irish cinema

Ryan A. Conaill’s debut feature in some ways takes a very familiar and simple subject matter: Isabel (Niamh Anna) is a young woman who, after a seemingly traumatic event, feels vulnerable and isolated, and has retreated into her own home…

Idiot Boy is the debut feature film from Irish director Luke De Brún. Known for his short film Sleep (2021) and a handful of music videos, De Brún also served as the editor the Irish cult hit Suit Hung. Tied Tongue (dir. Sau Dachi, 2024).…

Fatal Deviation - the only martial arts epic filmed in Trim, County Meath- in many ways transposes genre tropes from mostly American films to small-town Ireland, in a kind of square peg round hole fashion that doesn’t quite work. The rowdy…

So another year, so another St. Patrick’s Day, and what is RTE’s choice of Irish film to show on the Saturday night? Oh Christ, not The Snapper (1993) again…  The fact is most Irish films don’t get much airplay on telly. You are far…

With Irish cinema getting a 'boom' moment, what with the successes of The Banshees of Inisherin and The Quiet Girl, I feel that one has overlooked how we got here in the first place. Despite all this talk of a new Golden Age of Irish…

Though there have been TV adaptations of Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye (Powers Boothe and James Caan for HBO, Danny Glover for Showtime and a busted pilot in 2007 with Jason O'Mara), this is the first theatrically released Philip…

In lieu of their prison sentences, five men agree to be participants in top-secret experiment in which they will be prevented from sleeping for thirty days. Two detectives are tasked with interviewing the researchers involved in the…

Mandrake, Director Lynne Davison’s 85-minute feature film debut, opens with a scene at night in a foreboding, moss-covered forest (“the moss”). The camera looks down from above as a man who is chained around the neck digs desperately in…

Much Ado About Dying opens with a prosaic, if not ominous, panoramic shot of a rainy night on a modest London residential street while the noise of dogs barking clamors with the hum of raindrops. Simon Chambers—the writer, director, and…

I’m not much of a crier. Not anymore anyway, my parents would have you believe I cried every day of my life until I was seven years old. They’re probably right too, but I digress. I’m not ashamed to admit I let a few tears fall at Colm…