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Skip to main content Currently Reading New Movies to Watch This Week: Disneys Raya, Amy Poehlers Moxie and Eddie Murphys Return Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail It’s a very different landscape this week than it was a year ago, just before the pandemic forced cinemas to close around the country. Still, with New York cinemas cautiously reopening this week and many other markets determined to bring moviegoing back, the studios and indie distributors alike are bringing many of the...

And then the movie came out, one week after Iron Man, a movie that essentially single-handedly changed the blockbuster game. Speed Racer cost $120 million to produce (and probably the same or more again to promote), and only made $94 million at the worldwide box office. Critics were no kinder, with a 41% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the movie was immediately consigned to the Expensive Flops page on Wikipedia. However, in the decade-plus since then, the movie has garnered a big cult following, ...

Son: How Andi Matichaks New Horror Movie Was the "Perfect Transition" From Halloween Keeping in the tradition with most entries into the Halloween franchise, one of the key figures in the narrative of the 2018 film was cast with a relatively unknown performer, only for Andi Matichaks starring turn resulting in her being afforded a number of exciting opportunities. Without being much of a horror fan prior to joining the long-running franchise, one might think she would avoid returning to the ge...

05 Mar 2021 : News Desk The 2021 Online European Film Market (EFM) at Berlinale is underway with a number of Irish productions featuring. The EFM runs from 1st-5th March. Screen Ireland will spearhead the Irish entourage that are attending the online market by hosting a Virtual Stand the Irish Film 2021 stand at the European Film Market (EFM). The virtual stand will also include information about filming in Ireland, financial incentives and co-production. There are a nu...

Son Review: Parenting Is Hard When Your Child Is From Hades Son Review: Parenting Is Hard When Your Child Is From Hades Irish director Ivan Kavanaghs U.S.-set feature is an interesting but uneasy mix of supernatural horror and earnest drama. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Ivan Kavanagh With: Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm, Cranston Johnson, Blaine Maye, J Robert Spencer, Rocco Sisto, Kristine Nielsen, Erin Bradley Dangar, Adam Stephenson, David Kallawa...

Covid announced itself here just as last years Virgin Dublin International Film Festival (VDIFF) was drawing to a close. That instalment of our capitals annual cinema carnival came away more or less unscathed, and given what would happen to the arts world in the aftermath, there must surely have been a sigh of relief from festival linchpin Gráinne Humphreys. Plans for this years VDIFF were dependent on restriction levels, and prospects of a mooted "hybrid festival" had to be scrapped for an e...

(The article continues below - Commercial information) The upcoming film, penned by the director himself, has been described as “a bold and unnerving character-driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, The Babadook”. In detail, we will follow Laura ( Andi Matichak), a mother who, after escaping from a cult as a child, must face her past when its sinister members break into her home and attempt to steal her eight-year-old son, David ( Luke David Blumm). Now the two are on the ru...

In the run-up to Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, we speak to Rachel Carey, AnneMarie Naughton and Eva Birthistle about releasing films in 2021.

SON Trailer (2021) Psychological Horror PLOT: After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura’s home and attempts to steal…

DIR: David Burke, Seán Ó Cualáin A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post, Kennedy became known as ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’. Travelling to South America in 2014, he made further headlines when tiny electrodes were implanted inside his brain in order to continue his research. Thi...