Here are the best fims playing in Dublin June 14th-16th

A festival of football is starting in Germany and Ireland aren’t involved; the perfect excuse to escape to the cinema.

While the rest of Europe will be glued to their TV, Dubliners have a great spread of movies to check out this weekend.

This week’s big Hollywood release is Inside Out 2, but we hardly needed to tell you that.

That movie is a surefire bet to be one of the biggest films of the year and will keep the kids entertained.

In this column, we are more interested in the off-beat movie experiences and we certainly have plenty of that on offer this weekend.

This week’s other big release is Sasquatch Sunset, which caused walkouts at Sundance.

The film follows the life of a group of sasquatches in the American wilderness and the entire film is dialogue-free.

We see award-winning actors like Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough under pounds of make-up grunting and picking at each other.

If you think that Hollywood has officially run out of ideas, this film correct your stance.

The Lighthouse is almost always a good shout to provide something off-beat, and Saturday sees two great off-kilter movies on show.

Along with the bi-monthly Stop Making Sense screening, David Byrne’s directorial effort True Stories will be showing on Saturday night.

Players of the Dublin People drinking game will need to down their shot as we’ve referenced or invoked Jonathan Demme, and they will have to do so again when we discuss True Stories.

True Stories is a slice-of-life film directed by Byrne at the height of Talking Heads’ fame, and follows a number of random strangers in a small Texas town.

The film sees Byrne clearly emulating Jonathan Demme’s humanistic approach of life of people in a small town, and the film boasts a terrific performance from the legendary John Goodman.

If you’ve never seen the film or are simply a fan of Talking Heads, this is one not to be missed.

The lovable maniacs at Hollywood Babylon continue with their 1990 series of films, and the king of vulgar himself John Waters will be getting an airing.

Not to be confused with the failed political candidate, John Waters is the king of gay cinema, and what better time to celebrate his work during Pride?

His 1990 film, Cry Baby, stars a young Johnny Depp, before going down the weirdo rabbit hole, and is the most mainstream Waters has ever been.

Cry Baby is the one John Waters film that people can name apart from Pink Flamingos but is still worth checking out.

This year marks 50 years since the Texas Chainsaw Massacre scared the hell out of everyone, and the film is back on cinema screens in a beautiful 4k print.

The film is a masterclass in its set design and art direction, and there is nothing quite like seeing the hazy Texan sunlight juxtaposed against the sound of people screaming.

Initially banned in Ireland back in the day, the film will be showing at the Lighthouse and the IFI all weekend.

Our friends at the Stella have a bumper 80s weekend, showing Scarface, Footloose, Pretty In Pink and Airplane on Saturday, while Sunday will have screenings of The Blues Brothers, Heathers, and The Breakfast Club.

John Hughes’ movies have become etched into the popular consciousness over the years, and now is the perfect time to see if they are as good as you remember.