Monday 3 May 2010
Far and away
Chances are if you visit a DVD retail shop and check the 'Irish' section this movie will definitely be on the shelf. It's got everything most people expect when they think of 'Irish cinema': girls with long hair; emigration; fights; poverty; scenery; evictions; horses; and romance. Great seeing this film on the Irish Film Board trailer even though it was made at a time when the Board didn't exist! Cruise travels to America to claim free land in a race. Filmed in Temple Bar and at the Guinness factory (for Boston). Chocolate-box cinema at its best!
Master of the world
Dated movie from the 1960s with Vincent Price trying to stop wars around the world. He uses an airship to attack from the sky. A group of ...
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Now that our beloved Film Board is getting renamed what does this show? Back over twenty years we have failed to produce a new Jim Sheridan ...