Feb Audio: The xx | CEP | John Abercrombie Quartet
Lovey-dovey vibes from The xx, CEP is Drawing the Target around the arrow and something to warm your soul from John Abercrombie
Book Review: Moonglow – Michael Chabon
In Moonglow, Michael Chabon gives us the gift of his grandparents: two uniquely flawed people who love each other deeply and who can’t seem to get out of their own…
Audio Review: Foxygen – Hang
Foxygen’s commitment to the irony is total: this is not just a ridiculous album, but a ridiculous album about being ridiculous.
Cinema Review: 20th Century Women
Filled with quote-worthy insights on all things important in life, 20th Century Women is sure to resonate with anyone who is a woman or simply has been young.
Cinema Review: T2 Trainspotting
‘Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and hope that someone, somewhere, cares.’ — Renton goes millennial in T2 Trainspotting
Cinema Review: Manchester by the Sea
Manchester, so much to answer for… What a film this is, a marvel of understatement, empathy and pathos.
Colour Me Impressed: Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope have found a happy new home in the Bello Bar. Wednesday 1st of February sees them decamp to the Sugar Club for their 100th ever Kaleidoscope Night, a celebratory…
Cinema Review: Prevenge
Weird and nonsensical, Prevenge also tries to be funny, and is on maybe two occasions, but this is mostly just too bizarre.
Cinema Review: Cameraperson
A surprisingly complete picture of Johnson, the unseen, constant presence behind the camera.
Cinema Review: Sing
Two hours of incoherent storytelling, lacklustre visuals and the sort of aural horrors they might have used to torture inmates in Guantanamo not so long ago
Cinema Review: Live By Night
Live By Night attempts to slot itself in amongst the great gangster epics, but unfortunately it just doesn’t pass muster.
Cinema Review – Underworld: Blood Wars
Everything in Blood Wars is dark and covered in leather, or latex, or some leather-latex combo.
Radical Legacies – Olwen Fouéré
Irish theatre figurehead Olwen Fouéré’s newest work is a magical realist theatre pulling in several directions
Book Review: Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
The most striking feature of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is the intense and unyielding brutality of the world in which his characters struggle, and frequently fail, and usually die.
Book Review: Swing Time – Zadie Smith
Smith skillfully details the developing childhood friendship between the unnamed narrator and Tracey, two mixed-race girls brought together by a love of dance that transcends the boundaries of time, place,…
Soundbite: Kevin Roche and Taurean Coughlan: Two Boys Brew
Kevin Roche and Taurean Coughlan opened Two Boys Brew in Phibsborough, inspired by the specialty coffee cultures they experienced on their travels. Taurean tells us about the Aussie influenced Brunch…
January Games: Super Mario Run, Bamboo EP & Montigol
What can Mario do if this venture fails? Definitely not go back to his old job – Run is probably the closest he's gotten to plumbing work in decades, and…