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Gareth Higgins on INTRACONNECTIVITY Better than anything I can write here is The Elephant Whisperers (above), which just won the Oscar for best live…

Mar 21

Kathleen Norris on COMMIE HUNTERS: HISTORY LESSONS ON FILM Movies emerge from specific times and often act as harbingers of the future. Today, when many…

Mar 14

Gareth Higgins on OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2023 The Oscars don’t matter as much as they used to partly because there are more platforms than ever, which does…

Mar 7

February 2023

Kathleen Norris on Quiet Thrillers 2021’s “Azor” (above, Andreas Fontana, director) is a quiet but remarkably tense film set in Argentina. Much of the…

Feb 28

Gareth Higgins on THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Ever since I first saw The Banshees of Inisherin, I’ve been waiting for someone else to point out the joke…

Feb 21

Kathleen Norris: FUNNY / NOT THAT FUNNY I am confused. Two recent films that are described as “comedies” seem to me to be anything but funny. “The Menu…

Feb 14

Gareth Higgins on IRISH CINEMA The other day I was watching Lawrence of Arabia for the umpteenth time, and I couldn’t stop thinking about how some great…

Feb 7

January 2023

Kathleen Norris on ANG LEE AND “RIDE WITH THE DEVIL”

Jan 31

A harrowing but humane anti-war film, and three Irish wonders...

Jan 24

Gareth Higgins on EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Jan 18

One of the great humane artists of our time.

Jan 10

A Special Guest Post with recommendations to Begin the New Year

Jan 3

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