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Film Features | Irish Cinema’s Future and Black 47’s Success
September 5 will see the release of one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Irish movies of all time Black 47. Directed by Lance Daly, and set against the backdrop of the single most horrific event in Irish history, the film tells the story…
Venom: A Massive Gamble, But Will It Pay Off?
A lot has been made of Sony's upcoming Venom movie, set to launch Sony's own little Spider-verse adjacent to Marvel Studios' MCU. Not much has been positive. Sony's track-record with Spider-Man movies recently has been...patchy. Ever…
Safety in Sequels | The State of Hollywood in 2018
Looking at the box-office records for 2018 thus far, you'd think that Hollywood was having a great year. They've had three hit films gross over 1 billion US dollars, a monumental feat when compared to the hugely disappointing summer of…
M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass: An Antidote to Superhero Fatigue
This past weekend's Comic-Con in San Diego saw the first footage of M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to both 2016's Split & 2000's Unbreakable. Glass will in released January 2019 yet the trailer released has stoked interest in one of the…
Galway Film Fleadh | Keepers of the Flame – Fascinating Yet Flawed
Keepers of the Flame, directed by Nuala O'Connor, charts through the labyrinth of Irish history from the 1916 Rising, through the War of Independence and the Civil War. It catalogues stories from ordinary Irish men and women whose tales…
Galway Film Fleadh 2018 | A Preview Of This Year’s Great Line Up
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, The Galway Film Fleadh returns this July to deliver a multitude of diverse films from both here and abroad. The festival, a staple of the artistic scene in Ireland's cultural heart, has a great selection…
Solo and The Last Jedi Prove Star Wars is a Directionless Franchise
Say what you will about George Lucas and the Star Wars movies he both directed and created, but the one thing that ran through all six of them was a sense of direction; a sense of story; a sense that what we were watching was taking us to a…
Future Franchise | What Will Be the Next Series of Blockbusters?
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the movie-making industry in general will know that Hollywood loves a successful franchise. They are the modern-day equivalents of the genre pictures studios used to churn out in decades past, such as…
Spoilers Ahead | Where can the MCU go after Avengers 4?
Now that Avengers: Infinity War has released and the dust has settled (pun intended obviously!) on our heroes' journey until next summer's as yet untitled Avengers 4, Stuart Kilmartin looks ahead to life post-Avengers 4, and what the MCU…