Othered Voices The Feminist Film Festival is set to take place this year from November 18th-20th at The New Theatre in Dublin. Over the course of the weekend, there will be screenings of films that promote the representation of women … Continue reading Q&A with Feminist Film Festival
●●●●● The opening credits of Nocturnal Animals are perhaps the most bizarre and most striking I have ever seen. The film begins with a series of slow-motion shots of morbidly obese women dancing half-naked against a startlingly red backdrop. We … Continue reading Nocturnal Animals- review
●●●●● Tuesday 1st November Olympia Theatre, Dublin Having released his debut album in 2013, Tom Odell has experienced three years of incredible success, both among music critics and the general public. Marketing himself as a simple English singer-songwriter with an … Continue reading Tom Odell @ The Olympia Theatre – review
●●●●○ Another year, another horde of zombie films. So far in 2016 we’ve seen Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Girl with All The Gifts, Zoombies and Dead 7. Not to mention the ubiquitous The Walking Dead that returns to … Continue reading Train to Busan – review
Featured image: Last Days on Mars. By Nick-Wall, courtesy of Fantastic Films. Dublin-based Fantastic Films have emerged as one of Ireland’s leading film production companies since their establishment in the early 2000s. Focused mainly on horror, their filmography … Continue reading Frightful Fantasies
The silent era of film is one that many actively try to avoid. These films are often seen as simplistic in plot and characterisation, and too heavily reliant on physical comedy. With this in mind, I chose The Kid … Continue reading Jumble: Defining the Decade – 1920s: The Kid
●●●●○ Beauty is not everything. It’s the only thing. There’s a scene in The Neon Demon featuring a young model, hands on her hips, striking a series of unnatural poses. Her eyelids are covered in glittering grey powder and and … Continue reading The Neon Demon, review
This month, the Light House Cinema hosted a ‘Studio Ghibli Forever’ season. The Facebook event page was inundated by teenagers, students and adults alike, all clicking the ‘interested’ button to affirm their desire for watching world-renowned Japanese anime films on … Continue reading Studio Ghibli Forever @ The Light House – review