A girl boss detective returns to her hometown, only to find herself in the middle of a murder mystery that only brings up the own haunting traumas from the past. Rte’s latest attempt at making a thriller, Blackshore does just enough to not lose your interest in it. It’s hard not to frown at some of the tropey elements, but the straightforward plot and convincing storytelling make for a good binge-watching session.
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Why’s Fia Back In Blackwater?
Fia Lucey, a Dublin cop, is sent to her hometown as a punishment for violently intervening in a sexual assault incident at a Dublin bar. It’s been twenty years since her father killed everyone in the family except her in a murder-suicide. The chatter amongst town folks starts again upon Fia’s return. To add to that, the disappearance of her babysitter Chloe the night before only...
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Why’s Fia Back In Blackwater?
Fia Lucey, a Dublin cop, is sent to her hometown as a punishment for violently intervening in a sexual assault incident at a Dublin bar. It’s been twenty years since her father killed everyone in the family except her in a murder-suicide. The chatter amongst town folks starts again upon Fia’s return. To add to that, the disappearance of her babysitter Chloe the night before only...
- 3/20/2024
- by Aniket Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
We all made interesting choices during the pandemic. Some people got dogs, some left exciting cities for quieter pastures, and some took big career swings. Oscar winner Olivia Colman, it seems, swung wildly out of her usual prestige material to take a little jaunt to Ireland. All it took to get her there was a wholesome road trip comedy in which her primary scene partner is a 12-year-old boy.
Though the inimitable , her immense talent dwarfs the melodramatic surroundings. Once we arrive at a scene where the kindhearted hooligan teaches her how to breastfeed in a seaside shack, it’s clear we’re not in Yorgos Lanthimos territory anymore.
While not entirely without its charms, “Joyride” quite literally milks both comedy and melodrama from its tidy premise like a new mother leaking down her silk blouse — an indignity Colman carries off with sharp vulnerability. The title gets a double meaning from her character’s name,...
Though the inimitable , her immense talent dwarfs the melodramatic surroundings. Once we arrive at a scene where the kindhearted hooligan teaches her how to breastfeed in a seaside shack, it’s clear we’re not in Yorgos Lanthimos territory anymore.
While not entirely without its charms, “Joyride” quite literally milks both comedy and melodrama from its tidy premise like a new mother leaking down her silk blouse — an indignity Colman carries off with sharp vulnerability. The title gets a double meaning from her character’s name,...
- 12/23/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
There’s a scene in “Joyride” set to the Villagers’ song “Courage,” in which lead Conor O’Brien sings, “It took a little time to get where I wanted.” Technically, it takes one hour and six minutes to get to that point, but the route was fastidiously mapped out from the very beginning.
Just like its on-the-nose soundtrack, the rest of this Irish drama is as plain as day — with one exception. Why would Olivia Colman, a regular at Oscar and Emmy ceremonies and recipient of overall critical and audience adoration, waste her time with such a pandering project?
In fact, Colman was at the Academy Awards this very year with a nomination for her bracingly complex portrayal of parenthood in “The Lost Daughter.” So it’s a bit baffling to find her in a movie that feels like a faith-based social warning made in the 1950s, and designed expressly to...
Just like its on-the-nose soundtrack, the rest of this Irish drama is as plain as day — with one exception. Why would Olivia Colman, a regular at Oscar and Emmy ceremonies and recipient of overall critical and audience adoration, waste her time with such a pandering project?
In fact, Colman was at the Academy Awards this very year with a nomination for her bracingly complex portrayal of parenthood in “The Lost Daughter.” So it’s a bit baffling to find her in a movie that feels like a faith-based social warning made in the 1950s, and designed expressly to...
- 12/22/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
"When we feel lost, finding our way home takes a little help." Magnolia Pictures has revealed another new US trailer for an indie road trip film called Joyland, a heartwarming Irish feature that already opened in the UK and Ireland during the summer just a few months ago. The film is described as a "train-wreck on an adventure" road trip film about two misfits. Fleeing from his father, 12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. Joy is on her way to an important meeting, and Mully needs to get some distance from his dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. The unlikely pair go on a journey across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship, love & learning they never knew they needed, in each other. Olivia Colman stars as Joy, with Charlie Reid as Mully, plus Olwen Fouéré,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to “Joyride,” a road-trip comedy starring Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and Charlie Reid. The indie studio will release the film in theaters and on demand on Dec. 23.
The picture was directed by Emer Reynolds (“Songs for While I’m Away”) and written by Ailbhe Keogan (“Bad Sisters). The cast also includes Lochlann O Mearáin, Olwen Fouéré, Ruth McCabe, and Tommy Tiernan.
“Joyride” follows 12-year-old Mully (Reid), who, after fleeing his father, steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy (Colman), in the back seat with a baby. Joy has decided to give her child away to a friend, and Mully needs some distance from his debt-ridden dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. So the middle-aged mother and adolescent embark on a journey across Ireland — a trip that causes a bond to form between them.
Colman, who is...
