Nice Gaff: Dublin Corporation Wholesale Markets
The markets area of Dublin is a hub of activity, smells, sounds and sights. It is where I work, and the inspiration for the first collection from Arran Street East,…
Cinema Review: Amy
Paparazzi footage shows the appalling treatment that Winehouse endured at the height of her fame and the problematic way that the media painted her as a romanticised rock star despite…
Cinema Review: She’s Funny That Way
She’s Funny That Way is a totally passable, all too familiar tale of starlet Isabella (Poots) landing her first acting role in the midst of love triangles, lies and humorous…
Cinema Review: Slow West
Slow West, which is director John Maclean’s feature film debut, seems intent on showing us the worst of the genre. Everyone and everything is terrible in 1870s America.
Cinema Review: The Longest Ride
Art student Sophia and bull rider Luke are classic star-crossed lovers from two different worlds, lacking only in chemistry, tension and actual character traits.
Cinema Review: Love at First Sight (Les Combattants)
Les Combattants takes the ‘boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy follows girl obsessively until she likes him back’ set up that’s been a rom-com staple for far too long…
Cinema Review: El Ardor
Though there is no small degree of artistry on display in El Ardor’s presentation, particularly in the use of smoke later in the picture to elicit the same claustrophobia of…
Cinema Review: Black Coal, Thin Ice
Set against the bleak industry-scape of a mining region in northern China, Black Coal, Thin Ice follows ex-cop Zhang Zili’s relentless pursuit of his final unsolved case, mainly (it seems)…
Cinema Review: Queen and Country
Queen and Country often feels like killing time, as Boorman attempts to capture both the broadly comic and deeply serious aspects of military service
Cinema Review: The Look of Silence
The background to the story told in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and, now, The Look of Silence documentaries is never mentioned.
Gearóid Carvill & Kieran Harnett – Dublin Honey Project
Dublin Honey Project founders Gearóid Carvill and Kieran Harnett talk to us about ‘tail-to-snout’ beekeeping, the health benefits of locally produced honey and the diversity of flavours emerging from the…
Speedrunning: Gotta Go Fast
Speedrunning is competitive by nature but it’s also a wonderfully collaborative process. Runners share new glitches & exploits via message board threads, some of which span hundreds of pages charting…
Interview – Belinda McKeon
'An awful lot of the work of writing this book was learning to realise that the cringe was the point'. Totally Dublin met with award-winning Irish writer Belinda McKeon to…