Opinion

Friday Flix Fix – 25th April 2014

April 25, 2014 Anthony McGlynn

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Unsurprisingly, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has dominated the Irish box office last weekend. A good 100,000 over Calvary, regardless of anyone’s opinion of it, it’s definitely started making it’s money. That said, we have a full review here if you’re wondering if it’s worth your time. Rio 2 is hanging in there at number 3, […]

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Featured

Godzilla Historia, Part 1: Gojira, King of the Monsters

April 14, 2014 Anthony McGlynn

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Earth-Shaking! Screen-Shattering! Such were just two of the phrases that appeared on the original theatre posters for Godzilla, King of the Monsters in 1956. While that version of the film, the re-cut, Americanized version starring Raymond Burr as a shoe-horned non-Japanese character, is wholly representative of an attitude against that of foreign cinema in mainstream […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Five Things You Do Not Do at the Movies

April 10, 2014 Declan Doody

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Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’ve just got bad luck or maybe I’m just very particular about my experience at the cinema/movies/pictures but what on EARTH has gotten into purveyors of the big screen lately?! It would seem that all sense of manners, etiquette and social interactions have gone completely out the window! I don’t […]

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Comics/Books

Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Official 4 Minute Preview

March 6, 2014 Declan Doody

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“Steve Rogers aka Captain America (Chris Evans) struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johannssen), to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C.”. It’s the next big Marvel movie and if you’re only biding your time until Guardians of the Galaxy then […]

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News

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy teaser

February 18, 2014 Declan Doody

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Sample the first 15 seconds of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy trailer here! ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on tonight will debut the full trailer in all of it’s glory!  Declan DoodyEditor-in-Chief, part-time super villain and hoarder of cats. If you can’t find me writing, I’m probably in the kitchen! www.the-arcade.ie

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News

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy teaser

February 18, 2014 Declan Doody

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Sample the first 15 seconds of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy trailer here! ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on tonight will debut the full trailer in all of it’s glory!  Declan DoodyEditor-in-Chief, part-time super villain and hoarder of cats. If you can’t find me writing, I’m probably in the kitchen! www.the-arcade.ie

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News

2014 BAFTA Winners

February 16, 2014 Alan Horgan

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That’s that! The 2014 BAFTAs have been handed out, with Gravity cleaning up, picking up several technical awards as well as Best British Film and Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron.  Alas, it was 12 Years a Slave won the big one – Best Film – with Chiwetel Ejiofor also taking home the Best Actor award for the movie. […]

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Anime/Cartoons

GHIBLICEMBER #4: LAPUTA CASTLE IN THE SKY

December 14, 2013 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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It’s the second week of Ghiblicember here on The Arcade and while last week we had a relatively modern film in Spirited Away ,this week we have an older Ghibli film, delving deep into the studio’s past works. So here we have number 4 in our list Laputa Castle in the Sky. Thomas Geraghty  “My […]

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Buzz

COLLIDER COMING TO IRISH CINEMAS JANUARY 2014

December 12, 2013 Declan Doody

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COLLIDER’s action takes place in 2018, the year the planet has just collapsed and the human species will be wiped out due to a succession of natural disasters and the emergence a mutant race called the Unknown. In the movie, Peter, Alisha, Carlos, Fiona, Luke and Lucy must join forces to reactivate the Collider to […]

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Featured

Off The Radar 2013: Top 5 Movies

December 9, 2013 Anthony McGlynn

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I spend too much time on the internet. There’s a sentence I say to myself quite regularly as I continue to surf the information highway for pieces of entertainment to gobble up and keep away the mundane and the sordid for another hour or three. It’s something I’m painfully, and something I struggle to wonder […]

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