8.0
Betty Blue
It was a very influential and much talked about movie on its release in 1986 in France, but I’ve just recently caught up with…
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9.0
Human Capital
Paolo Virzi’s film ‘Human Capital’ may be based on a novel, but it makes creative use of multiple viewpoints in the classic Rashomon style,…
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10.0
Onibaba
In my view it’s wrong to dismiss Onibaba as a horror film, or even call it a cult classic. It’s one of the all…
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8.0
Diva
Probably one of the best of the ‘cinema du look’, Jean-Jaques Beineix’s Diva set the tone for French cinema in the 1980s. Without Diva…
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Game of Thrones – the thirst for invented mythologies
The science fiction and comics convention TitanCon has just finished in Belfast and with the filming of Game of Thrones only a few miles…
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7.0
Fallen Angels
An alluring hybrid. A spectacular misfire. The sequences with the mysterious hit-man and his beautiful contact are some of the most striking and stylish…
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9.0
Blancanieves
Blancanieves is a Spanish reimagining of the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves story – but more than that it’s the reimagining of what…
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10.0
St Vincent at the Olympia Dublin
Artists help us to be more rather than less human. When last Saturday night the new St Vincent stage show, featuring Annie Clark’s new…
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Authentic design – a lesson from cinema
It was while reading how exiled Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami approached his work that I realised that the great filmmaker has something important…
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Game of Thrones actress Amrita Acharia shines in new film role
Everyone now knows there is no word for thank you in Dothraki, but exotic actress Amrita Acharia can thank her sometimes overlooked performance in…
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