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TAKE TWO: Captain America Civil War, Christ at the Light House and JLAW the...
1) Captain America Civil War Trailer drops The first trailer for the next Marvel instalment has landed and it’s a doozy. Here we see a Superhero registration protocol being introduced which ultimately...
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New Room trailer, IFI Kinopolis 2015, Irish films at Sundance 2016 & more
1) Lenny Abrahamson’s Room has a new UK Trailer Anticipation is really starting to build for Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film Room, with Brie Larson hotly tipped for an Oscar come February. Below is the...
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TAKE TWO: No Hateful Eight for Cineworld, Golden Globes, Bayhem and more…
1) No Hateful 8 for Cineworld So Cineworld have gotten their knickers in a twist and thrown their toys out of the pram as Odeon got the exclusive West End rights to show the film in super-duper 70mm...
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TAKE TWO: Irish to takeover the Oscars, RIP Alan Rickman & David Bowie
1) Oscars – The Irish Are Coming We here at Spooool are big Oscars fans and what will make this year even more special is the fact that so much Irish talent is represented at this years awards. The...
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TAKE TWO: Sacha Baron Cohen as Grimsby, Rebecca Daly’s “Mammal” and more…
1) Grimsby first look Sacha Baron Cohen has a new filmic endeavour by the name of Grimsby. It’s an action comedy taking the piss out off Spy movies. It also stars Mark Strong and no doubt has plenty to...
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TAKE TWO: Trailer Madness
A trailer heavy Take Two this week as the super month of January is over here are some the films you can “look forward” to over the next year. 1) The Truth Commissioner gets a trailer Norn Iron is the...
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TAKE TWO: ADIFF 2016 Special
So the Audi Dublin International Film Festival got underway last night with their Gala Screening of Sing Street. The film is released nationwide on St. Patrick’s Day and we’ll have the review closer to...
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TAKE TWO: ADIFF Photography, “The Light Between Oceans”, “Green Room” gets...
1) ADIFF Photography Exhibition of Patrick Redmond The Audi Dublin International Film Festival is celebrating the work of their festival photographer, Patrick Redmond. Patrick Redmond, 25 Years / A...
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TAKE TWO: George Kennedy RIP, Ali G @ the Oscars, new Ghostbusters trailer &...
1) George Kennedy RIP While there have been a lot of high profile deaths in the last few months there was something about hearing of George Kennedy’s passing that made me quite sad. He was the larger...
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TAKE TWO: #OscarsSoWhite, The Survivalist trailer & more
1) #OscarsSoWhite The backlash against the Oscar nominations really kicked into gear this week with many famous black celebrities announcing that they will be boycotting the awards show. Spike Lee...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – November 7th 2014
1. Web Summit 2014. Done and dusted 2. 59th Cork Film Festival gets underway 3. Star Wars VII gets a title – ‘The Force Awakens’ 4. Tarkovsky films for free on Open Culture 5. Spacey is Nixon (oh and...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – November 14th 2014
1) Lenny Abrahamson’s latest, Room starts shooting. 2) Tarantino to retire after 10 films. Or so he says. 3) Evil Dead TV Series coming our way 4) Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings get a new...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – November 21st 2014
1) Mike Nichols R.I.P 2) Paul Greengrass for new 1984 film 3) The Gleeson brothers get all musical for Squarehead 4) Irish Film Festival London 2014 Continues 5) Ewan McGregor-starring Son of a Gun...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – November 28th 2014
1. Stephen King’s The Stand is up and running. 2. Jurassic World Trailer arrives 3. Smithfield’s Light House announces their Festive Films 4. Sequels Galore. Still. 5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – December 5th 2014
1) Spectre is Bond #24 2) Terminator Genisys trailer arrives 3) While We’re Young Trailer 4) Glassland for Sundance 5) Galway is a UNESCO city of film The post Five Things We Learned This Week –...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – December 12th 2014
1) Brooklyn is off to Sundance 2) Zemeckis’ The Walk trailer is here! 3) Pixar is back with Inside Out 4) Tom Hardy is MAD MAX 5) Kingsman: The Secret Service trailer The post Five Things We Learned...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – January 9th 2015
