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John Maguire

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Film & Television

John Maguire on film: Doom-laden exploration of guilt and shame fails to hit the mark

Paul Mescal features in God’s Creatures but he’s underused in a story set in rural Ireland that explores the theme of a protective mother that has been done before, and better
  • John Maguire
  • March 23, 2023
Film Reviews

Overly elaborate sleuth story entertains but fails to fully persuade

Jam-packed with talent, this deftly crafted Banville-as-Chandler hybrid captures the style and tone of both authors as well as the titular detective himself
  • John Maguire
  • March 17, 2023
Profile

The Everywhere pair: how the Daniels captured Hollywood with their kung-fu sci-fi comedy-drama

Filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who created the Oscar-sweeping Everything Everywhere All At Once, are proof – in today’s creatively stalled Hollywood – that there is still room in cinema for something truly new
  • John Maguire
  • March 17, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire on film: Raw and spiky melodrama charts a sad and strained love triangle

Compassionate cast are in top form in a story about vulnerable people trying to do the best in difficult circumstances
  • John Maguire
  • March 9, 2023
Film

Film reviews: Bleak shadows of reality darken a shared boyhood innocence in Oscar contender

It’s impossible to discuss Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s Close in depth without revealing too much of the plot, but the film is notable for extraordinary performances from its two central characters
  • John Maguire
  • March 2, 2023
Interview

‘Irish is a living, active language and we’re part of that’– An Cailín Ciúin director Colm Bairéad

The writer and director of The Quiet Girl, the first Irish-language film ever to receive an Oscar nod, may have been rubbing shoulders with Hollywood’s elite but his feet are firmly on the ground in Ireland
  • John Maguire
  • February 24, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire on film: Bear with it, tale of a drugged-up animal is based on a true story

Cocaine Bear is a gory horror movie that is by turns funny, violent, stupid and entertaining, plus it has Wicklow standing in for America’s Deep South
  • John Maguire
  • February 22, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Little to marvel over in latest wannabe blockbuster

The third film in the Ant-Man trilogy from director Peyton Reed demands nothing from the accomplished cast other than size mutability and a talent for staring at green screens
  • John Maguire
  • February 16, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Inspiring tale of women working together to escape abuse

  • John Maguire
  • February 10, 2023
The Profile

For your consideration: Andrea Riseborough, the Oscar nomination and the backlash

The British actress has found herself at the centre of a controversy over how she secured a shock spot on the shortlist for best actress at this year’s Academy Awards
  • John Maguire
  • February 3, 2023
Film & Television

Film review: The Whale flounders in its muddled journey from stage to the screen

Darren Aronofsky’s maudlin reworking of Samuel Hunter’s play fails to live up to Brendan Fraser’s Oscar-nominated performance in this intensely claustrophobic space
  • John Maguire
  • February 2, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Spielberg’s own coming-of-age story writ large on the big screen

Introspective semi-autobiography The Fabelmans takes the audience on an insightful but painful trip down the director’s memory lane
  • John Maguire
  • January 28, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Exhausting, over-the-top Hollywood blowout bedazzles and bores by turns

Damien Chazelle’s Babylon mash up follows imagined and real-life figures of the 1920s as they try to negotiate the film industry’s transition from silent films to sound
  • John Maguire
  • January 17, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Cate Blanchett elevates Tár in a blistering portrait of power and celebrity

Todd Field’s captivating and complex thriller demands that the viewer pay close attention, but the reward is well worth the effort
  • John Maguire
  • January 13, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Occult Poe murder mystery loses heart and pace as the grim story unfolds

Scott Cooper reimagines real-life historical figure Edgar Allan Poe as an unofficial recruit to help solve gruesome killings at a military academy in this Gothic detective thriller
  • John Maguire
  • January 7, 2023
Film

The fable master: Spielberg goes back to the source to reveal the inspiration behind the movies

The most successful movie director of all time, Steven Spielberg’s latest movie The Fabelmans is a biopic of sorts which details the pain of his parents’ divorce and how it informed a lot of his work
  • John Maguire
  • December 23, 2022
Film

OTT action, grá and grief: 2022’s most memorable movies

While lasting pandemic habits have many punters choosing home streaming over physical cinemas, movie theatres still served as a welcome escape
  • John Maguire
  • December 23, 2022
Film & Television

Beautiful but bloated Avatar sequel drowning in empty mythology

It’s been 13 years since Avatar broke box office records, and with cinema audiences down and Marvel movies dominating the landscape, director James Cameron has his work cut out if The Way of Water is to recoup its huge production budget
  • John Maguire
  • December 15, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire: A sinister ‘Mary Poppins’ comes visiting in disturbing folk horror tale

A wealthy woman who seemingly has it all collapses with a mysterious illness in an intriguing, metaphoric story of the first world’s exploitation of developing nations
  • John Maguire
  • December 8, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire on film: Glass Onion is funnier but not as satifying to unpeel as the original whodunit

Bond star Daniel Craig is back as the 'world’s greatest detective’ in a follow-up to 2019’s surprise murder mystery hit, Knives Out
  • John Maguire
  • December 2, 2022

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