Games: Stephen’s Sausage Roll, Automania, Guitar Hero III
June Games: "Rudimentary graphics, awkward controls and a theme that seems so arbitrary and goofy as to feel alienating". Stephen's Sausage Roll, Automania, Guitar Hero
Audio Review: Tim Heidecker – In Glendale
I’ve yet to encounter any joke that benefits from being explained, and In Glendale is no exception. Just go with it, I’d wager you’ll be pleasantly surprised just how life-affirming…
The Dublin Food Porn Festival
The Dublin Food Porn Festival will run throughout June (really) with a series of saucy events that will leave you drooling. Getting involved is easy...
Book Review: Lucy Caldwell – Multitudes
Multitudes, by Lucy Caldwell, is the writer’s first book of short stories. All eleven share a common schema: resilient Belfast women coming through trauma.
Cinema Review: The Daughter
Attempts to transpose storytelling of a certain era and culture to one of the contemporary period are fraught with potential dangers. So we get “Shakespeare, but in a Michelin star…
Cinema Review: A Hologram for the King
A Hologram for the King is a vague portrait, but still manages to find occasional moments of human charm.
Cinema Review: Departure
Juliet Stevenson’s nuanced delivery of a mother coming to terms with the lack of meaning in her life is captivating in its authenticity.
Cinema Review: X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Apocalypse sees the ancient titular villain – played under several layers of prosthetics by Oscar Isaac – awakening after thousands of years of sleep and immediately embarking upon a…
Cinema Review: The Angry Birds Movie
It could be said that the confusing nature of The Angry Birds Movie is intentional, and the overall aim to leave the viewer, ultimately, as the Angriest Bird of all.
Theatre Review: The Birthday Party
Pinter’s theatrical innovation lies in his removal of the backstory. Who are these characters? Why are they here? What is their relationship to one another?
Win A Gorgeous Dinner for Two at Il Posto!
We've teamed up with Il Posto over the next few weeks for a great new competition to win dinner for two with wine* To be in with a chance to…
What If… Dublin Had A Culture Of Participation?
Bloom Fringe Festival is reminiscent in some ways to Civic Systems Lab – in that the June Bank Holiday weekend festival aims to celebrate the grassroots initiatives, the urban interventions,…
Barfly: The Confession Box
There’s no way to meaningfully do justice to the rest of the characters we met or even the evening we had in The Confession Box. If anything, the authenticity of…
Competition! Win A Fab Dinner for Two at Il Posto!
We've teamed up with our friends at Il Posto over the next few weeks for a great new competition to win dinner for two with wine* To be in with…
Book Review: Anatomy of a Soldier – Harry Parker
Anatomy of a Soldier is a finely hewn novel in which the elision of human narrative somehow humanises the terrible experience of war.
Cinema Review: The Price of Desire
The Price of Desire is an attempt by director Mary McGuckian to reclaim the legacy of the modernist architect and designer Eileen Gray.
Artsdesk: Our Kind
Alan Phelan’s Our Kind is a newly commissioned video piece for the Hugh Lane Gallery as part of their Easter Rising centenary celebrations. Positioned as a “contemporary response to Roger…
Cinema Review: Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a film of rare insight and humanity, buoyed by the exceptional warmth of Anderson’s voiceover narration.