For a horror fan, the month of October is naturally designated for everything related to Halloween. So this month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies that take place on or around October 31st. As usual, though, these selections can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.
This month’s Halloween-themed offerings include zombies, witchcraft, killers, and more.
The Midnight Hour (1985)
Image: The Midnight Club (1985)
Directed by Jack Bender.
The Midnight Hour is a great warm-up for the Halloween season, right before diving into heavier or scarier movies. This telefilm originally aired on ABC, then later showed up on cable. While it didn’t open to rave reviews, it has certainly found an audience over the years. The plot is simple enough: teens fool around with magic and accidentally raise an evil sorceress on Halloween. As the night goes on, the town is taken over by ghouls and monsters.
This month’s Halloween-themed offerings include zombies, witchcraft, killers, and more.
The Midnight Hour (1985)
Image: The Midnight Club (1985)
Directed by Jack Bender.
The Midnight Hour is a great warm-up for the Halloween season, right before diving into heavier or scarier movies. This telefilm originally aired on ABC, then later showed up on cable. While it didn’t open to rave reviews, it has certainly found an audience over the years. The plot is simple enough: teens fool around with magic and accidentally raise an evil sorceress on Halloween. As the night goes on, the town is taken over by ghouls and monsters.
- 9/29/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
"Lola was never meant to be an instrument of violence..." Dark Sky Films has revealed an official trailer for Lola, a strange B&w indie film creation from young filmmaker Andrew Legge. This premiered at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival last year and also played at FrightFest, and the Melbourne & Edinburgh Film Fests. Set in 1941 in England, two sisters invent a machine that intercepts broadcasts from the future. With World War II dawning, they use it to change history. The story follows Thom and Mars, who build the machine they call Lola, that can intercept radio & TV broadcasts from the future. "While Thom becomes intoxicated by Lola, Mars begins to realize the terrible consequences of its power." Uh oh. The indie film stars Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini as the two sisters, Thom and Mars (Thomasina and Martha), with Hugh O'Conor, Rory Fleck Byrne, Ayvianna Snow, and Aaron Monaghan. This looks like a very intriguing experimental creation,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Emma Appleton, Stefanie Martini, Rory Fleck Byrne, Aaron Monaghan, Hugh O’Conor | Written by Andrew Legge, Angeli Macfarlane | Directed by Andrew Legge
Directed by Andrew Legge, Lola is an inventive and original British time travel thriller that makes inspired use of archive footage and features a superb soundtrack, including an original song by The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon. However, it’s slightly let down by the performances and a lack of attention to the general aesthetic.
The film purports to be a found footage movie, set in the early 1940s. Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini play Tom and Martha, a pair of eccentric orphan sisters who live in a large mansion house. When their scientific tinkering results in a time machine called Lola, they discover they can receive TV signals from the future, allowing them to accurately predict events in the present.
With the country ravaged by WWII, Tom...
Directed by Andrew Legge, Lola is an inventive and original British time travel thriller that makes inspired use of archive footage and features a superb soundtrack, including an original song by The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon. However, it’s slightly let down by the performances and a lack of attention to the general aesthetic.
The film purports to be a found footage movie, set in the early 1940s. Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini play Tom and Martha, a pair of eccentric orphan sisters who live in a large mansion house. When their scientific tinkering results in a time machine called Lola, they discover they can receive TV signals from the future, allowing them to accurately predict events in the present.
With the country ravaged by WWII, Tom...
- 8/29/2022
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
‘The Voice’ will enable directors to create a proof-of-concept.
New projects by Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan and Maudie filmmaker Aisling Walsh are among 27 chosen for the inaugural edition of The Voice, Screen Ireland’s development scheme for emerging and established directors.
Each director is eligible for up to €30,000 in funding across a maximum of two projects.
Finnegan has received funding for his TV drama Strange Coast. His second feature Vivarium debuted at Cannes 2019 in Critics’ Week, winning a distribution prize.
Walsh is receiving support for her as-yet-untitled feature film project about US photojournalist Dorothea Lange. The director’s fourth feature Maudie,...
New projects by Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan and Maudie filmmaker Aisling Walsh are among 27 chosen for the inaugural edition of The Voice, Screen Ireland’s development scheme for emerging and established directors.
