Category: Reviews

Responsible parenthood or just a flight of fancy? Few things have caught the online Catholic imagination so much in recent weeks as Pope Francis’ in-flight comment that it is unnecessary to be “like rabbits” in order to be good Catholics, and that “responsible parenthood” is paramount.  Damian Thompson points out in The Spectator that “journalists…

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The team behind Frozen and Wreck It Ralph, two of the most successful Disney films of recent years, have now made Big Hero 6(PG), a comedy adventure that chronicles a quirky relationship that develops between a huge inflatable robot, Baymax, and a child prodigy, Hiro Hamada, when they team up with a group of friends to become…

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Last week felt like ‘Same-Sex Marriage Week’. Monday evening saw the start of a new series on RTÉ 1, Claire Byrne Live. I thought it was rather bizarre to start the show with Colin Farrell making the case for same-sex marriage. He was obviously sincere, but ‘Hollywood star favours gay marriage’ sounds more like a…

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In its coolness, its stylishness, its ponderous sense of menace, this is as good as anything we ‘oohed’ and ‘aahed’ about in The Godather trilogy all those years ago. Set in 1981, it’s basically the story of two men chasing the American dream. The camel-coated Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) has risen up high in the…

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Having lost some of its programmes to UTV Ireland, TV3 had to fight back with some stronger programming and the twice-weekly drama Red Rock was flagged as its foray into original soaps. Describing it as a soap actually does it something of an injustice, as it’s better than that. The atmospheric visuals immediately put it…

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