Harry Guerin

Multimedia Journalist

Dahomey is the film if you're after something different

Tipped to be among the Best Documentary Feature nominees at next year's Oscars and also Senegal's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, Dahomey is thought-provoking and dreamy at the same time.

Movie Review • 25 Oct 24

(L-R) Hazel Doupe and Eva Birthistle make for a formidable duo with Kathleen Is Here

Eva Birthistle turns director with a film worth seeing

In her feature debut as a writer-director, Bad Sisters star Eva Birthistle shows she has the chops, and the time may come when she spends more time on this side of the lens than the other.

Movie Review • 18 Oct 24

Ultimately, The Outrun is a story about recovery

Saoirse Ronan finds a way back to life in The Outrun

Don't let The Outrun's starting point of rock bottom put you off, because, ultimately, this is a story about recovery more than it is about the horrors that precede it.

Movie Review • 26 Sep 24

Ciara Berkeley makes for a compelling, taciturn hero

Irish indie Swing Bout ducks and weaves on tiny budget

Skullduggery and verbals abound in Swing Bout as everyone works some angle in a bid to stay one step ahead.

Movie Review • 20 Sep 24

Masters at work (L-R) Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin

Sing Sing's Colman Domingo looks like the Oscar winner

A film that challenges your expectations and ultimately replenishes the viewer's faith in the world.

Movie Review • 02 Sep 24

Mary Robinson: "I was afraid that Kofi Annan wouldn't wait for me, that he'd appoint somebody else."

Mary Robinson 'glad mistakes were covered' in new film

Mary Robinson has told RTÉ Entertainment that she is "glad" the new feature-length film about her life covers mistakes she has made.

Movies • 24 Aug 24

The Aoife Kelleher-directed documentary on Mary Robinson's life and work is a fine addition to what has already been a very good year for Irish cinema

Mary Robinson looks back and forward in new documentary

A fine addition to what has already been a very good year for Irish cinema.

Movie Review • 23 Aug 24

Josh Hartnett makes the role of Cooper aka The Butcher his own in writer-director M Night Shyamalan's latest, billed as 'Purple Rain meets The Silence of the Lambs'

Josh Hartnett plans his great escape in Trap

A smiling, dad-dancing serial killer is not the first role you'd have in your head for Josh Hartnett - and that's exactly the reason why he should do it.

Movie Review • 09 Aug 24

Scéal the heights: Kneecap's origin movie is a triumph

Kneecap's Irish-language phenomenon has finally come home, seven months on from its rapturous world premiere in the US and with a great debut album also sounding the charge.

Movie Review • 23 Aug 24

Blake Lively is perfectly cast in the role of literary hero Lily Bloom

Bestseller It Ends with Us ends up being a so-so film

The drama is neither as strong nor satisfying as it is in Colleen Hoover's book.

Movie Review • 07 Aug 24