Each director is eligible for up to €30,000 in funding across a maximum of two projects.
Finnegan has received funding for his TV drama Strange Coast. His second feature Vivarium debuted at Cannes 2019 in Critics’ Week, winning a distribution prize.
Walsh is receiving support for her as-yet-untitled feature film project about US photojournalist Dorothea Lange. The director’s fourth feature Maudie,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The disttributor was launched by former Element Pictures executives.
Irish distributor Break Out Pictures, launched earlier this year by former Element Pictures execs Nell Roddy and Robert McCann Finn, has acquired a hat trick of titles for release in 2020.
It has bought UK and Irish rights to Peter Mackie Burns’ Rialto from The Bureau Sales. The Ireland-uk co-production premiered at Venice Horizons and marks Burns’ second feature, following Daphne in 2017.
It stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as a husband and father who becomes infatuated with a younger man (2017 Screen Star of Tomorrow Tom Glynn-Carney) at a time of personal crisis.
Break Out...
Irish distributor Break Out Pictures, launched earlier this year by former Element Pictures execs Nell Roddy and Robert McCann Finn, has acquired a hat trick of titles for release in 2020.
It has bought UK and Irish rights to Peter Mackie Burns’ Rialto from The Bureau Sales. The Ireland-uk co-production premiered at Venice Horizons and marks Burns’ second feature, following Daphne in 2017.
It stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as a husband and father who becomes infatuated with a younger man (2017 Screen Star of Tomorrow Tom Glynn-Carney) at a time of personal crisis.
Break Out...
- 12/11/2019
- by ¬0¦James Ashworth¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Looking for a bad horror movie for Halloween? May I suggest… Rawhead Rex (1986) Director: George Pavlou Stars: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O'Conor A pagan demon once thought dead re-emerges to terrorize a peaceful Irish village, one golden shower at a time. If you're a horror fan, you should really thank Rawhead Rex for existing. Not because it's a good movie…...
- 10/23/2019
- by Jason Adams
- JoBlo.com
"Look - I know you hate me now, but do you think some day we could be okay...?" Break Out Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for an Irish indie coming-of-age comedy titled Metal Heart, which is the feature directorial debut of actor Hugh O'Conor. The film is about two twin sisters who couldn't be more unlike each other. There is much rivalry between Emma and Chantal, quite different in just about every way, but all that changes when their mysterious neighbor moves back in. Jordanne Jones stars as Emma, along with Leah McNamara as her sister Chantal, including Moe Dunford, Seán Doyle, Aaron Heffernan, Yasmine Akram, Ali Hardiman, Lucy Parker Byrne, and Sorcha Fahy. This looks quirky and fun and heartfelt. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Hugh O'Conor's Metal Heart, direct from YouTube (via Sa): There is much rivalry between twin sisters Emma (Jordanne Jones) and...
- 5/27/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If you've been paying attention to the recent wave of Irish films you've most likely come across actor Hugh O'Conor at some point. He was the lead in hit comedy The Stag before playing a key support part opposite Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal in period adventure Pilgrimage, to name a pair of recent examples. But outside his acting work O'Conor is a very accomplished photographer and following some directing work in the music video and commercial world he's now applied those skills as he takes the helm with his directorial debut, Metal Heart. A relationship driven comedy revolving around a pair of twin sisters in their final summer before college, it's a beautifully acted and shot film that audiences this side of the world...
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- 5/26/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Hugh O'Conor is best known for playing the half-melted Catholic priest Father Henri -- opposite the hard and bitter village mayor Comte de Reynaud played by Alfred Molina -- in the flavorful 2000 film "Chocolat." Guess what he looks like now!
- 11/21/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
"A powerful man does not become so without sin." Rlj Entertainment has unveiled a second trailer for the indie action thriller Pilgrimage, set in Ireland during the 13th century. The story follows a group of monks who must escort a sacred relic across the "Irish landscape fraught with peril". Starring Richard Armitage, Tom Holland, John Lynch, Stanley Weber, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Hugh O'Conor, Eric Godon, plus the badass Jon Bernthal as a character named "The Mute". We already posted the first official trailer for this earlier in the year, but I'm glad to see another one reminding us that this is finally coming out soon. They're obviously playing up Tom Holland from Spider-Man: Homecoming, but the entire cast looks great. Here's the second official trailer (+ poster) for Brendan Muldowney's Pilgrimage, direct from YouTube: You can still watch the first official trailer for Pilgrimage here, to see even more footage from this film.
