LATEST VIEW RESULTS AROUND THE WORLD!

Here are the latest results for countries accessing this blog. Strange more views from the USA than Britain? Ireland (first), United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, India, Ukraine, China (tenth)

DREAMHOUSE DVD!

Jim Sheridan's non-Irish Dreamhouse is out now on DVD. Shame there's no director's commentary!

PICKED UP A DVD

of the already reviewed Last bus home recently in a Dublin shop for about €5. Can't believe the same DVD is only NINETY TWO EURO on the British Amazon website!

AT-SWIM-TWO-BIRDS!

With all the hype about Brendan Gleeson's forthcoming directorial debut it's strange that no-one has mentioned this interesting fact: THIS MOVIE WAS ALREADY DONE BACK IN THE 1990S! There is an German film adaptation of this famous novel. The way Gleeson is going on you'd swear he's poineering this novel to the big screen! That's Irish cinema in a nutshell: blinkered and only looking at things from one angle.

ALBERT NOBBS A MASTERPIECE?

That's what it says on Dublin Bus! Must check out this 'masterpiece' soon!

WENT TO SEE LOCKOUT

Enjoyable movie, don't mind the bad reviews! Rips off Escape from New York and lots of other sci-fi but so what? Won't be reviewing it because even though it was partly made in Dublin and the directors claim it to be an Irish movie there's nothing connected with this country in it.

ALBERT NOBBS OUT ON FRIDAY!

Getting promoted on the buses in Dublin, hope it's good?

LOCKOUT ARTICLE!

Good article on the making of Lockout in today's Irish times newspaper.

WHY IS THE IFB IN GALWAY?

Simple really: our current President Michael Daniel Higgins was Minister for the Arts back in the early 1990s and he helped reestablish our Film Board. His constituency was in Galway and that is why our Board was put there. Imagine how good Irish movies could have been if Higgins had been from Dublin?

BIG ARTICLES IN TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS

About Lockout the new sci-fi movie from a pair of Irish directors. Even better, the same papers are giving the movie bad reviews!

KISS FOR JED WOOD OUT NEXT MONTH!

Nothing to do with Jedward(!), the new Irish film A kiss for Jed Wood is out next month on the 18th.