The dead are coming back to life in Channel 4’s sublime French drama series on Sunday evenings. We are at the halfway mark of the series but with the help of 4OD […]
Les Revenants (The Returned) – TV Review
The Fall – Series Review
Belfast-based series The Fall gives the Scandi crime genre a run for its money, writes Sarah Gilmartin. You know how it goes. You head out after work on Friday evening for a […]
Edgar Wright House Weekend – Lighthouse Cinema – 5th – 8th July
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 […]
The Americans – TV – Review
Cold War Hots Up This isn’t going to be like ‘Scarecrow and Mrs King, is it?’ That’s a question you could be asking yourself if you tune in randomly into ‘The Americans’ […]
Woolwich, Boston and the New Terror – Dispatches – TV Review
Fear and Loathing in Boston and London – the New Terror Matt Frei is one of the best reporters working in television today – his reportage combines a sense of ‘history as […]
Person of Interest – TV Review
Somewhat Interesting Abraham Lincoln is said to have written the following, when reviewing a book he wasn’t particularly keen on; ‘for those who like that sort of thing, I should think it […]
Arrested Development – Season 4 – Review
I was having an on line chat with an old friend a few nights ago. We are both Arrested Development fans so I asked her how she was getting on with season […]
The Magic Tricks of JJ Abrams – Culture Show Special – TV Review
JJ Abrams Boldly Goes Never having liked ‘Lost’ – there said it – nor ‘Cloverfield’ either, this reviewer was somewhat wary on hearing that JJ Abrams would be directing the new Star […]
Not Like Any Other Love – Culture Show – TV Review
Panic on the Streets of Dublin – a Tribute to the Smiths The Smiths…if you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember them with a quasi-religious reverence, a band of ironic miserabilists from […]
Mountains to Sea Festival Highlights – Preview
I only briefly mentioned the Mountains to Sea festival so far, so thought I spend a bit of time looking at what’s on. It is lacking a big name star this year, […]
Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken is a comedy show from Adult Swim which was created by Seth Green, among others! I’m not sure it’s reached our shore as of yet, but it’s all over the […]
Fight Night – New Theatre
This is mostly about pay back. When I was about five years old, I won a Texaco art competition, and the amazing prize (I think it was a bag!) was presented by […]
Donal Dineen – Hi-Five-o
Donal at one time decided what cool was in Ireland. I remember looking forward to ‘No Disco’ which ran every Thursday night and featured the best of alternative music. Since then he’s […]
Lost Irish #2 – Engine Alley
Engine Alley are straight out of Kilkenny, hard to believe that they ever came from that particular spot. They had three albums, which is two more than i remember, and may well […]
In Motion – Hollow Blow
I just had a nostalgic moment and so I did a quick search for In Motion (took me several minutes to remember the band name!). Their album, The Language of Everyday Life, […]
Online Preview – Podge and Rodge movie
I thought they’d been quiet for a while. Podge and Rodge’s first movie (mini film) will have its premier online on February 25th. To be in with a chance to get an […]
Yo La Tengo do Seinfeld
On Yo La Tengo’s new tour, a member of the audience is called to the front, and asked to spin a wheel, at the start of each show. The wheel lets you […]
The National – Other voices
The much discussed appearance of the National on Other voices will be aired on the Wednesday the 16th of Feb on RTE 2, at 11.25. The appearance itself almost didn’t happen, due […]
Walking Dead Animation
I’ve been told repeatedly that the new Walking Dead series is a bit suspect (you know who you are Mary), so even though I enjoyed the first episode, I’m not hugely looking […]
Zig and Zag return!
I only realised this due to the impossibly bad advertisement campaign that 2 fm have on tv and around town at the moment. Zig and Zag are on some of the posters, […]
Awesome show, Great Job!
ATP TV is always an interesting blend of nonsense and art house junk. At Godspeed’s ATP, the best thing on it was ‘Eric and Tim’s Awesome Show, Great Job!’ which linked all […]
Dexter – Early Cuts
I’ve been a fan of Dexter for a few years now. It’s great cheese, as tv goes, it’s right up there with the best, such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and a […]
The Walking Dead Pilot
Ok, I’ve seen it, i had to cheat a little via the internet, but I’ve watched the first episode of the Walking Dead as discussed here. I have slightly mixed emotions about […]
To toast or not to toast
I wish I could stop myself, but I can’t! This video has nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with toast. They have the whole thing on youtube, which is pretty amazing.
Den End
RTE have officially ended the Den, to be replaced by these smiling idiots. In truth its been rubbish for years, and god knows Socky was never funny. It had a wonderful free […]
The Walking Dead
What happens when zombies stop being fun? For the first while, you could really get into all that neck snapping, hacking at them with axes, chopping with swords and the rest of […]
No More Workhorse 