Ged Murray

You probably already know the work of Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman; the co writer/director team behind Extra Ordinary. You just might not realise it. Under their pseudonym D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design Yeah!) they've created…

First Olympus fell, then London fell. Now Angel has fallen. As naming conventions go this franchise sure likes to think outside the box. In all other respects these films have traditionally thought as much and as hard as a sleepwalker. …

Climate change is not a subject many would associate with whimsy, but with the Icelandic Woman at War, writer-director Benedikt Erlingsson has tried to apply a lightness of touch to a story about coming mass extinction. Halla (Halldóra…

Border is an intriguing, bizarre, fable-like film that has many admirable traits but never quite comes together. From the off, we are introduced to Tina, a woman who looks like a Neanderthal and can smell people's fear, working as a…

Surely part of the point of creating an Extended Universe tm is that, aside from the marketing angle, you get to create a sandbox; a larger network of shared stories that can each do their own thing. The Nun, the latest in The Conjuring's…

The trope of the hero who's wronged by evildoers is a common one on screen. It's normally little more than an excuse to justify righteous, cathartic bloodshed. Lance Daly's Black 47, a Famine set,  Irish Western, ups the ante by asking…

How can a movie about Jason Statham fighting a giant, prehistoric shark be this dull? For those not in the know, here's the premise; Jason Statham fights a giant, prehistoric shark. As infantile shlockbuster pitches go 'The Meg's is…

Summer 1993 is a portrait of a child having her world upended that manages to be kind without puling punches and sad without being maudlin. It's a great achievement for the feature debut of Spanish director Carla Simón. The story…

The premise of I Feel Pretty has raised many an eyebrow since the first publicity materials found their way online. The elevator pitch is something like this; 'an insecure, overweight woman, after being dinged on the head, wakes up…

A lot of well regarded, lasting films were released 10 years ago. No Country for Old Men, Zodiac, The Assassination of Jesse James, There Will Be Blood, Superbad, Persepolis and many others all celebrate their decade anniversary this year.…