cinema
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Before we get into this week’s reviews, I’d like to point you in the direction of another piece I wrote recently for the wonderful UCC Film Writers Blog. Have you ever wondered what the deal is with the Wachowski Sisters? Good news! I’ve slapped together 3000 words of a whirlwind beginners guide…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan I have a complicated relationship with the music biopic. On the one hand, I’m well aware of their limitations and foibles, and exceedingly wary of the deluge of low-quality rush jobs that have proliferated in recent years. Dewey Cox was very much the last word on the genre years before it truly…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Whisky Galore and The Spy Who Loved Me I’ll generally concede that the British make great comedy, but this wasn’t it. Whisky Galore should be an anarchic good time, and is advertised as a subversive anti-authority piece, but it feels too entrenched in the sensibilities of its time to work…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Man With The Golden Gun Fun fact if you weren’t already aware – not only was Christopher Lee the first choice of author Ian Fleming for the role of Bond, he was also Fleming’s cousin and one of the real-life inspirations for the character. Lee served as an intelligence…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Who else here saw Challengers earlier this year and had their minds blown? The trio of stunning performances, the perfectly paced non-linear story, the pounding electronic score, precise camera and rhythmic editing – it’s one of the year’s very best, yet it seems to have fallen by the wayside in the awards…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Live and Let Die A much more successful introduction to a new Bond – rather than drawing attention to the change of face, we simply pick up with Moore as if it’s just another adventure, his first appearance onscreen being him waking up in (where else) the arms of a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan For the first third or so of Sean Baker’s film Anora, we are invited to live vicariously in a world free of worries or consequences, the playground of the young, the beautiful, and the obscenely rich. Anora (Mikey Madison) has hit the jackpot by catching the eye of Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zacharov (Mark…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Diamonds Are Forever Lazenby gave it his best shot, but damn if it isn’t good to take one last ride with Connery. Less human but far more entertaining to follow, the unflappable professional whose borderline psychopathy becomes a part of the charm. There is a semi-serious attempt to establish continuity…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Short ones this week. I don’t have to justify myself. But I will because I’m just so darn nice. I’ve been on the go lately, especially over the weekend, with election coverage. I was actually out in the count centre with Cork City Community Radio, where I do the Saturday news bulletins…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – You Only Live Twice Bond cuts straight to the chase this time, already loving up an exotic lady the instant he appears on screen. You Only Live Twice is very much playing the hits – a dangerous vacation to a stunning locale where Bond teams up with local intelligence, uncovers…
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