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Released: 5th March
Cert: 16
With just having loved ‘The Crazies’, I was very much in an open state of mind about horror movies. When I was given the chance to go see ‘Case 39’ I approached with the hope that it would be a nice fulfillment of scares. I had seen the trailer and [...]
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Everyone has read or been read the classic fairytale Hansel and Gretel. Everyone is familiar with that feeling of fear when we are told of the child devouring witch and her treacherous plan to entice children to her gingerbread house, where she can capture them and fatten them up to be eaten. This movie is [...]
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As we’ve been discussing all over the blog of late the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has offered film fans a chance to see classic films and hotly tipped new releases. Following our post on the joys of seeing cinema classic La Dolce Vita on the big screen here we put My Beautiful Laundrette in [...]
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Released: 26th February
Cert: 16
Horror remakes have garnered a bad reputation for themselves, and in some cases, with good cause. For every good one, there are many bad and with the rise and fall of “torture porn” filmmaking, audiences are expecting a little more from horror. I saw a trailer for ‘The Crazies’ a few [...]
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Released: 12th March
Cert: 15A
Lets face it, Martin Scorsese is the man. He may not have the technical prowess of the Fincher, Cameron or Nolan breed of directors but over his decades of filmmaking he has crafted some of the finest films in the world and found his own distinctive style. So when I heard [...]
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We’ve been covering the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in great depth on the show/blog at the moment. And with good reason. With such a strong line up of both new and old films the festival has done a great job of getting the punters to pile in. We particularly loved the idea that they [...]
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Released: 5th March
Cert: 16
Walking into a screening of ‘Legion’ I was very excited. I had followed the production quite closely as I found the general concept very interesting and have long thought that Paul Bettany would make a great action star. I have seen the movie now; it is something to get excited about??
‘Legion’ [...]
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Originally titled “Rusalka”, this is a beautiful but heartbreaking modern fairytale of the water-nymph who is doomed when she is jilted in love.
Mariya Shalaeva plays Alisa, a girl who is conceived in the sea and grows up in a small seaside town believing she can grant wishes. From the age of 6 she refuses to [...]
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When I was paging through the packed JDIFF programme for this year, it was hard to come up with just 4 or 5 films that I wanted to see. The first to jump out at me, though, was Mother. I’ll be honest, the main reason that I wanted to see it was because it was [...]
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