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Mar

The 2014 Spooools! Our Oscar-alternative awards…

Categories: Features

Tags: Amy Adams, awards, Chris Pratt, James Franco, Jared Leto, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Lake Bell, Only God Forgives, Shane Carruth, Shia LaBeouf, Spike Jonze, spooools, Steve Coogan

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by Starsky & Hutch

Put your tuxedo on, our annual anti-Oscars are revealed! Contributions to Madness, Facial Hair, Posters and Trailers all being rewarded. Also includes the awarding of Spooool.ie's much-coveted MAN and WOMAN of the year! Read more

Dec

Páraic’s top 10 films from 2013

Categories: Best ofs

Tags: Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Blue Jasmine, Captain Phillips, Django Unchained, Frances Ha, Only God Forgives, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Selfish Giant, The Way Way Back, Upstream Colour

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by Páraic

Páraic shares his personal favourites from the year just gone. Read more

Dec

“Don’t hate me cos I’m beautiful” – An alternative end-of-year honours from David Turpin

Categories: Best ofs

Tags: Behind the Candelabra, David Turpin, Lee Daniels, Nicole Kidman, Only God Forgives, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, The Great Gatsby, The Paperboy

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by Guest Contributor

Contributor David Turpin goes through some of high points from this year's slate of films, with a particular focus on Lee Daniels' much-maligned The Paperboy. Read more

Aug

Sentimental and Perverse: Growing up Disney

Categories: Writer In Residence

Tags: Angelica Huston, Bambi, Cinderella, David Turpin, Disney, Dumbo, Kristin Scott Thomas, Only God Forgives, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Witches

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by David Turpin

David's latest Writer in Residence piece sees him looking at the evolution and impact of early Disney motion pictures on his own work. This is #3 in the series will see a different film contributor come on board every three months. Read more

Aug

Only God Forgives

Categories: In Cinemas

Tags: Drive, Kristen Scott Thomas, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling

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by Páraic

Act without words - ★★★★ Read more

Jun

Spooool.ie Podcast #7 – Best and Worst of 2013 (so far), Superman, World War Z, A Field in England coming on all formats & The Cornetto Trilogy concludes!

Categories: Podcasts

Tags: A Field In England, After Earth, Before Midnight, Ben Wheatley, Byzantium, Citadel, Die Hard, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead, Frances Ha, Good Vibrations, Greta Gerwig, King of the Travellers, Man of Steel, Mud, Noah Baumbach, Only God Forgives, podcasts, Simon Killer, The Bling Ring, The East, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Purge, This Is the End, World War Z

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by Starsky & Hutch

The Cornetto trilogy reaches its conclusion this month with The World's End...

May

Five things we learned this week – May 24th 2013

Categories: TAKE TWO

Tags: Brian Boru, Cannes, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lawrence, Last Days on Mars, Mark Mahon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Ruairi Robinson, Ryan Gosling, Steven Soderbergh, TV, X-Men: Days of Future Past

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by Nigel

Irish hopes at Cannes, Only God Forgives divides audiences and a Brian Boru film is on the way... Read more

Apr

Five things we learned this week – April 19th 2013

Categories: TAKE TWO

Tags: Cannes, Dublin, IFI, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling, Shane Meadows, Superman, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, Zack Snyder

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by Páraic

Michael Shannon sells out, dancey films in Dublin and Only God Forgives is set for Cannes 2013. Read more

Apr

The 13 films playing Cannes 2013 that we should care about

Categories: Features

Tags: Alexander Payne, All Is Lost, As I Lay Dying, Asghar Farhadi, Behind the Candelabra, Bérénice Bejo, Bling Ring, Bruce Dern, Bruno Ganz, Cannes, emma watson, festivals, Forest Whitaker, Inside Llewyn Davis, J. C. Chandor, James Franco, James Gray, Jeremy Renner, Jérôme Salle, Joaquin Phoenix, Le Passé, Mads Mikkelsen, Marion Cotillard, Michael Kohlhaas, Nebraska, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Orlando Bloom, Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Soderbergh, Tahar Rahim, The Immigrant, The Past, Venus in Fur, Weekend of a Champion, Will Forte, Zulu

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by Nigel

New work from Alexander Payne, the Coen brothers, J.C. Chandor, James Franco, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola has us excited. Let's hope most of them make it over to Ireland before 2014... Read more

Apr

Five things we learned this week – April 5th 2013

Categories: News

Tags: Broadway, film critics, Good Vibrations, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oblivion, Only God Forgives, Roger Ebert, Ryan Gosling, Terri Hooley, theatre, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks

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by Páraic

We run through some of the stories from the week that just was including the premature passing of esteemed film critic Roger Ebert and more new Gosling. Read more

Jan

“Time to meet the devil” – how to follow up a hit like Drive…

Categories: News

Tags: Cannes, Drive, Kristen Scott Thomas, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling, Thailand

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by Nigel

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling team up again for "Only God Forgives". Check out the first clip and read the summary... Read more

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The 2014 Spooools! Our Oscar-alternative awards…

Páraic’s top 10 films from 2013

“Don’t hate me cos I’m beautiful” – An alternative end-of-year honours from David Turpin

Sentimental and Perverse: Growing up Disney

Only God Forgives

Spooool.ie Podcast #7 – Best and Worst of 2013 (so far), Superman, World War Z, A Field in England coming on all formats & The Cornetto Trilogy concludes!

Five things we learned this week – May 24th 2013

Five things we learned this week – April 19th 2013

The 13 films playing Cannes 2013 that we should care about

Five things we learned this week – April 5th 2013

“Time to meet the devil” – how to follow up a hit like Drive…

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