Paradise: Love
Paradise: Love is an uncomfortable, uncompromising film, engaging with a specific, banal horror of neo-colonial exploitation while providing the uneasy context of its attendant, intertwining narratives of oppression.
Man of Steel
The action is over-the-top and stuck on fast forward, but the stakes are laid out well enough for us to invest in the shouty, kinetic madness.
Special Bru: Beer In Brussels
A guide to beers from Brussels and also where to drink them when you're in Belgium's capital city.
Dublin Pride 2013: Attitude Illustrator Eoin Conveney Interviewed
For the past 17 years, Eoin Coveney has worked as a freelance illustrator for several major magazines, newspapers and advertising companies, both Irish and international. He studied under the supervision
gleaming the cube: Yary
From the point that moment a group of sundrenched Californian long hairs turned their back on the tubular bounty of the ocean in favour of a little plank of wood
June Exhibitions: Daniel Tuomey, Fergus Feehily
Daniel Tuomey: Instruments Talbot Gallery & Studios There are actually two instruments in Instruments. Or at least something resembling them: two wooden chairs sit side-by-side as if engaged in conversation;…
Byzantium
Jordan has ample mythology and period significance to draw on visually, but never establishes a coherent sense of space and time
Thérèse Desqueyroux
The camera lingers on the small details of movement, affectation and environment to bring the audience closer to the intimate world of the characters
Buenos Aires
1: Think Back, Remember How It Was My bag got robbed in a barbecue place around the corner from where Borges used to work. Rookie error: I hadn’t the strap
Indian Film Festival of Ireland Preview
One of the big draws at this year’s Indian Film Festival of Ireland (IFFI) will no doubt be the screening of Ek Tha Tiger. When the crew spent a few
The Last Exorcism Part II
Nell ends up in a foster home for girls, but you can barely say "Beelzebub" before it’s gone all creaky floorboards and cracking mirrors again
Gleaming The Cube: Skating as sport or culture, and when it’s time to retire
High-profile footballers are retiring because they can't cut it - but is that the reason skaters hang up the shoes? Or should it be?
Something In The Air
liberal eclecticism which, counter to the film's tepid suggestion, 1970s revolutionary movements failed as a (partial) result, rather than in spite, of.
The Hangover Part III
Alan, once an unpredictable, hilarious misfit, is now pathologised as a dangerous lunatic in need of rehabilitation
The Great Gatsby
How are we to take a death seriously when it looks like something out of a cabaret?
Interview with A Hijacking’s Tobias Lindholm
Waiting for Tobias Lindholm to appear for our interview in The Merrion Hotel, one can’t help but overhear his handlers furiously planning the day’s schedule. He’s in town for a
Entry Level: Ludwig Wittgenstein
A primer on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein from an Irish perspective ahead of a month-long celebration of his work at the Mermaid Arts Centre Bray.
Star Trek Into Darkness
There are a few breaks for plot, wobbly-eyed bonding and nerd-centric chortling, but not many.