Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods

Review by Gabe Gurule Inside Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods (Dir. David Sandberg), there is a good movie.  The movie follows a family of adopted foster children, who when they utter Shazam!, are transformed into superheroes possessing the powers of Greek deities. They have to stop a trio of Greek goddesses who seek to

The Case For Best Picture

With the Oscars coming up soon, everyone has a choice for Best Picture. Our writers are here to tell you what film should win and why. Aftersun Katie McKenna In recent years it seems that films have lost their vulnerability. Following every possible chance for genuine emotion with a joke is a great strategy to

All The Beauty and The Bloodshed

Review by Inés Murray Gómez The Sacklers are the billionaire family behind Purdue Pharma, which has come under fire in the last few decades for their historically predatory marketing of the opioid OxyContin. Activists and experts alike consider that their campaigns led to overprescription which significantly contributed to the opioid crisis that has ruined the

Decision to Leave

Review by James Mahon Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar winning film Parasite (2019) was a landmark event for both South Korean and international cinema in general, disabusing audiences entirely of – as Joon Ho rightly put it – “the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles.” Less than three years later, and once again emerging from the endless pool

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Review by Leah Kelly Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of the most controversial books of the 20th century. Banned in several countries and the subject of a UK trial which allowed the liberalisation of the publishing industry – its publication is an important part of literary history. The plot itself, a Lady falls madly in

Review Writing Workshop in Collaboration with DU Film.

Last term, Trinity Film Review and the DU Film Society ran a review writing workshop. At the end of the workshop, participants were asked to write a short review of Charlotte Wells’ award-winning short film Tuesday (2015). Below are two review from that workshop. Tuesday review by Hana Rae Quinn In Tuesday (2015), director Charlotte

Tár

Review by Cat Earley In the initial run-up to Todd Field’s widely-anticipated new film, a coworker of mine casually asks me:  “Have you seen they’re making a movie about Lydia Tár?”  In the flutter of press surrounding Tár (2022, Todd Field) I don’t believe that this coworker was particularly out of step with the general

The Fabelmans

Review by Luke Bradley In the wake of films like Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018), Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2022), and the recent Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022), an aversion to the “director retells their childhood” subgenre is growing. If ever a director has earned the benefit of the doubt, however, it’s Steven Spielberg. With The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Review by Shahzaib Ali Rian Johnson brings on the sequel to one of the best films of 2019  Knives Out,  Glass Onion –  A Knives Out Mystery (2022). This one follows Daniel Craig’s Detective Beniot Blanc once again as he is thrusted into a new mystery taking place within an isolated island involving a group

Avatar: The Way of the Water

Review by Lila Funge 25 years after Titanic (1997), James Cameron finally returns to the sea for his most recent work Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)…and it is pretty magnificent.  With Cameron inventing new underwater motion capture cameras solely for this project, The Way of Water is unabashedly about its spectacle – not its