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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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Jun 23, 20202 min read
Bang on a Can All-Stars; A Blend of Sound that awakens your every sense
Just as there were beginning to be rumblings of a virus making it’s way around the world but hadn’t entirely stood still yet Culture...
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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 15, 20204 min read
We All Want to be Normal People
It’s taken Culture Journal Ireland a while to get into this one, but with seemingly everyone talking about Normal People, for one reason...
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May 14, 20203 min read
Darkest Hour: Perhaps Gary Oldman's but not Churchill's.
Billed as one of Gary Oldman’s greatest performances, for which he was nominated for the best actor in a leading role oscar, this it...
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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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May 4, 20202 min read
Maze - A Sad Tale with a disappointing ending
|*If you have not seen this film please be aware that this review contains slight spoilers* Maze, shown on television recently, tells the...
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Apr 30, 20202 min read
Haunting Tribute to Canadian Great by Irish stars
Leonard Cohen is thought of as one of the 20th century’s greatest musicians. He has a string of hits in his own right and has had his...
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Apr 27, 20203 min read
Gerry Ryan: A Legacy
Posted on Apr 27, 2020 by Culture Journal Ireland He could be both controversial and compassionate, funny and frantic all in one go....
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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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Apr 20, 20202 min read
A Woman’s Heart with the RTÉ concert orchestra
More than thirty years after its initial release the RTÉ concert orchestra, together with two of the singers who featured on the original...
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Mar 31, 20202 min read
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the art of fake news by A. Brad Swartz
The broadcast is famous; or for some infamous. It was October 30th, 1938, the second world war was yet to break out, however, it is...
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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 20, 20201 min read
Tri Rivers Film Festival looking to make waves this summer
One of Ireland’s newest film festival’s is due to hold its inaugural event this summer and it’s looking for submissions from film maker’s...
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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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Feb 16, 20202 min read
Lost Lives Leaves a Lasting Impression
When you grow up during a major conflict; when you are in the midst of it with it all going on around you, it is hard to take a step...
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