1) Ant-Man Trailer Lands 2) The Golden Globes are on Sunday 3) Jameson First Shot 4) The Lazarus Effect Trailer 5) The Internet’s thoughts on The Shining The post Five Things We Learned This Week –...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – January 16th 2015
1) Oscar Nominations Announced 2) New Light House Cinema Membership Cards announced 3) Razzie Nominations Announced 4) Pitt + Bale + Gosling = The Big Short 5) Spy Red Band trailer lands The post Five...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – January 23rd 2015
1) Cool Wes Anderson Posters 2) Simon Pegg co-writing Star Trek 3 3) It Follows has a new trailer 4) Digital Biscuit 2015 coming soon 5) Sundance gets underway The post Five Things We Learned This Week...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – January 30th 2015
1) GENE HACKMAN IS NOT DEAD 2) Reading Pictures at the IFI 3) Ghostbusters 3 gets a cast 4) Ted 2 Trailer 5) Super Bowl Sunday Spots online The post Five Things We Learned This Week – January 30th 2015...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – February 6th 2015
1) PLASTIK 2015 is coming 2) Furious 7 Trailer 3) McKellen’s Mr. Holmes clip 4) The Breakfast Club turns 30 5) Honest Trailers: The Lego Movie The post Five Things We Learned This Week – February 6th...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – February 13th 2015
1) Straight Outta Compton Trailer 2) James Bond – Spectre First Look 3) Moe Dunford is a shooting star 4) Russell Crowe for JDIFF 5) Jim Jarmusch podcast The post Five Things We Learned This Week –...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – February 27th 2015
1) JDIFF 2015 Programme Launches 2) Michael Keaton’s oscars gaffe 3) While We’re Young new trailer 4) Love and Mercy Teaser trailer 5) Spongebob Squarepants as Gaeilge The post Five Things We Learned...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – March 13th 2015
1) Star Wars: Rogue One and Episode VIII 2) Cobain: Montage of Heck 3) The Magnificent Seven is to be remade 4) Jack Reynor added to The Jungle Book 5) The Critical Take at the IFI The post Five Things...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – March 20th 2015
1) Pixels trailer lands 2) Masterpieces of Polish Cinema at Light House Cinema 3) Scarface remake looks likely 4) Fraggle 3rd Rock 5) Snowden gets the Oliver Stone Treatment The post Five Things We...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – March 27th 2015
1) Ruairí Robinson’s The Leviathan gets a major boost 2) Moomins on The Riviera Trailer 3) Terminator Genisys Moving Poster 4) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Trailer 5) Cannes 2015 Film Festival...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – April 17th 2015
1) New STAR WARS Trailer 2) IFI Spotlight 2015 3) Cannes Line Up Announced 4) Mad Max 1 & 2 party at the Light House Cinema 5) Suffragette Teaser – Voting Matters The post Five Things We Learned...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – April 24th 2015
1) The latest Jurassic World Trailer 2) Mr. Holmes gets a proper trailer 3) Experimental Film Society Video On Demand 4) M. Night Shyamalan pays a Visit 5) Tomorrowland new trailer The post Five Things...
View ArticleFive Things We Learned This Week – May 1st 2015
1) Stan Lee Cameo School 2) Legend trailer drops 3) IFTA Nominations 4) Bill Murray Season at the Light House Cinema, Smithfield 5) Berlin win for Irish film Lost in the Living The post Five Things We...
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TAKE TWO: Lethal Weapon, Magic Mike XXL, New Louis CK project, John Wick 2 &...
Páraic’s weekly look at film stories worth a second look… 1) The next Jameson Cult Film Screening is Lethal Weapon The Jameson Cult Film Club is returning for a double screening of the 1987 action...
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TAKE TWO: Amy Winehouse, Pan @ Bloom, The Gallows, IFTAs
1) New Trailer for The Gallows The Gallows has its first feature trailer and it looks like the definition of a generic found footage teen horror. Add an awful cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” over...
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TAKE TWO: Point Break remake trailer & New Fassbender Macbeth clips
1) The Lady in the Van – Behind the Scenes The trailer for this new film from Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett dropped a few months back, but now comes a fresh look behind the scenes feature...
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TAKE TWO: IFI Open Day, Galway Film Fleadh 2015, Wes Anderson’s The Shining &...
1) Wes Anderson’s The Shining Steve Ramsden has put together this super mash up of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining with some damn good results. Check it out....
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TAKE TWO: RIP Christopher Lee, Punk on Film coming to Cork & more
1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 trailer Hitting cinemas on the 19th of November is the final instalment in The Hunger Games franchise. The latest trailer seems as if it’ll be more of the same,...
