A drama, leaning into comedy, of working class folk in Dublin. Featuring an ensemble cast of Irish actors (and Scottish ones pretending to be Irish), it's a great glimpse of some familiar faces as they were some 20 years ago. It's a film I've been wanting to rewatch for a long while because I just enjoyed spending time with most of these characters.
There are initially several storylines going on at once, that eventually converge and are knotted into a…
Somewhere between The Commitments, and it's tale of an Irish band getting started, and Human Traffic, where we see a bunch of people on a drug bender, except this film is based on a real band, played by themselves, and focusing on a common desire to keep the Irish language alive (as a staple of the Irish culture). I don't know how much of the 'biographical' story is true, but the politics is really interesting, and watching this with my…
Took me a while to get into the characters, but once the weirdness starts kicking off and the convoluted crisscross of temporal pathways starts to tangle together it's kind of fun, especially working out whether everything is already predestined and cannot be changed without some sort of paradox, or whether things will branch out into alternative contradictory timelines.
Not as crazy and fun as some time travel films I've seen over the last year (like Frequently Asked Questions About Time…
Another horror anthology, and this time my usual suspicion about any horror anthology framing device rings true. A couple of more famous faces in here, though most memorable to me are Joan Collins (who has also appeared in Tales of the Unexpected) and horror veteran Peter Cushing.
Five stories then, told to people who - whilst on a tour around a crypt - get trapped inside, and are told a tale about how each of them will meet their demise.…
