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Something In The Air

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Director: Olivier Assayas Talent: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand, Carole Combes Release Date: 24th May 2013 Olivier Assayas' semi-autobiographical account of youth counterculture in post-'68 Europe (the film's original French title is Après mai) picks up where his 1994 feature L'eau froide left off, charting the experiences of disaffected, artistic young folks against a macro-historical backdrop of political unrest. Like Assayas, they eschew political engagement for a pastor...read more

The Hangover Part III

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Director: Todd Phillips Talent: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha Release Date: 23rd May 2013 For the third installment in a franchise marked by cosmic unoriginality and the fortuitous comic virtuosity of Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover Part III is both exactly what you might expect and, sadly, so much less. Doing away with the retrospective narrative structure of the first two films, it is a straight men-on-a-mission caper that retreads old ground (and minor chara...read more

The Great Gatsby

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Director: Baz Luhrmann Talent: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Toby Maguire, Joel Edgerton Release Date: 17th May 2013   Up unto this point, cinematic adaptations of The Great Gatsby have failed to do F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age tragedy justice. Of these remakes, the 1974 version (starring Mia Farrow and Robert Redford, with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola) is the best known and most iconic, and yet it failed to adapt Fitzgerald’s novel in a meaningful or coher...read more

Interview with A Hijacking’s Tobias Lindholm

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Waiting for Tobias Lindholm to appear for our interview in The Merrion Hotel, one can’t help but overhear his handlers furiously planning the day’s schedule. He’s in town for a screening of his solo-directorial debut, A Hijacking, being shown that night at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, and judging read more…

Star Trek Into Darkness

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Director: J.J Abrams Talent: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Alice Eve, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg Release Date: May 9th 2013 J.J Abrams' reimagining of the cult franchise continues with a fast-paced follow up to 2009’s Star Trek. After a direct attack on Star Fleet back on Earth, it’s all personal as Captain Kirk (comfortably reprised by Chris Pine) and the team hunt down the assailant: a one-man terrorist cell with an incriminating penchant for black (Benedict Cumbe...read more

200 Reasons Not To Leave Dublin

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The Irish are a nation of emigrants. After a brief respite, we're back to boats and planes as vehicles for careers and lives. But Dublin's still a great place to live, regardless of how small it m...read more
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Something In The Air

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[A] liberal eclecticism which, counter to the film’s tepid suggestion, 1970s revolutionary movements failed as a (partial) result, rather than in spite, of.

In the House

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A mischievously amusing musing on the creative muse, the artifice of writing, and “the dictatorship of sex.”

Lincoln

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Stephen Spielberg’s Oscar-bait ‘masterpiece’ is problematic, to say the least.