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Steve McQueen's Shame takes a sharp, clever look at the often misunderstood phenomenon of sex addiction.
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With this week’s release of Buck, a documentary chronicling the real life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, we take a look at 6...
Build Something Modern - Architecture in Film
Build Something Modern invites various Irish architects responsible for the design and execution of building...
Inspired by the real-life story of a farmer who established a brothel in his home, Tom Hall’s Sensation represents a...
To celebrate Easter we here at Volta have examined four films that deal, very differently, with the story of Jesus. If you were hoping instead for an in depth analysis of various movies concerning chocolate...
Claude Miller - A Life in Film
The French director, producer and screenwriter, Claude Miller, has died aged 70 after battling a long illness.
Thinly Veiled: Ten Fictional Films Based On Real Life Stories
The cinematic equivalent of the literary roman à clef, a film à clef (from the French for ‘film with a key’), is a film that tells a real-life story from behind a façade of...
Few film genres can match the sober atmosphere and gnawing tension of crime movies about death row, as the stakes are so high and the clock is always ticking. As Volta adds Werner Herzog’s gripping...
3 Utterly Bizarre Stories Involving Werner Herzog
It’s an understatement to say that German filmmaker Werner Herzog is a colourful and fascinating...
The Best and Worst Dystopian Films
The Hunger Games was unleashed upon the world last week and it’s already being heralded as a ‘must see’ movie of the year. Set in a futuristic America that has been divided into districts following...
Il Maestro: The Films of Paolo Sorrentino
To celebrate the addition of four of his uniquely stylish and deviously clever films to the programme, Volta takes a look at the life and career of Italian writer and director Paolo Sorrentino.
A Short History of Irish Cinema
St Patrick’s Day isn’t just about marching in parades and drowning the shamrock, it’s a celebration of what makes Ireland great: its people, culture and creativity. To mark the National Day, Volta...
Hard Man: A Profile of Martin Compston
Born in 1984 in the Scottish town of Greenock, Martin Compston spent his teenage years as a trainee footballer before signing a professional contract for local team Greenock Morton, and making two appearances...
Ten Live Action Films with One Animated Scene
Cartoons have evolved way beyond Saturday morning eye-candy for kids. The development of animated storytelling techniques have proven irresistible to live-action filmmakers, who have the freedom to...
The bromace – from “bro” and “romance” - might sound like a recent addition to the pop culture lexicon to describe a specific genre of platonic male friendship in movies, but the fact is that...
The Dingle and Cork French Film Festivals
The first couple of weeks of March will see audiences down south treated to a feast of film at two of Ireland’s most passionate and engaging film festivals, the Cork French Film Festival and the Dingle...
The veteran actor David Kelly died in Dublin earlier this week, after a short illness. He was 82 years old. Born in Dublin in 1929, and educated at Synge Street Boys School, Kelly started his acting...
Once Upon A Time: Films Inspired by Fairy Tales
Fairy stories, legends and myths have formed the basis of all stories, from being told around a campfire to being projected on the silver screen. Ever since 1937s Snow White, based on the Grimm Brother’s...
A fool and his money are soon parted, they say, and nowhere is that more true than at the movies. Watching con-artists and swindlers work their villainous magic has fascinated audiences for decades...
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2012
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has become Ireland’s premiere film event, bringing the best of world cinema to the capital over ten days and nights...
Ten Great Pierce Brosnan Roles (That Aren’t 007)
Smoother than a velvet panther and more chiselled than a Roman statue, Pierce Brosnan played James Bond for almost a decade, from 1995s GoldenEye to 2002s Die Another Day. But there is more to the Navan-born...
Ten Great Cross-Dressing Performances
Actors spend their working lives dressing up and pretending to be other people, so it should come as no surprise that they are adept at switching genders when a role dictates; men transforming into...
A Short History of Spanish Cinema
From the early successes of surrealist genius Luis Buñuel to the award-winning melodramas of Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish cinema has survived decades of indifference from the fascist Franco regime to...
The 20 Most Controversial Films of All Time
Cinema has divided as many people as it has brought together. Through the years, films have shocked and angered us and forced audiences to bear witness to events we might otherwise never have seen....
Reluctant Hero: A Profile of Cillian Murphy
Born in Douglas, Cork in 1976, Cillian Murphy studied Law at University College Cork before realising he was more interested in the college’s drama society and playing guitar in bands than he was...
