Niamh Mongey 91 posts 0 comments

Dear Harry Potter fans, please remain calm, this is not a drill. On Friday 31st of October, JK Rowling will launch a shiny new Harry Potter story on pottermore.com. This story will focus on Professor Umbridge the awful, toad faced,…

A Most Wanted Man is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last major performance and is an ode to his immense capacity as a character actor, once again Hoffman reveals his obsessive dedication to his craft, and it is sad knowing now how this dedication…

Most of us spend our teen years picking our spots and making dreadful fashion choices. This movie glosses over those awkward teen trivialities and portrays two young, angst-ridden musicians who meet and fall hopelessly in love. ‘If I stay’,…

I’ll begin by mentioning that this film has been produced by Oprah Winfrey who as we all know, is the producer of all that is good and right with the world. She has teamed up with some guy called Stephen Spielberg, who I hear is rather good…

We all have things we look forward to at music festivals, for most it’s all about the music, for others the art and culture; some just want to soak up the atmosphere and prance around in a sea of glitter. Whatever our preference, we go to…

Twenty something years ago, Tickle Head was a place of dreams. It was here where all the men went out fishin’ and brought home the bacon, or cod in this case. There was a sense of pride in each home, and the people who lived there were…

Begin Again stars Keira Knightly and Mark Ruffalo and contrary to what we might immediately presume when we hear that Keira Knightly is starring in a movie, it is not a period drama. Not a swashbuckler or a pirate in sight. ‘Can a Song…

Love Eternal, the second feature film by Brendan Muldowney, is a portrait of the mind in turmoil and the fragility of the human senses. In a wood, flooded with sunlight, Ian hides in the trees. Tentatively clutching his walkie talkie; he…

This is bad. This is really, really dreadful. In fact, if the editor allowed it I would type this entire review in capital letters to emphasise the fact that I am shouting with rage.  I actually had to ask the movie attendant to…

If you hear about The Monuments Men and you are hoping to submerge yourself in a harrowing and brutal insight into the devastating realities of World War II, then you should probably sit this one out. I like George Clooney. Not…