The Ukulele Hooley is the highlight of the new festivals this week, as Dun Laoghaire embraces one of the coolest instruments around. There’s a variety of performances, lessons and workshops, so worth […]
Not a bad week at the cinema, we have a blockbusters that the critics didn’t really like, a couple of off beat indie releases and even a Hollywood buddy movie. I guess […]
Alan Partridge – A Hero’s Journey ‘Aha!’ – ‘Alpha Papa’ has finally hit the big screen. Is it a case of ‘Back of the net!’ or ‘Eat my Goal!’, or has Alan […]
Werner Herzog is quickly turning himself into the master of the documentary, which his recent efforts such as ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ and ‘Into the Abyss’. This is a series of short […]
Two extremes this week with the Beckett Summer School and Eninem at Slaine Castle. The Beckett school takes place in Trinity College Dublin, with a number of public events around the city, […]
One of the many joys of bank holiday weekends is that you spend the next week never quite being sure what day of the week it is! The workhorse can confirm that […]
This is the new work from Studio Ghibli, who previously brought us Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. This is the story of a young woman growing up in Japan in 1962, […]
For information on Movies in Marlay 2014, please click here. The outdoor cinema thing is continuing to gather pace, and this time has hit the ‘burbs. In the glorious confines of Marlay […]
A busy week at the cinema, so let’s get straight down to it. Ryan Gosling is just so dreamy, like, the way he takes his shirt off in every single movie. Ahem. […]
A better than average Action movie, with Helen Mirren and John Malkovich battling it out as scene stealers! If you are Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins or any other serious actor, what […]
The people who pick the movies at the Lighthouse cinema are honest enough to say that there’s basically no reason at all for this season, no anniversary, no new releases, no nothing! […]
Frances and Sophie have a very intense relationship, which Frances describes as like a lesbian couple that don’t have sex. They’re ‘the same person with different hair’ according to Frances, but when […]
Nicholas Winding Refn is best known for Drive, which starred Ryan Gosling and told the tale of a Hollywood Stunt driver who worked as a get away driver by night. His latest […]
A lovely animated short by…. ah. Lovely Productions. Enjoy. “A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.”
The wall to wall coverage for the Wolverine movie really doesn’t seem to have created the hype they expected. There was a time in my life where the thought of a movie […]
Only God Forgives sees director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling pair up again for this Bangkok-based thriller. Gosling plays a drug-smuggler named Julian whose psycho brother is killed under unusual, […]
Festival season continues, and is pretty unrelenting, when you think about it! Longitude has only just left Marlay Park, and we’re back with all things funny in the Iveagh Gardens, with the […]
Those ‘Happening‘ people are back again, with another classic movie in the wonderful confines of Fitzwilliam Square, in Dublin, and all for €5. This time out, it’s the 1989 indie film and […]
A week without a major, major release, it’s almost a relief after the last couple, with wall to wall advertisements for movies such as Pacific Rim. Possibly the biggest release of the […]
There’s a crazy event in Merrion Square, with the biggest Riverdance ever along with an outdoors event of the show (details are here). There’s also new plays such as ‘Streetcar named Desire‘ […]
This week is the return of the big, brash summer blockbuster, with Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. The general consensus seems to be that it’s pretty damn average. There’s a law of […]
I thought the Happening season was over, but obviously not, as they have a good one in store for tomorrow night, with one of the sweetest movies in recent years shown outdoors […]
10 days in Dublin is in full swing with a stupid amount of events around the city, go explore their web site for details. There’s also lots of outdoor gigs on over […]
So, what’s new in the darkened movie theatres around the country then? Well, not a classic week for new releases sadly, but we’ll make do. With ‘Bling Ring‘ Sofia Coppola continues to […]
Another busy week in Dublin with a new festival in the form of 10 days in Dublin. We’re all quite excited about another chance to see the wonderful Matthew J Anthony live, […]
The two new releases that are getting the most attention are aimed at very different audiences, it would be fair to say. One is a bizarre sounding almost documentary about the massacre […]
I recently told one of my friends that I had never seen Spaced, and I could see at that moment I had dropped ten levels of coolness. Here’s my chance to put […]
Another one of those busy summer weeks, with far too much on around the city to see and do! You Bloom is billed as Dublin’s answer to South by South West and […]
If you like the ‘Stone Roses’, then you’ll love ‘Made of Stone’, which follows the Roses on their recent comeback tour. Anyone who’s seen ‘This is England’ will know that Shane Meadows […]
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