Dublin slacker movie keeps you entertained

Film: Get Up & Go. Directed by Brendan Grant. Nationwide, cert 15A. Rating: ***. Reviewed by Nadine O’Regan.

Killian Scott and Peter Coonan
Killian Scott and Peter Coonan

One of the great pleasures of homemade cinema is getting the opportunity to watch our own towns, cities and countryside landscapes up there on the big screen. No one understands this better than Brendan Grant, director of Get Up & Go, a new Irish slacker comedy that leaps with almost comic gusto from Dublin venue to venue, lovingly lingering its lens on Temple Bar, the Fumbally café, the docklands, city ...