With the 5th March for Choice fast approaching, it’s impossible to ignore the ripples being caused by the abortion debate in the media, the local community and on campus. While the debate has been a very live issue in Irish … Continue reading Marching Forward
Reel Art is an Arts Council initiative that awards funding to two experimental documentaries each year. Further Beyond, the Reel Art commission from film duo, Desperate Optimists (Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor), screened at the IFI in February as part … Continue reading Making Reel Art
Illustration by Daniel Tatlow. Global warming, renewable energy, pollution, carbon emissions and a host of other environmental issues have been all over the mainstream news media in the last few weeks. Protesters were arrested in violent clashes with police in … Continue reading An Entertaining Truth
Kisses is a Dublin film and a Christmas film. To 11 year old runaways Dylan and Kylie, the inner city offers a refuge from their stifling, abusive lives in the dreary suburbs – the film literally changing from black and … Continue reading Dublin in Film: Kisses
●●●●● Tangerine is a strikingly documentary-like feature that charts one particularly sunny Christmas Eve in West Hollywood, through the eyes of two transgender sex workers – Alexandra and Sin-Dee – and an Armenian taxi driver, Razmik (Played by Mya Taylor, … Continue reading Tangerine – Review
At the end of October, the second annual Dublin Feminist Film Festival will take place. The festival showcases the work of female directors, both past and present, in an area in which they have historically been underrepresented. This September, the … Continue reading Women in Irish Cinema
●●●●○ “We were making history, and it wasn’t nice and clean”. So says the first interviewee in Stanley Nelson’s portrait of one of the most mythologised groups in North American history, the Black Panther Party. The film opens with an … Continue reading Black Panther: Vanguard of the Revolution- Review
●●●○○ The Intern comes from writer and director Nancy Meyers, the woman who brought us The Parent Trap and that stalwart evening television movie, Something’s Gotta Give. Like the latter, The Intern addresses age gaps, albeit in a professional rather … Continue reading The Intern – Review
Horse Money is the sixth feature film from Portuguese director Pedro Costa, the fourth installment in a loose group of films tied together by their connection to the Fontainhas district of Lisbon. Fontainhas was a poor neighbourhood with a population … Continue reading Horse Money – Review
●●●●○ “It hurts me to realise that what I yearned for was so far from genuine. It’s nothing. It’s worthless.” This is what uppity valet John throws at Julie, beautiful and flighty daughter of his master, after they consummate their … Continue reading Miss Julie – Review
●●●●○ The Diary of a Teenage Girl is very upfront about its subject matter: sex. There’s some drugs, there’s some teen anxieties, there’s some dancing and drinking and a tiny smidgen of school. But it’s not really very interested in … Continue reading The Diary of a Teenage Girl – Review
GAZE, Dublin’s international LGBT film festival, returns for its 23rd year this August Bank Holiday weekend. To get us in the mood for the festival we spoke to Kieran Turner, director of Jobriath A.D., which won the documentary prize at … Continue reading Interview: Kieran Turner, LGBT web series creator