Eoghan Lyng examines how the Bond franchise has changed through the years. There is no franchise that compares to the James Bond franchise. Over fifty years, the series has entertained like no other. Twenty three films (twenty five if the Casino Royale parody and Never Say Never Again are counted), six actors and five decades…
Gary Moloney finds the remake of the classic show pales in comparison to its predecessor. Remakes are quickly becoming more and more prevalent in the television world; the results of these re-interpretations have been quite mixed. While some shows such as V can be on par with or actually superior to the original, others such…
Bryan Lynch extols the virtues of Kim Ji-woon in anticipation of The Last Stand. So the former governor of California is going back to acting. Yes, late January saw Arnold Schwarzenegger return to his action film roots in The Last Stand, a kind of border town, Alamo film also staring, of all people, Johnny Knoxville….
David Coleman finds the relative lack of sentimentality in The Impossible refreshing. The disaster movie is a difficult one to get right. Several have tried to capture the sheer scale of their chosen disasters, but this comes at the expense of any genuine impact. By failing to establish any human struggle the centre of the…
Cathal Dennehy praises Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. If there was ever an unfilmable novel, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is a story for which the phrase seems to have been made. The bulk of the novel focuses on a teenage boy and a tiger afloat on a life raft in the middle of the…
Aisling Murphy switches off her brain – much like the cast of Made in Chelsea, actually… The word I associate most with E4’s so-called reality show Made in Chelsea is ‘ridiculous’. Arguably the stupidest programme on our screens, MIC focuses on the lives and loves of the wealthy young inhabitants of London’s Chelsea district. The…
In anticipation of Spielberg’s Lincoln, Bryan Lynch considers depictions of the Southern cause in the American Civil War. When I went to see Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, I was able to catch a new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Lincoln and I am able to say that I think it looks great. The American…
Still more noise from Sean Quinn’s Mountjoy Fan Club: In a recent interview with the BBC, Sean Quinn outlined his personal conducted opinion poll of Mountjoy prison, announcing to the world that “One hundred per cent of inmates felt he should not be there.” Perhaps Quinn’s findings were as a result of a small…
Tracy Nyhan takes a look at some Irish movies that put the very success of the Cork Film Festival into context. Last week saw the Corona Cork Film Festival showcase the best that Ireland has to offer, with regards to film. Corona Cork Film Festival brings the finest of cinema to Cork City every November….
Sean Bent considers the moral and philosophical implications of The Walking Dead’s zombie apocalypse. We’re several weeks into the third season of The Walking Dead, and anyone frustrated with the snail’s pace of the second series will be pleased with the explosive allegro of the new addition. Thankfully, this step up in gory goodness coincides…