This weekend was sunny and glorious, and the whole of Dublin was outside on the streets in droves, filling up the parks, pubs, and canal-sides. I went for a walk in the park with my friends, and enjoyed some Curiosity Cola after a long, long time and the eclectic mix of movies that I watched...

The weather in Dublin has been an absolute drag on the soul. Colourless skies, intermittent rain, high winds. And just to drill it in further, the sun peeked out a few times, bathing everything gloriously golden, before quickly retreating to its mansion in the clouds. Given this setting, I wanted to watch movies that would...

This week was all about the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (ADIFF), which is an annual event consisting of screenings of movies from all over the world. It’s usually a very difficult task to pick a few movies because all of them seem so good but I do restrict myself to two or three. This...

I have always been attracted to Japanese animations. Not the dark, weird manga movies (sorry manga fans!) where teenagers are Soul Reapers, search for ways to bring their dead mother back to life or gains powers to kill people if he knows their faces or names. I love the Studio Ghibli type of movies where...

I watched the Chinese movie “Mountains May Depart” (山河故人) as part of the ADIFF 2016. Jia Zhangke’s sweeping drama is set in China and Australia and takes place in three parts. It begins in 1999 with a group of people dancing to “Go West” by the Pet Shop Boys, a song that resurfaces more than...