HeyJaredJames Phelan
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At The Movies: Verity plays with audience's sense of belief - Whatson - Waterford News & Star (opens the original)
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If I have a favourite way for a film to start, it’s probably the summoning of a usually poor, somewhat desperate main character to an affluent house to be hired on some seemingly innocuous assignment. It’s the stock in trade of thrillers especially. Everything from ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ to the recent ‘The Housemaid’ has some variation on this scene. ‘Verity’ shakes the formula up a little as we first meet struggling novelist Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) invited to a mysterious mee
At the Movies with James Phelan: A fresh take on the enduring zombie genre - Whatson - Waterford News & Star (opens the original)
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Raised expectations are tough to deal with. The previous film from writer/director Zack Cregger was ‘Weapons’ and it was easily my favourite film of last year. Quite the feat as I grow increasingly averse to explicit horror the older I get. Yet ‘Weapons’ was something else and considerably more than straight horror with its puzzle box structure, shifting perspectives and ability to generate humour in some truly dark freaky places. Boasting a deserved Oscar-winning turn from Amy Madigan as the mo
At the Movies with James Phelan: Pressure - Whatson - Waterford News & Star (opens the original)
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Growing up in a farming household, there was a ceaseless, almost obsessive interest in the weather forecast. The forecast may have come after the news but for my parents the weather often was the news. Irish outdoor event organisers can live or die by the forecast too. But what if actual lives and the future of Europe and by extension the entire world hung on the predicted weather for one era-defining day? That’s the incredibly pressurised crucible that Scottish chief meteorologist James Stagg (
At the Movies with James Phelan: The death of Robin Hood - Whatson - Waterford News & Star (opens the original)
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Banish any thoughts you might have of Robin Hoods past. Forget everything from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner. Let go of notions of a sun-dappled Sherwood Forest and merry men. Cast aside even earlier cinematic attempts to deliver a grittier version of the archer, like Ridley Scott’s 2010 take. Because this boundlessly bleak film is intent on burying the legend. Beneath layers of grief and guilt so deep that even the inherent entertainment value of the piece is nearly extinguished. The flame of in
At the Movies: The fault lies mainly in the over familiarity of the subject matter - Whatson - Waterford News & Star (opens the original)
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Was it Oscar Wilde who said, ‘I can tolerate anything but boredom’ ? It sounds like something he would say and if he never said it – I’m saying it now. And sadly, I’m saying it in relation to this pallid post-apocalyptic effort from veteran director Ridley Scott. For me the fault lies mainly in the over familiarity of the subject matter. We’ve simply been here too many times before, and too recently. Seeing a world thinned out in the aftermath of a virus (or an equally cataclysmic event) has bee
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