Cian McGrath

1 week ago | indiependent.co.uk | Cian McGrath

The senses are everything in Luca Guadagnino’s romantic drama I Am Love. This film is at its best when it enters purely dreamlike territory, in which protagonist Emma Recchi (Tilda Swinton) has her world upended in favour of a lush, evocative landscape of shifting images.

1 week ago | framerated.co.uk | Cian McGrath

Experiencing déjà vu or the Mandela Effect is a borderline hallucinatory experience, where the hard edges of the fact-based reality that encircles us in every waking moment blur to a fuzzy line. The distant horizon of all that we take for granted in our awareness of this world isn’t just suddenly drawn into focus, it becomes a vanishing point upon doing so. This is exactly what afflicts Maria (Siena Kelly), the protagonist of Black Mirror’s second episode in its seventh season, “Bête Noire”.

1 week ago | medium.com | Cian McGrath

Television Review | NetflixConfectionary whizz kid Maria is unnerved when her former schoolmate Verity joins the company she works at… because there’s something altogether odd about Verity, that only Maria seems to notice. Experiencing déjà vu or the Mandela Effect is a borderline hallucinatory experience, where the hard edges of the fact-based reality that encircles us in every waking moment blur to a fuzzy line.

2 weeks ago | framerated.co.uk | Cian McGrath

Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes, Jules Dassin’s most celebrated and well-known film, was a French production from an American director who would end up pursuing his filmmaking career in both countries, before going on to live and work in Greece. His first move, from the US to France, was not strictly by choice. A victim of the Hollywood Blacklist, Dassin first fled to the UK so that he could complete one last film shoot for the American studio system, before being left without work.

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Cian McGrath

Retrospective Film ReviewFour men plan the perfect crime, but the human element gets in the way…Rififi / Du rififi chez les hommes, Jules Dassin’s most celebrated and well-known film, was a French production from an American director who would end up pursuing his filmmaking career in both countries, before going on to live and work in Greece. His first move, from the US to France, was not strictly by choice.