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Turlough Kennedy founded Dolmen Films in 2017 with a vision to connect filmmakers all across Ireland and internationally. Turlough is an award-winning Director, Cinematographer, and composer with over 15 awards and ten nominations. He is a first-degree honours graduate of TUS University. In 2022 was awarded the Lord Puttnam scholarship for directing. His work is…
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These are just some of my favourite World War II movies, in no particular order. Tora Tora ToraThe photo above is a still from the 1970 movie Tora Tora Tora. The 1970 war epic received widespread praise from both critics and film fans for its detailed depiction of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Universally considered…
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Dora Gerstein was a Jewish actress and singer born on 23 March 1899 in Berlin. She was murdered on February 14,1943 in Auschwitz. On one of the sites I used to do the research on Dora I noticed the line ‘Body lost or destroyed’. Not only her body was destroyed but also her talent and…
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When you think of a comedy duo the first pair that comes to mind is Laurel $ Hardy, they were and still are ,without a shadow of a doubt the most successful comedy double act of all time. However these 2 were not always a duo, they both had long established careers before they teamed…
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On this day 94 years ago the classic Science Fiction movie “Metropolis” was released. I recently watched it again and was amazed by how fresh the movie still looked, But more then just a Sci-Fi flick it is also a snapshot of the political situation of the time and the years that followed, not so…
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What do the movies. Star Wars-The Empire Strikes Back,Toy Story 3,Juno,Where Eagles Dare and Distant Drums(and a few hundred more) have in common? It’s not the cast or screenplay or even the studio but there are 2 seconds in all these movies which are identical. Those 2 seconds are called “The Wilhelm Scream” which is a…
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Ever since its inception , the media of film has been a perfect tool to inform the masses be it in an entertaining way or in a more sinister manner. It was and still is the perfect way to distribute propaganda material en mass, although in more recent years social media has taken over that…
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