Four new films to see this week: Eternity, It Was Just an Accident, Folktales and Horseshoe
Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner and Lalor Roddy feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 5th, 2025
David Freyne
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Patrick Freyne: Bye, folks. I’m off to Hollywood. Nepo baby or not, I’m an excellent actor
My latest role is in Eternity. Having a voice like an earthbound angel is my curse, as you’ll hear
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’ve always wanted to be involved with an Irish mafia’
The actor discusses Marvel, shunning social media, and her role in David Freyne’s new romantic comedy, Eternity
Eternity review: This charming comedy is Irish director David Freyne’s best film yet
Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner star as a recently deceased trio who must decide how to spend the rest of time
Iftas 2021: Posthumous award for ‘searing’ Nika McGuigan is the moment of the night
The hit TV adaptation Normal People converts nine of its 15 nominations into Iftas
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland
Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft
Dating Amber: A story about two gay teenagers, being each other's beards
David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
The Cured: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Ellen Page in an ingenious debut
Review: The film develops new flavours of creepiness amid the socio-political metaphor
Dublin International Film Festival: the best films to see
The likes of ‘Custody’, ‘Sweet Country’ and ‘The Third Murder’ are worth seeking out
Dublin International Film Festival: the must-see movies
Films you should see at the tri-located 2018 Audi Dublin International Film Festival
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’
From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menace
Oscars countdown starts here. And the Irish are in the race
Several films with Irish involvement impressed critics at the Toronto Film Festival
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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