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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 [...]

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 [...]

Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

This week’s cult film recommendation is Matango, a little-known Japanese oddity from 1963. You might imagine from its full American title, Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, that it’s a daft and trashy piece of work. Contrary to appearances, though, this is an unusually well-made and thoughtful genre film. It plays by the rules of [...]

Galway Film Society winter/spring season

The Galway Film Society has announced its winter/spring season for the new year. As usual, the films will be screened at the Town Hall Theatre [map ]. Titles and dates are as follows:
Séraphine (17 Jan.), Home (24 Jan.), Mid August Lunch (31 Jan.), Welcome (07 Feb.), Tales from a [...]

A Short View: Where The Wild Things Are.

Go and see Where The Wild Things Are. You don’t need to bring a child, you just need to have been one.

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Culchie Catch-Up (14)

There are some sore heads this morning after an early start on the #dubcrawl trail hence the delayed Catch-Up this week.  (Ouchy).
So what happened this week? Charleze Theron handed a sneaky victory to Ireland. The Top Gear Live show is attracting thousands. Electric Picnic tickets went on sale and I couldn’t get my [...]

Master of the Flying Guillotine

Jimmy Wang Yu’s outrageous martial arts film from 1975 is something of a cult classic. I re-watched it recently and can happily report that it’s as over the top and crazily entertaining as ever. This fight scene — between the one-armed boxer (Wang Yu) and a yoga master with an unexpected special power — is [...]

The Thing From Another Decade

“It’s weird and pissed off, whatever it is.”
John Carpenter’s The Thing was released in 1982, but I saw it first in the mid-1990s. It hooked me right away. The opening caption: Antarctica, Winter 1982; and the scene: a helicopter chasing a dog, its passenger shooting at the animal sprinting across the empty snow towards a [...]

Fantomas, the silent killer

Instead of keeping up to date with the latest offerings from the world of cinema, I have been catching up on a crime serial from its early days. Fantômas is a criminal mastermind who originated in a flurry of 32 detective novels published monthly between 1911 and 1913; the first film adaptation, directed by [...]

2 Years after 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Here’s another recommendation from the 2007 vault. This film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, is a very different sort to the last one I wrote about on Culch.ie. RTE recently broadcast it in a late-night slot (23 September), and although I didn’t re-watch it then, I got to thinking about it again [...]

Kings of Kong

‘I wanted the pretty girls to come up and say, “Hi, I see that you’re good at Centipede”‘ – Walter Day
(Note: this piece has no substantial plot spoilers, but some of the links do.)
Right after I saw The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters for the first time, I went googling. I needed to [...]

They Never Do Heed The Taglines

Here is just one of the posters for Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods .
Due for release in February 2010, what initially looks like a throw-away teeney-bob horror could really be something special with Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford both set to star and Whedon at the helm. [...]

Two Sheets to the Wind: Top Five Animated Movies

Our top fives are usually fought out over a few drinks (hence the title), but with my current abstinence, I wonder should we change the title for this month? Anyway…

Cartoons are a staple of Hollywood since Disney first produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. The animated movie (a phrase which allows adults [...]

24 REM busting films you might want to avoid. Or maybe not…

A number of weeks ago I was watching one of the Rental Boys episodes on the RTE website . One of the characters in the particular episode had a scene with a customer where he talked about his favourite film, Requiem for a Dream. I’d never heard of it but put it on my [...]

Those Scotties were hard work.

What happens when you walk into a cinema filled with peopel wearing sunglasses? It might be a sign that you’re going to see something different – or childish.
Well Coraline is a bit of both. It’s a children’s film, really but it’s a kids film for grown ups.
First of all, i have to get [...]

Win tickets to Coraline, Blade Runner, Grease or The Sound of Music

The wonderful team at The Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People in association with AIB would like to offer you the chance to win tickets to screenings of their movies.
Yes, that’s free tickets to one of four great films in a great festival . All you have to do is choose what [...]

Crank 2: Bring on The Wrath of Men

Last Thursday I went on my first “Culch.ie Cinema Trip” to see the testosterone fueled Crank 2: High Voltage, the sequel to 2006’s Crank .
So what can I say about this movie?  It’s lewd, crude and full of very questionable plot lines and gratuitous ridiculous sex scenes. It crosses every politically correct threshold you can [...]

It’s cinema for young people – that means you!

The Princess Bride, The Sound of Music, Ray D’Arcy, Don Conroy, a pauper’s guide to science fiction film making, Coraline, The Age of Stupid, Aidan Power, Bicycle Thieves, Ben Schiffer, Lifeboat Luke, Hugglewugs, Masterclasses, workshops and more – that’s cinemagic.
One of the festivals I’m most looking forward to this year starts next week – it’s [...]