March 2011

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  • 03.16.11
    FAIR GAME: Played a bit too late in the day. Reviews, Trailers | Comments Off
    FAIR GAME Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn. 108 mins. Rating: Two/Five In cinemas March 11. Perhaps unfortunately, Doug Liman’s Fair Game will inevitably face comparisons to Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men, as both address the danger of going up against the White House. But while Pakula addressed the world of political journalism, Liman approaches Fair Game like a political journalist himself, and his determination to accurately recount the experiences of Valerie Plame and the lead-up to the Iraq war is admirable. Admirable, but incredibly dull. Continue Reading...
  • 03.16.11
    SUBMARINE: Awash with quirky charm Reviews, Trailers | (3)
    SUBMARINE Directed by Richard Ayoade. Starring Craig Roberts, Yasmine Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine. 96 mins. Rating: Four and a half/Five In cinemas March 18 “I find the only way to get through life is to imagine myself in a disconnected reality” muses Oliver Tate, the narcissistic narrator of Submarine. Audiences of Richard Ayoade’s Submarine may similarly find they have to submerge themselves in the idiosyncratic, quirk-filled world of our unlikely hero, but if they do, they’ll soon find themselves awash with memorable characters, constant laughs and not a little bit of whimsy. Continue Reading...
  • 03.16.11
    THE RESIDENT: Stay at home. Seriously. It’s not worth leaving the house for. Reviews, Trailers | Comments Off
    THE RESIDENT Directed by Annti Jokinen. Starring Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee. 91 mins. Rating: One/Five In cinemas March 11 Horror has a way of uniting its audience: If there’s gore, we wince. If there’s a shock, we jump. If a girl runs screaming orgasmically from a chainsaw-wielding maniac and somehow loses her top, half the audience grins sleazily while their dates grow angry and insecure. But during the screening of The Resident, the uniting force was a single audience member’s cry, a desperate exclamation of helplessness that captured the emotion felt by us all. This despairing voice emerging from the dark ...
  • 03.16.11
    HALL PASS: Farrelly Brothers just about scrape a pass Reviews, Trailers | Comments Off
    HALL PASS Directed by: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Starring: Owen Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Jason Sudeikis, Richard Jenkins, Christina Applegate. 104 mins Rating: Two and a half/Five In cinemas March 11. In Hall Pass, Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are given permission to take one week off from their marriages. They dream of a frenzy of wildly fun, sex-filled bachelor hedonism where they gorge themselves on a “buffet of ass.” In reality, they realize that they are now middle-aged men and their young desired conquests no longer find their outdated chat-up lines and desperate obsession with sex appealing. Which begs the question: at what point ...
  • 03.16.11
    CHALET GIRL: A fun & forgettable frolic in the Snow Reviews, Trailers | Comments Off
    CHALET GIRL Directed by Phil Traill. Starring Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Bill Bailey, Tasmin Egerton, Brooke Shields. 96 mins. Rating: Three/Five In cinemas March 16 The synopsis of Chalet Girl reads like a veritable minefield of painfully predictable rom-com mechanics: A working class girl falling for a wealthy Lothario? Check. Brooke Shields as an evil stepmother? Check. A dead mother’s wishes spurring on our heroine? Check. A (not really) impossible competition taking place in the final ten minutes of the film? Check. And– oh Jesus – the director of the truly unforgivable piece of unfunny, unromantic crud that was All About ...
  • 03.16.11
    Three Irish Films announced in Tribecca Film Festival Short Film Selection Blog Exclusives, Lists, Trade News | Comments Off
    2011 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS Winner of Best Narrative Short Award to Qualify for Academy Award® Consideration The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), today announced its lineup of 60 short films, 22 of which are world premieres. The 60 TFF shorts represent 21 countries, including Ireland, and feature stars from around the globe, including David Duchovny, Joseph Fiennes, Ian McKellan, Colin Quinn, Campbell Scott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anthony LaPaglia, Jean Reno, Brendan Gleeson, Carmine Famiglietti and Eddie Marsan. There are three films with Irish roots included in the short films selections. This year, the recipient of the ...
  • 03.10.11
    INTERVIEW: RICHARD AYOADE, actor & director of Submarine Interviews, Trailers | Comments Off
    He’s starred in the IT Crowd, been in The Mighty Boosh, won awards for his music videos, counts Noel Fielding and Alex Turner among his close friends and has directed one of the most brilliant indie-films of recent memory, the hilarious and quirky Submarine. And yet Richard Ayoade assures Roe McDermott that he’s not cool. Eh, we may have to agree to disagree on that one… Though sporting thick glasses and his trademark hip-Grandpa garb of skinny jeans, a shirt and blazer, Richard Ayoade looks much younger than his 33 years. And as he curls into the corner of a couch ...
  • 03.08.11
    Free Screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis next Monday Blog Exclusives | Comments Off
    Mary Immaculate College will be hosting a screening of one of the most outstanding masterpieces of film history in the College’s new Lime Tree Theatre (TARA building, Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road) on the 14th of March at 6:30 pm. Thanks to the generous support of the Goethe Institut Irland, the newly restored and complete version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is being brought to Limerick and the screening is open to the public free of charge. This is a rare opportunity not to be missed, because Metropolis is without doubt one of the greatest films of the 20th-century and ...