Cinema Review: Obvious Child
Obvious Child is a film in which nothing bad happens, nobody does anyone else any harm, and no-one dies.
Cinema Review: Deliver Us From Evil
Deliver Us From Evil isn’t original or scary, but is worth seeing solely due to its nutso conclusion.
Cinema Review: Into the Storm
The strength of a found footage film like Into The Storm lies in its ability to bring you closer to its action through a manufactured sense of authenticity and reality…
Cinema Review: Million Dollar Arm
Million Dollar Arm is a film that desperately wants you to believe it has a beating heart beneath its celluloid.
Cinema Review: The Congress
The promising beginnings of The Congress give way to indulgent nonsense of an uninspired cartoon wonderland for the remainder of the film.
Cinema Review: The Hundred Foot Journey
The Hundred Foot Journey is a billet-doux to love and its close relationship with food but its more McDonalds than Noma.
Book Review: Philippe Claudel – The Investigation
Philippe Claudel’s beguiling novel The Investigation triggers the question: 'Who hold the reins? The author or the translator?'
Book Review: The Ondt and The Gracehoper
With The Ondt and The Gracehoper, Mr. James Joyce provides the words – Aesop's fable retold – and Mr. Thomas MacNally does the drawings – spiky, trippy, beautiful.
Book Review: Teju Cole – Every Day Is for the Thief
Every Day Is for the Thief is a quietly confrontational novella, whose remarkably visual style and elliptical episodic structure suggest unspoken conflicts behind the lens.
Book Review: William Gass – The World Within the Word
Our reluctance towards collections of essays and reviews such as The World Within The Word rapidly morphed into the fervour of the recent convert mouthing off in his sputtering earnestness.
Book Review: Barbara Ehrenreich – Living with a Wild God
The mid-life rediscovery of an adolescent journal recording quasi-mystical experiences is at heart of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Living With a Wild God.
Hammer Time: Pallas Studios’ Auction
Since the art cuts attacked, cultural spaces have had to be pretty crafty to keep their doors open. Pallas Projects is amongst the most entrepreneurial, with its annual fundraising party…
Cirrus, Keep, Oxbow: Cloud Castle Lake Interview
Despite existing since their days together in secondary school, Dublin three-piece Cloud Castle Lake are only now releasing their first record of their own music through Max Rocha’s new label…
September Audio Review: Cloud Castle Lake | Interpol | Spoon
We round up September's music releases, featuring Interpol, Spoon, White Fence and more.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Philip Connaughton, Tardigrade
Philip Connaughton's Tardigrade is gorgeous, decadent and deranged, a cacophony of colour, sound and movement. And nudity.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Miguel Gutierrez, DEEP Aerobics
We talk with Miguel Gutierrez about his DEEP Aerobics performance project that mixes contemporary dance with a work-out and a "No!" to all the bullshit.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: The Company’s The Rest Is Action
The Company's The Rest Is Action is a "reinvention" of The Oresteia, a trilogy of Greek tragedies, that examines the very nature of tragedy itself.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Raymond Keane, Beckett’s Fizzles
We speak to Fringe veteran Raymond Keane about bringing Beckett's "intellectual farts" to life.