Dir: Kathryn Bigelow US 2009 132 minutes Cert: 15A
With a visual and emotional intensity that makes audiences feel like they have been transported to Iraq’s dizzying, 24-hour turmoil, The Hurt Locker is both a gripping portrayal of real-life sacrifice and heroism, and a layered, probing study of the soul-numbing rigours and potent allure of the [...]

Dir: Jon Amiel GB 2009 108 minutes Cert: PG
A world-renowned scientist, and a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death, Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) is torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place. He finds
himself caught in a battle [...]

Dir: Louie Psihoyos US 2009 91 minutes Cert: PG
The Cove is an astounding piece of investigative journalism presented in the style of a spine tingling thriller. A covert team led by Louie Psihoyos, leader of the Ocean Preservation Society, and Richard O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer turned animal rights
activist, have produced an impeccably crafted exposé [...]

Dir: Lone Scherfig UK 2009 100 minutes Cert: 15A
In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man. Adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber’s memoir, An Education is a charming coming-of-age tale powered [...]

Director: Steven Soderbergh US 109 minutes Cert: 15A
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant ADM, Whitacre (Matt Damon) suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s price-fixing scam his ever-changing account frustrates the FBI investigation and threatens to undermine the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible
to decipher what [...]

Dir: Rémi Bezançon France 2008 113 minutes Cert: 16
Though this French-language family drama takes place over the course of five years, the filmmakers have chosen to focus on five essential days in the lives of Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval, and their children Albert, Raphael and Fleur. Brilliantly directed, impeccably acted drama with a script that’s [...]

Dir: Ramin Bahrani USA 2008 92 minutes Cert: 15A
Solo (Souléymane Sy Savané), a Senegalese taxi driver living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina believes that everyone should be concerned with one another, a view not shared by the majority of North Americans. He decides to befriend a despondent 70
year old Southerner named William (Red West), in the [...]

This year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival will run from the 18th to the 28th of February. JDIFF in association with access CINEMA are bringing a film from the festival on a brief tour outside of the Pale. We have been chosen as one of the venues and there’s also a strong possibility of a [...]

Dir: Cary Fukunaga Mexico 2009 95 minutes Cert: 15A
Sin Nombre tells the story of Sayra, a teenager living in Honduras hungering for a brighter future in the USA. On her journey north through the Mexican countryside she allies herself with Casper, a teenage gang member, looking for a way out. Part harrowing immigration tale, part [...]

Dir: Ursula Meier France 2008 97 minutes Cert: wffa
A French family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a motorway is opened right next to their isolated property. As the sounds and fumes of the modern world begin to fill their home, each member of the family (including Isabelle Huppert and Oliver Gourmet) finds themselves pushed to [...]

Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy Germany, Kazakhstan 2008 103 minutes Cert: 12A
A young man returns from military service to fulfil his dream of finding a wife and to own his own flock of sheep. Acclaimed documentary maker Sergey Dvortsevoy’s debut feature film is a work of extraordinary filmmaking bravado, an exhilaratingly alive and sweet-natured fairytale set in [...]

Dir: Yojiro Takita Japan 2008 130 minutes Cert: wffa
The surprise winner of the 2009 Oscar for Best Foreign Film,Departures tells the touching story of a concert cellist who undergoes a transformation following the death of his father and the dissolution of his Tokyo orchestra. After moving back to his hometown he finds work with an [...]