It comes from five-time Oscar-nominated Kilkenny-based animated studio Cartoon Saloon. If you know anything about Irish animation, then chances are you know about Cartoon Saloon. They’ve been nominated no less than FOUR times for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars – for The Secret of Kells, Song Of The Sea, The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers – […]

4 years ago

Greetings film fans! Welcome to Episode 20 of The Big Reviewski, the highly contagious film show from JOE and Her that is so diseased this week, it had to be placed in quarantine, so listen at your own peril. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Soon-to-be ex-host Eoghan Doherty is joined by two relatively healthy (for now, […]

8 years ago

The nominees for the 75th Golden Globe Awards are out and there are four Irish names in the running. In Bruges director Martin McDonagh’s third film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ has earned a total of six nominations, including Best Picture (Drama), Best Screenplay and Best Director. Fresh from that Saturday Night Live-Aer Lingus sketch is Saoirse […]

9 years ago

Start the red carpet buzz now… Cartoon Saloon feature The Breadwinner has been awarded Best Animation by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association; usually a decent indicator of success at the upcoming Academy Awards. It’s a pretty major coup for the Kilkenny-based animation studio, given that their film was viewed as an underdog and beat […]

9 years ago

What an achievement. Irish film is in a very good place at the minute. Shortly after Saoirse Ronan won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for her performance in Brooklyn, Song Of The Sea and The Lobster have picked up even more plaudits at the 2015 European Film Awards. The Oscar-nominated […]

11 years ago

We talk animation, the Oscars and most importantly, Batman

11 years ago