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Best of 2016: Páraic’s Top 10
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Nigel’s Top 10 10) The Hateful 8 Tarantino knows his genres and with his second western he offers homage with his own inevitable flair. I saw this three times one...
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Best of 2016: Nigel’s Top 10
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Páraic’s Top 10 10. Mustang A Turkish-French film from Cannes 2015 that was nominated for an Oscar last year which gives far better insight into the reality of life...
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Best of 2016: Friends of Spooool
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Each year it’s fun to publish some lists of favourite films and reactions from the wider Spooool.ie community and 2016 is no different. Thanks to everyone for reading...
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Worst Films of 2016
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE OK, so you’ve read our Best Film of 2016, and seen what Friends of Spooool.ie think…. but what about the worst films of the year? Here’s Páraic’s take… 1) The Neon...
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Pod #69 – The Worst Films of 2017
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL Between us we’ve seen about 150 new releases this year, but we’re not claiming to have seen everything that hit...
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Pod #70 – The Best Films of 2017
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL And so for the SIXTH year running, here we are with our annual chat through the best films of the year. Back in...
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Best of 2017: Páraic’s Top 10
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL 10) Good Time Only saw this a couple of weeks ago but is a visceral day in the life of a hapless brother. Reminded...
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Best of 2017: Nigel’s Top 10
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL So another year, another top 10. This year I saw about 100 new releases with very few turkeys in the mix. What’s...
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Best of 2017: Friends of Spooool
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL And the winner is…. Get Out! Mick McGovern’s Top 10 @amawaster 10. The Florida Project – dir. Sean Baker Heartfelt...
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Best of 2017: Irish Films
BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL Páraic takes a look back over some of the Irish films which made an impact in 2017 and ranks them 1-10, with Emer...
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2013’s Best Documentaries
Welcome to the first post in our Best of 2013 coverage. We’re already a bit behind most major media organisations (Empire posted its fairly meh Best of list on Sunday December 1st, since then it’s been...
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2013 in Irish Cinema
So when it comes to talking about your own country’s cinematic output you are in danger of becoming the protective parent, unable to see the flaws within and only focusing on the positives. Worry not...
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“Don’t hate me cos I’m beautiful”– An alternative end-of-year honours from...
This piece is written by The Late David Turpin, our first (and to date, only) Writer in Residence. Read David’s other essays here. He also contributed to our compilation of favourite 2013 films from...
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2013 Top 10s from some friends of Spooool.ie
As we did last year we reached out and asked our friends, fans and followers to share their favourite movies from the last twelve months with us. Their contributions are included below along with...
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Nigel’s top 10 films from 2013
View Spooool.ie’s joint top 5 here and Páraic’s top 10 here. This is too tough. I decided to leave documentaries out and still couldn’t quite fit these in: The Call, What Maisie Knew, Blue is the...
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2013’s Best Films (Joint top 5 and Podcast)
Listen to the review of the year podcast using the player above or on soundcloud. The real reason we decided to do a Spooool top five last year and have our own separate lists was because there was no...
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Páraic’s top 10 films from 2013
View Spooool.ie’s joint top 5 here and Nigel’s top 10 here. #10 – Only God Forgives So who you think are the good guys are really the bad guys and Ryan Gosling has a strong urge to return to the womb....
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The Worst Films of 2014
Our Best of 2014 coverage kicks off as Páraic takes a look at some of the year’s worst movies, starting with the year’s biggest turkey. Up tomorrow, Nigel gives his take on the the best blockbusters of...
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Ranking the Blockbusters 2014 – From Best to Worst
Our Best of 2014 coverage continues as Nigel gives his take on the best and worst blockbusters of the year. Up tomorrow, a round-up of the year in Irish cinema from Páraic, friends and correspondents...
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The Best Irish Films of 2014
Our Best of 2014 coverage hits the midweek point as Páraic runs through the year in Irish cinema. Up tomorrow, friends and correspondents lists with some special features from Mick McGovern, David...
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Mick McGovern’s Year At The Movies
Mick McGovern writes Spooool.ie’s “I Streamed a Stream” feature, a monthly column exploring the world of Netflix . See @amawaster and amawaster.com for more. . . Every year usually starts off with...
