Archive for the Culture Category

Keanu Reeves return to the role of bearded butcher in John Wick: Chapter Two. It’s a rare sequel that improves on the original, with a more even pace and an expansion of the fascinating criminal world established in the first […]

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro’s greatest collaboration, Taxi Driver, returns to the big screen in a new restoration at the Irish Film Institute. De Niro is both terrifying and sympathetic as a New York cabbie driven to violence by […]

A three hour long German comedy may not sound too compelling, but that’s just what Toni Erdmann is, and it’s brilliant! In a desperate attempt to connect with his career obsessed daughter, an aging man adopts a dodgy wig and […]

We’ve got no less than three movies based on true stories this week. The best of the trio is Christine, which tells the tragic story of Christine Chubbock, a news reporter whose 1974 on-air suicide inspired the 1976 movie Network. […]

Movie fans have become divided on Martin Scorsese in recent times. Some say he’s never lost his touch, while others argue his best days are two decades behind him. Most will agree on the quality of 1990’s Goodfellas, a mob epic […]

This week, two of the front-runners for a Best Picture Oscar open in Dublin cinemas. Manchester by the Sea should, but probably won’t, win. It’s another impeccably observed piece of human drama from Kenneth Lonergan, the most exciting American filmmaker […]

There’s a lack of new releases in cinemas this week, so I’ll take this opportunity to look back on the five best movies released in Irish cinemas last year. Keep an eye out for this lot on DVD and Netflix. […]

If you would prefer to ring in the new year with a classic comedy than a night of endless queuing for over-priced shandies, the Lighthouse is the place for you tomorrow night as they screen Billy Wilder’s 1960 gem The […]