Review: E.T.
More than four decades after its release, Erin McDonagh looks back at E.T. and considers why Spielberg’s tender exploration of childhood, family, and empathy continues to resonate.
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Article: “A Film Should Not Mean. It Should Be.” Rouzbeh Rashidi
In this article, Rouzbeh Rashidi discusses his uncompromising approach to cinema, the ghosts within the image, and the ideas that continue to return throughout his work.
Review: Our Hero, Balthazar
A darkly comic tale of teenage ambition, performative activism, and an unlikely friendship, Norma Farley Bodie looks at 'Our Hero, Balthazar.'
Review: From the Human to the Inhuman
Rouzbeh Rashidi’s From the Human to the Inhuman offers an unusually intimate portrait of an experimental filmmaker attempting to make sense of his own practice. Ahead of his workshop, Neil Cadieux takes a look.
Review: Testing Limits Short Films at Gaze
Sleek, sexy, and thrilling: Khushi Jain reviews the Testing Limits shorts block at Gaze.
Podcast: Dr Chanté Mouton-Kinyon (Daniel O’Connell: The Emancipator)
Recorded live at the Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington, D.C.,we talk film, history and politics with Dr Chanté Mouton-Kinyon, exploring Daniel O’Connell’s legacy and the Irish-Black cultural exchange.
Review: A Look Back at Sweet Country
A Western unlike any other, Sweet Country is a brutal but beautiful exploration of colonial violence in 1920s Australia. In this review from the archives, Ellen Murray considers Warwick Thornton’s powerful film & Sam Neill’s compelling performance as preacher Fred Smith.
Article: “Making a film like this is a celebration of the arrogance of youth” – Seán Treacy on Where We Left Off
From DIY ambition to professional filmmaking, Seán Treacy reflects on 'Save Me From Heaven', grief, and the next stage of his career at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Short Film Review: My Friend, Kev
A quietly unsettling portrait of friendship and radicalisation. My friend, Kev follows Colin Peppard as he reconnects with a friend whose politics have taken a dramatic turn. Hayley Jorja reviews
Review: Super Troopers 3
Broken Lizard’s moustachioed law men and women are back, older but no wiser, delivering another gloriously vulgar dose of chaos. Paul Farren writes up Super Troopers 3.
State of the Arts: The Art Of The TV Spin-Off with Bill Prady (The Big Bang Theory, Stuart Fails To Save The Universe)
Des Doyle sits down with The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady to discuss his new series Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
Review: Uchronia
A tour de force of queer cinema, 'Uchronia' is camp, queer, and uncompromising. Its ghosts resurrect revolutionary voices erased from history, casting a caustic eye over nationalism, colonialism, fascism, and the commodification of queerness. Naemi Victoria takes a look.