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‘Sanatorium’ review: Striking portrait of Odesa’s Soviet-era health facility
Dir: Gar O’Rourke. Eire/Ukraine. 2025. 90 minutes
Hunkered on a stretch of scrubland simply outdoors of Odesa in southern Ukraine, close to an estuary famed...
‘Ready Or Not’ review: Irish rites-of-passage debut is lively and vital
Dir: Claire Frances Byrne. Eire. 2024. 83mins
What begins as a jaunty, coming of age romp steadily darkens into one thing extra disturbing in Prepared...
’Beat The Lotto’: Gambling hijinks in entertaining Irish doc
Dir. Ross Whitaker. Republic of Eire. 2025. 80mins
Playing, the horses, smoke-filled pubs and ‘the craic’ go hand-in-hand in Ross Whitaker’s extremely entertaining doc Beat...
‘Four Letters Of Love’ review: Irish eyes a’romancing in heartfelt adaptation
Dir: Polly Steele. Eire/UK. 2024. 110 minutes
Love definitely strikes in mysterious methods in 4 Letters Of Love, a good-looking, heartfelt adaptation of the Niall...
‘Hallow Road’ review: Babak Anvari drives dangerously with Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys
Dir. Babak Anvari. Eire/Czech Republic, 2025. 80mins
Regardless of its vaguely-generic title, this well-crafted close-quarters suspense from British-Iranian director Babak Anvari is firmly-written, -shot and...
‘Small Things Like These’, ‘Kneecap’ win big at Irish Film and Television Awards
Tim Mielants’ Small Issues Like These took house the highest prize for greatest movie whereas Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap collected essentially the most prizes on...
‘Kneecap’ leads Irish Film and Television Academy awards nominations
Kneecap is main the cost at this 12 months’s Irish Movie and Tv Academy (IFTA) awards, with 17 nominations throughout 12 classes.
Wealthy Peppiatt’s function...
‘Spilt Milk’: Tallinn Review
Dir. Brian Durnin. Republic of Eire. 2024. 91mins
Internal metropolis Dublin, 1984. Brian Durnin’s bold function debut is about in an evocatively-rendered public housing property...
‘Four Mothers’: London Review
Dir. Darren Thornton. Republic of Eire, 2024. 89 minutes
YA novelist Edward (James McArdle) is a full-time carer for his mutely-defiant mom Alma (Fionnula Flanagan),...