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DIRECTOR: Martin Krejcí
CAST: Jaeden Martell, Sophia Grace Gianni, John Turturro, Eve Hewson, Chris Messina, Michelle Wilson, Chloë Sevigny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Melissa Mandisa, Nick Pulinski
RUNNING TIME: 88 mins
CERTIFICATE: 12A
BASICALLY…: A young teen (Martell), born with a rare condition that sees hair grow all over his body, sets out on a soul-searching journey…

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Oddly enough, The Adventures of Wolfboy shares some spiritual DNA with last year’s ambitious retelling of Pinocchio; both are films […]

DIRECTOR: Christian Petzold
CAST: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, Anne Ratte-Polle, Gloria Endres de Oliveira, José Barros
RUNNING TIME: 92 mins
CERTIFICATE: 15
BASICALLY…: A historian (Beer) undergoes a romantic crisis when she falls for an industrial diver (Rogowski)…
 

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This review of Undine was conducted as part of the Dublin Film Festival 2021.
The popular German myth of Undine – which tells the tale of a water spirit who […]

DIRECTOR: Magnus Martens
CAST: Sam Heughan, Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Hannah John-Kamen, Tom Hopper, Owain Yeoman, Noel Clarke, Ray Panthaki, Jing Lusi, Douglas Reith, Richard McCabe, Anne Reid
RUNNING TIME: 123 mins
CERTIFICATE: 15
BASICALLY…: A group of criminals hijack a train underneath the English Channel, and it is up to SAS operator Tom Buckingham (Heughan) to save the passengers and stop the villains…

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Perhaps I’m not in the right frame of mind to […]

DIRECTOR: Christos Nikou
CAST: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis, Kostas Laskos, Babis Makridis, Kimon Fioretos, Costas Xikominos, Alexandra Aidini, Nota Tserniafski
RUNNING TIME: 91 mins
CERTIFICATE: 15
BASICALLY…: When a mysterious pandemic causes a strain of amnesia, a man (Servetalis) enrols in a recovery program for patients to create new identities…

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This review of Apples was conducted as part of the Dublin Film Festival 2021.
The “Greek Weird Wave”, as it has apparently become […]

DIRECTORS: Anthony and Joe Russo
CAST: Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Michael Rispoli, Jeff Wahlberg, Forrest Goodluck, Michael Gandolfini, Kyle Harvey, Pooch Hall, Damon Wayans Jr., Thomas Lennon, Kelli Berglund, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Nicole Forester, Jamie Brewer, Fionn O’Shea, Sam Clemmett, Adam Long
RUNNING TIME: 142 mins
CERTIFICATE: 18
BASICALLY…: A former Army medic (Holland) with post-traumatic stress disorder turns to robbing banks as a means to fuel his drug addiction…

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Fresh off of directing […]

DIRECTOR: Ivo van Aart
CAST: Katja Herbers, Genio de Groot, Rein Hofman, Bram van der Kelen, Achraf Koutet, Claire Porro, Harry van Rijthoven, Seno Sever
RUNNING TIME: 86 mins
CERTIFICATE: 15
BASICALLY…: A  journalist (Herbers) goes on a personal mission to find her anonymous online trolls and give them their bloody comeuppance…

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“Don’t read the comments,” a worthwhile piece of advice given at one point during director Ivo van Aart’s pitch-black satire The Columnist. As anyone […]

DIRECTOR: Miguel Arteta
CAST: Jennifer Garner, Édgar Ramírez, Jenna Ortega, Julian Lerner, Everly Carganilla, Megan Stott, June Diane Raphael, Nat Faxon, Leonardo Nam, Fortune Feimster, Hayden Szeto, Greg Cromer, Arturo Castro, Molly Sims
RUNNING TIME: 86 mins
CERTIFICATE: PG
BASICALLY…: Two parents (Garner and Ramírez) decide to let their kids make the rules for a whole day…

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The concept of a “yes day” – where families let the kids make the rules for 24 hours, and […]

DIRECTOR: Jerren Lauder
CAST: Ryan Francis, Morgan Alexandria, Bryce Fernelius, Michael Flynn, Brynn Hurlburt, Avery Pizzuto
RUNNING TIME: 82 mins
CERTIFICATE: 18
BASICALLY…: A group of movers find themselves facing some deep horrors during an all-night shift at a Victorian mansion…

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It’s been a good long while since we’ve had ourselves a proper little Nazisploitation movie, a horror sub-genre that’s largely been dormant since the days of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, but now returns […]

DIRECTOR: John Lee Hancock
CAST: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Sofia Vassilieva, Terry Kinney, Michael Hyatt, Jason James Richter, Chris Bauer, Kerry O’Malley, Natalie Morales, Joris Jarsky, Isabel Arraiza, Sheila Houlahan, John Harlan Kim, Tom Hughes
RUNNING TIME: 128 mins
CERTIFICATE: 15
BASICALLY…: A deputy sheriff (Washington) teams with a detective (Malek) to capture an elusive serial killer…

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John Lee Hancock’s script for The Little Things has been circulating Hollywood since 1993, during which the […]