First Man

What does it say about the current American psyche that some of the most ambitious space movies have come to … More

Crazy Rich Asians

I watched John M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians in a packed Dublin cinema, a scene that must be pretty common as it … More

In The Breakfast Club, the five teen protagonists sit around discussing their parents’ failures. They pour their passionate young hearts … More

BlacKkKlansman is the first Spike Lee film I’ve seen in the cinema, and it’s not the film I thought I was … More

I have to see Marvel movies in the cinema. It’s become such an overwhelming universe, seeing each instalment on the … More

This review has an Alternate Ending – check it out here. Dublin’s Irish Film Institute (my beloved IFI) recently hosted … More

There are only a couple of films that I’ve seen in the cinema three times. Four viewings always seemed … More

Bette Davis played Queen Elizabeth I, twice. Once, in 1939, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, and again in … More

Having just seen Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, dir. JA Bayona), I have one specific problem that I think gets in the … More

A first blog had to happen eventually… I’m (finally getting around to) writing about Tully (2018), directed by Jason Reitman, written … More