Review 103min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:     Sebastián Lelio Cast:         Florence Pugh, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke…and more Writers:     Emma Donoghue, Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch -Synopsis- A pragmatic English nurse with a painful past is sent to an Irish village in the mid-1800s tasked with observation of a special patient, which soon turns into […]

Review 109min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Martin McDonagh Cast:         Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon…and more Writers:     Martin McDonagh -Synopsis- A lifelong friendship on an isolated island off the Irish coast is unexpectedly ended when one shuns the other for an incomprehensible reason, and the other refuses to accept it, leading to a feud which […]

Review 98min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Kenneth Branagh Cast:         Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan…and more Writers:     Kenneth Branagh -Synopsis- The political tumult, social and cultural change of late 1960’s Britain and Northern Ireland is seen through the eyes of a young boy and his working-class family, as the joy, pain and innocence of […]

Review 109min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:    Sophie Hyde Cast:         Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee…and more Writers:     Emma Jane Unsworth -Synopsis- When one of them becomes engaged to a responsible musician, the lives of two hard-drinking, fast-living thirty-something Dubliners are inevitably changed, as the limits of their co-dependent friendship are tested and their lifestyle choices […]

Review 94min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Nick Hamm Cast:         Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore…and more Writer:      Colin Bateman -Synopsis- A road trip drama account of the historical 2006 meeting between the two intractable figures who came to define the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland; Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin politico […]

Who’s getting too old for this s**t? The “Buddy-Cop” sub-genre has become a staple for action/comedy audiences and to celebrate the release of Shane Black’s off-beat crime action/comedy romp ‘The Nice Guys’, we bring you our Top 5 films where unlikely partnerships are formed to save the day.   #5: Taxi (1998) Metrodome A smash-hit […]

Review 106min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance Director:    John Carney Cast:         Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton…and more Writer:      John Carney -Synopsis- In 1980s recession-hit Ireland, a teenager rebels against society’s norms and escapes family strife by forming a “New-Romantic” band to impress a girl in an 80s coming-of-age musical comedy from the director of […]

Review 95min Genre:      Comedy, Drama, Music Director:   Lenny Abrahamson Cast:        Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal Writers:    Jon Ronson & Peter Straughan -Synopsis- A young man’s mundane life in small-town Ireland is transformed when he joins a bizarre underground experimental pop band fronted by an enigmatic singer who never removes his oversized cartoon costume head, […]

Review 112min Genre:      Drama, Romance Director:   John Crowley Cast:        Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson…and more Writers:    Nick Hornby and Colm Tóibín -Synopsis- Anglo/Irish period drama starring Saoirse Ronan as “Eilis”, a young Irish immigrant in 1950s New York who’s torn between two lives and two countries separated by a vast ocean, a heart-splitting romance […]

Review 102min Genre:    Drama, Mystery, Comedy Director: John Michael McDonagh Cast:      Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Chris O’Dowd …and more Writer:   John Michael McDonagh The life of a good small-town Catholic priest on the rural coast of Ireland is thrown into turmoil when his life is threatened anonymously during confession, as the day of his impending […]