Tiger Fringe Dublin | Review: Songs from a Car Park
All told, Songs From A Car Park is a sweet little ditty that might benefit from being a verse or two shorter.
Totally Dublin Weekender | September 4 – 7
Weekender |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Cinema Review: Moebius
A quick read of the film’s synopsis and Moebius might sound similar to several other recent releases aimed at an art cinema audience hooked on high-concept sexual violence.
Book Review: Adam Nayman – Showgirls: It Doesn’t Suck
Half critical reappraisal, half fan tribute, Showgirls: It Doesn’t Suck takes on the heroic task of rehabilitating Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls.
Old School: A Dozen Dublin Classics
This list reviews the enduring appeal of a selection of Dublin classics - dishes that have stood the test of time on the menus of the city’s more seasoned eating…
Shhhh! Inside The Library Project
In amongst the diddly-eye pubs on Temple Bar's main drag is The Library Project, a vital resource to those both within and outside the city's creative community.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Kris Nelson, Artistic Director
We speak with new director of Tiger Dublin Fringe, Kris Nelson, to get the skinny of what to expect on the 2014 edition of the festival.
Cinema Review: We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, like all good neo-noir features a sense of infallible, sprawling corruption, a cosmic despair that pervades its psychic arrangement.
Cinema Review: The Expendables 3
The Expendables 3 is about two things: latent homoerotics sublimated as macho violence, and the mass-killing of an ethnic underclass sublimated as a righteous revenge narrative.
Cinema Review: Obvious Child
Obvious Child is a film in which nothing bad happens, nobody does anyone else any harm, and no-one dies.
Cinema Review: Deliver Us From Evil
Deliver Us From Evil isn’t original or scary, but is worth seeing solely due to its nutso conclusion.
Cinema Review: Into the Storm
The strength of a found footage film like Into The Storm lies in its ability to bring you closer to its action through a manufactured sense of authenticity and reality…
Cinema Review: The Congress
The promising beginnings of The Congress give way to indulgent nonsense of an uninspired cartoon wonderland for the remainder of the film.
Cinema Review: Million Dollar Arm
Million Dollar Arm is a film that desperately wants you to believe it has a beating heart beneath its celluloid.
Cinema Review: The Hundred Foot Journey
The Hundred Foot Journey is a billet-doux to love and its close relationship with food but its more McDonalds than Noma.
Book Review: Philippe Claudel – The Investigation
Philippe Claudel’s beguiling novel The Investigation triggers the question: 'Who hold the reins? The author or the translator?'
Book Review: The Ondt and The Gracehoper
With The Ondt and The Gracehoper, Mr. James Joyce provides the words – Aesop's fable retold – and Mr. Thomas MacNally does the drawings – spiky, trippy, beautiful.
Book Review: Teju Cole – Every Day Is for the Thief
Every Day Is for the Thief is a quietly confrontational novella, whose remarkably visual style and elliptical episodic structure suggest unspoken conflicts behind the lens.