The Rapture
Philosorapture. The perma-cool New York label DFA Twitter-quipped that Harold Camping was not so much wrong about his prediction that the Rapture was coming – his estimations were just three
Film Essay
Film, perhaps more than any other art-form, is inextricably tied to the worlds of industry and finance. While the commercial rules of production have been bent in recent years, with
The Troll Hunter
A “found footage” Norwegian horror-comedy which channels The Blair Witch Project and Slither while choosing trolls, of Norse mythology, as its subject, The Troll Hunter is a diverting, if formally…
Project Nim
From James Marsh, the acclaimed director of Man on Wire, comes Project Nim, a documentary about Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was raised as a human as part of a…
Cowboys and Aliens
Adapted from an unused Obama campaign speech, Jon Favreau’s high-concept sci-fi/Western film sounds like the most preposterously unnecessary film ever made. “Cowboys fighting aliens” is a pitch which sounds good
The Inbetweeners Movie
“The jokes come crude, fast and in a language the target audience will understand” says The Guardian‘s Steve Rose, hilariously, of Ben Palmer’s The Inbetweeners Movie, in which the eponymous…
Dublin Contemporary 2011
A cacophony of zealous chatter has been on the rise amid arty circles over the past few months and if you’ve eavesdropped on any of these frenzied talks of late