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David Turpin –“Disquieting Dreams: A Year in the Sinister”
See David’s Top 10: Friends Of Spooool share their Best Films of 2014 . . 2014 was a good year for sinister cinema. When I say sinister, I don’t mean horror films. After all, with the dire likes of...
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Eithne Shortall: The problem(s) with Cinema in 2014
See Eithne’s Top 10: Friends Of Spooool share their Best Films of 2014 . . Last Christmas morning, as the presents were being doled out, my brother declared he had a bonus gift for all of us: he was...
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Friends Of Spooool share their Best Films of 2014
We’re into the home straight on our Best of 2014 coverage, with our friend’s lists and tomorrow’s bumper podcast, joint consensus top 5 and our individual top 10s to come. . . Last year and in 2012,...
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Páraic’s Best Films of the Year 2014
See All Our Best of 2014 Coverage Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are, so goes the saying. Well showing me your top ten films of 2014 is just as good. People may be surprised by some...
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Nigel’s Best Films of the Year 2014
See All Our Best of 2014 Coverage I love reading the slew of end of year lists that are published this time of year. But even with all that in mind, if I’m honest the best thing about these few...
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Best Films of The Year 2014 – Spooool.ie Podcast #25
See All Our Best of 2014 Coverage Separate Top 10s and a combined Top 5? That’s cheating you cry! It may be, but we did it in 2013 and 2012, so there. We like to celebrate the individual here at...
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Best of 2015: Documentaries
SEE ALL OUR BEST OF 2015 ARTICLES . . WELCOME TO OUR BEST OF 2015 STUFF! Coming up tomorrow… Páraic picks out the Best of Irish Cinema. So a word of introduction. Not all of these films have seen a...
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Best of 2015: Irish Films
SEE ALL OUR BEST OF 2015 ARTICLES Rating films and compiling lists is always a contentious business where you will astound, annoy and perhaps hurt people. It becomes even trickier when it’s solely...
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“A year at the movies” with Mick McGovern
SEE ALL OUR BEST OF 2015 ARTICLES . . See Top 10s from Mick and all the “friends of Spooool” January was a busy month, first up was catching up with the delightful Paddington which was beautifully...
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Best of 2015: Friends of Spooool
SEE ALL OUR BEST OF 2015 ARTICLES (our own top films & podcast will be online at the start of next week) . . Thanks to everyone once again for sharing their favourite films of the last year. Being...
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Best of 2015: Páraic’s Top 10
SEE ALL OUR BEST OF 2015 ARTICLES Read Nigel’s Top 10 of 2015 . . 10) Wild Tales Six short stories examining everything from revenge to vigilantism and people getting their comeuppance. Darkly funny...
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Best of 2015: Nigel’s Top 10
SEE ALL OUR BEST OF 2015 ARTICLES Read Páraic’s Top 10 of 2015 . . It’s only when you come and look through a list of everything that you’ve seen in a year that you realise the massive scope of great...
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Pod #41 – The Best Films of 2015 & Star Wars: The Force Awakens Reviewed
Well there goes 2015. Enjoy our annual look back at the year that was as we countdown our favourite films from 10-1. And like big old sheep, we talk about the film that everyone else is talking about....
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Best of 2016: Irish Films
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE Our Best of 2016 coverage kicks off with a run-through the year in Irish cinema from Páraic… Coming up… Tuesday – The Year in Documentaries, Wednesday – Best Films of...
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Best of 2016: Documentaries
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE It’s felt like a transitional year for documentary film-making. Increasingly it feels like you’ll see the documentaries everyone is talking about through an on-demand...
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Pod #55: Best Films of 2016
READ ALL OUR BEST OF 2016 COVERAGE What a year it’s been. Lots of dead musicians, more Enda, some Brexiteering and a Trump in the White House. However at the cinema, life seemed to continue as normal....
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Best of 2018: Friends of Spooool
Thanks to everyone for once again taking the time to compile their lists and picks for the best films of the year. Looks like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is a cut above the rest. Take a...
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