The Great Gatsby
An initially sceptical John Byrne enjoys Baz Luhrmann's hypnotic homage to F Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece.
Latest Reviews
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Something In The Air masterfully evokes early Seventies France, as a group of young students become involved in violent political protest.
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Right from the start you somehow sense the seedy, visual drama A Hijacking will be. The Danish film a is masterpiece of taut drama, utterly convincing in its explorations of human behaviour under stress.
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It's good Jim but not as good as the first one and maybe, just maybe Abrams' script breaks the Prime Directive.
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Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
The Dublin quintet have produced a knockout debut album full of killer songs and at least one killer voice
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Silence A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch will be known to many from his popular BBC series The History of Christianity. His new book looks at versions of keeping quiet, either for spiritual or other reasons, in Christianity
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The Louth band turn up the ambition and the energy on their great second album
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The debut album from former Alphastates front woman is beguiling and haunting
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Iggy and The Stooges - Ready to Die
Guns, money, the return of James Williamson, and even a bit of wisdom, Iggy and The Stooges come blasting back on a funny and insightful outing
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Sonny Condell - Swallows and Farms
Swallows and Farms is perhaps the greatest solo album by Sonny Condell, a magisterial record that celebrates and self-berates, that soars and climbs by a majestic stairway.
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The Desperate Hour-and-a-Half.
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You'll dig it.
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Cold, calculating widow Elizabeth (Charlotte Rampling) is about to die in leafy, posh early '70s Sydney. Her son and daughter fly in from London and Paris, as the details of her will are about to be revealed.
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Our Children/À Perdre la Raison
The happiness of a newly-married couple is seriously threatened by dependence on a wealthy benefactor. In its depiction of raw tragedy, the film is deeply unsettling.
