By Jack Shanley For this month I decided to review the new ‘Pulp’ documentary. Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? Directed by Garth Jennings and narrated by the endlessly charming Jarvis Cocker, this film captures the legendary Britpop band on their triumphant 2025 tour while taking a wonderfully nostalgic look back at their […]

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By Jack Shanley Christopher Nolan has always been a director who loves grand scales and mind-bending ideas, but his latest epic, The Odyssey, might be his most ambitious project yet. This three-hour spectacle takes Homer’s ancient Greek poem and transforms it into a gritty, stunningly beautiful story about the heavy cost of war. Shot entirely […]

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By Jack Shanley Steven Spielberg returns to familiar territory with Disclosure Day, a science-fiction thriller that asks one big question: what would happen if the world finally learned the truth about alien life? The result is a film that feels both classic Spielberg and surprisingly modern. The story follows a group of people caught in […]

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By Jack Shanley Directed by Kristoffer Borgli, The Drama (2026) is a brilliantly uncomfortable, darkly funny anti-romance that turns the classic wedding movie upside down. Known for his talent for capturing social anxiety, Borgli delivers an unforgettable ride about what happens when you discover a dark secret about the person you love. The story follows […]

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By Jack Shanley There is a specific kind of magic in seeing a film that belongs to the very streets you walked to get to the cinema. Returning to the Irish Film Institute (IFI) later in the year on October 19th for a special 35th-anniversary screening of Alan Parker’s The Commitments, it’s clear that this […]

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By Jack Shanley It is rare for a film to make you laugh out loud and break your heart in the same scene, but I Swear manages both with remarkable grace. Directed by Kirk Jones (Nanny McPhee), this biopic tells the true story of John Davidson, a Scotsman who became a famous advocate for Tourette […]

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By Jack Shanley If you walked into the theatre expecting a polite, tea-sipping period drama, you clearly haven’t seen an Emerald Fennell movie before. The director behind Saltburn has taken Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic and turned it into a neon-soaked, gothic fever dream that is as much a fashion shoot as it is a tragedy. […]

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By Jack Shanley In the chaotic, neon-veined world of Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, the humblest of sports—table tennis—is elevated to a high-stakes blood sport. It is a film that breathes with a frantic, jittery energy, feeling less like a traditional biopic and more like a two-hour-long panic attack that you somehow never want to end.At […]

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By Jack Shanley Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece, The Shining, has long been a benchmark for psychological horror, with its suffocating visuals evoking a sense of unrelenting dread. Now, over four decades after its initial release, the film makes its debut on IMAX screens, resulting in a spectacle that is both deeply unsettling and gloriously intense. […]

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By Jack Shanley Edgar Wright’s take on The Running Man is less of a remake of the campy Arnold Schwarzenegger film and more of a gritty, modern adaptation of the original Stephen King novel. Starring Glen Powell as Ben Richards, the blue-collar man desperate enough to volunteer for a lethal, televised hunt, the film is […]

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