Law Abiding Citizen
This preposterous action thriller is the most outrageously overblown plot in recent memory. The story follows Clyde (Butler) whose wife and child were murdered. When the legal system fails to
Bunny and the Bull
Mighty Boosh director Paul King has conjured up another unconventional tale of ill-fitting friends with many of the familiar faces in British comedy and staple Boosh contributors along for the
Seraphine
Martin Provost directs this simplistic biopic that draws a thin line between creative genius and madness. Taking misunderstood French painter Seraphine as his subject the film relies very heavily on
Paranormal Activity
Composed entirely from documentary-style footage of a couple’s investigations into the strange occurrences that disturb their sleep, Paranormal Activity, currently the most lucrative independent horror film ever made, bears a
Nativity
Nativity is the sort of film that stupid children enjoy. I don’t mean stupid children in the sense that some intelligent children exist and can be defined in opposition to
A Birra Celtic Mysticism with Colm Meaney
One of Ireland’s national treasures, a man who has starred in the vast majority of high-class Irish films such as The Commitments, The Snapper and Intermission, along with a string
People Won’t Be People: Battles Interviewed
When it came to choosing the potential cover stars of our last issue of the decade we had a list as long as Lapland’s most bearded. With our Thierry Henry
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Fresh from being made an honorary doctor of the Sheffield Hallam University, former Britpop icon Jarvis Cocker continues to eke out a living as a solo performer, quietly producing underrated
Patrick Wolf – Damaris
I’ll admit that Patrick Wolf is forever tainted in my perception after his infamous temper tantrum earlier this year where he threw his mike stand (like a girl) at a
Solange – Stillness Is The Move
Being spotted at Grizzly Bear gigs and espousing her love of all good music has already confirmed her as much cooler than her mega-warbling sis, but now Solange has taken
Music Interview: SACK
Sack, for the uninitiated, were one of the most unassumingly definitive Irish indie-rock bands of the 90s. Their three albums ‘You Are What You Eat’, ‘Butterfly Effect’ and ‘Adventura Majestica’
Twilight: The New Moon
The fact is, it doesn’t matter what this review says, The Twilight Saga transcends good taste or even common sense and despite most film critics best efforts there’s nothing that
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke, some critics would have us believe, is a hard-line, self-hating, bourgeois cine-fascist, forcing his self-flagellating, antagonistic, leftist, agit-prop films onto an unwitting public. Of course, they’re wrong, and
Terrence Parker: Grand Social November 12th
Terrence Parker has been a DJ for over thirty years, and it’s fair to say the man’s got skills. Parker cut his teeth playing hip-hop in the early eighties, but
Japanese Popstars
The Japanese Popstars are having a whale of a time at the moment. Between remixing everyone from Beyonce to Editors and a hugely successful tour of the festival circuit during
Review – 2012
With a budget large enough to erase the debt of a small country, Roland Emmerich elaborately indulges in his strange obsession with global destruction in 2012. Emmerich’s is one of
Nihon Eiga: The Japanese Film Festival
In response to the level of interest shown in last year’s event the Japanese Film Festival has broadened its horizons, now taking in three locations across the country before making
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
Just because it’s an immediately obvious comparison does not mean it should be left unsaid: Yeasayer’s first drop from their forthcoming sophomore album bears more than a passing resemblance to