We Love … Trash
Gemma Creagh continues our We Love … Trash series and goes on a Eurotrip.
Category: Reviews
We Love… Trash – Reeker
There are nights when you look through your DVD collection and none of your favourite films float your boat – what you need is some serious Trash – the black sheep of your collection; something so bad that makes you feel good. Ciara Lianne O’Brien smells ‘The Reeker’.
We Love… Trash – The Room
There are nights when you look through your DVD collection and none of your favourite films float your boat – what you need is some serious Trash – the black sheep of your collection; something so bad that makes you feel good. Warning: to appreciate these films booze is recommended. Brian Lloyd enters ‘The Room’.
German Film Week at IFI: The System
Marc Bauder’s taut, well-written thriller ‘The System’ screened on Tuesday night at the IFI as part of German Film Week.
German Film Week at IFI: 4 Days in May
4 Days in May screened on Monday evening continuing the German Film Week at the IFI. The third film by writer/director Achim von Borries, 4 Days in May portrays an extremely odd incident that took place during the final days of World War II. With the end of the war imminent 8 Russian soldiers under [...]
German Film Week at IFI: Almanya: Welcome To Germany
The light-hearted and charming comedy Almanya: Welcome To Germany screened on Saturday evening as part of the German Film Week at the IFI.
German Film Week at IFI: Cracks in the Shell
The German Film Week at the IFI continued on Friday evening with a screening of Christian Schwochow’s impressive Cracks in the Shell.
German Film Week at IFI: Calm at Sea
‘Calm at Sea’ provided an intense yet profoundly moving start to the German Film Week at the IFI.
We Love… Trash – Bad Taste
Illustration: Adeline Pericart There are nights when you look through your DVD collection and none of your favourite films float your boat – what you need is some serious Trash - the black sheep of your collection; something so bad that makes you feel good. Warning: to appreciate these films booze is recommended. And so [...]
We Love… Trash – Showgirls
Illustration: Adeline Pericart There are nights when you look through your DVD collection and none of your favourite films float your boat – what you need is some serious Trash - the black sheep of your collection; something so bad that makes you feel good. Warning: to appreciate these films booze is recommended. And so [...]
Cinema Review: Silent House
DIR: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau • WRI: Laura Lau • PRO: Laura Lau, Agnès Mentre • DOP: Igor Martinovic • ED: Scott Gray • DES: Roshelle Berliner • Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen), her dad John (Adam Trese) and her uncle Peter (Eric Stevens) are renovating [...]
DVD Review: War of the Arrows
A gripping two hours of curving quarrels, spurting gore and CG tigers.
Cinema Review: The Monk
DIR: Dominik Moll • ED: Francois Gedigier, Sylvie Lager • DOP: Patrick Blossier • CAST: Vincent Cassel, Deborah Francois, Josephine Japy, Sergi Lopez, Geraldine Chaplin An adaptation of Matthew Lewis novel written in 1796, The Monk is a gothic drama with Shakespearean tragedy elements scattered all over it. The Monk looks at the life [...]
Cinema Review: Damsels In Distress – Film of the Week
A charming comedy that revels in absurd humour and wit.
Cinema Review: Delicacy
DIR: David Foenkinos, Stephane Foenkinos • WRI: David Foenkinos • PRO: Xavier Rigault, Marc-Antoine Robert • DOP: Remy Chevrin • ED: Virginie Braunt •DES: Maamar Ech-Cheikh • Cast: Audrey Tautou, Francois Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Pio Mamai Born in 1974, David Foenkinos has earned himself a reputation as one of France’s newest and brightest writers over the past decade. Since [...]
