feature: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

I have to admit, this isn’t a film I’ve been paying a lot of attention to. Which is ridiculous because I really should be paying attention to it. It’s by Edgar Wright, director and co-writer of one of the best comedy-horror films in a very long time. Love that film. Also it stars Michael Cera, [...]

feature: Get Him to the Greek (with exclusive clip!)

Back in 2008 a little comedy called Forgetting Sarah Marshall, from first time director Nicholas Stoller caused quite a stir. It was romantic comedy that actually delivered laughs. Many of those laughs came from Aldous Snow, the narcissistic English rock star played by Russell Brand)… So many in fact, that they decided to make a [...]

feature: nicola-t’s Oscar predictions 2010

So the 82nd Academy Awards are less than a week away, they really crept up on me this year… It’s probably about time I did my predictions. For ease (mine, of course) I’m going stick to the categories I have on the printable Oscar ballot form I did on the day the nominations came out. [...]

feature: Korean cinema at JDIFF 2010

With the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival just a couple of days away, it occurs to me that I never wrote that Korean cinema @ JDIFF article I promised in my intro to JDIFF article. Whoops. I’d be lying if I watch a lot of Asian films at the moment, but I used to… When [...]

feature: 82nd Acadamy Award Nominees ballot form

By now I’m sure you know… the Oscar nominations are out! There are many places out on the internet where you can see the nominations already. Oscars.com is the official site and you can see the full list there… I was going to do a big list and all but it took me ages to [...]

feature: JDIFF 2010 programme launch

Thursday night (28 Jan 10) saw the launch of the 8th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF). This year’s festival runs from 18th to 28th February 2010 and, like every year, is packed full of films that you’ll want to see. Of course, like every year, I’ll probably only end up seeing a handful of [...]

feature: BAFTA Awards (2010) nominations list

Ah the awards season, don’t you love it? I do, it gives me a list of new films I can watch and judge. Today’s list comes from the British Acadamy of Film and Television Arts. I’m gonna throw in a few comments as I go but I’m not a seasoned BAFTA Award watcher by any [...]

feature: The Wolf Man (1941) & The Wolfman (2010)

The other night, courtesy of Universal Pictures, I had the good fortune to watch the classic horror film, The Wolf Man (1941) in Denzille cinema, a cosy private cinema in Dublin 2. I had never seen it before but those of you who’ve read this blog before will know that I’m quite into horror films. [...]

feature: worst films of the decade (2000 – 2009)

So my friend Julian asked me to do a worst films of the decade post… I had thought about it before but since I was asked I decided I may as well get it together… I didn’t want to commit myself to picking 10 though because I don’t want to put in merely bad films [...]

feature: top 10 films of the decade (2000 – 2009)

10 years is a long time in cinema. I had a look at my IMDb.com vote history and I saw around 60+ films in 2009 – significantly down on previous years – but still, more films than I can remember off the top of my head… So when it came to making a top 10 [...]

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