Film Retrospective: Commando
Richard Mitchell takes a look back at the Arnold Schwarznegger vehicle, pilule recently shown at UCD’s campus cinema The eighties was an interesting time for cinema. Ludicrous indulgence was the…
Film Review: Rush
Richard Mitchell on Ron Howard’s latest We are living in the golden age of the biopic. Recent evidence includes Spielberg’s Lincoln and Steven Soderbergh’s magnificent and sensitive Behind The Candelabra.…
Review: The Wolf of Wall Street
Christina Wyse reviews Scorcese’s latest success about a young hedonistic wall street stockbroker.. Go and see this film. If not to witness a film break the record for the number…
Review: Kick Ass Two
Director: Jeff Wadlow Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, sovaldi Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey. Film Review: Kick Ass 2 Richard Mitchell gives his verdict on the sequel to the 2010…
Review: Gone Girl
Gone Girl by American author Gillian Flynn’s third and most popular novel has received huge attention in the media and is the go-to recommendation for popular literature at the moment.…
Grand Theft Auto V Review
It’s been five years since the previous Grand Theft Auto IV which was set in the fictitious ‘Liberty City, site ’ based heavily on New York. The newest edition to…
Retrospective: Alien
Richard Mitchell attempts to exorcise memories of the recent Prometheus by taking a look back at what made the first film in its franchise such a success. There is a…
Breaking Bad is Hard to Out-Do
Daniel Nolan addresses the question of what we’ll all do with our lives after Breaking Bad goes to pasture next week… The above headline was intended as a pun on…
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Jonathan Barry takes a look at an interesting documentary… After the first 40 minutes, store this documentary on the seminal band Bad Brains dispenses with the effusive, thumb and obligatory,…
Out Of Here
Daniel Nolan on the Jameson Dublin Film Festival feature Out of Here is the debut feature-length from promising young Irish director Donal Foreman. It follows its protagonist, Ciarán (played by…
In Conversation: Ricky Jay
Daniel Nolan speaks to the subject of the documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay Ricky Jay has been one of the most successful performers in the…
Cinema’s Most Unusual Pairs.
Fresh from being charmed by odd couple black comedy, Harold and Maude, Caitríona O’Malley casts an eye over some of cinema’s stranger relationships I feel obliged to say that there…