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At long last, cinema is back! To mark the occasion, I Know That Face is releasing this special bonus episode. Co-host Stephen Porzio had the chance to speak with actor Orion Lee about First Cow, the new movie from podcast favourite Kelly…

East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) is returning to the IFI for its fourth edition from March 26 - 29. Although only founded recently, the event has grown to become one of the country's most anticipated film festivals, coinciding with a…

Manta Ray is the directorial debut of Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, an already acclaimed Thai cinematographer. Even if one didn't know this, watching his first feature makes it abundantly clear. He has a knack for creating memorable imagery,…

The River is a tough movie to review, a stiflingly uncomfortable drama about a stiflingly uncomfortable way of life. Released first in 1997 and written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang, the movie features no music and takes place almost…

Christopher Nolan described Inception as a heist film taking place in the architecture of the mind. Bi Gan's sophomore effort Long Day's Journey Into Night is a neo-noir with the same setting. While the noirs of the 40s and 50s always had…

The Second East Asia Film Festival Ireland returns to the IFI this April and features a huge range of eclectic films from Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. Along with a great weekend of screenings the festival…

Ah, remember those halcyon days when the President of the United States of America was a humble and well-meaning man of small beginnings? Yeah, me neither, but Barack Obama at least came close. For the entire legacy the Office of its…

Winner of the Best Director at Cannes, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, nominated for the Palme D'Or at Cannes on 7 separate occasions, Hou Hsiao Hsien is one of the most accomplished and highly regarded film makers of…

Disorder is a tough film to discuss without spoilers as its genre mutates as the film progresses. What begins as a character-focused drama, slowly becomes a low-key paranoid thriller and later erupts into an Assault on Precinct 13 style…

A man trains a greyhound on a windswept beach; a woman, warmly dressed, vigorously sweeps the paving outside a yellow house, built halfway up an incline; another, older, man digs in the terraced garden. The colouring is faded, greyish. It…