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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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