Book Review: Difficult Women – Roxanne Gay
Creating compelling female characters that don’t resort to the ‘strong female character’ trope is an imperative task, and one that Gay performs admirably.
Book Review: 4 3 2 1 – Paul Auster
A sustained reflection on Auster’s own relationship with the written word and allows him, in typical Auster fashion, to insert stories within the story.
Book Review: Harvesting – Lisa Harding
Rage-inducing and relentless in its depiction of the cruel realities of life for forced sex workers, the novel draws its power from Harding’s talent for voice and characterisation.
Sparkle Motion – Cheerleaders
From across the floor, there’s a shimmer of almost two hundred or so girls and three boys as they await their moment to spring and shine.
Thundercat Is Go!
If Drake and Bonobo were the hot tickets last month, this Vicar Street show steals the crown in March.
Austra – Future Politics
Katie Stelmanis’s third album Future Politics could be described as her comeback one.
Cinema Review: Personal Shopper
Kristen Stewart never puts a foot wrong. She anchors even the most outlandish plot elements firmly in reality, and the film simply wouldn’t work without her.
Cinema Review: The Eyes of My Mother
Owing much to the writings of Shirley Jackson Nicolas Pesce’s directorial debut is a disturbing, atmospheric but only partially successful horror movie.
Cinema Review: Aquarius
A powerful social drama focusing on the struggle between the only remaining resident of an old apartment block, and the property developers who wish to demolish the building.
Cinema Review: The Salesman
The film has a somewhat retrograde attitude towards women that seems inexplicable when considering Farhadi’s normally enlightened cinema.
Cinema Review: Beauty and the Beast
A lavish yet essentially empty carbon copy of a stone-cold classic.
Cinema Review: Elle
A profoundly challenging exploration of consent, female empowerment, misogyny, voyeurism and role-playing.
Cinema Review: Get Out
The racism of the “well-intentioned” white liberal has proven fertile ground for awkward laughs with sketch duo and erstwhile court comedians of the Obama regime, Key and Peele
Joy Gerrard – Shot Crowd RHA Gallery
An astute and fastidious examination of the most timely of concerns.
Vampirella World Première
Fangs out for the world première of Siobhán Cleary’s Vampirella this month.
Reflections at 150 – Michael John Gorman
We featured a slightly fresher-faced Michael John Gorman in issue #10 in July 2005 around his Save The Robots exhibition in The Ark. He reflects on that time and his…
Restaurant Review: Ember
Ember is a welcome addition to the line of casual bistro with fine-dining influences that we've seen populating the suburbs in the last couple of years.