You need to make a decision while watching Iron Man, and I feel it should be made early in proceedings that you will from that point pay no regard to the science behind the movie. Whether you pride yourself on a basic ability to add or spend your evenings pondering infintesimal calculus, you will to varying degrees […]

We live in a skewered world sometimes - girls love bad boys, bitchy characters are always the more popular soap operas, people who are chirpy, particularly in the morning are viewed with cynical disdain. You catch yourself, or at least I do, making some sort of throw away remark, sometimes hurtful, certainly coming from a […]

There is a resounding amount of truth on display in ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’. The man at the centre of the story is a flawed one and admits as much, even so that it occurs to him that the tragedy that has befallen him is a consequence of his past behaviour. Equally presented […]

My day off today found me at the cinema to see ‘The Orphanage’ pure and simply because it seemed the best option of what I hadn’t seen currently on release. The film is brought to us by producer Guillermo Del Toro (who is putting movement behind an English language version as I write), and the […]

Today 4.45 and my ticket for the ‘Surprise Film’ at 5.30 is nowhere to be found. Proceeding to the Savoy at much haste, a woman who I never wanted to see again having begged her to sell me extra tickets to the Gala showings of ‘In Bruges’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’ calmly replaced my […]

I’m sure somebody at the Irish Times may frown upon this but only recently have we introduced a star review system for movie reviews here at DT - the very topic Donald Clarke discusses today in his sometimes well written column in ‘The Ticket’. I have copied and pasted the text below before our self […]

These opening months of 2008 have been the greatest for movies I can remember. Already the list of contenders for movie of the year is swelling. This is reflected in the calibre of movie nominated for Best Picture and so too the fact that there are a number of deserving works that have not made […]

Sitting listening to Daniel Day Lewis spew lyrically about acting and movie making at a Q&A session last night I turned to my company and remarked that the actor would be in Los Angeles this coming weekend accepting an Oscar. My company nodded in agreeement, we had both just been through the experience that is […]

When effectively rebooting the Bond series with Pierce Brosnan’s debut as the spy in ‘Goldeneye’ the tagline used as part of the marketing for the film was ‘You Know the Name, You Know the Number’. A well established character, brand or icon is afforded this luxury of familiarity as well as the fact that loyal […]

Heath Ledger is laid to rest this Saturday in Perth.
6. Words from Christopher Nolan, the last director to complete a film with Ledger. Some well chosen words:
“Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he […]