German workers sent to build a power plant in the…

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Film Review | Cannes Winner The Square Finds Comedy in Discomfort

Ged Murray Mar 15, 2018 0

Ruben Östlund's last film, 2014's brilliant Force Majeure, unflinchingly scrutinised a middle class Dad and his family coming apart after one huge fuck up. It's heightened cringe comedy came from the director's ability to relentlessly…

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Film Review | Torturous Damo and Ivor: The Movie – A Big Step Backwards for Irish Comedy

Ged Murray Mar 13, 2018 0

The reaction at the press screening for Damo and Ivor: The Movie was like a group of people watching newsreel footage of the Germans taking Paris. The stony, resigned silence was broken only by the desperate yammering coming from the…

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Oscar Snub | Why Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was Cruelly Omitted

Ged Murray Feb 22, 2018 0

The Oscars are, at least in theory, meant to be about acknowledging the best of the best of an art form. In practice this can result in little more than a tool for boosting the box office take of middlebrow dramas via a one night pageant…

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Film Review | The Dark and Hilarious World of Athletic Pageantry in I, Tonya

Ged Murray Feb 20, 2018 0

In telling the story of Tonya Harding, a figure skater famous for both her impoverished background and the 1994 attack on her rival's leg bones, I, Tonya promises to be a fun, frothy biopic. It's true that the movie has plenty of…

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Film Review | Truth, Integrity, and Honesty – But is there a Place for The Postin…

Ged Murray Jan 8, 2018 0

In 1993 Spielberg managed the feat of dominating the box office and the awards season with a double whammy of Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. Since then it seems he's attempting the same trick once a decade. In the 2005 he paired Munich…

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Film Review | Dissecting The Room and Tommy Wiseau in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist

Ged Murray Nov 29, 2017 0

Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a Tennessee Williams-like melodrama that was seemingly created by a wounded, misogynist alien, isn't just a notoriously bad movie, it is widely regarded as the best bad movie ever made. In large part this is down to…

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