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John’s Wickening: Sequel, Formulas and Substance Over Style

John Wick is a freaking masterpiece in exactly what it sets out to do. What that is is to tell a slick, high octane, pacey and resonant action film where you can actually get an impression of what the fight scenes are doing and how to follow them (trust me that was an issue with action cinema in 2014). It gets in there, hits you at an emotional core, gets you ramped up with carefully thought out and well managed action sequences and culminates with one of the most beloved films of our modern age.

The sequels are. Fine.

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2022: Watchlist, Honorable Mentions & “Guilty” Pleasures

Another year over, never the wiser!

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Cork International Film Festival 2022: Features

I went to the Cork International Film Festival! Here are the features I saw:

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Cork International Film Festival 2022: Shorts

I went to the Cork International Film Festival 2022! Here are one-line thoughts on the shorts I saw:

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IFI Horrorthon 2022

I went to the IFI Horrorthon 2022! Here are some movies I saw:

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Hole in the Head & The Cry of Granuaile: Movies Within Movies

So I haven’t used this blog in a while so I thought in lieu of updating my Letterboxd I’d put out a post about a funny pairing I saw at my local arts centre. Two low budget independently made Irish features about people exploring the effects of stories through film and how that descends them and their production further down strange rabbit holes (about as much as I can say without outright spoiling it). First up!

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Elvis (2022) and Biopics: An Examination Resource List

A list of articles videos, etc. for my latest video. You can watch the video itself here:

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Japanese Film Festival Ireland/N.I.C.E Italian Film Festival Ireland 2022

I went to two film festivals in the last two months and I’m now doing reviews on the movies I watched during them here they are.

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Quick Critique: Coast Road (REQUEST) + Bound to Work

A man reminisces of a time in the mid-90s when he was dragged on a trip at 14 years of age. His mom and a few other residents of his estate hired a bus to tour the coastal side of Cork. However tragedy strikes in the middle of the journey. This jovial trip suddenly turns sinister as the paranoid bus driver tries to figure out exactly who and what to trust on this journey.

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Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2022

I saw some films from the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2022! 15 in fact! Here they are: