There's something fitting about The Outcasts being somewhat lost for more than forty years. Not right, but fitting. A true gem in Irish film

Pugh and Garfield shine but Romantic drama We Live in Time attempts authenticity; even if it’s doing too and not a lot all at once.

Eggers sprawling horror reignites Gothicism on screen in its grimmest way...the Victorians would have loved it.

Well look what we have here? Another review I meant to pen almost four weeks ago. I caught Aftersun in its first week, rushed to it in...

There is nothing like the melodic wilt of the Irish brogue. Nor is there anything quite like the razor sharp witticisms of a Martin...

Park Chan-wook is phenomenal. I missed the clanging of erotic balls in the cinema, enjoyed in a single intensive sitting some time later,...

Well, I never thought I would be ticking things off my bucket list already. Never gave my bucket list much thought, nor do I have any...

“From the star. From the stars. The sea is the mother. The people are her bosom. Heaven is the playground.” And the so the festival...

“Our rooster's dead, our rooster's dead, He'll no longer sing kokodi, kokoda,” Koko-di, Koko-dull… that was dreadful, but then again so...

Sometimes a film feels like a mirror is being held up to you. Sometimes it feels like a little bit of déjà vu. The strangest of these is...

Well. What can I say? I didn’t hate, I didn’t love it. Indifference should let me forget about it, and to some degree I do. I am under no...

I saw Belle last night. I would love to divulge my extensive and, even for me, salty interpretation of modern day, post-lockdown...

Pedro Almodóvar is in a new phase of storytelling, a far more pensive and thoughtful phase all the while speckled with his characteristic...

“After all, it’s just a matter of flesh and blood. No more than a pile of bone and ash in the end right? There has to be something more...

**** As another couple of weeks pass and my inactivity on this blog grows ever more unsettling to myself alone - not to say that I have...

“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people... Little hungry and great hungry. Little hungry people are physically hungry....

I watch a lot of films and find myself moved far less than this blog suggests. Supposing I was a true critic I would fill these pages...

I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...

Here we go again. It's been a while, I must admit. [Insert existential sentence with as many commas as I feel is humanly necessary to get...

***** 'I am by nature a boy, not a girl...' Over and over does Dieyi mistakenly repeat these words before his master at the Beijing Opera...

****1/2 Often I talk about humanism, a desire for the genuine, for sincerity in much of what I consume. When I escape from the world, it...

** 1/2 As a huge fan of Japanese, European and surrealist-shock cinema, writer/director Sion Sono quickly became a favourite of mine...

It's funny that we all have our little obsessions. Funnier still is how they come and go. For some it's romance novels, others it's the...

Rating: *** I was so pumped to watch A Whisker Away. Like, embarrassingly so. Not a day went by in the month beforehand did I not think...

My Rating: *** Sometimes I wonder if a film had been made twenty/twenty-five years ago would it get the same reaction as it does now? Are...

Rating: * Why Lukas Moodysson's experimental drama was A Hole in MY Afternoon

Last night I dreamt of boy with blue eyes. He found me in at the bar in a sleazy night club, returning my friend to me having found her...

Some women on a boat; the cynic that I am saw very little appeal in Alex Holmes documentary, Maiden, opening in cinemas this week. From...

Last night I went to the cinema out of necessity rather than want. A need to understand a conflict that has always been present in my...