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Green Zone – Review

Matt Damon + Paul Greengrass + Action = Great films + Box office gold. Matt Damon + Paul Greengrass + Action + Iraq? Well that could be a little more tricky. By and large Iraq war movies have failed miserably at the box office, this despite the fact that most have been really rather good. [...]

Kick-Ass Will Kick Ass

I haven’t even seen it yet and I’m already expecting it to be one of the best movies of the year. Kick-Ass concerns a teenage boy, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who decides to become a real-life superhero named Kick-Ass after being inspired by the heroes of comic books. He soon encounters a mysterious vigilante [...]

Competition Closed: Old Dogs, New Tricks

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Ok, here’s one for the families. John Travolta and Robin Williams team up in Disney’s Old Dogs , a comedy that pairs the two as close business partners whose lives are thrown into disarray when [...]

Shutter Island – Review

Shutter Island, the oft-delayed Martin Scorsese adaptation of the best-selling Denis Lehane book finally hits Irish cinema screens on March 12th. Usually these kind of release date changes result from studio unease at something that took place during production, be it unsatisfactory effects or the commonly cited “creative differences”. In this instance it would appear [...]

The Girl With The Men Who Hate Women…

Set in a dark and frosty Sweden, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a gloomy thriller about a journalist and a young female hacker who delve into the past and uncover a myriad of dark secrets. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, and based on the novel of the same name by the late Swedish [...]

Trailer: Tron Legacy

I knew you’d escape. They haven’t built a circuit that could hold you!

Tron was one of those genre defining films. Back in 1982 this hi-tech, neon sci-fi movie was released and while it certainly hasn’t aged well, it’s still a nostalgia-fest like no other. Imagine what could happen if you were sucked into your [...]

Star Wars In Concert

Before starting this review I should state, like many a person, Star Wars means a hell of a lot to me. No hang over or heart break ever feels as bad when you are sat with a cup of tea and The Empire Strikes Back is sitting in your DVD player or oddly preferably just [...]

Alice in Wonderland – The 1903 Version

The first film version of the classic tale has been restored by the British Film Institute and was made 8 years after the birth of cinema. The original ran for 12 minutes and was the longest film produced in England at the time.
Lots more on the story behind the restoration process on the BFI website .

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Ireland and the Oscars

I was fortunate enough to catch the three Irish Oscar nominated movies on Wednesday evening in the IFI . I had only seen the great Granny O’Grimm before, but was hugely surprised at the very moving The Door and the visually beautiful Secret of Kells.
The Door is a powerful short film, set in Chernobyl in [...]

Ondine – Review

With Ondine Neil Jordan brings Colin Farrell home for a fantastical, heart-warming Irish movie about love, and the strange forms that it can take.

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Your Focus Needs More Focus

Oh for crying out loud, why would they make this movie. Here’s the new trailer for The Karate Kid remake:

The official blurb says:

In Columbia Pictures’ The Karate Kid, 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has taken them to China.  Dre immediately [...]

Leap Year is a Time Travel Rom Com, possibly set in Lost universe

It’s easy to write Leap Year off as another inbred descendent of The Quiet Man. First appearances are of a film full of twinkly-eyed drunken charmers with secret pasts and promiscuous fists having twinkly eyed drunken fights over promiscuous pasts in secret fields. However, this mere shillelagh shop window dressing hides a more sophisticated cloth [...]

Prince of Persia Trailer: What do you think?

It could be the new Pirates of the Carribean. I’m not much of a Jake Gyllenhaal fan (I prefer his sister), but Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time looks damn cool:

It’s released at the end of May. What do you think? Blockbuster or flop?

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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

It’s definitely Tim Burton’s most commercial Hollywood film to date, building on the platform of his last film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Like Charlie, Burton’s vision of Alice has the potential to ruin a character and landscape we grew up with. However, unlike Charlie, this time he got it right.

Even from the opening before-Wonderland [...]

And Its Name Is Legion

Looks like FoxeinSocks beat me to the first review , and I agree, its pants. The thing is, Legion is a real curate’s egg of a movie; partly good and partly bad, but as a result is entirely spoiled.
Firstly, the acting, especially Paul Bettany’s, is very good , and his performance is [...]

Legion

I was looking forward to this film and in the beginning it didn’t disappoint. The angel Micheal falls to earth in a scene reminiscent of the start of Terminator, loads up on guns, as angels do, steals a car and drives off. Switch to mismatched group of Joe soaps stranded for various reasons in a [...]

Awesome Movie Moment #18

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The Crazies – Review

There seems to be an epidemic in Hollywood these days with studios intent on wheeling out old properties and remaking them. Nowhere is this more evident than in the horror movie scene, with a spate of remakes ranging from downright rotten to devilishly good having been recently foisted upon us. The latest in this long [...]

Oscar Competition

Oscar night takes place on Sunday 7 March this year with hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
Can you predict who’s going to win all the oscars? Now’s your chance to prove you had it right.  In the comments below, give me your predictions for 1) best film, 2) best director, 3) best actor, 4) [...]

Almost Alice

On March 5th, Disney will be releasing two soundtracks for Alice In Wonderland, the first will be Danny Elfman’s score, but the second, Almost Alice, features popular rock acts performing songs ‘inspired by the film’. On the outset, it seemed like an empty headed money grabbing idea, a way to cash in.  But then…I listened [...]