Harry Guerin

Multimedia Journalist

Ten disaster movies you may not have seen

With the release and box office success of Twisters, attention is once again focused on the disaster movie genre. Here is a selection of films for the nights and weekends ahead - some fact-based, others wholly fictitious, and all deserving of your time.

Movies • 28 Jul 24

Ten 80s movies you may not have seen

From comedy to action to horror, there's something here to make you feel 15 all over again...

Movies • 15 Jul 24

MaXXXine: an 80s-set rager for anyone whose MVP was VHS

If you're in the mood for rolling up your sleeves to the elbows, think slasher horror crossed with LA Confidential crossed with the George C Scott-starring shock-to-the-system Hardcore.

Movie Review • 05 Jul 24

The Sparrow is a study of a terrible secret

As far from a summer movie as you can find, if that's what you're trying to find.

Movie Review • 05 Jul 24

Kinds of Kindness may not be your kind of movie

In a slippy study of strange people, one mystery here trumps all others: how has this movie landed as part of the summer schedule?

Movie Review • 28 Jun 24

Federer: Twelve Final Days is a quick 90 minutes

As send-offs go, this film is a nice one. Not big on hold-your-breath drama by any stretch but quite the heartstring-puller all the same.

Movie Review • 20 Jun 24

Ishana Night Shyamalan directs a supernatural siege movie based on Irish author AM Shine's folk chiller The Watchers

Ireland the setting for folk chiller The Watched

Ishana Night Shyamalan, the daughter of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable director M Night, makes her feature debut 'round these parts with The Watched, a supernatural siege movie based on Irish author AM Shine's folk chiller The Watchers.

Movie Review • 07 Jun 24

Bad Boys: Ride or Die - lads old enough to know better

Recalling the diminishing buddy returns of the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series before it, Bad Boys: Ride or Die sees Will Smith and Martin Lawrence let down by a stop-start script and so-so set pieces.

Movie Review • 05 Jun 24

Charlie Bird and Colin Murphy in Ransom '79

'There was no stopping Charlie Bird chasing this story'

Colm Quinn, the director of the new documentary Ransom '79, has paid tribute to the late Charlie Bird for his indefatigable spirit and determination to tell his last story on the big screen.

Movies • 28 May 24

A great team - Charlie Bird and Colin Murphy in Ransom '79

Charlie Bird's last story reaches cinemas in Ransom '79

The late Charlie Bird's last story and first film make a fine coda to a remarkable life and career in Ransom '79.

Movie Review • 26 May 24