A generation of Irish cinemagoers has grown up with no memory of the bad old days when theocratic censors kept comically unthreatening material from the nation’s supposedly fragile eyes. Films banned included such unmitigated filth as Casablanca, Brief En... See more
Which is the only Shakespeare play to have won the best picture Oscar?Henry VHamletRomeo and JulietA Midsummer Night's DreamWho does not belong?Rachel BrosnahanEmma StoneAmy AdamsKate BosworthWhich confectionary did well out of a 1982 smash? M&M'sRees... See more
There is significant Irish interest at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival with Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, a surreal thriller starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, and Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard , a characteristically puzzling... See more
Here is a strikingly beautiful Irish documentary that looks to be taking us to an alien world within the nation’s terrestrial borders. For the past several years, Eoghan Daltun, sculptor, author and ecological preservationist, has been working at rewildin... See more
Barry Ward, versatile Dubliner, makes the best of a meaty role in this consistently grim drama set among hard-edged fisherman in north Wales. There is a cheap temptation to make a comparison with Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country or Ang Lee’s Brokeback Moun... See more
