Cinema Review: The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven comes together in its final act. When the bullets start flying, the film begins to look artful and confident.
Barfly: The Lincoln’s Inn
Lincoln’s retains its lofty reputation not for whatever contemporary action it hosts but through it’s association with the romanticised Dublin of yore.
Cinema Review – Free State of Jones
Gary Ross provides competent direction and the cast is uniformly excellent, but this is ultimately a failure at script level.
Be Kreativ: Rising Tide – Rosie O’Reilly
“To have an industry here you need people to stay and produce here, use local materials, get to know the people in the industry, go visit the weavers.”
Cinema Review: The Girl With All The Gifts
Another zombie film! But hold the sigh, this (literally and figuratively) novel adaptation is provocative, gripping, clever and riddled with twists and turns.
Review: The Summer That Melted Everything – Tiffany McDaniel
Racial tension, religious turmoil, homophobia, AIDS: Tiffany McDaniel’s ambitious debut novel attempts to grapple with all the Big Themes.
Book Review: Known and Strange Things – Teju Cole
If you like to emerge from a book feeling smart, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Instead, you might feel challenged, mortifyingly uninformed and determined to find out more
Book Review: Multiple Choice – Alejandro Zambra
An indignant howl of rage at a system that teaches people not to think, not to engage.
Artsdesk: Willie Doherty – Loose Ends
Commissioned on the centenary of the Easter Rising as part of ‘Ireland 2016’, Willie Doherty’s Loose Ends takes as its subject dual visions of a city and a countryside marked…
Cinema Review: Baden Baden
Funny and touching moments don’t stop one wondering where this film is going on more than one occasion.
Cinema Review: Blair Witch
Found-footage has been done to death in the 17 years since that inaugural trip to the woods; this is the final nail in the coffin.
Cinema Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is sweet and endearingly wacky without ever feeling mawkish due its back beat of irreverent and offbeat humour.
Artsdesk: Someone You Love
On Tuesday 11th October, the Copper House Gallery on Synge Street in Dublin 8 will play host to Someone You Love, an exhibition of pro-choice artwork
Audio Review: Bon Iver 22, A Million
Indie-folk that demands to be devoured from start to finish.
Fringe 2016 Review: George Bush and Children
George Bush and Children by Dick Walsh Theatre and Pan Pan in the Project Arts Centre is a tight and tense production that examines theatricality, context, and the role of…
Design: All The Buzz – Emmet Connolly at Intercom
“I don't think there are many industries where the work itself keeps being reinvented and redesigned.” - Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design at Intercom.
Restaurant Review: The Yarn
A lasagne pizza is something you might expect to see on a Buzzfeed round-up of the world’s most outrageous artery cloggers, but The Yarn’s version is actually beautifully restrained and…