What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
At times this feels like an all-too-straightforward exploration of a cult musician’s work – but if the aim is to spark interest in him, it certainly succeeds.
Despite the potential for a bleak baby-crisis drama, this unexpected-pregnancy film is warm-hearted, often cosy, and very funny, writes our reviewer.
“The sheer number of jokes in Spa Weekend is impressive enough, that most of them raise a chuckle and many made me laugh out loud is better still.”
The film is “a tribute to experience, those things in our past and present that made us and shape our future selves”, writes our reviewer.
Director Hugh O’Conor’s debut feature film, Metal Heart, is not based on a comic series or graphic novel, but it feels like it could be, writes our reviewer.
John Butler “manages to balance the schmaltz and cheese inherent to this format with a heartwarming, and heartbreaking, truthfulness”.
Chris Hansen and Thomas Mozdzeń set up Do Nothing Watch Films promising escape from the Dublin rat race with a regular series of shorts and features about lives of leisure.
“This is a spirited, important, knockout of a picture,” writes our reviewer. “Hazel Doupe is simply fantastic, she’s destined for great things.”
A murderer joins his victim’s father in the search for her body. It’s a film with powerful performances let down slightly by ropey plotting, writes our reviewer.
In a small studio off Dorset Street, the team behind Paper Panther Productions work on their stop-gap animated stories.
This is actually the story of two men. One of them has his head in the clouds and the other has his feet planted firmly on the ground.
The next Kino get together is this weekend in Blackpitts. People can come from all over Europe for the gatherings.