Harry Guerin

Multimedia Journalist

'Being a carer is weirdly like directing a film...'

A Date for Mad Mary director Darren Thornton has returned with Four Mothers, a sweet, salty, and sure-to-resonate slice of life about looking after elderly parents.

Movies • 08 Apr 25

Sweet, salty, and sure to resonate with anyone who has ended up doing a role they never envisioned for themselves, becoming their own worst critic in the process

Mammy vise: Carer comedy Four Mothers an Irish charmer

The new film from A Date for Mad Mary director Darren Thornton, co-written with his brother Colin, is sweet, salty, and sure to resonate with anyone who has ended up doing a role they never envisioned for themselves.

Movie Review • 03 Apr 25

Neighbour-from-hell terror hits home in Restless

The petri dish of second-guessing and sublimated rage is dusted off for this gritty little thriller from first-timer Jed Hart, a writer-director who knows his way around a crawlspace.

Movie Review • 02 Apr 25

Danny Dyer is at the end of the line in Marching Powder

If you loved Dyer having it large(r) in 2004's The Football Factory, then Marching Powder will be right up your before-and-after-the-game backstreet.

Movie Review • 07 Mar 25

The 97th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night and will be broadcast live on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player from midnight. They will also air on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Monday from 9:30pm

Oscars: the nominees - and winners - on Sunday night

And the Oscar for the fastest 12 months yet goes to...

Movies • 02 Mar 25

Anchored by a superb central performance by Fernanda Torres, this is a film that sees the love and safety of the ties that bind tested by trauma and terror.

Brazil's 1970s dictatorship hits home in I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here chronicles harrowing real-life events in the 1970s, focusing on civil engineer and former politician Rubens Paiva, his wife Eunice, and their five children during Brazil's military dictatorship.

Movie Review • 20 Feb 25

This is relentless filmmaking from Swiss director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum

September 5: How Munich Olympics terror changed TV news

We don't realise how much of the world that we now experience can be traced back to September 5, 1972 - the date of the Munich Olympics massacre that saw 11 members of the Israeli team killed.

Movie Review • 08 Feb 25

Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a Londoner who would give Jack Nicholson's As Good as It Gets character Melvin Udall a good run for his money

Family misfortunes: Hard Truths brings it all back home

Mike Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

Movie Review • 29 Mar 25

As good an examination of a complicated hero resisting the mindset and manacles of 20th-century Ireland as any work of fiction

Edna O'Brien gets her big-screen due in new documentary

A celebration of the independent spirit, a fascinating study of hard-learned (and earned) creativity, and a reminder that we are all mired in the utter messiness of life, Blue Road... gives the late Edna O'Brien her big-screen due and then some.

Movie Review • 31 Jan 25

With The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet has delivered a film that deserves to be seen on the biggest cinema screen possible

The Brutalist is epic - but room to improve the ending

The bona fide event movie - the one you queue for, implore others to go to see, and then pay to watch again - are now the rarest of breeds. In 2023, we had two, Oppenheimer and Barbie. This year, it's The Brutalist.

Movie Review • 23 Jan 25