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“I Streamed a Stream” – Journeys!
Four more recommendations of films depicting people on a journey, trek these out… . . Nebraska dir. Alexander Payne – ★★★★½ A finely observed comedy from Alexander Payne about Woody Grant (played by...
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Blade Runner – Art house masterpiece, box office flop
This is a guest post by Ronan Moloney. Read his other piece here. . . 1982. What an incredible year for cinema. E.T had us all balling our eyes out and wanting to meet aliens (though this attitude...
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Chalk It Up: JFK (1991)
This is a guest post from Zoë Saunders. Previously… . . I recently watched Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) on an airplane – weird choice, Delta, but it did keep me in my seat with seatbelt fastened,...
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Chalk It Up: Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
This is a guest post from Zoë Saunders. Previously… . . Embrace of the Serpent was nominated for Best Foreign Picture at the Oscars this year, and maybe it should’ve won… well I didn’t see many of the...
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What went wrong with Robert De Niro?
This is a guest post by Ronan Moloney. Read his other writing here. . . This year at the Oscars finally saw Leonardo DiCaprio get his long awaited Oscar. Many felt that this was long overdue, as...
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Top 5 Casino Scenes in Film
This is a guest post from Jack Conrad. .. Casino films have been around for decades, and over the years they’ve provided us with some incredibly memorable characters and moments. But even in films...
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Chalk It Up: The Lobster
This is a guest post from Zoë Saunders. Previously… . . The post Chalk It Up: The Lobster appeared first on Spooool.ie.
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Pod #51 – Werner Herzog wilderness special! (Fitzcarraldo & Burden of Dreams)
We recently travelled on Ireland’s tempestuous River Shannon and decided to watch a Werner Herzog double-bill of his 1982 South American adventure Fitzcarraldo which starred the enigmatic Klaus Kinski...
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Timothy Dalton, The Forgotten Hero
This is a guest post by Ronan Moloney. Read his other work for Spooool.ie here. . . Daniel Craig recently hinted at his retirement from the role of James Bond, leaving the franchise after four very...
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Chalk It Up: Moonlight
This is a guest post from Zoë Saunders. Previously… . . I was lucky enough to attend a press preview screening of Moonlight in September and was absolutely blown away by this poignant and beautiful...
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Best of 2016: Irish Films
Our Best of 2016 coverage kicks off with a run-through the year in Irish cinema from Páraic… Coming up… Tuesday – The Year in Documentaries, Wednesday – Best Films of 2016, Thursday – Friends of...
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Best of 2016: Documentaries
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE It’s felt like a transitional year for documentary film-making. Increasingly it feels like you’ll see the documentaries everyone is talking about through an on-demand...
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Pod #55: Best Films of 2016
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE What a year it’s been. Lots of dead musicians, more Enda, some Brexiteering and a Trump in the White House. However at the cinema, life seemed to continue as normal....
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Best of 2016: Páraic’s Top 10
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Nigel’s Top 10 10) The Hateful 8 Tarantino knows his genres and with his second western he offers homage with his own inevitable flair. I saw this three times one...
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Best of 2016: Nigel’s Top 10
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Páraic’s Top 10 10. Mustang A Turkish-French film from Cannes 2015 that was nominated for an Oscar last year which gives far better insight into the reality of life...
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Best of 2016: Friends of Spooool
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Each year it’s fun to publish some lists of favourite films and reactions from the wider Spooool.ie community and 2016 is no different. Thanks to everyone for reading...
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Worst Films of 2016
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE OK, so you’ve read our Best Film of 2016, and seen what Friends of Spooool.ie think…. but what about the worst films of the year? Here’s Páraic’s take… 1) The Neon...
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Chalk it Up: Arrival
This is a guest post from Zoë Saunders. Previously… . . Arrival struck me as utterly original – in terms of its visuals, its cinematography, its sound design, and its conception of extraterrestrial...
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Pod #69 – The Worst Films of 2017
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL Between us we’ve seen about 150 new releases this year, but we’re not claiming to have seen everything that hit...
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Pod #70 – The Best Films of 2017
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL And so for the SIXTH year running, here we are with our annual chat through the best films of the year. Back in...
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