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  Ransom '79 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Jun 2024

  DOCS IRELAND 2024 REVIEW

  Ransom ‘79, directed by Colm Quinn focuses on the legendary Irish journalist Charlie Bird and his final story. In October 2022, Charlie receives the devastating diagnosis that he is suffering from early stages of Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a rare condition that affects the brain and nerves, as well shorten a persons life expectancy. Whilst suffering with the condition, Bird learns details of what could be one of his biggest stories of his career, as well…

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  The Flats 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 Jun 2024

  DOCS IRELAND 2024 REVIEW

  The Flats is a documentary directed by Alessandra Celesia and is also the opening film of the sixth edition of the Docs Ireland film festival. The film focuses on a Belfast housing estate in the New Lodge area, a Republican enclave in the heart of Belfast, that was once heavily impacted during The Troubles and today is marked by social abandonment. However, the inhabitants have a proud sense of belonging and idealism that can be found…

Popular reviews

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  Black Panther 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2018 3

  After his introduction to audiences in 2016's Captain America: Civil War, T'Challa aka Black Panther, gets his solo outing, the first cinematic film for the character as well as the first black superhero film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. T'Challa returns home to Wakanda to take his rightful place on the throne as the new king after his father's tragic death in the events of Civil War. Upon his return, two enemies of Wakanda hatch a plan that not only…

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  Wonder Woman 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jun 2017 1

  Wonder Woman is the latest instalment in Warner Bros. DC Extended Universe, the first female led superhero film in over a decade (we can try to forget that Catwoman and Elektra happened....but they did) and also the first female director to direct a superhero film with a female protagonist (the second in comic book films behind Lexi Alexander for 2008's Punisher: War Zone). From these points, plus the fact that the films within the DCEU haven't received the critical claim…