Here Are the Young Men (Eoin Macken) is an adaptation of the Rob Doyle novel of the same name. The film follows Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman) and his friends, Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) and Kearney (Finn Cole), as they embark on a … Continue reading Here Are the Young Men // Review
Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were not only friends (even if the friendship had its highs and lows as Capote observes and this film documents), but both experienced great success as young writers, struggled with addiction and lived as openly … Continue reading Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation // Review
Black Bear (Lawrence Michael Levine) is a brilliantly baffling film. Its dream-like ambiguities make it difficult to reduce to a plot synopsis, but this is not to its detriment. If anything, the less you know before watching, the easier it … Continue reading Black Bear // Review
Silent Action (Sergio Martino, 1975) is an Italian action-thriller that opens with the high-profile deaths of several military officials reported in the papers as either accidental or suicide. Despite not having the audience’s privilege of witnessing these murders, General Inspector … Continue reading Silent Action // Review
Originally published in print March 2021. In July, I wrote about several films that have raised my awareness of racial injustice. Cinema provides us with an alternate perspective and worldview, and for the duration of a film’s running time we … Continue reading Racial Oppression Exposed on Film More Recommendations From the Film Editor
After a festival run beginning at Berlinale and moving to Moscow, Adelaide, and Stockholm, Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Raymond’s sensitive and subtle My Little Sister/Schwesterlein (2020) arrives at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. The film centres around Lisa … Continue reading My Little Sister // VMDIFF 2021
Originally published in print February 2021. Shooting a festival-quality film may seem like a rather unrealistic creative endeavour for a student. It can be particularly daunting when you read of “low budget” independent films that cost roughly €1,000,000. Unfortunately for … Continue reading Making a Festival Film on a Student (Lack of) Budget
Originally published in print December 2020. Connor Howlett, Film Editor Les Misérables Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, 2019) is set in the Parisian commune of Montfermeil, and follows a team of three police officers in the Anti-Crime Brigade. Not to be … Continue reading 2020’s Films of the Year
Looking to spice up you and your partner’s movie-watching habits? Looking for that perfect first-date film? Maybe you even want to choose a film to watch on a lovely evening in with yourself… Regardless of why you’re looking for a … Continue reading Films Great for a Date A series of stellar recommendations brought to you by our Film and Sex teams
There’s a fascinating creative exercise at the heart of The Racer (Kieron J. Walsh, 2020). Set during the Irish stages of the 1998 Tour de France, the film embarks on an entirely fictional narrative. It follows Dominique Chabol (Louis Talpe), … Continue reading The Racer // Review
Illustration by Lola Fleming. Originally published in print September 2020. During what was probably the most collectively stressful period of life in living memory, not having the tonic of cinema gave me a lot of heartache. Of course, there are … Continue reading Returning Home Back to the cinema
Illustration by Maeve Breathnach. TN2 Magazine’s ‘Fiction Club’ is a new monthly forum for writers to read, discuss and dissect selected works. To suggest a piece of literature for consideration contact literature@tn2magazine.ie ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ was … Continue reading ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ by Edgar Allan Poe // Fiction Club 1