Following the success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a bunch of man versus nature movies appeared in the late 1970s. Most were awful, but one of the best is William Girdler’s bonkers Grizzly, which basically transplants the plot of Spielberg’s film […]
Read more →The Irish Film Institute continues its season of folk horror with another three classics this week. On Saturday you can catch 1971’s Blood on Satan’s Claw, a creepy and atmospheric period horror in which a malevolent force possesses the children […]
Read more →The Manson murders added a sinister punctuation mark to the end of the hippy era, and subsequently an interest in the darker side of paganism became predominant in the 1970s. This gave rise to the folk-horror sub-genre, and this week […]
Read more →There’s a real treat for cinephiles this week with the release of controversial director Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest. In The Neon Demon, Elle Fanning plays a teenage model who becomes the toast of the Los Angeles fashion scene, making some dangerous […]
Read more →Released in the US in 2015, the gripping indie psycho-drama Queen of Earth finally gets a release on these shores. Elizabeth Moss is terrifying as a young woman undergoing an emotional breakdown while recovering from a breakup at a friend’s lakeside […]
Read more →The must see release this week is Italian crime epic Suburra, in which the death of an underage prostitute in a politician’s hotel room sparks a war between Rome’s Mafia tribes. The various subplots are interwoven skilfully, and while it’s densely […]
Read more →Screening at the Lighthouse late Saturday night is Brian Yuzna’s 1989 horror satire Society, an ’80s riff on the Bodysnatchers theme in which a high school kid discovers the rich members of his community are secretly engaging in murderous orgies. Boasting […]
Read more →A march led by a colour party and piper left Liberty Hall making its way to Pearse Street and St Andrew’s Resource Centre, where the unveiling of a plaque to the Irish Citizens’ Army was followed by a reception. Speakers […]
Read more →‘The Tenements’ was written by Paul Kennedy for the Waters Edge Community Drama group and was presented to the public in Ringsend/Irishtown Community Centre on Wednesday May 24th – 26th. The community group who performed this lively play are part […]
Read more →Bloomsday is just around the corner yet again and a special new event will have its inauguration this year in Dublin 4. ‘The Citizen’s Breakfast’ is a community play that will be performed on Shelbourne Road on June 16th, and […]
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