- 7/12/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In the 1980s, Clive Barker introduced horror fans to a world where pleasure and pain intertwined in Hellraiser (based on The Hellbound Heart), and in that same decade in Books of Blood Volume 3, he created a violent creature known as Rawhead Rex, who jumped to the screen to prey upon a rural town in George Pavlou's 1987 film of the same name. Now, 30 years later, Kino Lorber is bringing Rawhead Rex back to select theaters this summer with a new 4K restoration that will also be featured on a new home media release this fall.
The exact dates for the theatrical re-release and special edition Blu-ray / DVD of Rawhead Rex, as well as the home media release's special features, have yet to be announced, but we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more information is revealed.
In the meantime, we have the official announcement from Kino Lorber below,...
The exact dates for the theatrical re-release and special edition Blu-ray / DVD of Rawhead Rex, as well as the home media release's special features, have yet to be announced, but we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more information is revealed.
In the meantime, we have the official announcement from Kino Lorber below,...
- 4/27/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"You will see the safe delivery of our holiest relic to Rome. Go with God." Rlj Entertainment has debuted a trailer for an indie action thriller titled Pilgrimage, set in the religious times of 13th century Ireland. The film is about to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month, hence the release of the trailer to build extra buzz. The story follows a group of monks who must escort a sacred relic across the "Irish landscape fraught with peril". There's plenty of gnarly violence in this. Starring Richard Armitage, Tom Holland, John Lynch, Stanley Weber, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Hugh O'Conor, Eric Godon, plus the badass Jon Bernthal as a character named "The Mute". This actually looks pretty cool, consider me interested. Here's the first official trailer for Brendan Muldowney's Pilgrimage, originally from Yahoo: A small band of Catholic monks keep to a solemn routine on a remote Irish coast.
- 4/21/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The cast of ITV's The Frankenstein Chronicles has been announced.
Sean Bean will star as Inspector John Marlott, who will pursue a terrifying foe through 1827 London, in what is described as a mix of the investigative and horror genres.
Joining Bean is Game of Thrones star Kate Dickie, who played Lysa Arryn on the HBO show.
The six-part period drama sees Marlott recruited by Home Secretary Robert Peel after an assembly of body parts is discovered, arranged in a bizarre attempt at a human form.
He soon finds himself tracking down a dangerous and unhinged killer.
Also appearing in the series will be Snatch star Robbie Gee, Cilla's Ed Stoppard, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Elliot Cowan, Hugh O'Conor, Joe Tucker, Lalor Roddy, Patrick Fitzsymons, Richie Campbell, Ryan Sampson, Samuel West, Shaun Mason, Steve Wilson, Steven Berkoff, Stuart Graham, Tom Ward and Vanessa Kirby.
ITV director of drama Steve November...
Sean Bean will star as Inspector John Marlott, who will pursue a terrifying foe through 1827 London, in what is described as a mix of the investigative and horror genres.
Joining Bean is Game of Thrones star Kate Dickie, who played Lysa Arryn on the HBO show.
The six-part period drama sees Marlott recruited by Home Secretary Robert Peel after an assembly of body parts is discovered, arranged in a bizarre attempt at a human form.
He soon finds himself tracking down a dangerous and unhinged killer.
Also appearing in the series will be Snatch star Robbie Gee, Cilla's Ed Stoppard, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Elliot Cowan, Hugh O'Conor, Joe Tucker, Lalor Roddy, Patrick Fitzsymons, Richie Campbell, Ryan Sampson, Samuel West, Shaun Mason, Steve Wilson, Steven Berkoff, Stuart Graham, Tom Ward and Vanessa Kirby.
ITV director of drama Steve November...
