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Pierce McDonough 9 posts 0 comments

Pierce is a writer, filmmaker and co-founder of Babyface Media. He has written for No More Workhorse and Meg.ie. He co-wrote and co-directed the digital series, Babyface, available to watch on YouTube. He graduated with a BA in Film & Broadcasting from DIT.

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Mank Review | Fincher’s Latest is All Craft and No Soul

Pierce McDonough Dec 7, 2020 0

Movies about making movies that focus on screenwriters set themselves a difficult challenge. Watching writers amass crumpled pages and empty whiskey bottles while struggling to conjure words on typewriters is hardly as rife with conflict…

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Calm With Horses | A Raw and Thrilling Irish Noir

Pierce McDonough Oct 28, 2020 0

Tension simmers throughout Calm With Horses as nearly every interaction runs the risk of erupting into violence, every scene on the brink of exploding into blood and brutality. It’s through the looming threat of merciless beatings and even…

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Irish Film Review | The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In Be Good Or Be Gone

Pierce McDonough May 20, 2020 0

Granted a four day release from Mountjoy Prison, petty criminals Ste (Les Martin) and Weed (Declan Mills, The Monuments Men, Red Rock) are warned to ‘be good.’ Ste’s more than happy to comply, hoping to take advantage of their brief freedom…

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Normal People | Sally Rooney’s Acclaimed Book Gets the TV Adaptation it Deserves

Pierce McDonough Apr 29, 2020 0

Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) was designed in a lab to make girls swoon. He’s one of the popular kids; handsome and sporty but also quiet, introspective and just a little bit shy. Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones), on the other hand,…

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Film Review | And Then We Danced Is Conventional But Moving

Pierce McDonough Mar 9, 2020 0

And Then We Danced has caused quite the stir in Georgia, its representation of LGBT characters triggering a far-right backlash and requiring police to stop protestors from crashing a screening at the Amirani Cinema in Tbsili. All this…

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Dark Waters | Murky Injustice Masterfully Brought To Light

Pierce McDonough Feb 27, 2020 0

Obsessed loners taking on giant corporations make for riveting cinema, with the premise providing a perfect opportunity to highlight grave injustice. This time the loner is lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), the corporation is none other…

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Parasite Brilliantly Blends Comedy, Social Commentary and Thrills

Pierce McDonough Feb 7, 2020 0

The rich are getting richer and leaving the rest of us behind. Filmmakers have taken notice. Parasite is the latest in a slew of recent films dealing with the thorny topic of class inequality alongside the likes of Joker, Ready or Not…

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Harley Quinn is Better Off Jokerless in Birds of Prey

Pierce McDonough Feb 6, 2020 0

Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is going through a bad break up. She just got out of a toxic relationship with Gotham’s infamous psychopath, the Joker, but isn’t quite ready to move on. She hasn’t even told anyone they’ve broken up. In all…

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B-Movie Magic | Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Pierce McDonough Jan 8, 2020 0

In the first installment of HeadStuff's series on B-movies, Pierce McDonough dives into the bargain basement to retrieve John Hyams's sci-fi action Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, starring Scott Adkins, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph…