Book Review: Thus Bad Begins – Javier Marías
As we witness the murky betrayals the book’s characters try to disavow, we are granted a disturbing view of what is traded in the exchange of truth for new beginnings.
May the Fourth Be… Kaleidoscope at Bello Bar
May the Fourth Be …. The penultimate show of Kaleidoscope’s first inspirational season at the Bello Bar.
Restaurant Review – Pickle
The familiar is also present at Pickle, but it’s just better than you’ve had it before.
Barfly: The Ivy
The Ivy styles itself as “luxurious continental style bar” suited to “watching the world go by whilst regaling old times”. While its oldness is contrived, it’s also strangely convincing.
Along the Ganges: Life, Death And Rebirth
Even on the briefest of voyages down its course, it immediately becomes apparent that both life and death are omnipresent, inescapable and celebrated along the Ganges.
Cinema Review: Atlantic
Narrated by Brendan Gleeson, Risteard Ó Dómhnaill’s documentary takes as its subject three North Atlantic communities – Newfoundland, sub-Arctic Norway and the west of Ireland – facing huge challenges as…
The O’Briens Spring Wine Fair Is Back!
The O’Briens Spring Wine Fair is back in The Printworks Dublin Castle on May 13th & 14th for a fantastic weekend of wine tasting. Proceeds are in aid of Cancer…
Book Review: The Drowned Detective – Neil Jordan
Jordan manages to pull something off in book form that is standard in his film scripts: a sense of genuine surprise. The reader is constantly left guessing in this puzzling…
Design: George Boyle
“People are beginning to realise more that design is an intrinsic value as opposed to something you layer on.” We speak with George Boyle, founder of the Fumbally Exchange the…
Audio Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance
It takes a truly remarkable band to produce anything this dually intellectually satisfying and bloody good fun.
Audio Review: Anohni – Hopelessness
Hopelessness is a record that goes in heavy on big statements on big themes.
Cinema Review: Captain America: Civil War
Ignore the title: Captain America: Civil War is really a direct sequel to last year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a far more successful effort at that.
Cinema Review: Bastille Day
The audience gets exactly what they’d expect from Bastille Day: a solid B-grade action movie.
Cinema Review: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
The film charts Mapplethorpe’s life from his emergence as an artist while living in the Chelsea Hotel with Patti Smith to his peak as a chronicler of New York’s underground…
Cinema Review: Louder Than Bombs
With this film, Trier makes the rather unusual decision to take matters of the heart and handle them with a cool, detached and intellectual tone.
Cinema Review: Miles Ahead
With Miles Ahead, director/star Don Cheadle is determined not to bore his audience. Instead he has crafted a fictionalised, genre-fuelled tale that represents not the literal reality of Miles, but…
Cinema Review: Friend Request
Friend Request is unusual in terms of contemporary American horror films in that it cuts back on the now ubiquitous jump-scares (though there’s still two or three) and contains some…
Cinema Review: Our Little Sister
With four touching performances at its heart and a refreshingly feminine focus on its central themes, Our Little Sister is a disarming, affecting and unimpeachably pleasant film.