'A film that grasps for greater meaning but winds up flailing around in the dark' - MacDara Conroy on Neil Jordan's modern vampire fable Byzantium
Brendan Gleeson gives the performance of his career in bleak Irish western Calvary, but does the film itself match up? MacDara Conroy isn't so sure
Captain America: The First Avenger opens in Irish cinemas on Friday 29th July. WatchingCattle checked it out earlier this week and found it to be more thank just an Avengers warm up act.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has 'ambitions as a homage to 1970s political thrillers, which is perhaps overselling things a bit' says MacDara Conroy
Contemporary America puts a family’s anti-capitalist, back-to-nature lifestyle to the test in Captain Fantastic, says MacDara Conroy
"The dreariness of the surroundings only serves to accentuate the gleeful extravagance of the Giallo-style violence" - Hugh McCabe on Censor
Chappie 'is basically Robocop crossed with Short Circuit and that isn’t even being facetious' says MacDara Conroy
"often hilarious but the humour is constantly undercut by a feeling of unease and by a lurking violence" - Hugh McCabe on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier
The new Child’s Play is a smart reboot for the demon doll franchise, writes MacDara Conroy
‘It’s a calamity of a movie, for sure; a smorgasbord of awful’ - MacDara Conroy on Collateral Beauty