Do you like young adult orientated fantasy fiction? Do you like werewolves, vampires, hellhounds and all manner of nightmarish beasties? Do you like not-so-believable romances between pouting, wide eyed adolescents?
Initially, Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein's biopic charts the reluctant ascent to fame of Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) as the star of 1972's unlikely mainstream pornographic success Deep Throat. As…
With We're The Millers, the family road trip movie gets a make-over when, get this, they’re not a real family! Instead they’re a ragtag group assembled by drug dealer David…
Pain & Gain, the based-on-a-true-story of Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), a visualise-and-achieve-obsessed personal trainer who kidnaps a wealthy client (Tony Shahloub) and forces him to sign over all his possessions,…
Shane Carruth emerged as a singular filmmaking talent with 2004's Primer, a dense time-travel feature which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, and which cost a remarkable $7,000 to…
Factory Floor are one of those bands who test the limits of a music journalist's vocabulary – they are, inevitably, 'aggressive', 'propulsive', 'dark, 'minimal', 'brutal' the last three taken from,…
Culture Night always boasts a vast array of events. This year is no exception, with over 190 events, you will find something for everyone, from tours of the Dáil, to
Nicolas Winding Refn, a man who once claimed that ‘making a film is like fucking’, has reprised his partnership with Drive‘s Ryan Gosling to produce Only God Forgives, a film
August 26th will see the first ever Website Shop opening on Dún Laoghaire’s George’s Street. This pop-up shop will inhabit no. 66 for three weeks and be a port in
Director: Goro Miyazaki Talent: Sarah Bolger, Anton Yelchin, Christina Hendricks Release Date: 9th August 2013 The latest feature in the Studio Ghibli canon is a coming-of-age tale focusing on two…
Director: Baltasar Kormákur Talent: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir Release Date: 12th July 2013 Director Baltasar Kormákur is an interesting figure on the international filmmaking scene,
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Talent: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke Release Date: 2nd August 2013 When is a film not a film? When it’s a Movie! Only God…
Renato Passos – slight-framed and serious-eyed – is talking to me in the front window of the recently opened Boteco Brazil on Ormonde Quay. When he decided to move to
Director: Dean Parisot Talent: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren Release Date: 2nd August 2013 Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) has got himself in a spot of trouble: the CIA is after
The film opens with the death of a skilled trainer killed by a whale in front of a confused crowd in SeaWorld in 2010. Cut to an ex-mercenary who wrenched…
Director: Ulrich Seidl Talent: Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz, Verena Lehbauer Release Date: 2nd August 2013 Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy concludes with the story of Melanie (Melanie Lenz), an adolescent girl
Comparisons to The Artist will of course abound, but here we feel the medium is only the canvas onto which the director paints his motifs, rather than the idea and…
