Harry Guerin

Multimedia Journalist

Lee Cronin - "In a weird way, there's no such thing as too far in a movie like this!"

An Irishman, a franchise and 6,500 litres of fake blood

Evil Dead Rise writer-director Lee Cronin tells Harry Guerin about making one of the thrill-rides of 2023.

Movies • 22 Apr 23

The USP of Renfield is casting Nicolas Cage as a down-at-heel/cape Dracula. A mystery, then, as to why it's basically a supporting role - and why he doesn't look taller!

Nicolas Cage deserved more bite in Renfield

A could-have-been-so-much-more comedy-horror that finds Nicolas Cage in his dream-come-true role as Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Movie Review • 16 Apr 23

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck - The best friends do some of their best work in Air

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are in flying form in Air

If you enjoyed the back-and-forth, bravado, and brinkmanship in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Argo, then you're in for a treat.

Movie Review • 10 Apr 23

This is the best new thriller you'll watch in 2023

This is an iron-grip experience from minute one, an unbearably tense procedural that is punctuated by outbursts of anger and moments of achingly sad candour.

Movie Review • 03 Apr 23

Payman Maadi is excellent as hard-boiled detective Samad Majidi

Hooked on KIN? Try Law of Tehran

January saw the release of the Iranian serial killer story Holy Spider. Now comes this capital-set crime movie. Make room for both on the watchlist.

Movie Review • 02 Apr 23

Paul Mescal and Emily Watson on making God's Creatures

A powerful screening pairing, the actors take us behind the scenes of the psychological character study.

Movies • 27 Mar 23

Now in his late fifties, Keanu Reeves bosses this movie like an actor half his age

Keanu Reeves in the Wick of it for almost three hours

Billed as something of a cross between The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the samurai movie Zaitochi and a Greek myth, this near-three-hour rampage through the carnage buffet wants to be the magnum (pun intended) opus of the John Wick series.

Movie Review • 24 Mar 23

Paul Mescal back on the big screen in God's Creatures

Like his Normal People co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal's knack of landing the right role at the right time continues with God's Creatures: a taut psychological character study that shows another side to him as an actor.

Movie Review • 23 Mar 23

Melodrama, musical numbers, maggots and murder

Pearl - bloody, bonkers, brilliant

If you're looking for blood-red horror and pitch-black humour, then fill your boots - or in this case, dungarees - here.

Movie Review • 17 Mar 23

Elvis - the woman behind the movie's clothes and look

Nominated for three Academy Awards for her work on Elvis, four-time Oscar winner Catherine Martin tells Harry Guerin about making the movie fit for The King.

oscars • 12 Mar 23