Movie Review: Haywire

It is an odd sight to see a woman bound across roof tops, having scaled up the stairs of Wynn’s Hotel on Lower Abbey Street, Dublin. Things become more surreal when her pursuers are heavily armed and in riot gear with the Garda logo emblazoned on the back. Our heroine soon finds her way to Dublin port and puts an eventful overnight trip to Ireland behind her. The previous night, she was escorted by a suited Michael Fassbender to Russborough House out in Wicklow, and on retiring to the Shelbourne Hotel their date turns sour and sets in train a tense morning and eventful departure from our shores. That a significant part of ‘Haywire’ was set, and more significantly shot, in Dublin was a surprise but a happy one for this reviewer. The city looks great, modern if a bit littered, European, cast in blue hues as is director Steven … There’s more

Coming Soon: Movie Fest

The gang behind the awesome Movies.ie are bringing a little bit of Comic Con to Dublin the form of the upcoming Movie Fest. If you’re a film buff, you should probably start getting excited right about now. If you’re everybody else, you should just be glad that people are still working to make cool new things happen despite our pervading national gloom. High five to the innovators. Happening at Cineworld next weekend (August 13th /14th) “The event will showcase, for the general public, exclusive footage from upcoming Hollywood blockbusters along with previews of Hollywood films not due for release until late 2011. Day tickets are available for purchase for the event, and each day will include two high-profile feature film previews along with presentations from all major Hollywood studios. These presentations will feature a huge selection of extensive never-before-seen footage and trailers from some of the most highly anticipated films … There’s more