On the Basis of Sex stars Felicity Jones as the future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and tells the story of her early struggles against sexism in academia and professional circles. It’s all uphill for Ruth in this movie; … Continue reading On the Basis of Sex // REVIEW
●●●●● Once in a while, you come across a film, a painting, a play, a book — fuck, even just a line in a poem — that is so real and moving, you feel like you’ve been given a gift. … Continue reading Fat Blokes // REVIEW To say that Fat Blokes is the most honest work of theatre I’ve ever seen fails to do it justice.
●●○○○ M. Night Shyamalan’s 19-year-long Eastrail 177 trilogy comes to a fairly shattering conclusion in Glass. When Unbreakable’s reluctant hero, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), finally meets the Beast, the most monstrous personality of Kevin Wendall Crumb’s (James McAvoy, Split (2016)) … Continue reading Glass // REVIEW Shyamalan’s much-touted comeback shatters with this lackluster threequel
●●○○○ Married at 15, widowed at 18, Catholic queen Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) returns to her birthplace of Scotland to claim her throne. To the south, her Protestant cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), who will ultimately put her to death, … Continue reading Mary Queen of Scots // REVIEW Ronan/Robbie vehicle ruined by mixed messages and a muddled aesthetic
●●●●○ This is the rare supernatural thriller that really earns its nonsense. It’s 24 hours before D-Day and an incredibly ethnically diverse crew of American paratroopers are behind enemy lines. Their job? To take out a German radio tower in … Continue reading Overlord // review D-Day and Nazis and Zombies, oh my!
●●●●○ After their career-criminal husbands are gunned down and their underworld rivals come to collect a debt, Veronica (Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) realise that they’re all dead unless, they team up to complete the last … Continue reading Steve McQueen’s Widows // REVIEW
●●○○○ Following the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is banned from international travel. These events, too, resulted in the dark wizard Grindelwald (previously Colin Farrell as the best part of that film; … Continue reading The Crimes of ‘The Crimes of Grindelwald’ This is a film short on fantastic beats.
●○○○○ After losing everything in an attempt to expose the criminal activities of genius industrialist Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) can’t quite let things go. He gets too close to one of the experiments, and … Continue reading Venom: All slobber, no teeth. Tom Hardy’s super-antihero turn is the bane of the self-respecting movie-goer.
●●●●● “My body used to belong to me.” From the opening sentence of You Have The Right To Remain Fat, Virgie Tovar is going hard. The self-described ‘fatshionista’ is also an academic, a body image expert, a bonne vivante and … Continue reading You Have The Right To Remain Fat // REVIEW Virgie Tovar isn’t remotely kidding around with her new manifesto
“Pornography is the theory; rape is the practice,” wrote Robin Morgan, former editor of Ms. in the late seventies. In 1981, Andrea Dworkin, noted anti-porn feminist, took it a step further, arguing that women “will know that we are free … Continue reading A Porn of One’s Own Do you like to watch?
●●●●● When Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) is caught having sex with another girl on prom night, her conservative aunt sends her away to a Christian-run conversion therapy camp. There, along with other young ‘disciples’, Cameron is counselled to examine … Continue reading The Miseducation of Cameron Post // REVIEW
●●●○○ Black ’47 has been described as a western about the Great Famine. It tells the story (sometimes in Irish!) of a lone gunslinger on a dead-eyed revenge rampage and the law-man sent to bring him down. The law is … Continue reading Black ’47 // REVIEW The historical drama resonates deeply with Irish current events.