Film Review

Michael Flatley has finally seen the light and blessed audiences with the release of his self-directed, self-written, self-starred, quasi-remake of Casablanca, Blackbird. The holy trinity of film credits Prior to…

I’m a sucker for invasion narratives. I’ll watch just about anything that hints that it might be like The Strangers (2008) or The Invitation (2015). It’s led me to discover some gems as well as a lot of duds. So when I say Duncan…

A couple of years ago, the pioneering documentarian Errol Morris said in jest that he felt he had to apologise for his hugely influential The Thin Blue Line. This was as, in his words, “you solve a murder mystery and then people think…

Anaïs in Love opens with its title character in a frenzy, running up the stairs to her apartment with a bouquet of flowers to meet her landlady, who gives her a smoke alarm to install. Through the ensuing dialogue, dominated by the nonstop…

Glorious can be classed under H.P. Lovcraft, playing out as a hangover from his fictional city R’Lyeh. Over a generally brisk 80 minutes, director Rebekah McKendry carves out an intermittently enjoyable cosmic horror comedy. Most of the…

Having been released in a number of European countries since 2021, the heartfelt Where is Anne Frank finally comes to Ireland. And what a treat it is. A visually stunning and breathtakingly original animation style combines with a poignant…

An imminent curse is probably the most undemanding go-to device to craft a narrative with a supernatural backstory, which uncovers itself as the inevitable course of action. Vincent Grashaw rides the same slope in his third feature, What…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the newest superhero themed animated film to grace the silver screen. This one, however, is a little bit different. Rather than featuring the brightly costumed characters that we have grown accustomed…

This is GWAR is a straightforward rock doc. After an introductory section detailing the genesis of the titular art collective cum metal band, the filmmakers take us through a chronological survey of the group’s history. We meet the…

On March 7th, 1987 James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith went 12 rounds with Mike Tyson. James Smith lost the fight, unanimously, but going 12 rounds with Iron Mike is an achievement in itself, especially as Smith shouldn’t have been there in the…