Looper
Director: Rian Johnson Talent: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano Release Date: 28th September 2012 Rian Johnson is a “unique Hollywood voice” of uneven quality but undeniable ambition.
Pan Pan’s Gavin Quinn on: Everyone is King Lear in his own home
Part one of our Dublin Theatre Festival interview extravaganza.
Kanye West presents G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer
While Watch The Throne was almost gaudy in its opulence and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was sincere in its projection of artistry, imprint compilation Cruel Summer comes across as…
3rd Underground Cinema Film Festival – Dun Laoghaire
Dun Laoghaire's burgeoning film festival returns.
Totall Recall (2012)
TR's tendency towards bullets and bangs results in something resembling Bourne In Space
Lawless
A nightmarish myth in which the brutality of Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads is wrought into cinematic reality.
Hope Springs
Ultimately, Hope Springs is undermined by its reliance on stale gender types.
My Brothers
It's Halloween, 1987 and three brothers are travelling from Cork to Ballybunion on an impromptu roadtrip.
Take This Waltz
Director: Sarah Polley Cast: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Luke Kirby Release Date: 17 August 2012 There’s a scene at the start of director Sarah Polley’s sophomore effort that’s…
Mix: The Sound Of One Beat Slapping #5
Continuing its monthly mission to listen to rap music and put it in a handy catch-up mix, it's The Sound Of One Beat Slapping. Nas and Rick Ross had marquee…
Leaving The Atocha Station – Ben Lerner
“My inability to grasp or be grasped by the poem in Spanish so resembled my inability to grasp or be grasped by the poem in English that I felt, in…
Blind Man’s Bluff – Aidan Higgins
Blind Man’s Bluff measures no more than 60 pages, many of which are filled with old photographs, collages and scribbled portraits.