IRISH SUNDAY TIMES HAVING A LAUGH?

Big article in last week's paper about the poor performance of recent Irish movies at the box office. One of our more successful jobbing hacks, Kieran J Walsh, offered an hilarious explanation. He said(!) that Irish audiences are to blame for not paying to see new home-grown features during the FIRST week on release. Then the movie gets pulled despite good reviews. So let's check this logic out! The director of derivative crap like When Brendan met Trudy, Watermelon, and Jump expects the public (in the middle of a recession) to check out his stuff within days of its release even though there are similar and better Hollywood titles available? If that tool had even 1% of originality then maybe his movies would actually be worth seeing and paying for. They would stand out better in the marketplace not appear like bad copies of other titles. Here's me thinking director Graham Cantwell was the biggest joke in Irish cinema!