AN information DVD on The All Ireland Scholarships has been produced to create greater awareness about the JP McManus sponsored awards programme. The DVD, which will inform students about how they might benefit from the 3rd level scholarships scheme, has been distributed to all non-fee paying secondary schools throughout the country (north and south). Pop sensation, Bruno Mars has supported the …
Highly Recommended The Movies: Written and directed by comic book impresario Joann Sfar in 2010 (making this his directorial debut feature), Gainsbourg – a Heroic Life (or, if you prefer the original language title, Gainsbourg -Vie Heroique ) takes on the fairly unfilmable life of the late, great French musician, singer, songwriter and ladies man Serge Gainsbourg. The film begins during the …
The animated Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” has been carefully restored frame-by-frame for DVD release this year.
A thoughtful spy film, but only for those with the patience for its glacial development and need for multiple viewings.
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyDirector: Tomas AlfredsonStars: Gary Oldman, Colin FirthRating: ****“Nothing is genuine anymore,†a character sighs in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but he couldn’t be more wrong. This film is the real deal, set in pre-digital 1970s
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Melancholia opens with a series of painterly images, accompanied by Wagner and presented in agonizingly slow motion. That presentation gives the otherwise befuddling tableaus a weight and significance that we don’t fully grasp–except for the final one, which encompasses nothing less than the end of the world
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Roman Polanski’s Carnage begins at what appears to be the end. Two pairs of parents, the Longstreets (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) and the Cowans (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz), have met at the former’s apartment because their two sons have had a fight
Long-awaited movie opens Friday. Also this week: “Mad Men” returns; “The Muppets” hit DVD and Blu-ray.