Maybe people shouldn't be able to collect social welfare at GPO, Arnotts lobbies
The company behind the Henry Street department store raised the idea with the man in charge of the regeneration of the city centre, returns show.
Director Hugh O’Conor’s debut feature film, Metal Heart, is not based on a comic series or graphic novel, but it feels like it could be, writes our reviewer.
John Butler “manages to balance the schmaltz and cheese inherent to this format with a heartwarming, and heartbreaking, truthfulness”.
“This is a spirited, important, knockout of a picture,” writes our reviewer. “Hazel Doupe is simply fantastic, she’s destined for great things.”
A murderer joins his victim’s father in the search for her body. It’s a film with powerful performances let down slightly by ropey plotting, writes our reviewer.
This is actually the story of two men. One of them has his head in the clouds and the other has his feet planted firmly on the ground.
It’s a coming-of-age story set in Dublin: north, south, and centre. “I was trying to look for new locations that haven’t been on camera before,” he said.
A young woman searches for her missing son through a miasma of her memories and dreams in director Viko Nikci’s surreal feature film debut, writes Luke Maxwell.
Director Bertie Brosnan takes a candid look at the downsides of celebrity in this “behind-the-scenes featurette”, writes Luke Maxwell.
This documentary shows couples and individuals recounting romantic rendezvous under the iconic Clery’s clock on O’Connell Street. It looks at things worth cherishing from that time, and things best left in the past.
Nine years after a savage sexual assault Ailbhe Griffith meets her attacker face-to-face in a mediated environment in “The Meeting”, the difficult new film from Alan Gilsenan.
“I can say wholeheartedly, and with some embarrassment, that I wasted my time fretting over whether Black ’47 is all it was made out to be. It’s a special kind of picture for many reasons.”
This portrait of the noted Provisional IRA member combines fascinating interviews with occasionally hokey dramatisation.