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BELFAST (2022)
Starring Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds, Lara McDonnell, Gerard Horan, Turlough Convery, Gerard McCarthy, Bríd Brennan and Sid Sagar. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.

A personal and joyful story about the power of memory, set in late 1960s Northern Ireland. At the center of the film is Buddy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

REVIEWS Belfast - A monochrome telling of a rose-tinted story

RED SPARROW (2018)
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons, Joely Richardson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Thekla Reuten and Douglas Hodge. Directed by Francis Lawrence.

Dominika Egorova is drafted against her will to become a "sparrow," a trained seductress in the Russian security service. Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, but struggles to maintain her sense of self during the dehumanising training process. Finding her power in an unfair system, she emerges as one of the program's strongest assets. Her first target is Nate Nash, a CIA officer who handles the agency's most sensitive infiltration of Russian intelligence. The two young operatives fall into a spiral of attraction and deception, which threatens their careers, allegiances and the security of both countries.

REVIEWS Red Sparrow - A thriller as problematic as it is visually gorgeous
Red Sparrow - Elegantly brutal

JUSTICE LEAGUE (2017)
Starring Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Christina Wren, Ray Fisher, Ciarán Hinds and Jesse Eisenberg. Directed by Zack Snyder.

Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

REVIEWS Justice League - Another disaster for the DC universe

HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)
Starring Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Ciaran Hinds, Thomas Kretschnmann and Hannah Ware. Directed by Aleksander Bach.

An elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research - and forty- six earlier Agent clones - endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.

REVIEWS Hitman: Agent 47 - No hit, all miss

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY (2015)
Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Viola Davis, Isabelle Huppert, Ciarán Hinds, Nina Arianda, Jess Weixler, William Hurt and Ryan Eggold. Directed by Ned Benson.

The story follows Eleanor and Conor who are young, in love, and eager to start building their life together, when a tragic event threatens to destroy everything that they hold close to their hearts. As they struggle to cope, they discover within themselves and each other a strength and a capacity for forgiveness that may keep their love - and dreams - alive.

REVIEWS The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them - On Blu-ray
The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Him
The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Her

CLOSED CIRCUIT (2013)
Starring Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent and CiarÁn Hinds. Directed by John Crowley.

Following a mysterious explosion in a busy London market, the police swoop, a suspect is detained, and the country prepares for one of the most high-profile trials in British history. Two exceptional lawyers with a romantic history step into a dangerous web of secrets and lies, and when evidence points to a possible British Secret Service cover up, it's not just their reputations, but their lives that are at stake.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2008)
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier, Ciarán Hinds, Kevin J. O'Connor, Hope Elizabeth Reeves, Colleen Foy, Barry Del Sherman, David Willis and Hans Howes. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

REVIEWS There Will Be Blood - Celebrating the 15th anniversary of an American masterpiece
There Will Be Blood - Greenwood's score revisited