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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...
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Five things we learned this week – April 19th 2013
1) The Spy who came in from Smithfield While leafing through The New Yoker, ahem, I came across an intriguing article written by John le Carre about his time getting to know Richard Burton for the...
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Five things we learned this week – April 26th 2013
1) Neil Jordan Retrospective at the IFI Don’t worry he isn’t dead! The IFI has decided to have a complete cinema retrospective of the giant of Irish cinema that is Neil Jordan. Spanning from his debut...
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Five things we learned this week – May 3rd 2013
1) Closing Time for Xtra-vision? We learnt this week that Xtra-vision has gone into receivership. The chain of stores had its trade credit removed, meaning it would have to pay cash for delivery of...
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Five things we learned this week – May 10th 2013
1) Xtra-vision Update Following on from last week’s news that Xtra-vision had gone into receivership, we learned this week that 20 of their shops are to close – 9 in the Republic and 11 in Northern...
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Five things we learned this week – May 17th 2013
1) A poodle under one arm and a two foot salami… Yes it’s John Hughes season at the Lighthouse! It’s a pretty impressive haul; The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pick and Sixteen Candles all making the...
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Five things we learned this week – May 24th 2013
Mr. McGeough is out of the country so Mr. Wheatley has moved into his office for the morning. While P is learning the cost of a paella plate in Barcelona, N learned these five things… 1) Only God...
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Five things we learned this week – May 31st 2013
1) Get your grind on at The Lighthouse! Yes we were happy to learn that the Lighthouse is hosting Grindhouse Dublin a cult movie enthusiasts monthly movie club. It will get proceedings underway with...
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Five things we learned this week – June 7th 2013
1) Burton and Taylor? OK so technically this is going to be a project for TV but so was Behind the Candelabra and we covered that, so allow us for a moment to delve into the murky world of the small...
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Five things we learned this week – June 14th 2013
1) LBGT at the IFI Dublin Pride 2013 starts next Friday and to coincide the IFI is showing not one, but two documentaries. Where I Am tells the harrowing story of Robert Drake’s attack in Sligo which...
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Five things we learned this week – June 21st 2013
1) James Gandolfini R.I.P It was in disbelief that we listened to the reports coming in of James Gandolfini’s sudden death in Italy on Wednesday night. While he made his name and legacy with the...
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Five things we learned this week – June 28th 2013
1) A Field In England The latest film from Nigel’s cousin Ben Wheatley opens on the 5th of July across a multitude of formats – cinema, DVD, television and video on demand. Is it going to be our...
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Five things we learned this week – July 5th 2013
1) IFI Family festival Hurray, it’s one for all the family with four days of films and workshops for children at the IFI this July. Running from the 11th to the 14th it will include a host of films new...
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Five things we learned this week – July 12th 2013
1) James Bond 24 Hurrah! Sam Mendes has signed on to direct the 24th instalment of the the James Bond franchise. We here at Spooool were big fans of his 2012 effort Skyfall, perhaps going so far as to...
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Five things we learned this week – July 19th 2013
1) Star Wars Script? Star Wars has a script! Well probably not but Bad Robot, JJ Abrams’ production company tweeted a picture the other day of a mystery script with red pages. The film is at least...
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Five things we learned this week – July 26th 2013
1) X-Men: Days of Future Past Poster Phew, that’s a mouthful, anyway check out the snazzy new posters for Days of Future Past. They’ve cleverly merged old with new criss-crossing Fassbender with...
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Five things we learned this week – August 2nd 2013
1) Artemis Fowl Film Eoin Colfer’s “Artemis Fowl” book is to get his own big screen movie adaptation. The man with the golden touch Harvey Weinstein is joining forces with Disney having bought the...
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Five things we learned this week – August 9th 2013
1) OneTwoOneTwo That’s right Dublin’s music documentary festival is back! Organisers Cillian McDonnell and Una Mullally along with the Lighthouse Cinema will be showing the best in music documentaries...
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Ten things we learned this week – August 23rd 2013
1) Light House Cinema appears in The Guardian Thankfully not for obstructing freedom of speech or being somehow involved in Operation Yewtree but for being an exceptional cinema. The cinema was...
View ArticleFive things we learned this week – August 30th 2013
1) Trampoline Trampoline, a new, independently produced, Irish feature film which was made for less than €1000, written and directed by Tom Ryan. He studied film in Dublin and Cork before moving to New...
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