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Feb 28, 20232 min read
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...
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Apr 18, 20211 min read
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,...
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Feb 28, 20212 min read
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...
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Jul 3, 20202 min read
Marvelous: A Truly Human Story
Marvellous, staring Toby Jones is a truly human story about following your dreams and reaching beyond supposed limitation which...
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Jun 28, 20202 min read
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...
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May 17, 20203 min read
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...
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May 4, 20202 min read
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...
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Apr 20, 20202 min read
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...
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Mar 10, 20202 min read
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...
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Mar 4, 20201 min read
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...
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Feb 28, 20202 min read
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...
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Feb 27, 20202 min read
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,...
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Feb 19, 20202 min read
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...
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Oct 10, 20192 min read
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...
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Sep 25, 20192 min read
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...
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Sep 20, 20191 min read
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...
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Aug 15, 20192 min read
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...
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Jul 25, 20191 min read
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...
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Jan 19, 20192 min read
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...
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