Four Tet – FabricLive 59
In some ways post-dubstep is in fact a devolution, a 10 year trip backwards to reappraise UK Garage as it might have existed with different technology and more adventurous personnel,
Das Racist – Relax
Self-awareness is something only comedy rap troupe ever to school you on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak possess in almost dangerous quantities, so there’ll always be something slightly unwholesome about their off-hand
Darklight Film Festival
The Darklight Film Festival has become somewhat of an institution on the Dublin Film scene developing a reputation of excellence in eclectic, lo/no budget film. With 2011’s events already underway,
TD’s Picks For HWCH 2011
On top of providing a chance for brand new bands to find a following, an advantage of Hard Working Class Heroes is that it gives the casual observer a chance
Melancholia
Lars von Trier’s latest confirms what Antichrist quite delicately suggested: that the great man is disavowing formal and conceptual rigour in favour of a more pronounced and sentimental style of
Red State
Kevin Smith is like Marmite: a yeasty, tub-like alluvium that has never made a film worth watching. His latest, Red State, is the sort of cack-handed, half-baked shambles of a…
Crazy, Stupid Love
Romantic comedies, when tracing sincerity, are at their very worst, and Crazy, Stupid, Love is no exception. Steve Carrell’s stalled marriage leaves him at a loose end, and he seeks
Tyrannosaur
Paddy Considine’s directorial debut features an exceptional performance from Peter Mullan as a self-destructive alcoholic and a revelatory Olivia Colman as a charity shop worker stuck in an abusive marriage.
The Rapture
Philosorapture. The perma-cool New York label DFA Twitter-quipped that Harold Camping was not so much wrong about his prediction that the Rapture was coming – his estimations were just three
Film Essay
Film, perhaps more than any other art-form, is inextricably tied to the worlds of industry and finance. While the commercial rules of production have been bent in recent years, with
The Troll Hunter
A “found footage” Norwegian horror-comedy which channels The Blair Witch Project and Slither while choosing trolls, of Norse mythology, as its subject, The Troll Hunter is a diverting, if formally…
Project Nim
From James Marsh, the acclaimed director of Man on Wire, comes Project Nim, a documentary about Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was raised as a human as part of a…
Cowboys and Aliens
Adapted from an unused Obama campaign speech, Jon Favreau’s high-concept sci-fi/Western film sounds like the most preposterously unnecessary film ever made. “Cowboys fighting aliens” is a pitch which sounds good
The Inbetweeners Movie
“The jokes come crude, fast and in a language the target audience will understand” says The Guardian‘s Steve Rose, hilariously, of Ben Palmer’s The Inbetweeners Movie, in which the eponymous…
Dublin Contemporary 2011
A cacophony of zealous chatter has been on the rise amid arty circles over the past few months and if you’ve eavesdropped on any of these frenzied talks of late
Best Coast Cooler
Of the generation of (predominantly West Coast American) indie-pop bands fixated on reimaging the sound of surf-pop through their own sandy-shoed, weed-hazed filter, Bethany Cosentino is undeniably the queen of
Martin Parr’s Best Photo Books of the Decade
If there’s a man who knows a thing or two about scuzzy seaside resorts it’s Martin Parr. His omniscient lens rose to fame (or perhaps infamy) back in the eighties,
Interview: Luke Vibert
With his first release dating back to 1993, Luke Vibert is undoubtedly a member of the old-guard of British electronic music. With Roland synths as his muse, the man also