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Ed Power

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Ed Power is an Irish journalist who writes about music, video games and other pop culture ephemera. Only two people have ever fallen asleep while being interviewed by him – in both cases they insisted it wasn't personal

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Skyscraper Live (2025) 3/5 EDIT “There’s not much to see – and so, the audience will have found themselves in the weird position of both experiencing a pounding heart and occasionally stifling a yawn.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 2/5 EDIT “...The Final Act adds up to an unsatisfying valentine to one of pop’s great mavericks.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Salt Path Scandal (2025) EDIT “This is a gripping film that doubles as a homage to the dying art of old-school gumshoe journalism, where a story is meticulously pieced together over weeks and months.” – Irish Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a sobering glimpse into the claustrophobic quality of 21st-century fame.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% EDIT “Actors aside, everything else about this feature-length adaptation feels like an exercise in box-ticking. The original novel cannot be blamed for Columbus’s perfunctory direction, which screams “made for TV” movie.” – Irish Times Sep 3, 2025 Full Review The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “The evidence is inconclusive, and by the final credits we’re back where we started – confused about Smollett’s guilt or innocence, but aware that somebody on camera has to be lying through their teeth.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 22, 2025 Full Review You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Robinson's pantomime villain schtick was out of step with this often distressing documentary.” – iNews.co.uk Aug 19, 2025 Full Review North Circular (2022) 100% EDIT “[North Circular] has the grainy quality of a Polaroid in the drizzle – a snapshot of a period that, for better or worse, is slipping away before our eyes but which McManus has ensured will now be preserved.” – Irish Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review War of the Worlds (2025) 4% 1/5 EDIT “It is silly, shoddy and features far too much of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Cube staring at a computer screen while looking as if he’s working through a reasonably urgent digestive ailment. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 5, 2025 Full Review Mrs. Robinson (2024) EDIT “Across its 90 minutes, the film cries out for a spark – a zinging insight, a surprise that adds to our appreciation or understanding of Robinson. None is forthcoming.” – Irish Times Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Housewife of the Year (2024) EDIT “...[Housewife of the Year] radiates a deep sadness as it bears witness to generations of women for whom Ireland was a place of narrowed horizons and stifled opportunities. ” – Irish Times Jun 3, 2025 Full Review Burkitt (2024) EDIT “...in the hands of a less adept film-maker, Burkitt could have been a mess. But Mac Cana pulls off the balancing act wonderfully, blending a stark traditional music soundtrack with poetic narration.” – Irish Times May 22, 2025 Full Review A Deadly American Marriage (2025) EDIT “...directors Jessica Burgess and Jenny Popplewell tell Jason Corbett’s story economically, resisting the temptation to pad it out with pointless waffle.” – Irish Times May 10, 2025 Full Review This Is Me... Now: A Love Story (2024) 75% EDIT “[This Is Me...Now] is, in other words, bizarre. But it is never unwatchable – despite the lack of plot and its working assumption that we are all obsessed with J-Lo’s dating life.” – Irish Times Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson (2025) 2/5 EDIT “By fixating on the legal aspects of the story, the music industry which continues to make millions off Jackson’s tainted legacy is left entirely off the hook.” – iNews.co.uk Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy (2025) 1/5 EDIT “The accusations against Combs are serious and deserve a more thoughtful analysis than what’s on offer...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Beatles '64 (2024) 95% 2/5 EDIT “Yet another starry-eyed documentary about the band has little to make it stand out in a crowded field.” – iNews.co.uk Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Midas Man (2024) 83% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a breezy watch with nothing insightful to impart... But it is guided by the implicit understanding that any project about the Beatles will inevitably find an audience – and that is an itch it undeniably scratches. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 4, 2024 Full Review Lonely Planet (2024) 39% 1/5 EDIT “In Lonely Planet, the flayed cadaver of When Harry Met Sally is grafted to the freshly disinterred remains of Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation and sent shambling out into the world. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2024 Full Review Will & Harper (2024) 99% 3/5 EDIT “Yet for all these quibbles, the interludes when Harper opens up are raw and devastating.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 14, 2024 Full Review Kneecap (2024) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Hard-punching and cheerfully riotous, the film directs a well-placed kick at the nether regions to anyone who insists music, politics and cinema cannot mix. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 23, 2024 Full Review Jackpot! (2024) 32% 2/5 EDIT “The film’s writer Rob Yescombe has a background in video games, and much of the story unfolds out like a cut Playstation scene that never gets to the point.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Sky Peals (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Hussain extracts maximum value from the setting – a liminal zone where stopping off for chicken nuggets and a petrol refill comes with a side-serving of Kubrickian angst. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Fancy Dance (2023) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Erica Tremblay has a background in documentary-making and brings an unflinching eye to her depiction of life on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 28, 2024 Full Review A Family Affair (2024) 36% 1/5 EDIT “... Though A Family Affair shoots for laughs, it ends up in an uncanny valley of spooky sex and dead-on-arrival jokes.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 28, 2024 Full Review
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