The Favourite (UK-Ireland-US 2018)
The Favourite was released in the UK on New Year’s Day and seems to have started the period of, for me at least, the dark days of ‘Awards Season’ when even the most clued-up programmers in specialised...
View ArticleGreta (Ireland-US-South Korea 2018)
Surprisingly, this is Neil Jordan’s first cinema film since Byzantium in 2012. He seems to have spent the intervening years working on two TV series and writing a couple of novels. It’s always good to...
View ArticleGaza (Ireland-Palestine 2019)
This was the second film I watched at the Delius Arts Centre during Bradford’s 2019 Refugee Week. As with Beats of the Antonov, this was a screening with a very engaged and committed audience who, as...
View ArticleLIFF 2019 #10: Calm with Horses (UK-Ireland 2019)
This is an impressive feature film debut from director Nick Roland and writer Joe Murtagh (based on a Colin Barrett story of the same name). It features a low level gang in the west of Ireland who...
View ArticleGFF20 #4: Arracht (Ireland 2019)
This debut feature shot in just 20 days on the coast of Connemara (the seaboard of present day Co. Galway) tells the story of one small community at the time of potato blight and famine in 1845. It’s a...
View ArticleLFF 2020 #2: Wildfire (Ireland-UK 2020)
‘Wildfire’ is a good title for this intense 84 minute drama/melodrama that tells a personal story carefully set in a political-cultural context, allowing a metaphor to remain visible in the flames....
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