Stuck In Love

Published June 13, 2013

Director: Josh Boone Talent: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff Release Date: 14th June 2013 Writer-director Josh Boone’s debut feature centres on a family broken by infidelity, divorce and blame, yet in spite of its good intentions, Stuck in Love begs to be written off as a sappy, indie-romantic dramedy. Greg Kinnear stars as the likeable Bill Borgens, an unhappily divorced novelist and father to two teenage children who are also talented writers. For a film ab...read more

Cinema Reviews

Man of Steel

Published June 12, 2013

Director: Zack Snyder Talent: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane Release Date: 14th June 2013 I often get frustrated watching summer blockbusters, and not out of any firmly-held sense of pretentious good taste (though God knows I can whip that out at a moment’s notice when there are people looking). For the longest time now, big budget spectacles have seemed embarrassed to be giving me what I’ve paid for. Pay to see a blockbuster and you want broad and...read more

Cinema Reviews, Film

Byzantium

Published June 6, 2013

Director: Neil Jordan Talent: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley Release Date: 31st May 2013 Neil Jordan's career as Ireland's primo “crossover appeal” director owes a lot to his disconcerting use of fantasy tropes to engage critically (sometimes tangentially) with genre and contemporary reality ― Interview with the Vampire, Ondine, The Company of Wolves ― as well as a fascination with constructions of gender and sexuality that manifests itself subtly an...read more

Cinema Reviews, Film

Thérèse Desqueyroux

Published June 6, 2013

Director: Claude Miller Talent: Audrey Tatou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi Release Date: 7th June 2013 It’s the subtleties that separate capable directors from inspired ones. On the face of it, Thérèse Desqueyroux ― a story of misguided marriage ― belongs to a long tradition of pretty, well-produced pastoral dramas. But handled by late director Claude Miller, the film boasts an aesthetic sophistication not often seen in this kind of literary genre. T...read more

Film Features

Comic-book Fatigue: Is Man of Steel One Adaptation Too Far?

Published June 6, 2013

The excitement surrounding the imminent release of Man of Steel shows that the wave of comic-book movies is still cresting, but can audience interest survive beyond this current saturation point? Within the online community of comic-book and movie fan sites, excitement is building about Man of Steel, Warner Bros’ latest read more…

Features

10 Things Dublin Can Learn From Radical Science

Published April 10, 2013

Bricking over the Liffey, banning all televisions in town and just straight-up seceding are amongst the ideas Radical Science can contribute to Dublin life.