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Declan Burke

Ireland

Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance

Author, editor and journalist, although rarely in that order. Novel: The Lammisters (@NoAlibisPress) “The funniest book of the year." ~ Sunday Independent

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  • 1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke

    ★★★★★ Sometimes the only way home is to simply walk out your front door. (12A) opens with English couple Ray (Gillian Anderson) and Moth Winn (Jason Isaacs) being evicted from their farm, virtually penniless and with nowhere to go.

  • 2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke

    ★★★★☆ (12A) opens in a decidedly gloomy fashion, however: not only is humanity suffering from innumerable wars and widespread famine, it’s also facing the existential threat of a ‘truth-eating parasite AI’, aka ‘the Entity’, that is on the brink of colonising the world’s cyber-structure and unleashing a nuclear holocaust.

  • 3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke

    ★★★★☆Every parent will do whatever it takes to prevent their child from making life-changing mistakes, but Hallow Road (15A) begins with a disaster already in train. When her daughter Alice (Megan McDonnell) rings at two a.m. to tell Maddie (Rosamund Pike) that she has knocked down a young woman on Hallow Road in the remote Ashfolk Forest, Maddie – a paramedic – immediately jumps in the car with Alice’s dad Frank (Matthew Rhys), keeping Alice on the phone so she can administer CPR by proxy.

  • 4 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke

    ★★★★☆ A sport, a way of life, a philosophy for living: surfing lends itself to extravagant myth-making, which (15A) is happy to lean into as the movie opens, with our eponymous hero (played by Nicolas Cage) informing his estranged son (Finn Little) that life’s crucial moments are a lot like encountering a massive wave: ‘You either surf it,’ he says, ‘or you get wiped out.’ But when the Surfer returns home to surf the remote beach at Luna Bay, he discovers that the shore has been colonised by...

  • 1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke

    Good and evil are flip sides of the same coin, at least according to (16s), which opens in Mississippi in 1932 with brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B Jordan) returning to their old stomping ground after learning the gangster trade in Al Capone’s Chicago. Smoke and Stack plan to use their ill-gotten gains to open a juke joint in the town’s old sawmill, a scheme the local white folk, and particularly the resident Klansmen, don’t look too kindly upon.

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Declan Burke
Declan Burke @declanburke
21 Aug 24

RT @MAstronomers: James Webb's stunning view of M51 galaxy🌀 https://t.co/0btXKoJwBj

Declan Burke
Declan Burke @declanburke
20 Aug 24

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Declan Burke
Declan Burke @declanburke
20 Aug 24

RT @IrishWritersCtr: 🎉Course Highlight🎉 They say writing is murderous and @declanburke is here to teach you all about it with his new co…