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Heli

Heli is a disturbing drama about Mexican drug trafficking as mediated through the story of a humble family, which is almost destroyed due to one ill-advised action.

Movie Reviews • 22 May 14

The Two Faces of January

A classy, old school thriller.

Movie Reviews • 15 May 14

A Touch of Sin

With A Touch of Sin you clutch at straws of stories with no resolution for over two hours. Yet for Chinese audiences, it could be all too true, however coded and oblique the film may seem to Western eyes.

Movie Reviews • 15 May 14

A Thousand Times Goodnight

War photographer, wife and mother Rebecca Thomas (Juliette Binoche) never wins our sympathy for her seeming addiction to conflict zones. Pity, as the film begins so engagingly, with a great sense of brooding drama.

Movie Reviews • 15 May 14

Deserves its place in the cult music movie pantheon

Frank

If you can keep your head about you...

Movie Reviews • 09 May 14

Before The Winter Chill

This tale of a marriage in crisis set among the French professional classes looks gorgeous but ends up like an unsatisfying sliver of nouvelle cuisine.

Movie Reviews • 20 May 14

Best of friends - Eka (Lika Babluani) and Natia (Mariam Bokeria)

In Bloom

In Bloom is a compelling, sometimes moving drama about poor people under pressure in the post-USSR Georgian capital of Tbilisi, the year 1992.

Movie Reviews • 15 May 14

The 'boy with no fur' needs more facial expressions

Tarzan 2014

Edgar Rice Bourroughs’ Tarzan is known for being one of the most colourful and adventurous stories of our time, but unfortunately the movie’s latest 3D outing will leave you swinging for the exit.

Movie Reviews • 02 May 14

Mia Wasikowska is superb in the lead role

Tracks

Rising star Mia Wasikowska is superb in this bleakly beautiful true story of the Australian woman who undertook a 1,700 mile solo trek across the Australian desert

Movie Reviews • 30 Apr 14

The look and the attitude but they just don’t have the songs

We Are The Best!

Punk's not dead! Three teenage girls in 1980s' Stockholm decide to form a band in this gentle and very funny comedy

Movie Reviews • 30 Apr 14

Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan play a divorced couple who become jewel thieves

The Love Punch

Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan star in an uninspiring romantic comedy about a pair of English divorcees who embark on an unlikely jewel heist in the South of France

Movie Reviews • 30 Apr 14

Calvary

Expecting Calvary to be The Guard 2 is a mistake; avoiding the drama as a result is an even bigger one.

Movie Reviews • 11 Apr 14

Burn after reading - Saajan (Irrfan Khan) reads the included note before he tucks into lunch cooked by a stranger.

The Lunchbox

Each day, Mumbai’s popular food delivery service facilitates delivery of meals to office workers, often cooked by wives at home. When one of these lunchboxes goes to the wrong recipient the result is deeply touching but also gently humorous.

Movie Reviews • 10 Apr 14

Olivia Williams gives a noteworthy performance

The Last Days On Mars

Fresh off the success of Gravity’s Oscar glory comes another space movie that won’t leave you feeling over the moon.

Movie Reviews • 10 Apr 14

Brendan Gleeson, John Michael McDonagh

Calvary - The Guard 2 it ain't as the star and director tell Taragh Loughrey-Grant

Video Player • 07 Apr 14

Wallis Bird

The singer/songwriter shares her new single, Hardly Hardly, check it out

Video Player • 07 Apr 14

Rio 2

A bright and breezy sequel which is a little overlong at 101 minutes but will keep the kids amused over the Easter holidays.

Movie Reviews • 04 Apr 14

Tom at The Farm

There's a touch of Straw Dogs and Deliverance in this taut psychological thriller from wunderkind director Xavier Dolan

Movie Reviews • 03 Apr 14

Highly-acclaimed Australian drama Secrets & Lies starts Sunday on RTÉ Two

On the Box – TV Preview

John Byrne’s TV choices for the week ahead (Dates covered: Sat Mar 29 – Fri Apr 4)

Television • 28 Mar 14

The Past (Le Passé)

Asghar Farhadi’s latest film is astonishing in its quiet power as it explores serious domestic tensions. All the heartbreak is suspended in a sublime moment at the close, giving us one of the most powerful and moving endings in cinema history.

Movie Reviews • 27 Mar 14

Zoom in on this face, we should be seeing a lot more of this guy

Starred Up

Starred Up gets right up and into the face of prison violence, nudity, abuse, love and hate – you can smell the adrenaline.

Movie Reviews • 28 Mar 14

The chemistry of Hart and Hall save proceedings from disaster time and time again

About Last Night

The moaning after.

Movie Reviews • 20 Mar 14

Salvo

Named after its central character, Salvo is set in the burning summer heat of Sicily, as a chink of bittersweet beauty finally appears in all the squalor and violence.

Movie Reviews • 20 Mar 14

Yves Saint Laurent

Pierre Niney fully inhabits the role of Yves Saint Laurent in this lavish, but strangely unaffecting account of the late designer's life.

Movie Reviews • 28 Mar 14

Hayden Panettiere plays Juliette Barnes in Nashville

On the Box - TV Review

There’s a green tinge to this week’s trawl through telly as John Byrne keeps his viewing to Irish programmes and channels.

Television • 19 Mar 14

Bottom Highlights

Heli

The Two Faces of January

A Touch of Sin

A Thousand Times Goodnight

Frank

Before The Winter Chill

In Bloom

Tarzan 2014

Tracks

We Are The Best!

The Love Punch

Calvary

The Lunchbox

The Last Days On Mars

Brendan Gleeson, John Michael McDonagh

Wallis Bird

Rio 2

Tom at The Farm

On the Box – TV Preview

The Past (Le Passé)

Starred Up

About Last Night

Salvo

Yves Saint Laurent

On the Box - TV Review