Articles in Irish Movie Reviews
Boy Eats Girl (2005) Movie Review
The biggest problem (and it’s a fixable one at that) with Stephen Bradley’s zombie horror/comedy “Boy Eats Girl” is that it’s too short. As in, clocking in at 70 minutes of actual movie short. As in, “Why is it only 70 minutes long?” short. This film is too short, and it’s hard to fathom why, [...]
January 23rd, 2006 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDead Meat (2004) Movie Review
Zombie films from countries not called “America” are rare, but all that seemed to change when the Japanese, following in the footsteps of the Italians from two decades ago, decided to give undead cinema a try. Alas, after a short spurt of low-budget offerings like “Junk”, “Wild Zero”, and “Stacy”, Japan seems to have lost [...]
May 24th, 2005 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreIn America (2003) Movie Review
Irish writer/director Jim Sheridan’s “In America” is about a family haunted by a tragedy that seeks an unfamiliar environment with which to get lost in. As it so happens, Sheridan and his two daughters (Naomi and Kirsten, the co-writers) had actually moved to New York in real life once, and the movie is based on [...]
March 11th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreOrdinary Decent Criminal (2000) Movie Review
Michael Lynch, the ordinary decent criminal of the title, is an ordinary Irish fellow who happens to make a living as a professional bank (and whatever else you got) robber. He has a big household, is married to the beautiful Christine, and is also sleeping with Christine’s sister, Lisa, out in the open. The two [...]
February 18th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More













