MORE HYPE!

Seems the Irish media are going crazy over news that Death of a superhero has gotten a distribution deal in the States. Maybe they should wait first? It might do the same business over there as Fitzbibbon's last movie Perrier's bounty and make less than $1,000?

HORRORTHON FESTIVAL

There's a horror movie festival on this weekend in Dublin. Except we have no decent home-made horror films. A few years back the dire Shrooms got booed at this festival! It's a real shame that we don't have even one quality horror movie. The closest is probably The eclipse but that's not 'real' horror. Another problem is that with all this technical filmmaking, slickness, and blue-rinse look in Irish filmmaking we will never make a decent horror movie now. Look at what the Brits have done over the last decade with their horror stuff? Then look at our stuff like Daisy chain. There is something wrong with our filmmaking setup when we can't even make a ½-decent horror film?

TEN REASONS WHY PARKED SUCKED!

If there's one recent Irish movie that p-ssed Shoot the cabbage off it's Parked. Here are ten reasons why:

SENSATION OUT NEXT WEEK!

Not today as thought. No doubt it will be worth the wait!

Parked

Well that was bad! Can't believe the good reviews for this when the similar Eamon got panned? Stuck in a car, Meaney meets a young junkie and a woman. Lots of handheld camera stuff, establishing shots of the card park, slow pace, usual faces (Wilmot, that lunatic from Killing Bono), dole office scenes, Dublin's two chimneys,and of course not forgetting that ANNOYING PIANO PLONKY MUSIC that has to be in every second Irish movie. I want my €7 back! Parked will be parked in the forgotten zone by next year!

SENSATION OUT FRIDAY!

Seems the next Irish movie out is Sensation. Hope it's better than its trailer?

WE'RE GETTING NETFLIX!

Seems that Ireland is to get the Netflix online service soon. Hope there will be lots of rare Irish movies available?

NO POST LAST NIGHT!

Part of the old college library got flooded!

IRELAND'S GREATEST LIVING FILM DIRECTOR?

Anyone who reads books/articles on Irish cinema will usually have to read full chapters about Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan. Both laughably overrated. However, it's strange that a more successful Irish director never gets a mention? That director being Kenneth Branagh. Even stranger is that he's from Northern Ireland and has yet to make an IRA movie? Maybe he's above all this and concentrates instead on Shakespeare?

NEIL JORDAN VAMPIRE MOVIE!

According to last night's Late late show Neil Jordan is making another vampire movie. Hope he won't be begging the Directors' Guild to get his name removed from a horror movie. One Irish director doing this is enough!

Under the hawthorn tree

This is just sh*t. A young-filmmakers' effort about the famine. Lots of really bad acting. Done on video it's about a group of small children travelling across Ireland to find a relative (as in Flight of the doves). The kind of movie where the kids walk barefoot yet their feet are too clean!

EXCALIBUR REMAKE GONE!

Seems the remake of the Irish-made movie Excalibur from 1981 has been cancelled. Does anyone involved realise that this overrated movie is a ripoff of the earlier Jabberwocky?

PICKED UP A DVD OF UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE

Haven't watched this '90s Irish film yet because it looks sh*te!

WATERFORD FILM FESTIVAL SWITCHES TO SHORTS!

Unemployment blackspot Waterford City has a film festival. For some reason they have decided to ignore features and concentrate on short films. Bad idea. We have too many people in this country making rubbish short films. We do not have enough people making their own features. No wonder Irish cinema is so bad?

JIM SHERIDAN SHOULD MOVE ON!

That's according to today's Evening herald newspaper. That's move on from making films and not trying to get his name removed from his latest effort!

LOTS OF NEW IRISH DVDS!

For some reason there are lots of new Irish-themed stuff coming out on DVD recently: When Harvey met Bob, Under the hawthorn tree, You me and Marley, Kill the Irishman, The runway, and A film with me in it.

DID MICHAEL D HIGGINS REALLY REVITALISE OUR FILM INDUSTRY?

He might be our next president and it's generally regarded that he reestablished our film industry. Except the only film industry we have is a services one. He won't be getting my vote!

HAD A LOOK AT THAT SENSATION TRAILER

Had a look a that Sensation trailer. Another 'one joke' movie. The usual plodding piano music on the soundtrack, there's Owen Roe (again), and the lighting is a bad as most Irish movies. Can't wait for this one!

ALBERT NOBBS TRAILER!

