Stuck In Love
For a film about a family of writers, there is very little writing going on.
Restaurant Review: Dillinger’s
There’s a hotdog staring at me and I can’t finish it. “What’s wrong with you?” says Niall in disgust, his face covered in the tangy, sweet BBQ sauce that is
Barfly: Sweeney’s Mongrel
It's a Monday night in Sweeney's Mongrel and the weather is hot. A Peruvian blanket-wrapped man with a feather in his cap (and a spliff in his mouth) wanders around…
Paradise: Love
Paradise: Love is an uncomfortable, uncompromising film, engaging with a specific, banal horror of neo-colonial exploitation while providing the uneasy context of its attendant, intertwining narratives of oppression.
Man of Steel
The action is over-the-top and stuck on fast forward, but the stakes are laid out well enough for us to invest in the shouty, kinetic madness.
Special Bru: Beer In Brussels
A guide to beers from Brussels and also where to drink them when you're in Belgium's capital city.
Ryan’s, Beggar’s Bush
Anton was sure he knew where the pub was, that he knew the area like the back of his hand, but it is only via a short conversation with a
Dublin Pride 2013: Attitude Illustrator Eoin Conveney Interviewed
For the past 17 years, Eoin Coveney has worked as a freelance illustrator for several major magazines, newspapers and advertising companies, both Irish and international. He studied under the supervision
gleaming the cube: Yary
From the point that moment a group of sundrenched Californian long hairs turned their back on the tubular bounty of the ocean in favour of a little plank of wood
Dripping Wax: Disclosure’s Settle, After Dark II, Nikki Louder, Altar of Plagues
Our new music review pretends it's listening to something other than The Thrills.
June Exhibitions: Daniel Tuomey, Fergus Feehily
Daniel Tuomey: Instruments Talbot Gallery & Studios There are actually two instruments in Instruments. Or at least something resembling them: two wooden chairs sit side-by-side as if engaged in conversation;…
Deep In The Game: Nay from Harmless Noise
Ireland's premier homegrown music blogger speaks out on the 'cooling' of sentiment in the Irish scene, getting abuse on the internet and 'being' the country.
Byzantium
Jordan has ample mythology and period significance to draw on visually, but never establishes a coherent sense of space and time
Thérèse Desqueyroux
The camera lingers on the small details of movement, affectation and environment to bring the audience closer to the intimate world of the characters
Kool Keith interview
Pissy streets, homosexuality as a trend, the South inheriting 808s and nobody ever calling Radiohead old school with rap's one and only - Kool Keith.
Comic-book Fatigue: Is Man of Steel One Adaptation Too Far?
The excitement surrounding the imminent release of Man of Steel shows that the wave of comic-book movies is still cresting, but can audience interest survive beyond this current saturation point?
Rediscovering Ballymun
It just escapes the shadow of the last remaining towers. Not quite where you might expect to find a burgeoning eco-fashion brand, but then again Rediscover is part of Ballymun’s
Buenos Aires
1: Think Back, Remember How It Was My bag got robbed in a barbecue place around the corner from where Borges used to work. Rookie error: I hadn’t the strap