The 2017 movie has a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Netflix is removing Bad Day for the Cut from its service this week, the brilliant 2017 Irish revenge thriller movie. The film centres around Donal (Nigel O’Neill), a mild-mannered farmer living a quiet existence on a farm with his elderly mother, Florence (Stella McCusker). That […]

7 months ago

The film made history upon its release and is truly a must-see. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 1 July) is The Quiet Girl (also known as An Cailín Ciúin), the brilliant 2022 Oscar-nominated Irish drama. Based on the story ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, the Irish-language film is set in rural Ireland in 1981. […]

9 months ago

‘Made with a lot of care and craft.’ The 2010s saw the release of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy of animated adventure fantasy movies. Hits upon release at the box office and with critics, it was inevitable that they would get the live-action treatment at some point, which has come to pass 15 […]

9 months ago

It’s maybe the funniest Irish film ever. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 17 June) is The Guard, the feature directorial debut of John Michael McDonagh (Calvary, War on Everyone). The crime comedy film sees Brendan Gleeson play Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a crass and confrontational cop working in a sleepy town in Connemara in […]

9 months ago

The comedy-drama was nominated for nine Academy Awards, making it the most Oscar-nominated Irish film ever. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 12 June) is The Banshees of Inisherin, one of the best movies of the decade and one of the best Irish movies ever. The film is set in 1923, near the end […]

10 months ago

Barry Keoghan is one of the stars of the film, which is set in the West of Ireland. Our TV movie pick for tonight is Calm With Horses, the incredible 2019 Irish crime thriller starring Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Cosmo Jarvis (Shōgun). The film centres around Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Jarvis), a once-promising boxer who quit […]

10 months ago