A Quiet Place (2018)
A Quiet Place (2018) I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: by the time December 31st rolls around, John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will be on the Top Five lists of a hell of a lot of film fans. And not just horror fans, either; because this is a piece of pure cinema and a masterclass in taut, tense filmmaking. What? You think that you’re not the type of person who could sit through a movie that stars...
Mary Magdalene (2018)
Mary Magdalene (2018) I thought that Good Friday seemed like an appropriate day to see this film for a second time. And even with this additional viewing, I’m not sure why it both haunts and moves me so much. Particularly since I find so much wrong with it. If Mel Gibson’s triumphant The Passion of the Christ was a bludgeoning, blood-and-guts, in-your-face experience, from which it was impossible to walk away unshaken, then...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) There was a rare treat for silent movie fans on the 15th of March this year when Dublin’s beautiful St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosted a rare screening and live score performance of Rex Ingram’s majestic 1921 classic of the cinema, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Now, it isn’t quite accurate to describe Rex Ingram as a ‘forgotten film director’. Certainly, those of us who love the...
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