Film

This Week’s Cinema Roundup

This Week’s Cinema Roundup

Computer Chess, my pick for the best film of 2013 thus far, opens on Friday at the Irish Film Institute. It’s a wildly inventive tale, set over a weekend in a rundown cat infested hotel where some of America’s greatest […]

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Tarzan at 100

Tarzan at 100

By Noel Twamlet In 1912 Edgar Burroughs wrote the first Tarzan story, which makes Tarzan 100 years old. Little did Edgar realise his story would spawn hundreds of novels, comics, cartoons and 89 films. Many fine actors played Tarzan including […]

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Skyfall Review

Skyfall Review

At the end of their first meeting in this new incarnation of Bond, Ben Winshaw’s Q turns to Daniel Craig’s 007 and asks, “Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don’t go in for that anymore,” tells you quite a

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