Cinema Review: Violette
In the decade following WW II Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Davos), portrayed here as a troubled but resourceful woman, found her voice.
Cinema Review: Magic in the Moonlight
In a film that looks sumptuous and carefully crafted, it also suffers from stifled performances which are probably the product of a half-cooked script.
Cinema Review: Night Will Fall
The press screening for Holocaust documentary Night Will Fall was hampered by a technical difficulty.
Cinema Review: Maps to the Stars
David Cronenberg fell off so long ago that he no longer even knows what it feels like to be on top.
Cinema Review: A Walk Among the Tombstones
A Walk Among the Tombstones main problem is that it is ponderously, remarkably stupid.
Cinema Review: In Order of Disappearance
A Scandinavian stab at the post-Taken patriarchal revenge fantasy, In Order of Disappearance mercifully takes itself a lot less seriously than its numeous peers: this is a broad social satire…
October Audio Review: Perfume Genius | Ty Segall | Soil Creep
Our listing of October music reviews.
Book Review: Dreams of Shadow and Smoke: Stories for J.S. Le Fanu – Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu famously wrote the gothic horror story Green Tea, in which a man goes insane through excess consumption of the titular fluid, seeing visions of a red-faced…
Book Review: The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
Even without the context of its publication, The Opposite of Loneliness is a book bathed in the pressure of life’s limits.
Book Review: Insatiable: Porn – A Love Story – Asa Akira
Joining a shelf of victim narratives (Linda Lovelace’s Ordeal) and cautionary tales (Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Pornstar), Asa Akira’s breezy porn memoir redresses the balance.
Book Review: Jan Carson – Malcolm Orange Disappears
Malcolm Orange has spent most of his life in a beat-up Volvo, travelling ‘all across America with a backseat full of grandparents’.
Book Review: How To Be Both – Ali Smith
Deservedly shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, Ali Smith’s How to Be Both is a novel in two parts, one focusing on Renaissance painter Francesco del Cossa and the other…
One Amor Tune: An Interview with Dan Snaith of Caribou
We have two ways of thinking about the sublime. One is the revelation of regularity and harmony underpinning the bizarro phenomena of the world around us, the other is an…
Album of the Month: U2 – Songs of Innocence
It is 1am on September 16th, 2018. Your Apple Watch vibrates and you peer down at the push notification pulsing light out from your wrist. ‘You’ve just got a Tinder…
Album of the Month: So Cow – The Long Con
So Cow, the closest thing to a prestige act the current boom of quality Irish indie has, are back and for the first time ever somebody’s after letting them into…
Lute and plunder: Jozef Van Wissem
Jozef van Wissem, the most famous lutenist since Martin Prince takes to the stage of Whelans to recreate the soundtrack to Only Lovers Left Alive.
Hallowed Halls and Houses: David Jazay’s Dublin Photography
German photographer David Jazay’s collection Dublin Before The Tiger collects, with incredibly beautiful detail, images of Dublin’s inner city from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
Totally Dublin Weekender | September 25 – 28
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.