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TAKE TWO: Brown Bag @ Galway Fleadh, Kubrick Posters and more
1) Brown Bag Shorts To Screen at Galway Film Fleadh Now we are of course talking about film shorts and not the Bermuda type items of clothing. Although perhaps the weather will be nice and you’ll get...
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TAKE TWO: Fleadh programme launches, Light House launches “Films You’d Love...
1) Galway Film Fleadh 2015 Programme Launches One of Spooool’s favourite times of the year is getting ever closer and the Galway Film Fleadh has only gone and released its fantastic programme. Head on...
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TAKE TWO: Fassbender as Steve Jobs, Ghostbuster suits and The Wicker Man 3 is...
1) Steve Jobs Trailer Online This will be hitting our screens come November 13th and with Danny Boyle behind the camera, Michael Fassbender in front of it and Aaron Sorkin penning the story it has all...
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TAKE TWO: New Jimmy Bond trailer, BBC’s 100 greatest films, A Doctor’s Sword
1) New James Bond film Spectre gets full trailer Perhaps the last outing of Daniel Craig as Bond and one would imagine Sam Mendes as director – unless of course Spectre makes a trillion dollars and...
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TAKE TWO: Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger, Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki & more
1) Black Mass New Trailer Johnny Depp plays Whitey Bulger in this latest true life story about one of America’s most notorious gangsters. It seems like it’ll be a standard affair with the usual macho...
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TAKE TWO: The Great Wall @IFI, Todd Haynes’ Carol trailer
1) Scout’s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse What is going to keep this apart from another brainless, (ha get it?) zombie movie is that it stars Tye Sheridan. We should get to see it this November....
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TAKE TWO: Colm Meaney as Martin McGuinness? IFI Critical Take! Arcade Fire...
1) Nigel @ IFI Critical Take: Cinema of Protest Come along to the Irish Film Institute this Monday at 6:30pm to see Nigel as one of the three panellists discussing protest movies. Superfans amongst you...
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TAKE TWO: Wes Craven R.I.P., An Klondike comes to TG4, Fingal Film Festival &...
1) Fingal Film Festival Taking place in Swords, Co. Dublin over the weekend of the 25th of September is the 4th Fingal Film Festival. Having launched in 2012 it’s gone from strength to strength...
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TAKE TWO: Sam Smith’s Bond theme, “Room” Trailer
1) “Hell’s Club” Video MashUp Antonio Maria Da Silva placed this fantastic mash up on his channel on youtube last week. It’s a doozy and must have taken weeks to make it look so effortless. Sit back...
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TAKE TWO: IFI Documentary Festival, Jurassic World’s mistakes & more
1) Jurassic World has Most Movie Mistakes 2015 The folks over at Moviemistakes.com have hailed Jurassic World as the film from 2015 that contains the most mistakes. They range from a taser-rifle...
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TAKE TWO: The Lobster set for Kerry premiere, new trailer for The Revenant,...
1) The Lobster for Kerry Now being a fine county for all things fishy we are not talking about how Kerry has some of the best lobster in the country but the fact that the Kerry Film Festival has...
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TAKE TWO: Hollywood Solves Sexism, IFI Horrorthon, Jennifer Lawrence’s pay...
1) Hollywood Solves Sexism Alison and Gaby of “Just Between Us” YouTube channel fame have done a video entitled “Hollywood Solves Sexism” and it’s well worth a gander. In conjunction with Field Day,...
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TAKE TWO: Chris Rock for the Oscars, Jameson Cult Film Club to show...
1) Chris Rock to host 2016 Oscars Eleven years is obviously the right amount of time needed for the proverbial water to pass under the bridge and allow Chris Rock to once again host the Oscars. Yes, it...
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TAKE TWO: R.I.P Philip French & Maureen O’Hara
1) Philip French R.I.P While having lived to a good age of 82 years old it always seems a pity when someone passes away so close after retirement. Philip French had retired at the age of 80 having been...
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TAKE TWO: Zoolander 2, Irish Film Festival London, Dublin Arabic Film...
1) Dublin Arabic Film Festival at the IFI Director Jim Sheridan is back for a second year with the Dublin Arabic Film Festival. This time around he has teamed up with the IFI to showcase a wide range...
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TAKE TWO: Gosling on for Blade Runner II, Shia LaBeouf aftermath & more
1) The Gos for Blade Runner 2 So not only has Ryan Gosling confirmed he will star in Blade Runner 2 alongside Harrison Ford but Ridley Scott has announced what the opening scene will be. The dudes over...
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