Cinema Review: In Real Life
Director: Beeban Kidron Talent: Jimmy Wales, Toby Turner, Julian Assange Release Date: 20th September 2013 Beeban Kidron’s InRealLife is a documentary which aims to examine the malign effects the internet…
Fringe 2013 Review: Lambo
Think Gerry Ryan, think monster. Think sleaze, excess and a larynx drawling like gurgling butter. Unfairly or not, our images of public figures are reflexive mental sketches, biased towards the…
The Village: Cloughjordan Ecovillage
The Cloughjordan Ecovillage: how a one-horse-town is transforming into an experimental eco enclave Although brimming with historical bric a crac (fulacht fia, cairns, ring forts, bog butter (literally, butter found
Fringe 2013 Review: Lippy
“Context is everything.” Funny thing about Lippy – its premise has got outside it. The play opens with a post-show talk that deconstructs a performance that never happens, much like
Open House Dublin 2013 – 100 Great Buildings
Lisa Cassidy from the excellent Built Dublin blog provides a guide to getting through the various treasures of Open House Dublin 2013.
Fringe 2013: Neil Watkins – Dinner and a Show
In the last 2 years Neil Watkins has been on a rollercoaster tour as an actor and he is acutely aware of the unique privilege it was. His brilliance was
Cinema Review: Pietà
Kim Ki-duk's 18th feature film won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival on a technicality, with Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unable to sweep the boards despite…
Cinema Reviews: Rush
This Ron Howard joint concerns itself with the fierce, real-life Formula One rivalry between the charismatic playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and the calculating, professional Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), which…
Cinema Review: The Artist and the Model
Director: Fernando Trueba Talent: Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale, Chus Lampreave Release Date: 13th August 2013 Fernando Trueba’s latest, a collaboration with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, is a throwback to
Cinema Review: Insidious Chapter 2
Having created the original (and only decent) Saw, director James Wan has since become the poster boy of New Hollywood Horror. More recently, he’s reinforced his reputation as an auteur…
Fringe 2013 Review: GRINDR / a love story
Described by writer and star Oisín McKenna as essentially “a really long poem, but less like Byron and more like Beyoncé… if Beyoncé wrote songs about the internet and gay
Fringe 2013 Review: Whelp
Whelp, is a satirical tale about the trials faced in that time in which we try to make the leap from dependency to adulthood.
Student Spesh: Interview with Noel Brady
Studying the built environment is challenging and, as DIT’s Lecturer in Design, Theory and Urbanism Noel Brady says, not something you can cram for at the end of your final
Student Spesh: Interview with Dr Francis Halsall
Continuing our focus on student life this week we have an interview with Dr Francis Halsall, lecturer in modern and contemporary art and director of the MA in Art in
What Maisie Knew
As the credits appear, we observe a title — “Based on a novel by Henry James’ — that jars with the utterly contemporary feeling evoked by an opening sequence set…
Literary Review, September: Morrissey, Carson, Curran
Parallax Sinéad Morrissey Ekphrasis is the cornerstone of Sinéad Morrissey’s fifth collection. From Denis Thorpe’s photographs, inside the newly-deceased L. S. Lowry’s house, to Alexander Robert Hogg’s pictures of Belfast
A Bonfire To My Family’s Past: David Vann Interviewed
David Vann's writing operates within a tradition of rural American writing notable in its refusal to po-facedly romanticise the rites and customs associated with the land.