Emma Kiely

3 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely |Aislinn Clarke |Clare Monnelly |Bríd Ní Neachtain

Motherhood, generational trauma, family, mental illness — these are all the ideas you can often find at the center of an Irish horror movie. In Irish horror, the fear tends to stick close to home, with folklore integrated to create an analogy for very real, sometimes even mundane, ideas at the movie’s core.

1 month ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely |Ryan Coogler |Michael Jordan |Hailee Steinfeld

Not yet 40, Ryan Coogler has directed two of the best MCU films ever (by a mile), helmed a legacy sequel to an iconic sports franchise, and made an action megastar out of Michael B. Jordan. Debuting with a confined, 85-minute drama based on the real-life murder of Oscar Grant by a San Francisco policeman in Fruitvale Station, Coogler has never been a one-trick pony.

1 month ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

Being a woman is an experience so subjective, so varied, and dependent on a myriad of things that it’s ridiculous to think that one movie could encompass it all. Still, we often celebrate and raise up certain titles as the seminal texts on womanhood. For Gen X, it’s Bridget Jones, smoking and embarrassing herself throughout London at the tail end of ‘90s party chic while still modern enough to be well-placed in the new millennium.

2 months ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

Audiences are really enjoying some blood with their comedies these days. The Oscar-winning (and losing) The Substance is as grotesque as it is absurdly funny; the Valentine’s release this year, Heart Eyes, combined a rom-com story with slasher tropes; and one of the best movies of the year so far, Companion, saw scream queen Sophie Thatcher give one of her funniest performances to date while getting covered in blood in the process.

2 months ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

I will defend screenlife movies (films presented through computer screens, a spin-off of the found footage subgenre) with my whole chest, and have no intention of stopping. Seen by many as a gimmick of our internet-obsessed age and modern filmmaking, screenlife movies are rarely given the respect they deserve. And that’s fair. There are some pretty bad ones out there. But the concept itself does not automatically mean a poorly made movie or one that does not entertain.