Ireland
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Since first shuffling onto our screens, zombie films have been employed as allegories for issues ranging from civil rights to consumerism and the one per cent. In The Cured, writer-director… Read More
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After the Oscar-winning success of Once and the more divisive response to Begin Again, Irish filmmaker John Carney turns a nostalgic eye to the 1980s and his own formative years… Read More
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A wayward tween and her ex-con uncle form an unlikely duo in Mark Noonan’s low-key drama, set in a remote part of Ireland’s Midlands Region. Read my review Read More
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Saoirse Ronan stars as a young Irish woman setting off to start a new life in New York during the 1950s. Listen to my review Read More
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Barry Ward stars as a man returning home after a decade in exile to find a community still in need of his help. Listen to my review Read More
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Beautifully directed study of loneliness, grief & how best to preserve dead girls, buoyed by a pair of brilliant performances. Read More
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Lenny Abrahamson’s low budget but nicely pitched Irish drama does a great job of creating believable, likable characters who then fall foul of a second’s intervention from fate, luck or… Read More
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