Recent Posts Tagged With 'Cinema'

• The Irish Times Top Twenty Films of the Decade

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 03:20 in Cinema, movies, films, decade, screenwriter, top twenty, 00s, irish times, naughties, donald clarke, donald clark

  Irish Times film critic Donald Clarke's top twenty films of the last ten years......

• Have We Stopped Making Children’s Films For Children?

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 07:00 in children, Parents, Cinema, movies, themes, films, scary, up, pixar, maturity, where the wild things are, children's films

  Or just for big kids?...

• Are Zombies the Monster of the 21st Century?

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 22:00 in Film, Cinema, movies, horror, horror movies, subconscious, fears, zombie, zombies, metaphor, monsters, individuality

  Or are they merely ambling along?...

• It’s Screen Scare Week!

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 22:00 in Film, Cinema, movies, horror, horror movies, halloween, the witching hour, screen scare week

  Reader beware! You're possibly in for a scare!...

• Detective Abberline, I Presume?

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 02:14 in movie, Film, Cinema, movies, history, monster movies, the wolfman, monster movie, hugo weaving, benecio del toro, frederick abberline, abberline

  Chasing a different kind of ripper......

• It’s The End of Cinema As We Know It…

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 02:15 in Cinema, movies, creativity, stories, derivative, monomyth, originality, francis ford coppola, adaptations

  ... and Francis Ford Coppola doesn't feel fine......

• To Read or Not To Read?

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 02:38 in books, Cinema, movies, films, watchmen, revolutionary road, adaptations, shutter island, books to screen

  Should critics read books before reviewing adaptations?...

• Are Today’s Films Too Long?

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 07:02 in Cinema, movies, films, runtime, two hours, average runtime, film length, movie length

  Too much of a (not necessarily) good thing?...

• Neil Jordan at Trinity College

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 06:58 in Film, Director, Cinema, movies, 3d, interview, toronto, neil gaiman, the crying game, the graveyard book, neil jordan, michael collins

  Notes from an interview with Neil Jordan......

• Summer 2009 in Review…

  Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 07:02 in Cinema, movies, films, harry potter, wolverine, blockbusters, summer 08, transformers 2, district 9, summer 2008, public enemies, summer 2009

  So, how was it for you?...

• Pleasing All of the People Some of the Time – Oscar Voting for Dummies…

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 18:16 in Film, Cinema, movies, awards, elections, democracy, maths, academy, voting, oscars, examples, best picture

  "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." The above quote is frequently attributed to Abraham Lincoln (though Lincoln actually subs...

• White and Wrong: Contrarian (Anti-Popularist) Film Critics

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 06:31 in Cinema, movies, critics, criticism, taste, roger ebert, rotten tomatoes, film critics, district 9, popularism, armond white, tomatometer

  I was away in Florida when the whole Armond White thing broke last month. For those out of the loop, users of film review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes decided that they'd had enough of White's contrary approach to film reviews after he 'ruined' t...

• What a Basterdly Ending…

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 03:34 in Cinema, movies, history, themes, films, spoilers, Quentin Tarantino, tarantino, hitler, climax, nazis, ending

  Alright, since the entire point of this post is spoilers, consider yourselves duly warned. I don't like spoiling films, but I also really think that there is a lot of discussion to be had about the end of Inglourious Basterds. Only read on if you hav...

• Navan Cinema Describes Bruno as “Vile”…

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 15:24 in funny, Cinema, movies, Ireland, snark, sacha baron cohen, bruno, navan, cinema listings

  The Diamond Cinema in Navan have a... shall we say unique way of advertising their cinema listings. On ringing up today I heard the voicemail message informing me what time they were airing Bruno at and offering some advice for perspective audience m...

• Getting a Sense of the Censor…

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 06:58 in Cinema, movies, films, censorship, antichrist, the graduate, george hook, ifco, irish film categorisation office, irish film censor, john kelleher, manhunter 2

  The Irish Film Classification Officer, the ever-fantastic John Kelleher, made an appearance on The Right Hook (which is an institution on evening drives in our car) discussing IFCO's decision to give Antichrist an 18's certificate. Over the course of...

• Great Film Adverts Are Even Better…

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 16:02 in Cinema, movies, Advertising, Adverts, television, TCM, films, high definition, posters, sky, turner classic movies, sky digital

  I'm a sucker for great cinema. I'm an even greater sucker for ways of paying tribute to great cinema. Turner Classic Movies have launched their Summer Under the Stars season (where stars like Cary Grant and Sidney Poitier get a whole day dedicated to...