The picture was directed by Emer Reynolds (“Songs for While I’m Away”) and written by Ailbhe Keogan (“Bad Sisters). The cast also includes Lochlann O Mearáin, Olwen Fouéré, Ruth McCabe, and Tommy Tiernan.
“Joyride” follows 12-year-old Mully (Reid), who, after fleeing his father, steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy (Colman), in the back seat with a baby. Joy has decided to give her child away to a friend, and Mully needs some distance from his debt-ridden dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. So the middle-aged mother and adolescent embark on a journey across Ireland — a trip that causes a bond to form between them.
Colman, who is...
- 11/14/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Festival favourites ‘Fire Of Love’, ‘Hit The Road’ also out.
Warner Bros’ DC League Of Super-Pets receives the widest release ever in the UK and Ireland for a fully-animated title this weekend, opening in 725 locations.
It is the joint-eighth widest release of all-time in the territory, alongside Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi from 2017.
Among animated films, DC League Of Super-Pets tops the 719 locations of Disney’s 2019 The Lion King remake. It is slightly behind the 743 opening sites of Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns from 2018 – a predominantly live-action film featuring animated sequences.
It is a second-widest opening ever for Warner Bros,...
Warner Bros’ DC League Of Super-Pets receives the widest release ever in the UK and Ireland for a fully-animated title this weekend, opening in 725 locations.
It is the joint-eighth widest release of all-time in the territory, alongside Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi from 2017.
Among animated films, DC League Of Super-Pets tops the 719 locations of Disney’s 2019 The Lion King remake. It is slightly behind the 743 opening sites of Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns from 2018 – a predominantly live-action film featuring animated sequences.
It is a second-widest opening ever for Warner Bros,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The presence of the much-loved Olivia Colman is likely to be the main draw for this drive through the familiar twists and turns of an odd couple road trip, and she is well matched by a charming debut performance from her young co-star Charlie Reid despite the film's uneven tone and reliance on sentimentality. Reid - who has the screen presence of a young Will Poulter and could well be on the way to a career - plays Mully. He's a 12-year-old scally with a heart of gold who is trying to stop his dad (Lochlann O'Mearáin) nicking the cash raised for a hospice in his dead mum's name.
When Mully, who it turns out is happy behind the wheel, leaps into the driver's seat of a taxi to outrun his dad, he discovers a drunk, Joy (Colman), sleeping it off in the back seat with her baby beside...
When Mully, who it turns out is happy behind the wheel, leaps into the driver's seat of a taxi to outrun his dad, he discovers a drunk, Joy (Colman), sleeping it off in the back seat with her baby beside...
- 7/28/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The protagonist of “Joyride” is named Joy. Joy is seeking a ride out of town. How charmed or irked you are by this rather rudimentary wordplay may also determine your receptiveness to this soft-hearted, high-spirited Irish road movie, which takes a chipper, sometimes openly cheesy approach to fraught emotional terrain. Charting the unlikely camaraderie between a self-sufficient 12-year-old boy and a spiraling middle-aged lawyer with a newborn baby — both seeking an escape of sorts from loveless lives in a drab County Kerry town — Emer Reynolds’ film weaves pretty freely between tonal lanes, as dictated by the blend of character-rooted intimacy and sitcom-like contrivance in Ailbhe Keogan’s script. “Joyride” needs some deft actors driving it, and it has lucked out: An up-for-anything Olivia Colman and scrappy newcomer Charlie Reid make for an unlikely but appealing buddy duo.
Colman, in particular, grants “Joyride” an outsize dramatic presence that a jaunty little...
Colman, in particular, grants “Joyride” an outsize dramatic presence that a jaunty little...
- 7/28/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
No matter how hard the able cast work, this putative heartwarmer can never escape the far-fetched contrivance of its central conceit
Olivia Colman does her best with this fundamentally silly, contrived and implausible movie: a road-trip heartwarmer, or maybe heartmicrowaver. She plays Joy, a solicitor in a small and close-knit Irish town, who has just had a baby, and the strains of being a single mum have brought her to an emotional crisis. One morning she is in the back of a cab with her newborn, about to hand her child over to her best mate who lives nearby for official adoption and then drive on to Kerry airport for a holiday in Lanzarote, clearly in deep denial about her own nascent feelings. But then her taxi is stolen – with mum and baby in the back – by runaway teen Mully (newcomer Charlie Reid) who jumps into the driver’s seat...
Olivia Colman does her best with this fundamentally silly, contrived and implausible movie: a road-trip heartwarmer, or maybe heartmicrowaver. She plays Joy, a solicitor in a small and close-knit Irish town, who has just had a baby, and the strains of being a single mum have brought her to an emotional crisis. One morning she is in the back of a cab with her newborn, about to hand her child over to her best mate who lives nearby for official adoption and then drive on to Kerry airport for a holiday in Lanzarote, clearly in deep denial about her own nascent feelings. But then her taxi is stolen – with mum and baby in the back – by runaway teen Mully (newcomer Charlie Reid) who jumps into the driver’s seat...
- 7/27/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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