Had a look at the trailer for the new Irish-themed movie Albert Nobbs and Best Actress Oscar at the 2012 Academy Awards is on the cards. Remember where you read this first!

PARKED OUT FRIDAY!

Been a few months since a new Irish film got a theatrical release so it's good news that Parked is out this week!

NO POST TONIGHT!

Because Ireland need to draw with Armenia in the football!

CHEERS TURKEY!

Yet another country has accessed this fine blog. So cheers Turkey.

WOMEN FORCING SEX ON MEN!

What is it with Irish movies and women forcing themselves on men for sex? Wild Decembers, Puffball, Killing Bono, Crushproof, Freeze frame, Disappearance of Finbar. Maybe there's a future MA thesis to get written about this stuff?

DRIFTWOOD AGAIN!

Something is bothering Shoot the cabbage! It's that film Driftwood which few remember or seen. After some research it turns out that the producer was Mary Breen-Farrelly. The same producer who was involved in a notorious fraud scheme involving Space truckers resulting in her getting banned from Ardmore Studios. So maybe, just maybe, Driftwood has been blacklisted as it was made around the same time resulting in the director never making another feature? If this is the case then very sad state of affairs?

JIM SHERIDAN DISOWNS NEW MOVIE!

Our second greatest living film director has publicly disowned his new movie. Dream house is a horror film and it's supposed to be sh*t. Just like most of Sheridan's stuff. He finally got found out and about time! A few years back he was saying we have stories to tell and now this! How many times has this blog said that only people who should be making horror are the directors who understand this genre and work mainly in it? Here's a quote from an LA times article: The news surrounding “Dream House” underscores how much Sheridan’s Hollywood stock has dipped. Wonder if he'll be IFTA nominated for this?

SEVEN HUNDRED POSTS!

This blog celebrates 700 posts. Telling the truth about Irish cinema continues!

NO POST TONIGHT EITHER!

Watching the Scotland international football match.

NO POST TONIGHT!

Because Ireland have to beat the 203rd best international football team, Andorra.

BIG HOUSE TRILOGY

Anyone reading up on Irish cinema may have scome across the phrase 'big house trilogy'. This refers to three forgotten Irish films made back in the day. They were The dawning, Fools of fortune, and Last September. They deal the 1920s and the Anglo-Irish who realise that their era is over. Completely forgotten titles that should still get made as there is an audience for these films and are the kind of stuff that win awards.

Puffball

A while back this blog published a post complaining that there are no really bad Irish movies! Not derivative stuff like Anton or Perrier's bounty. Rather the movies that are so awful that they're good. The movies that makes you ask 'what were they thinking?'. The closest we have is Puffball. This is some film! Stolen condoms, women forcing themselves onto men in order to have a baby, mushrooms (puffballs), stock footage of squirting semen, an uncompleted jigsaw, and a scary dog. Would love to have been in the Galway Film Fleadh audience when this got screened! Three redheads of different ages conspire to have a baby and various magic and men-swapping ensue. What a movie!

Driftwood

Impressive but routine movie about a man washed up an Irish West-coast beach and cared for by a French woman (with an English mother!). Lots of sex and romance and a strange relationship. The kind of movie made for a women's TV channel? Some bizarre cameos and a strange ending. Even stranger is that this above average film was directed by Ronan O'Leary who hasn't made much since?

CHEERS HUNGARY!

Another Eastern country has accessed this fine blog. So cheers Hungary!

NO NEW POSTS UNTIL NEXT WEEKEND!

Due to the old college library being open again at nights each working week but for some reason (a JavaScript one!) their PCs only allow this blog to save a new post and not publish it.

LARRY MULLEN MOVIE!

Today's newspapers have a story on U2's Larry Mullen appearing in a remake. Problem is that the director is Mary McGuckian and this blog is not a fan of her work (especially Rag tale and Best)! The point is that like her other movies this new picture will no doubt be forgotten and won't even get released here. Region 1 DVD is the solution!

Nora

This is the kind of prestigious production that got made here back in the '90s. A famous actor in a James Joyce life story, the kind of movie that soaks up Film Board and EU funds and gets selected by festivals. Made in the style of a European '70s movie: short scenes, impressive music on the soundtrack, and using the actual locations of the story. It's about Joyce's relationship with his wife and the troubles he has getting his work published. Some parts were good but a lot was boring. Also the sound levels were all over the place.

KILL THE IRISHMAN ON DVD!

Finally got a release, on DVD. Looking forward to watching this one.