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Banshees of Inisheeran: A Tale of Ireland tearing itself apart
Banshees of Inisheeran, directed by Martin McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan is set on a small...
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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Budding Screenwriters log on to Dublin Festival
Up and coming as well as established screenwriters are logging online for this years Dublin International Screenwriting Festival which,...
Apr 19, 20211 min read
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Tides Washes Away the Competition Yet Again
Tides, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed film about the River Foyle in Derry has just achieved another international...
Feb 28, 20212 min read
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Marvelous: A Truly Human Story
Marvellous , staring Toby Jones is a truly human story about following your dreams and reaching beyond supposed limitation which...
Jul 3, 20202 min read
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Viceroy's House
Viceroy’s House is a biopic of a country as much as a person. Although the primary narrative is to tell the story of the events that Lord...
Jun 28, 20202 min read
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Detroit: A Film with Gritt in its Teeth
A city on fire riots on the streets, a small girl gets shot by the police simply for looking out of her own living room window. No this...
May 17, 20203 min read
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Fargo – You have to go a long way to beat it!
One of the good things about the current situation and the isolation that goes on with it is the great films that are being shown. ITV4...
May 4, 20202 min read
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Romero: An underappreciated biopic
Some of these films can be off the wall and zany, others are more straightforward and serious. It is the latter treatment which most...
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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I Went Down – An 90’s Irish classic
Posted on Mar 10, 2020 by Culture Journal Ireland Long before there was The Gentleman, or Snatch or even Lock, Stock et al, there was I...
Mar 11, 20202 min read
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Dark Waters are Lurking, to inevitability
At the heart of the case is farmer Wilbur Tennant's claim that his cows have turned psychotic and his land turned toxic, all caused, he...
Mar 5, 20201 min read
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Feb 29, 20200 min read
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Two Pope's are better than one
later become Pope Francis. The film is an intimate portrayal of two men with seemingly different views of the one global body and it’s...
Feb 28, 20202 min read
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Parasite: A classic forboding of excess and greed
Korean film makers have been knocking on Hollywood's door for some time now. From 2003's Old Boy, which did achieve critical acclaim,...
Feb 27, 20202 min read
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There’s no one quite like Emma Posted on Feb 19, 2020 by Culture Journal Ireland
Long thought of as one of Jane Austin’s most popular novels, Emma is a novel which, more often than not has suffered from mishandling and...
Feb 19, 20202 min read
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Unplanned: A Contentious Movie to make you think
The following is a review of a film on an issue that many of you will disagree The main ethos of Culture Journal Ireland is to go places...
Oct 10, 20192 min read
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
In postwar America the cowboy was king. In fact before during and after the war the first settlers in what would become known as the...
Sep 25, 20192 min read
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Downton Abbey Shines on the big screen
As a TV series it has enthralled audiences all over the world and won countless awards since it debuted in 2010. Now the saga of the...
Sep 20, 20191 min read
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White Crow
White Crow tells the story of famous ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev and the even more famous (or infamous, depending on your point of...
Aug 15, 20192 min read
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Pajeros de Verano
Set in Columbia during the rise of the drug lords, Pajeros de Verano (Birds of Passage) is a sleak, hard-hitting take on gang warfare...
Jul 25, 20191 min read
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Tides Makes Waves in London
Tides , a documentary about the river Foyle in Derry by Italian director, and some time Derry native, Alessandro Negrini has gained yet...
Jan 19, 20192 min read
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