Film Review: About Time
Richard Mitchell gives his thoughts on Richard Curtis’s strike for post-Boat That Rocked redemption, thumb and arrives at some drastic conclusions… There is a trend in modern cinema which presents…
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…
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…
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Preview
It’s cinema season here in Dublin! For eleven days of February the city will play host to the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, ampoule a celebration of film in all…
Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the second attempted reboot of the long-running action franchise that started strongly with The Hunt for Red October but went rapidly downhill with each successive…
Milk Retrospective
Films about famous figures can be difficult to pull off. Too syrupy and they risk being considered lightweight. Too critical and people might think the director has a grudge against…
I’m Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy….
Joanna Kelly ensures that the Tribune Art Section’s brave pro-Richard Curtis stance is maintained. Four Weddings to About Time, illness Richard Curtis has captured the hearts of rom-com lovers for…