Awards Season
Joseph Gallagher assays a selection of films that have been predicted to do well this coming awards season Argo, malady from Ben Affleck, recipe chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to…
Of Montreal- Paralytic Stalks
Paralytic Stalks marks -I was shocked to realize- the 11th studio album from American indie/pop outfit of Montreal. A project that has become an ever increasingly idiosyncratic affair from Kevin…
Review: One Man Star Wars Trilogy
Not so long ago, levitra in a theatre not so far away… A Halloween audience was treated to the genius that is the One Man Star WarsTrilogy. This Off-Broadway play…
Brewing up a Storm: Bob Dylan’s Tempest
Ciaran Breslin looks at the implications of Tempest on Dylan’s catalogue, as well as his influence on popular music Thirty-five studio albums in and Bob Dylan’s latest offering provides the…
You Wouldn’t Download a Car…
Kathryn Toolan looks at ever-topical debate of illegal music downloading, the arguments for and against, and the effects it has on the music industry This month saw a crackdown on…
Des Bishop Likes To Bang
Dealing with everything from drums to drunks, cialis Aifric Ni Ruairc reviews Bishop’s latest comedy offering When Róisín Shorthall resigned as Minister for State of Primary Care last week because…
French Fancies for the Uninformed
I’ve never really been much of a foreign film person. If I’m going to see a movie, treatment I don’t want to have to read it, and I definitely don’t…
More Art with Less Matter
Aifric Ni Ruairc gets reacquainted with Hamlet and tries to keep up with the Wooster Group’s inventive interpretation Everybody knows Hamlet; maybe you read it for the Junior Cert, hospital…
Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik’s latest effort is a snazzy array of self-importance manifested in a blistering hypnotic movie that features a menacing performance from Brad Pitt as a mob enforcer by the…
New Releases
Joseph Gallagher takes a look at the latest releases to hit the silver screen The Perks of Being a Wallflower Director: Stephen Chbosky Stars: Logan Lerman, treat Emma Watson, online…
“The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared”
Not even the rain can keep Lisa Gorry down after finding Jonas Jonasson’s 2009 debut It’s not unreasonable to say that for most people, Swedish writing is earmarked by the…
Social Satire: Casual Vacancy
Disguised as a ‘storm in a tea cup’ novel about small-town politics, J. K. Rowling’s first offering since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows surprises with unflinching descriptions of the…