Cinema Review: Metro Manila
Metro Manila follows a young family forced to make the move after the price of rice, the crop that earns them their living, falls to an all time low.
Cinema Review: Blue Jasmine
Let’s not even bother with the question of whether or not Woody Allen has recovered his form: it’s enough to say that this is a very good film, powered by…
Cinema Review: The Irish Pub
Beginning with an intertitle quoting fascist poet W.B. Yeats: 'There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met,' The Irish Pub is, according to its press notes, 'a…
Cinema Review: Hannah Arendt
Jacques Derrida once declared that, despite his interest in the sex lives of philosophers, he had no intention of 'making a porno film about Hegel or Heidegger'. Evidently Margarethe von…
Cinema Review: Mister John
Directors: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy Talent: Aidan Gillen, Zoe Tay, Michael Thomas, Claire Keelan Release Date: 27th September 2013 Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s second feature film, following a working
Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter opens at IMMA
The Irish Museum of Modern Art at Kilmainham Hospital fully reopens with an exhibition of once-forgotten, now celebrated Irish modernist Eileen Gray.
Lighting Up Brooklyn: Interview with Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown
We caught up with Austin Brown from the group to get his take on the jump to bigger stages, brand synergy with tacos and their attempts to avoid the music…
Comedy for the Head: An Interview with Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is not the kind of comedian to laugh at his own jokes, if he ever even makes one. His onstage persona is that of a dour and bitter…
Cracking The Code: Ireland’s Independent Game Developers
The games industry now dwarfs, and often trolls, the film and music industries. DFC Intelligence puts the 2012 value of the video games industry at $66bn, compared to film's $29.2bn…
DTF: Neutral Hero – Interview with Richard Maxwell
The third of our feature interviews from performers at Dublin Theatre Festival is with Richard Maxwell, the man behind Neutral Hero. You’ve described Neutral Hero as “Hopelessly American” –
DTF: Dusk Ahead – Interview with Megan Kennedy
The second of our feature interviews with performers from the Dublin Theatre Festival is with Megan Kennedy from Junk Ensemble‘s production Dusk Ahead. You’ve been working and conducting research
DTF: Wunderkammer – Interview with Yaron Lifschitz
Transparency, skeletons, and the unknown seem to run through this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival like thematic veins, pumping meaning and meaninglessness into every production. Less and less theatre practitioners are
5 Bands To See at Hard Working Class Heroes 2013
The nights are growing shorter and the days darker, which means just one thing. It’s that time of year again, when Hard Working Class Heroes round up the best of…
Toys ‘R’ Us: Interview with Sex Siopa’s Shawna Scott
Sex Siopa is not only Dublin’s first online sex store, it is Ireland’s first health and design focused sex shop. Run by Seattle native Shawna Scott, Sex Siopa seeks to
Literary Review, October: Lutz, Donoghue, Littell
Partial List of People to Bleach Gary Lutz Gary Lutz’s penchant for verbal twistings can at first simply seem weird for the sake of weird, yet they are