John Maguire

EAST ASIA FILM FESTIVAL IRELAND Welcome to the 8TH EAST ASIA FILM FESTIVAL IRELAND 2024

Thrilled to be introducing the Irish premiere of the 4K restoration of John Woo's The Killer, a formative film for me and a guaranteed good time at the pictures, as part of the East Asia Film Festival on Thursday 19th, 20.45, at the IFI. Full programme here: www.eaffi.ie

From today's Popbitch: 2,000 "influencers" paid to puff Wuthering Heights.

I'll be taking look at the week's new cinema on RTÉ Radio 1's Arena with @rickoshea.bsky.social after 7, including Filho's mesmerising The Secret Agent and Rose Byrne's frantic and fretful If I Had Legs. Do tune in!

I'd say he's sweating now

From today's Popbitch: 2,000 "influencers" paid to puff Wuthering Heights.

I'd say he's sweating now

You mean it was a scam?! I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

🇵🇸 🇩🇪 Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania refused to accept the “Most Valuable Film” award for her documentary The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin on February 16. The ceremony at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon Kempinski was attended by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey. The gala also honored former Israeli general Noam Tibon. Ben Hania left her trophy behind in protest against the event providing “political cover” for genocide by “reframing mass civilian killing as self-defense” and “denigrating protesters.” “Peace is not a perfume sprayed over violence, so power can feel refined, and can feel comfortable. And cinema is not image-laundering,” she said.” “The Israeli army killed Hind Rajab; killed her family; killed the two paramedics who came to save her, with the complicity of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions…I refuse to let their deaths become a backdrop for a polite speech about peace.” She said she would return to accept the award when peace is “rooted in accountability for genocide.”

🇵🇸 🇩🇪 Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania refused to accept the “Most Valuable Film” award for her doc. The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin on Feb. 16.

The ceremony at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon Kempinski was attended by fmr. U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton & actor Kevin...

no use crying...

Joseph Strick's 1967 film adaptation was banned though, and not screened for 31 years.

in all of us

Lisa the shurrup dog is long dead

YouTube video by Headline USA Jesse Jackson 'I Am Somebody' on Sesame Street

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So many phenomenal performances. The obvious classics aside, I love The Apostle.

No more Duvall. And worse, no more Duvall films.

Ask Duncan himself @manmademoon.bsky.social - he's posted about a few test screenings, so its coming soon. As an RT fan, can't wait to see it.

Shouldn't that be "far-right about everything"?

Skin of your teeth lads #IREITA

Ireland in big, big trouble here #IREITA

Watching the Olympic Giant Slalom and remembering the time I went skiing in Switzerland and slipped getting off the bus to the hotel, twisting my knee, and that was that

Thats more snarc than arc Gerry

it's not not raining but it's not raining raining

You know the way I slide down the mountain on a tea tray? What if you lay down and I lay on top of you and we slid down the mountain together?

Just saw a duck carrying an umbrella

Nowhere to moor the rowboat outside the school today and talk about propeller wash! Sort it out, Dublin Corporation.

Experiments conducted with the clock on my oven are producing fascinating results - and raising questions about the nature of casseroles.

Ruin a film by changing one letter:

Se6en

Forget doors, this should set alarm bells ringing

Heavily invested in the resignation of a chap I only discovered existed a week ago