December 2011
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July Movies
I was in the gaeltacht for the majority of this month so I didn’t see many films. Two of the my most eagerly anticipated of the year turned out to be two of the worst…
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2
So the film I was anticipating most of all this year turned out to be kind of crap. It wasn’t awful, it was just a bad way to end the series. Such an iconic...
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June Movies
The Runway
AWFUL - WHY DO PEOPLE GIVE MONEY TO OTHER PEOPLE TO MAKE THIS SHIT!? Giving Irish cinema a bad name. It was just inexplicably bad.
1/5
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Senna
Over-rated but tense documentary about Ayrton Senna. It unfortunately tries to make villains out of people for doing their jobs, however, and that took away massively from my enjoyment of it as a film. Neutrality is what makes a good...
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May Movies
One Hundred Mornings
Irish film about the end of the world. It follows 4 people who, after a societal breakdown, are now living an isolated and scared life in the mountains. It doesn’t focus on what happened to cause the breakdown of society (global warming is implied.. yawn…….), instead it focuses on 4 quite uninteresting people (or was it just bad acting?) and their...
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April Movies
Source Code
Duncan Jones’ second film, a thrilling, emotive and never repetitive train-ride. Lacks any kind of the definitive style, however, that Moon had in buckets.
3/5
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Snap
Incredible and psychologically penetrating debut feature from Irish playwright Carmel Winters (whose play B For Baby is also incredible). It follows a woman whose son kidnapped a child, causing a national...