Thursday 17 June 2010
Holy water
When the next tome on Irish cinema gets published chances are it will ignore the most wretched of sub-genres - the one called 'Paddywhackery boll*cks'! This maligned genre includes titles such as Closer you get, Waking Ned, and Irish Jam. Rural locations, middle-aged cast, few children present, fiddle music on the soundtrack, unfunny comedy, sex-starved natives, priests who are 'one of the lads', and a great plan that everyone works together on. The latest example is Holy water and as expected it's sh*t. What's Linda 'Terminator' Hamilton doing in this junk? They steal viagra, it gets into the local water supply, and everyone gets romantic. Except the heist is rushed and we don't give a toss about the characters or who they get off with. Filmed in Devon, England (!) the movie uses red phone boxes, British car-reg plates, and sterling currency yet the accents and surroundings are mostly Southern Irish? What a crock of crap!
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 ...