Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2020 Announces Awards Winners The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival revealed the winners of its various coveted awards for 2020: Virgin Media Audience, Documentary, Aer Lingus Discovery, Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards, Shor...
Watch: Official Trailer for Neasa Hardiman’s Irish Sci-Fi Thriller SEA FEVER "I want you to test all of us." The official trailer for the tense and original Irish sci-fi thriller SEA FEVER, written and directed by BAFTA-winning Neasa Hardiman, has been released ahead of its Irish premie...
IN BRUGES Trio Re-Team For THE BANSHEES OF INISHEER The always reliable Mike Fleming over at Deadline brings word that Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are set to reunite with their ‘In Bruges’ writer-director Martin McDonagh for ‘The Banshees of Inisheer.’ Based on McDonagh’s only play that hasn't been pub...
Official UK/IRL Trailer for Lorcan Finnegan’s Sci-Fi VIVARIUM New look at Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan’s latest, the ‘Black Mirror’-esque sci-fi thriller VIVARIUM. Starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, the film was shot in Dublin back in 2018. Check out the new tr...
Nathalie Biancheri’s WOLF to Shoot In Ireland With George MacKay & Lily-Rose Depp ‘1917’ breakout George MacKay has step in to replace Barry Keoghan in Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s high-concept arthouse drama ‘Wolf,’ with filming to take place in Ireland this Apr...
ARRACHT – Trailer for Tom Sullivan’s Irish Language Famine Drama Written and directed by Tom Sullivan, and featuring Dónall Ó Héalai in the starring role, ARRACHT is a bracingly authentic and tender story about finding hope when all else is lost. ARRACHT tells the story of Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a hu...
Watch: First Trailer for Lorcan Finnegan’s New Sci-Fi VIVARIUM Your home. Forever. Starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, VIVARIUM is the latest feature from Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan and follows Gemma and Tom, a young couple looking for the perfect home who find...
Must Watch: Tense First Trailer for CALM WITH HORSES Starring Cosmo Jarvis & Barry Keoghan "This is not loyalty... it's servitude." Starring Cosmo Jarvis ('Peaky Blinders,' 'Lady Macbeth'), Barry Keoghan ('Dunkirk,' 'Eternals') and Niamh Algar ('The Virtues,' 'Pure'), CALM WITH HORSES is the must-see...
Trailer: Powerful New Irish Drama RIALTO Stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor & Tom Glynn-Carney Check out the new trailer for Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns’ latest, RIALTO. Based on Mark O’Halloran’s play Trade, the nuanced and powerfully affecting drama is led by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘Love/Hate,’ ‘Dublin Murders’) and Tom...
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2020 Announces First Frame, Fantastic Flix & First Dog Friendly Screening Each year the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival (VMDIFF) relishes the opportunity to excite and engage young cinema enthusiasts and filmmakers, and this year is no exception. Festival Director ...
Ireland’s Brown Bag Films Receives Three Annie Awards Nominations The nominations for the 47th annual Annie Awards were announced earlier this week, and a huge congratulations goes out to the team at the award winning animation studio Brown Bag Films for snagging three nomina...
3.5Right on The Last Right The Last Right (Ireland / 15A / 107 mins) In short: Right on Directed by Aoife Crehan. Starring Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley, Colm Meaney, Brian Cox, Micahel McElhatton, Jim Norton. The Plot: Daniel (Michael Huisman) has lived away f...
Watch: Trailer for Irish Comedy-Drama THE LAST RIGHT 2 brothers, 1 stranger and a coffin. Discover the journey of a lifetime in THE LAST RIGHT. In cinemas across Ireland from December 6th. New York-based DANIEL MURPHY wakes on a flight home to Ireland for ...
Interview – Interview with LOSING ALASKA director Tom Burke LOSING ALASKA from Irish filmmaker Tom Burke opens in cinemas around Ireland this October. It tells the story of 375 residents living in Newtok, Alaska who watch their homes disappear into rolling seas as winte...
3.5Supremely silly Extra Ordinary Extra Ordinary (Ireland / Belgium / 15A / 94 mins) In short: Supremely silly Directed by Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman. Starring Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Emma Coleman. The Plot: Rose (Maeve Higgins) is a driving instruc...
3.0Simple pleasures Thank You Come Again Thank You Come Again (Ireland / 18 / 105 mins) In short: Simple pleasures Directed by Stephen Clarke Dunne. Starring John Billy Kenerk, John Sweeney, Danii Byrne, Jimmy Greeley, Fabien Oman. The Plot: ...
Trailer for New Irish Comedy A BUMP ALONG THE WAY Starring Bronagh Gallagher & Lola Pettigrew Coming to cinemas on October 11th, Shelly Love’s debut feature comedy was filmed entirely in Derry and tells the story of fun-loving, 44-year-old single mum Pamela (Bronagh Gallagher) who becomes pregnant f...
Trailer: First Look at New Irish Comedy DARK LIES THE ISLAND A new trailer for ‘Perrier's Bounty’ and ‘Death of a Superhero’ director Ian Fitzgibbon's latest has arrived. Hitting cinemas in October, the comedy stars Moe Dunford, Peter Coonan, Pat Shortt, Charlie Murphy and Tommy Tiernan. DARK LIES THE ISLAND is...
4.0Atmospheric western Never Grow Old / USA / Belgium / France / Luxembourg / UK / 16 / 100 mins) In short: Atmospheric western Directed by Ivan Kavanagh. Starring Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Deborah Francois, Danny Webb, Antonia Campbell-Hu...
COMPETITION – Win tickets to the premiere of THANK YOU COME AGAIN THANK YOU COME AGAIN is a brand new comedy hitting Irish cinemas on September 6th, to celebrate the release we have tickets to the premiere screening taking place on August 26th, keep reading for your chance to...