- 1/21/2015
- Digital Spy
★★☆☆☆Todd Phillips' The Hangover (2009) has a lot to answer for. Not only did it spawn two unfortunate sequels, it has embedded a newfound fascination with lads-only tales where bromance and morals are tested to their very limits. This - along with those films' basic narrative concept - is mimicked in Irish director John Butler's debut feature The Stag (2013), a largely unfunny lads-on-tour comedy that sets about trying to match broad slapstick and enforced camaraderie with brash sentimentality, blending them together into an ultimately flaccid excursion into pre-nuptial chaos. Hugh O'Connor plays Fionnan, a husband-to-be deeply involved with his the wedding plans.
- 7/22/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
I love me some Irish men. So sitting across from a trio of triple threat actor/writer/director strapping lads had me all in a tizzy this past week at Tribeca Film Festival."We're coming at you from every angle!" co-writer and co-star of The Bachelor Weekend Peter McDonald joked, flanked by his co-writer and director John Butler and lead Hugh O'Connor.In addition to the exclusive clip we posted on Wednesday, and on the eve of their limited theatrical release in Chicago and on cable VOD/iTunes, here are some snippets from our interview at Tff.The bachelor/bachelorette thing has been done a couple times, so what was your motivation for making this film?Peter McDonald: A lot of those films sell you a bit short on heart, and they don't...
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- 5/2/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The Playlist's Drew Taylor sat down with director John Butler and actors Hugh O'Conor and Peter McDonald to chat about their comedy film "The Bachelor Weekend." The talk is part of a series of Tribeca Film Festival conversations being hosted at the Apple store in SoHo. In the vein of "The Hangover" films, "The Bachelor Weekend" follows a group of not-made-for-the-wild men who take a trip to the Irish wilderness before their friend's wedding. In the clip below, Taylor asks the comedy team if they could impart any wisdom for aspiring filmmakers. Director Butler highlighted his lucky in finding producers who were willing to make their film. "As a first time filmmaker I just think that's exactly the support you need to find. And I think it's rare and under-appreciated in the business." Be sure to check back on iTunes shortly for the full podcast.
- 4/25/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆ You'd perhaps be forgiven for thinking that John Butler's The Stag (2013), co-written and starring Peter McDonald, might be in the vein of Bridesmaids (2011) or Bachelorette (2012) before it. What we actually get is a surprisingly tender Irish comedy, which traverses the depths of modern masculine identity, whilst aping the tropes of the genre. Fionnan (Hugh O'Conor) is a set designer about to marry the love of his life, Ruth (Amy Huberman). But Fionnan is not a man's man. He spends his day, not considering the end of his bachelorhood, but instead wrapped up in the finer details of the wedding plan, even going to the trouble of making a detailed diorama of the big day.
- 3/13/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Andrew Scott breaks out of the Moriarty mould in new Dublin-set wedding comedy The Stag, which sees him play best man to self-described metrosexual Fionan (Hugh O'Conor), who has no interest in a traditional laddish stag do.
Scott's Davin organises a low-key walking holiday as a compromise, but their idyllic weekend is hijacked by the bride's alpha male brother.
Digital Spy caught up with Scott yesterday to discuss what drew him to the role of Davin, his return to the theatre, and his ongoing role as Sherlock's mercurial nemesis Moriarty.
What appealed to you about the script for The Stag?
I was very much looking forward to playing something less dark. I've done a lot of comedy in the theatre, but in recent years I've done projects that I suppose are a little bit more serious in nature. It's very difficult to make comedy work, I think it's a very underrated genre.
Scott's Davin organises a low-key walking holiday as a compromise, but their idyllic weekend is hijacked by the bride's alpha male brother.
Digital Spy caught up with Scott yesterday to discuss what drew him to the role of Davin, his return to the theatre, and his ongoing role as Sherlock's mercurial nemesis Moriarty.
What appealed to you about the script for The Stag?
I was very much looking forward to playing something less dark. I've done a lot of comedy in the theatre, but in recent years I've done projects that I suppose are a little bit more serious in nature. It's very difficult to make comedy work, I think it's a very underrated genre.
- 3/13/2014
- Digital Spy
Andrew Scott breaks out of the Moriarty mould in new Dublin-set wedding comedy The Stag, which sees him play best man to self-described metrosexual Fionan (Hugh O'Conor), who has no interest in a traditional laddish stag do.
Scott's Davin organises a low-key walking holiday as a compromise, but their idyllic weekend is hijacked by the bride's alpha male brother.
