19 Feb 2025 Director: Rich Peppiatt Ireland, UK 2024 105 min An Irish rap group rails against British imperialism in Rich Peppiatt’s riotous, unruly comic docudrama Kneecap. An exhilarating origin story for the real-life Belfast-based band combining fact and a liberal helping of fiction, it’s enthusiastically performed by the rappers themselves backed by Irish actors… Continue reading Kneecap
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Slow West
20 Jan 2016 Director: John Maclean UK, New Zealand 2015 84 min The directorial debut of Scottish filmmaker John Maclean is a brazen and pronounced revisionist Western, pivoting around the relationship between the young lovelorn Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and grizzled bounty hunter Silas (Michael Fassbender). Travelling across a barren American frontier wasteland, the duo… Continue reading Slow West