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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

The Place Beyond the Pines

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Director: Derek Cianfrance Talent: Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ray Liotta Release Date: May 3rd 2013 Derek Cianfrance, director of 2010's Blue Valentine, attempts a grandiose triptych of high American drama with The Place Beyond the Pines, in which a scofflaw and stunt-rider (played by Ryan Gosling) tries to reconcile his relationship with a former girlfriend (Eva Mendes) and their newborn son. Separated into three separate-but-connected narratives, with Gosling's att...read more

The 14th Irish Latin American Film Festival

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The Latin American Film Festival returns to the Pearse Centre this year, featuring shorts and documentaries from the vibrant cultural region. Latin America was the first to experience the disastrous impact of neoliberal masochism (that we are now experiencing in Ireland with an apathetic attitude) and the first to revolt against it. Festival highlight Water Rising underlines this effect with a scathing exposé of resistance to water privatisation in Bolivia.

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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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.

Les Miserables

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Les Miserables is an extremely affecting drama which, despite its revolutionary codas, seems to have left politics as an afterthought to the personal.