Digital Spy caught up with Scott yesterday to discuss what drew him to the role of Davin, his return to the theatre, and his ongoing role as Sherlock's mercurial nemesis Moriarty.
What appealed to you about the script for The Stag?
I was very much looking forward to playing something less dark. I've done a lot of comedy in the theatre, but in recent years I've done projects that I suppose are a little bit more serious in nature. It's very difficult to make comedy work, I think it's a very underrated genre.
Scott's Davin organises a low-key walking holiday as a compromise, but their idyllic weekend is hijacked by the bride's alpha male brother.
Digital Spy caught up with Scott yesterday to discuss what drew him to the role of Davin, his return to the theatre, and his ongoing role as Sherlock's mercurial nemesis Moriarty.
What appealed to you about the script for The Stag?
I was very much looking forward to playing something less dark. I've done a lot of comedy in the theatre, but in recent years I've done projects that I suppose are a little bit more serious in nature. It's very difficult to make comedy work, I think it's a very underrated genre.
- 3/13/2014
- Digital Spy
John Butler's hilarious Irish comedy The Stag hits UK screens this coming Friday and a pair of clips have just been released for your viewing pleasure. And they are very pleasurable, indeed. Self-confessed metrosexual Fionan (Hugh O'Conor) doesn't want a Stag Do, but would happily attend the Hen. His concerned bride-to-be Ruth (Amy Huberman) persuades the marginally more macho best man Davin (Andrew Scott) to organise one. Reluctantly he agrees, while doing everything he can to stop Ruth's infamously alpha male brother, known only as 'The Machine' (Peter McDonald), gatecrashing their sober, walking-weekend, excuse for a Stag Party. Not so easily foxed, 'The Machine' tracks them down, sparking to life a wild few days in rural Ireland where the Stags find themselves lost, shot at,...
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- 3/10/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The Grand Budapest Hotel | 300: Rise Of An Empire | Wake In Fright | Paranoia | The Stag | Escape From Planet Earth
The Grand Budapest Hotel (15)
(Wes Anderson, 2014, UK/Ger) Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan. 100 mins
You wonder how long Anderson can keep accumulating star actors and creating ever more elaborate microcosms but, judging by this, he's a long way from running out of steam. It's a witty caper-within-a-reminiscence-within-a-flashback set in interwar Europe, through which Fiennes's debonair concierge must flee, protege lobby boy in tow, after an heiress's murder. It's breathlessly paced and breathtakingly designed, but with a solid core – like a fancy cake with an iron file concealed inside.
300: Rise Of An Empire (15)
(Noam Murro, 2014, Us) Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro. 102 mins
With the bar for violent historical silliness raised by Game Of Thrones, this sequel pitches recklessly into another orgy of fetishised classical warfare with comic-book effects.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (15)
(Wes Anderson, 2014, UK/Ger) Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan. 100 mins
You wonder how long Anderson can keep accumulating star actors and creating ever more elaborate microcosms but, judging by this, he's a long way from running out of steam. It's a witty caper-within-a-reminiscence-within-a-flashback set in interwar Europe, through which Fiennes's debonair concierge must flee, protege lobby boy in tow, after an heiress's murder. It's breathlessly paced and breathtakingly designed, but with a solid core – like a fancy cake with an iron file concealed inside.
300: Rise Of An Empire (15)
(Noam Murro, 2014, Us) Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro. 102 mins
With the bar for violent historical silliness raised by Game Of Thrones, this sequel pitches recklessly into another orgy of fetishised classical warfare with comic-book effects.
- 3/8/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
John Butler makes his feature debut with this likeable and amusing male-bonding comedy, co-written with cast member Peter McDonald (Moone Boy). Obsessing to the point of implosion about the details of his impending nuptials, meek set designer Fionan (Hugh O'Conor) isn’t interested in having a stag do.
But anxious bride-to-be Ruth (Threesome’s Amy Huberman) feels her fiancé could use some respite from table planning and place settings and so persuades best man Davin (Sherlock’s Andrew Scott) to cobble together a stag party.
