Hilary A. White

6 days ago | independent.ie | Chris Wasser |Hilary A. White

From epics to animation, the best family movies to stream this Easter weekend Holiday entertainment sorted Family movies for Easter holidaysChris Wasser and Hilary WhiteToday at 03:30It's Easter time, the children are on holidays, and there’s lots of chocolate eggs in the house. So clamber onto the sofa and stick on one of these family classics which our film critics having lovingly picked.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Hilary A. White

Virtually a prisoner in her own palace, wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is constantly harried by a swirl of power-hungry suitors who are putting increasing pressure on her to declare Odysseus dead and take a new husband. Some are decidedly more polite than others, with Antinous (Marwan Kenzari) seeming to make some small headway in his coercion of the queen. Penelope insists to them all that once she has finished weaving a funeral shroud, she will make her decision.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Hilary A. White

Selected cinemas; Cert 15AIt was 1971, the Beatles had split, and John Lennon was in dire need of a change of scenery. With some fanfare, one of the planet’s most famous people relocated with Yoko Ono to a modest apartment in New York – a city Lennon “really felt at home” in.

3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Hilary A. White

Selected cinemas; Cert 15AThe phrase “hell is other people” raps loudly at the door in this domestic thriller about a middle-aged woman preyed upon by noisy neighbours, in what is writer-director Jed Hart’s debut. Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) is a single careworker adjusting to an empty nest, when Deano (Aston McAuley) and his gang of boorish pals move in next door. The sun goes down, the music goes up, and so ensues night after night of full-tilt partying.

3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Hilary A. White

Initially resentful of the infant because it belongs to “the Heartless”, her husband slowly comes to see the prejudice towards the little girl’s kind is grounded in toxic lies. What the couple don’t know is the girl’s parents were en route to Auschwitz when her father flung her from the carriage in a moment of desperation (shown to us in absolutely harrowing flashbacks). The child’s origin has not gone unnoticed in the small forest community, however.