Film

For over 30 years, Tony Todd has been thrilling all kinds of audiences in a variety of roles and as part of our special October horror series, we're covering the career of the Candyman himself. Beginning in Oliver Stone's Platoon, the…

The Fox and the Hound turns 40 this year, having first graced the big screens in 1981. And there is no better time than now to dive into this Disney classic, a film which marked the last involvement of Disney's Nine Old Men, a group of…

In anticipation of Mike Mills upcoming film C’mon C’mon, which is set to screen at the New York Film Festival, Galway-based poet Ciaran O’Rourke explores the cinema of Mills and its connections with the music of The National as influences…

Lili Taylor has been a mainstay of American indie and mainstream cinema since 1988. This week we turn our focus to her performances in a wide variety of films. Much sought after for both her timeless appeal and ability to dig deep into very…

When the final episode of The Sopranos aired, a finality was concluded to an unforgettable story. Its legacy is unmatched. So when all is said and done . . . what more was left to say? As it turns out, quite a lot! The Many Saints…

Shot in cinéma-vérité from the get-go, director Camilla Nielsson's latest documentary signals straight away that something monumental is about to happen, regardless of the viewer’s awareness of the recent and continuing political situation…

In the lead up to the release of Malignant, director James Wan spoke of his love for Giallo cinema, and revealed that his new film would be his ode to the infamous sub-genre that many horror fans cherish dearly. Giallo is a sub-genre of…

In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Mark Cousins picks up right where his landmark, 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) left off. After a few glimpses at the inside of cinemas, he finds strange bedfellows in…

Mark Cousins is always a notable presence in his own films. His voice, his authorial stamp, recognisably familiar both in tone and intent has always accompanied his investigations into the personal and the cinematic. For Cousins, the…

"If I drive for you, you get your money. You tell me where we start, where we're going, where we're going afterwards. I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything…