The Descent Part 2
Sanctioning a pointless sequel that ruins the ambiguity of his original’s ending indicates a serious lapse of judgement on the part of Neil Marshall. Marshall passes the torch to Jon
The Girlfriend Experience
Soderbergh’s unpredictability is perhaps his most reliable trait and true to form The Girlfriend Experience is both an interesting experiment in minimalism and an unlikely successor to his recent triumph
Brendan Benson – A Whole Lot Better
Now that his attention seems to be firmly fixed on his solo career, Brendan Benson has released another slice of power-pop plucked from My Old, Familiar Friend. ‘A Whole Lot
Longform
With their choice of new single it seems The Dodos want to bring a little bit of their native San Fran sunshine into our lives, or perhaps they’re trying to
Conor McPherson on the Seafarer
Two years shy of his fortieth birthday and Conor McPherson is certainly living up to his reputation for helping relight the torch sparked by Synge, Shaw and O’Casey. With his
Paranormal Activity
Composed entirely from documentary-style footage of a couple’s investigations into the strange occurrences that disturb their sleep, Paranormal Activity, currently the most lucrative independent horror film ever made, bears a
Seraphine
Martin Provost directs this simplistic biopic that draws a thin line between creative genius and madness. Taking misunderstood French painter Seraphine as his subject the film relies very heavily on
Bunny and the Bull
Mighty Boosh director Paul King has conjured up another unconventional tale of ill-fitting friends with many of the familiar faces in British comedy and staple Boosh contributors along for the
Law Abiding Citizen
This preposterous action thriller is the most outrageously overblown plot in recent memory. The story follows Clyde (Butler) whose wife and child were murdered. When the legal system fails to
Nativity
Nativity is the sort of film that stupid children enjoy. I don’t mean stupid children in the sense that some intelligent children exist and can be defined in opposition to
Solange – Stillness Is The Move
Being spotted at Grizzly Bear gigs and espousing her love of all good music has already confirmed her as much cooler than her mega-warbling sis, but now Solange has taken
Patrick Wolf – Damaris
I’ll admit that Patrick Wolf is forever tainted in my perception after his infamous temper tantrum earlier this year where he threw his mike stand (like a girl) at a
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Fresh from being made an honorary doctor of the Sheffield Hallam University, former Britpop icon Jarvis Cocker continues to eke out a living as a solo performer, quietly producing underrated
People Won’t Be People: Battles Interviewed
When it came to choosing the potential cover stars of our last issue of the decade we had a list as long as Lapland’s most bearded. With our Thierry Henry
A Birra Celtic Mysticism with Colm Meaney
One of Ireland’s national treasures, a man who has starred in the vast majority of high-class Irish films such as The Commitments, The Snapper and Intermission, along with a string
Music Interview: SACK
Sack, for the uninitiated, were one of the most unassumingly definitive Irish indie-rock bands of the 90s. Their three albums ‘You Are What You Eat’, ‘Butterfly Effect’ and ‘Adventura Majestica’
Twilight: The New Moon
The fact is, it doesn’t matter what this review says, The Twilight Saga transcends good taste or even common sense and despite most film critics best efforts there’s nothing that
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke, some critics would have us believe, is a hard-line, self-hating, bourgeois cine-fascist, forcing his self-flagellating, antagonistic, leftist, agit-prop films onto an unwitting public. Of course, they’re wrong, and