I think it’s fair to say that Fringe Fever is in the air, as this is the first full week of the Fringe. It makes the job here a little more difficult […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (09-09-13 to 15-09-13)
Granby Park – Music and Cinema Happening – 07-09-13
Ireland seemed to have skipped a season and have gone straight from Summer to Winter, but this did little to dampen the enthusiasm of those that went to Granby Park at the […]
Happening – Music and Jurassic Park in Granby Park – 7-09-13
Something really special is happening in Granby Park on Dominic Street, just at the back of the Ilac centre. It’s one of those positive news stories that rarely gets a mention, people […]
Movie Review – Upstream Colour
Kris is a young, successful woman who seems to have her life on track. On a night out she is attacked and made to swallow a strange bug. This bug makes her […]
New Movie Releases – 30-08-13
Upstream Color is the new film from the director of Primer, Shane Carruth. I’m not hugely a believer in the director as the only name worth mentioning in the production of a […]
One Two One Two – Light House Cinema – Music Documentary Festival
A mixture of old and new in this years Music Documentary Season at the Lighthouse. One Two One Two is back from October 3rd to 6th. The ones that jump out are […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (26-08-13 to 01-09-13)
Is that really September creeping around the corner? The big event of this week is clearly the Picnic, but if you don’t have tickets by this stage, you won’t be going as […]
Movie Review – Elysium
Elysium is a satellite city floating high above the earth below. It is a walled garden , a place for the rich to escape the poverty and crime on Earth, a perfect […]
Reality Bites – Missionary Positions – Documentary Film Review
Missionary Positions (2005) Dir: Bill Day. – Two Pastors Crusade against Porn This is a lo-fi documentary that tells the tale of two evangelical ministers, Craig Gross and Mike Foster, who decide […]
New Movie Releases – 23-08-13
The rarest of rate things is released this week, a sci-fi movie that gets good reviews? Well, better than average anyway. That’s the first once since…. ah… District 9? This is the […]
Happening | Grand Canal Square | The Swimmer | 24-08-13
Another one of those ‘Happenings’ arrives this Saturday, and it leaves it’s near home of Fitzwilliam square to venture to the and Grand Canal Square. Full details can be found on their […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (19-08-13 to 25-08-13)
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 […]
New Movie Releases – 16-08-13
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 […]
Movie Review – Alan Partridge – Alpha Papa
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 […]
From One Second To The Next – Werner Herzog Documentary Series
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 […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (12-08-13 to 18-08-13)
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, […]
New Release Movies – 09-08-13
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 […]
Movie Review – From up on Poppy Hill
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, […]
Movies in Marlay Park – August 10th and 11th
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 […]
Movies – 02-08-13
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. […]
Movie Review – Red 2
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 […]
Brando Season at the Lighthouse
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! […]
Movie Review – Frances Ha
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 […]
Wanna Fight? – Season at the IFI – Movies that Inspired Nicholas Winding Refn
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 […]
Fear of Flying – Animated Short
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.”
Movies – 26-07-13 – Wolverine, Frances Ha
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 […]
Movie Review – Only God Forgives
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, […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (22-07-13 to 28-07-13)
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 […]
Withnail and I – Fitzwilliam Square – 20-07-13
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 […]
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