Over the years, there have been a number of films shot on Trinity’s campus. Whether it’s an integral part of the production or merely features as part of a shot, as Front Arch did in Liz Gill’s 2003 film Goldfish …
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In an interview with Griffin Hansen, Orlaith Holland uncovers one student’s process of writing a novel
The kettle is on. It’ll be my fourth coffee of the day. All of the windows are wide open, summer air creeping in, born of our Irish heat wave. Although I’m in my kitchen, I’m dressed neatly, as if I’m …
A Student Filmmaker’s Paradise: DU Film Festival
Trinity’s very first DU Film Festival ran a range of events throughout the week, fostering relationships between young Irish filmmakers.
This week saw Trinity’s inaugural student film festival, DU Film Festival (DUFF), fully embracing their slogan of ‘by students, for students’. Ran in and around Trinity campus by DU Film Society, it was the first festival of it’s kind and …
Shark Night 3D
Shark Night 3D
Director: David R. Ellis
Cast: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack
Running time: 91 minutes
Rating: III
By Robert O’ Reilly
Let’s face it, good shark movies are like scorching hot days in Ireland, few and far …
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Cast: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
Running Time: 118 minutes
Rating: 2:1
By Nicholas Bland
Hollywood comedies generally recommend themselves as films to avoid watching. North American prudery combined with overblown …
Arrietty
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Featuring the voices of: Amy Poehler, Will Arnett and Mirai Shida
Running time: 94 minutes (Japanese with English subtitles)
Rating: 2.2
By Robert O’ Reilly
Arrietty, the new film from Studio Ghibli (whose previous efforts …
Super 8
Super 8
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler
Running time: 112 minutes
Rating: 2.1
By Robert O’ Reilly
J.J. Abrams follows up his 2009 hit Star Trek with this Steven Spielberg produced sci-fi nostalgia-fest, a sure-fire …
The Big Picture
Director: Eric Lartigau
Cast: Romain Duris, Marina Fois, Niels Arestrup
Running time: 114 minutes (French with English subtitles)
Rating: 2.2
By Robert O’ Reilly
Partner in a Parisian law firm and living in bourgeois luxury with his wife and two …
Cell 211
Director: Daniel Monzón
Cast: Alberto Ammann, Luis Tosar, Marta Etura
Running time: 113 minutes (Spanish with English subtitles)
Rating: 2.2
By Robert O’ Reilly
The day before he starts his new job as a prison officer, Juan Oliver (Alberto Ammann) …
