Mairéad Roche

In Review: Populaire

by Mairéad Roche 17 May 2013

Set in the post-War France late 1950s, director and co-writer Régis Roinsard has fashioned a bright and colourful vintage styled Romantic Comedy (note, not a modern day Hollywood rom-com) within the world of competitive speed typewriting.

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In Review: The Numbers Station

by Mairéad Roche 16 May 2013

In The Numbers Stations John Cusack plays Emerson a black ops agent on the gun side of numerical codes who, we are told, are what really run the secret missions around the world.

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In Review: Deadfall

by Mairéad Roche 10 May 2013

Deadfall is set in the snowy wilds of Michigan just before American Thanksgiving, where siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) have successfully robbed a nearby casino but are thrown off course by an accident.

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In Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

by Mairéad Roche 8 May 2013

J.J. Abrams is an acknowledged non-Trekkie/Trekker. This surprising fact has allowed the writer-director to reassess and re-evaluate the world of Star Trek from a cool perspective. We all know he loves science fiction, in general, but he’s never pitched up to a film convention dressed in USS Enterprise garb, Spock ears, conversing in Klingon. He [...]

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In Interview: Joachim Lafosse, Director of Our Children

by Mairéad Roche 8 May 2013

Joachim Lafosse’s latest work, Our Children (À perdre la raison), is released in UK cinemas on 10th May. Starring critically acclaimed actress Émilie Dequenne, along with Tahar Rahim and Niels Asterup, the film is based on a real-life case involving a young mother who murdered her four children.

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In Review: Post Tenebras Lux

by Mairéad Roche 14 March 2013

Post Tenebras Lux takes its title from a Latin phrase which means ‘light after darkness’. The latest film from Carlos Reygadas won the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director) at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in rural Mexico, PTL depicts the lives of married couple Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) and Natalia (Nathalia [...]

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In Review: Planet of Snail

by Mairéad Roche 22 June 2012

Planet of Snail is the unusual title for the Korean feature length documentary by Seung-Jun Yi, referring to how Young-Chang, the documentary’s main subject, describes his experience as a deaf and blind person feeling his way through life.

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In Review: The Last Projectionist

by Mairéad Roche 20 June 2012

The Last Projectionist is a documentary by Thomas Lawes looking at the people left behind by the ‘evolution’ of the cinema-going experience; the projectionists.

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In Review: Jaws

by Mairéad Roche 18 June 2012

First released in the summer of 1975, the young Steven Spielberg’s Jaws went on to be a huge blockbuster and put the fear of God into many a sea bather for decades to come.

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In Review: Polisse

by Mairéad Roche 14 June 2012

Having won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2011, director Maïwenn’s Polisse was taken seriously at Cannes and portrays a difficult subject and a main topic of concern for society. Actor and director Maïwenn co-wrote her latest film with Emmanuelle Berot about police officers working in the Child Protection Unit in Paris.

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In Review: The Apartment (1960)

by Mairéad Roche 12 June 2012

The 1960 masterpiece The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, has been fully digitally restored and will soon be back on the big screen once more. A clear inspiration for HBO’s Mad Men, The Apartment has even been namechecked by the show with Joan realising that her dalliance with men mirrors that of Shirley MacLaine’s Fran.

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