Cinema’s Most Unusual Pairs.
Fresh from being charmed by odd couple black comedy, Harold and Maude, Caitríona O’Malley casts an eye over some of cinema’s stranger relationships I feel obliged to say that there…
Milk Retrospective
Films about famous figures can be difficult to pull off. Too syrupy and they risk being considered lightweight. Too critical and people might think the director has a grudge against…
The Final Countdown To A New Generation
The battle for the living room is a cold war no more. Sony’s PlayStation 4 is ready to go thermonuclear, ask hitting UK shelves on November 29th, nurse while the…
I’m Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy….
Joanna Kelly ensures that the Tribune Art Section’s brave pro-Richard Curtis stance is maintained. Four Weddings to About Time, illness Richard Curtis has captured the hearts of rom-com lovers for…
UCD Alumnus fails in bid for Mercury Music Prize
There was disappointment for Irish band Villagers last Wednesday as their second album {Awayland} lost out to James Blake’s Overgrown for the 2013 Mercury Music Prize. The Malahide based indie-folk…
Body and Dole
A broke Ciaran Breslin reviews the experience of volunteering at Ireland’s fastest growing music festival. The week before I left to go to camping for four days in Westmeath, cialis…
Forbidden Fruit Reviewed
This summer marks the first time I am spending any considerable length of time in Dublin (or really anywhere in Ireland) as anything but a student. After three years of…
Happy My Bloody Valentines Day
Ciaran Breslin and Peter Sweeney celebrate the end of a twenty year wait for My Bloody Valentine’s new album Music, discount as we know it now, here is a uniquely…
THE BOOK NOOK
Pull up a chair and grab one of Aoife Byrne’s top picks for year ahead” Z – Therese Anne Fowler Fowler’s biographical novel centres on southern aristocrat Zelda Fitzgerald, viagra…
BREATHING CORPSES
Cathal O’ Gara catches up with Lisa Carroll as she prepares for the opening night of Laura Wade’s ‘Breathing Corpses.’ “Amy’s found another body in a hotel bedroom There’s a…
Animation Ardor
Darragh O’Connor catches up with director James Kelly of Fennish Productions to talk about his Jameson Dublin International Film Festival offering Fionnuala: Small Puppet on a Big Journey ‘There are…
The Siren’s definitive guide to…ERASMUS!
You may be one of those second years who have handed in the last of the Erasmus applications, or merely an elder statesperson of UCD, longing for the heady days…