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  • Bad Day For The Cut (2016)
    Review preview for Bad Day For The Cut

    Baugh and his co-writer Brendan Mullin have a good feel for how they can push the absurdity of the situation without turning the whole thing into farce.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    When a farmer's mum is murdered, he finds himself on a path for vengeance.... and a journey into her past.
  • The Devil's Doorway (2018)
    Review preview for The Devil's Doorway

    It's worth suspending disbelief for a tale that grips where it matters and, through its superb performances, serves as a potent reminder that there were real human beings at the heart of all the real life horrors.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
  • Ditching (2009)
    Review preview for Ditching

    If you found The Road just that little bit too feelgood, then Ditching could be the film for you.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    In a post-apocalyptic Ulster, a group of travellers try to find vital medicine.
  • Five Minutes Of Heaven (2009)
    Review preview for Five Minutes Of Heaven

    An intriguing ‘what if’ that only comes unstuck at the end, as the movie doesn’t know how to resolve itself after a kinetic climax.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    Two men from the same town but from different sides of the Irish political divide discover that the past is never dead - in fact it isn't even past.
  • Grabbers (2012)
    Review preview for Grabbers

    Grabbers is a thoroughly charming and welcome blend of terror and blarney.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A small island community is terrorised by monsters from the sea.
  • It Is In Us All (2022)
    Review preview for It Is In Us All

    Jarvis' performance connects, or perhaps more accurately, carefully unhinges the dots of Hamish's unravelling.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A man and a teenager are find themselves unexpectedly conneceted by a car crash.
  • Michael Inside (2017)
    Review preview for Michael Inside

    Flynn is convincing and sympathetic in the lead.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A teenager living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to three months in prison.
  • Wren Boys (2017)
    Review preview for Wren Boys

    A gut-punch of a short.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.

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