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…
Golden Years: Dublin Bowie Festival
On the first anniversary of his death, Dublin will celebrate the astounding life and work of David Bowie, musician, songwriter, actor, transgressive icon, husband, father and everything else in between.
Secret Language – Wyvern Lingo
“We have a look reflective of our sound. We are weird but also current.” Bray trio Wyvern Lingo provide some insights on their look.
Artsdesk – Peter Doyle No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
From a modest studio nestled in the shadow of the Smithfield Fruit and Vegetable Market, Peter Doyle is making art without formal training.
Cinema Review: Silence
An important film from a director who has never stopped asking difficult questions.
Jan Bitesize: Juices, Meats, Fermentation & The Year of the Rooster
Juices from Green Beards, Meat from the Avoca Butcher, fabulously funky fermentation and the Dublin Chinese New Year heralds the year of the Rooster
Book Review: Future Sex – Emily Witt
Future Sex is marked by a sense of irreparable spiritual exhaustion. Witt’s great achievement is to lull the reader into this same comfortable nihilism.
January Audio: Tomorrows, Brokeback, Xiu Xiu + More
New year, new audio reviews. From eggshell vulnerability to exiting on a high...
Audio Review: Microphones – Early Tapes 1996-1998
There’s plenty to dig into here for those of us who have long cooed over Elverum’s nous for production and skewed take on the singer-songwriter model.