Unfortunately, Ruth’s terrifyingly macho brother ‘The Machine’ (McDonald) won’t be stopped from attending and a planned quiet break in rural Ireland soon takes in lost bearings, lost clothes and hilarious clashes with electric fences. Will Fionan and co make it to the church on time?
Co-produced by the Irish Film Board and Arrow Films – who’ve carved a commendable niche with UK releases...
But anxious bride-to-be Ruth (Threesome’s Amy Huberman) feels her fiancé could use some respite from table planning and place settings and so persuades best man Davin (Sherlock’s Andrew Scott) to cobble together a stag party.
Unfortunately, Ruth’s terrifyingly macho brother ‘The Machine’ (McDonald) won’t be stopped from attending and a planned quiet break in rural Ireland soon takes in lost bearings, lost clothes and hilarious clashes with electric fences. Will Fionan and co make it to the church on time?
Co-produced by the Irish Film Board and Arrow Films – who’ve carved a commendable niche with UK releases...
- 3/5/2014
- Shadowlocked
March 7, 2014
300: Rise of an Empire
Director: Noam Munro
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green
Running time: 102 mins
Certificate 15
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton
Running time: 99 mins
Certificate 15
Paranoia
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate 12
The Stag
Director: John Butler
Starring: Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate 15
March 14, 2014
Need for Speed
Director: Scott Waugh
Starring: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Scott Mescudi
Running time: 130 mins
Certificate 12A
Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate 15
Veronica Mars
Director: Rob Thomas
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate Tbc
The Zero Theorem
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis
Running time: 107 mins
Certificate 15
March 21, 2014
About Last Night
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Kevin Hart,...
300: Rise of an Empire
Director: Noam Munro
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green
Running time: 102 mins
Certificate 15
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton
Running time: 99 mins
Certificate 15
Paranoia
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate 12
The Stag
Director: John Butler
Starring: Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate 15
March 14, 2014
Need for Speed
Director: Scott Waugh
Starring: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Scott Mescudi
Running time: 130 mins
Certificate 12A
Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate 15
Veronica Mars
Director: Rob Thomas
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate Tbc
The Zero Theorem
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis
Running time: 107 mins
Certificate 15
March 21, 2014
About Last Night
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Kevin Hart,...
- 2/18/2014
- Digital Spy
An anomaly in a sea of very, very serious films (most of which were quite excellent in their own way) when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, John Butler's Irish comedy The Stag is the sort of film that you quite simply don't generally find at international film festivals. Why? Because while festivals are dominantly interested in promoting things on the more arthouse end of the spectrum Butler and his talented cast have created here a comedy of the purely crowd pleasing sort. And after a week or so of often times very troubling viewing at Tiff what I needed by the time The Stag rolled around was to laugh my ass off. And I did exactly that.Self-confessed metrosexual Fionan (Hugh O'Conor) doesn't...
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- 1/9/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Writer-director John Butler knows one thing very well: Nothing good can ever happen of taking a group of men out of the city and putting them in the wild in the company of substances designed to make them even more stupid than usual. Particularly not if this endeavor is undertaken in the name of 'fun'. And yet this is exactly what happens in The Stag.No one makes a less likely candidate for a wild stag party than Fionnan (Hugh O'Conor), a set designer so comfortable in his masculinity that he feels no shame in micromanaging the decor for his forthcoming wedding. But his adoring fiancée, Ruth (Amy Huberman), feels that Fionnan really needs to cut loose in one last bachelor's hurrah with his mates. She...
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- 8/21/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Family squabbles are to the fore in this underwhelming comedy from first-time director Yoav Factor
The Royal Tenenbaums meets The Upper Hand in this film from first-time director Yoav Factor. Unfortunately, it's the duff 90s sitcom that sets the tone. Timothy Spall, still in search of a serviceable star vehicle, must reunite warring sprogs Rhona Mitra, Blake Harrison, James Callis and Hugh O'Conor and corral them back to the family home on the dying wish of Gran (Honor Blackman). Plot twists are shoutingly signposted and then wallopingly orchestrated; few characters shake off the thick blanket of caricature while tragic back-stories are whipped out as narrative trump cards with all the taste of strip poker at a funeral. Rubins ultimately sinks beneath the weight of its own gubbins.
