Cinema Review: The Taste of Money
The Taste of Money is unfortunately ultimately plagued by the same sort of shallowness it ostensibly seeks to expose.
Cinema Review: Gloria
Director: Sebastián Lelio Talent: Paulina Garcia, Sergio Hernandez, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora, Coca Guazzini Release Date: 1st November 2013 Ignore the Spanish and this could be Frances Ha: the Later
Cinema Review: Gravity
Gravity is plagued by the sort of sentimental humanism that wins Oscars, but offers little by way of genuine insight or illumination.
Colouring Outside the Lines: Interview with Crayonsmith
We caught up with Ciarán and Richie on the eve of their Cork album launch gig to have a chat about the new record.
Literary Review: Koestenbaum | Sampsell | Schwartz
My 1980s & Other Essays Wayne Koestenbaum Walter Benjamin once spoke about the modern world growing ‘poor in threshold experiences’. Wayne Koestenbaum, hearing this, made
Interview with Designer Mary Fitzpatrick
Cavan-native Mary Fitzpatrick has impressed many with her graduate collection, items from which are now on sale in Powerscourt’s Design Centre.
Cinema Review: Thor: The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World's makers know not to outstay their welcome, and the result is a pleasantly entertaining alternative to the ponderousness of DC's current output.
Oh, Honey Honey
This November 2nd sees the return of the Dublin Honey Show, celebrating bees, their keepers, and honey, the viscous gold they work so hard to make by hand.
Absolut Originality: Danielle Romeril
Taking place from the 31st of October until the 2nd of November, the Absolut Originality Exhibition combines the artistic efforts of fashion designer Danielle Romeril, visual artist Brian Kenny, illustrator
Boojum: A Taste Of Mexico
The third annual Taste of Mexico festival rolls back into Dublin in November, making now a good time to check out the wealth of Mexican food in the city. Plus…
Album Reviews: October
This month's album reviews featuring Cass McCombs, Arctic Monkeys, Bill Callahan, Drake, Haim and more.
Cinema Review: Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Nobody's Daughter Haewon curiously adopts the form of a sort of diary-through-film which nonetheless offers little in the way of recognisable psychological realism, meaning that its principal character remains as…
Cinema Review: Le Week-end
This bittersweet Parisian comedy about a relationship in crisis, from the director of Notting Hill, contains more misery than its breezy form can sustain.
Cinema Review: Filth
Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, Filth follows the exploits of a whisky-soaked, drug snorting, philandering Scottish cop, played by James McAvoy. On top of that he’s also sexist,…
Cinema Review: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is director Sophie Fiennes’ second stab at communicating the thoughts and writings of renowned Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, on the way in which…
Cinema Review: Thanks for Sharing
Ostensibly a human drama about sex addiction, Stuart Blumberg’s directorial debut concerns itself with an ensemble of New Yorkers twelve-stepping their way towards recovery.
Cinema Review: Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners plays out like an airport paperback written under a macabre pen-name...