Harry Guerin

Multimedia Journalist

10 life-affirming movies you may not have seen

With the lovely The Ballad of Wallis Island now in cinemas, here are 10 more movies with all the feels.

Movies • 02 Jun

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a big hug of a movie

If there's a more uplifting cinema experience between now and Christmas, 2025 will be one for the books.

Movie Review • 02 Jun

Director Alessandra Celesia (front right) filming The Flats in Belfast

Belfast's New Lodge comes to big screen in The Flats

Winner of the Best Documentary award at this year's Irish Film and Television Awards and also the top honour, the Dox:Award, at the CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen in 2024, The Flats shares the lives and memories of the nationalist community of New Lodge.

Movies • 28 May

John Krasinski and Natalie Portman are out to find "the most important archaeological discovery in history". Eiza González (left) is the mysterious agent out to stop them

Fountain of Youth is a family adventure for a rainy day

John Krasinski and Natalie Portman play adventurer Luke and art historian Charlotte, estranged siblings who reunite to find "the most important archaeological discovery in history".

Movie Review • 23 May

Does Ethan Hunt survive? As Tom Cruise, ever the bottom-line showman, laughed to Empire, "You gotta see the movie"

Tom Cruise hunts the Mission pieces in Final Reckoning

Picking up where 2023's Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One left off, the on-the-pulse plot sees agent-errant Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team trying to stop "parasitic AI" The Entity as it seeks to end the world as we know it.

Movie Review • 21 May

Director Lorcan Finnegan says Nicolas Cage is "like an encyclopedia of cinema"

An Irish director gets the best out of Nicolas Cage

Irish director Lorcan Finnegan and Oscar winner Nicolas Cage prove to be a formidable team in the ego-under-the-Sun psychodrama The Surfer, a movie that ranks with Cage's best work of recent years.

Movies • 16 May

Masked and majestic, Sleep Token juxtapose crushing riffage with moments of what-just-happened? beauty Photo: Andy Ford

Wide awake in Arcadia as Sleep Token rouse jaded ears

How big are Sleep Token going to become? That's the question that arises with every listen to Even in Arcadia, the most-anticipated stadium-sized metal album of 2025.

Album Review • 09 May

With The Surfer, Irish director Lorcan Finnegan has delivered one of the best Nicolas Cage films of recent years

Ego Under the Sun. Nicolas Cage is swell as The Surfer

In Irish director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium), screen legend Nicolas Cage has found another filmmaker who brings out the best in him.

Movie Review • 08 May

Mark O'Connor's Amongst the Wolves (L-R Daniel Fee and Luke McQuillan) is in cinemas now

Amongst the Wolves director picks his crime classics

"There's been a lot of films that have had an influence on me," says director Mark O'Connor by way of understatement as he sees his latest, Amongst the Wolves, arrive in cinemas.

Movies • 06 May

With its man-comes-back-to-town storyline, Amongst the Wolves keeps one eye on the door and another on Ireland's ills as it drives towards its bloody conclusion

Dublin gets a western showdown in Amongst the Wolves

Made for €16,000 and filmed in 15 days, Amongst the Wolves is a good mix of established talents and up-and-comers.

Movie Review • 07 May