Rating: 2/5
ComedyDramaCatherine Shoard
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The Royal Tenenbaums meets The Upper Hand in this film from first-time director Yoav Factor. Unfortunately, it's the duff 90s sitcom that sets the tone. Timothy Spall, still in search of a serviceable star vehicle, must reunite warring sprogs Rhona Mitra, Blake Harrison, James Callis and Hugh O'Conor and corral them back to the family home on the dying wish of Gran (Honor Blackman). Plot twists are shoutingly signposted and then wallopingly orchestrated; few characters shake off the thick blanket of caricature while tragic back-stories are whipped out as narrative trump cards with all the taste of strip poker at a funeral. Rubins ultimately sinks beneath the weight of its own gubbins.
Rating: 2/5
ComedyDramaCatherine Shoard
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- 10/20/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Johnny Taylor SeatedDirector/writer: David Howard.
Flick is a zombie styled horror film, which will be distributed by the North American acquisition company Peace Arch Entertainment October 26th on DVD. The film was shot over the course of four weeks in and around Wales, England. Stylish, colourful, and involving a conflicted killer, Flick is an enjoyable horror film, which even stars Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway. Moving to DVD shelves shortly fans can find out why Flick deserves your attention in this review.
The film's title has a double-meaning, as Flick is a nickname for the film's main villain Johnny Taylor (Hugh O'Connor) and for "B-movie fright flicks" (Eye for Films). Taylor likes to flick his switchblade at high school dances when things do not go his way and when the bullies outnumber him four to one. One of the bullies is played by Ricci Harnet (28 Days Later) who makes...
Flick is a zombie styled horror film, which will be distributed by the North American acquisition company Peace Arch Entertainment October 26th on DVD. The film was shot over the course of four weeks in and around Wales, England. Stylish, colourful, and involving a conflicted killer, Flick is an enjoyable horror film, which even stars Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway. Moving to DVD shelves shortly fans can find out why Flick deserves your attention in this review.
The film's title has a double-meaning, as Flick is a nickname for the film's main villain Johnny Taylor (Hugh O'Connor) and for "B-movie fright flicks" (Eye for Films). Taylor likes to flick his switchblade at high school dances when things do not go his way and when the bullies outnumber him four to one. One of the bullies is played by Ricci Harnet (28 Days Later) who makes...
- 9/3/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Filmbase Training is planning its busiest autumn ever: launching several brand new courses and hosting talks and seminars with industry experts from home and abroad. After building on six years of success as an Apple Training Centre, Filmbase has also recently added several Adobe Certified Courses to their range of professional industry training. The upcoming speakers and tutors include make up artist Terri Pinnell (Portrait of a Zombie), actor Hugh O'Conor (My Left Foot), casting director Thyrza Ging (Savage) and directors Lenny Abrahamson (Adam and Paul) and Sonya Gildea (Bua). Filmbase can now deliver Adobe courses taught by certified trainers in all the applications of the Adobe Creative Suite. Similar to the Apple courses, students will have the opportunity to sit exams and upgrade their credentials by becoming Adobe Certified Experts.
- 9/2/2010
- IFTN
Filmbase has announced it will host a new screening night, ShortSpace, on the first Thursday of every month. ShortSpace aims to be a new place for filmmakers and film fans to get together, screen and discuss short films and short filmmaking. The first ShortSpace will take place at 7pm on Thursday 2nd of September at Filmbase with Oscar nominated filmmaker Juanita Wilson (The Door), Hugh O'Conor (Corduroy) and Vincent Gallagher (An Cosc) attending to discuss their experiences of making their first short film.
- 8/25/2010
- IFTN
Flick Movie StillThe UK shot Flick will have a North American release October 26th on DVD. The film stars Faye Dunaway, who is a cop on the trail of a resurrected murder victim. This film has toured several film festivals since 2008 and the film has been described by one critic as "an admirable job in uniting a wonderfully characterful cast to populate their trippy, nostalgic, comic book horror" (James Dennis). Check out the trailer for Flick below and save up for the release.
The synopsis for Flick here:
"Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and weird sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s (a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death" (Peace Arch).
Johnny Flick...
The synopsis for Flick here:
"Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and weird sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s (a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death" (Peace Arch).
Johnny Flick...
- 8/11/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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