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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
Damsels In Distress (1.1) – review
Damsels in Distress begins at New Students Orientation, where Violet (Greta Gerwin), Heather and Rose spot Lily (Analeigh Tipton), a transfer student, and decide to take her under their wings and guide her through university life at Seven Oaks – a roman-letter East Coast college, with a stench of male perspiration still persisting from its … Read more
Cats Out of the Bag
Patrick Reevell interviews Russian feminist punk outfit Pussy Riot before their arrest during the Russian Presidential Elections. “Holy Shit, Putin’s pissed himself!” Three slim figures in bright summer dresses, electric leggings and balaclavas made from fluorescent bobble-hats are alternating in prostrating themselves and jumping up and down at the altar of Moscow’s principal cathedral; … Read more
The Maccabees – live review
The Academy, 3rd March 2012 2012 has seen Brighton’s The Maccabees explode onto the wider public consciousness with the release of their third album, Given To the Wild. A packed out Academy provided an intimate environment for the gig, and the crowd waited expectantly as the support act, Dublin’s We Cut Corners, gently roused the … Read more
The Raid
Brilliant. Bloody brilliant… With emphasis on the bloody. Written and Directed by Gareth Evans, ‘The Raid’ or Serbuan Maut is one of the most brutal visual feasts of recent years. The film tells the story of a Jakarta SWAT team that are apparently ordered to enter the dominion of a violent gang-lord, Jaka (Joe Taslim). … Read more
First Aid Kit Review – The Workman’s Club
“Let us be your First Aid Kit… ” Klara, the younger, silken-haired half of the (eponymous) Swedish sister folk duo whispered to fans at the Workman’s Club a couple of weekends ago. It was their first gig in Dublin since a fleeting appearance in the Button Factory when Klara was just fifteen, yet one which they … Read more
Where to Begin
Patrick Reevell talks to journalist Angus Roxburgh about his new book The Stongman, tv series, Russia Putin and the West, and his take on the Russian elections. Two Sundays ago, Russia witnessed Vladimir Putin secure a return to the Kremlin as president in elections described by international monitors described … Read more
It is now almost exactly a year since the assembled forces of the IMF/EU/ECB troika marched into Dublin to relieve the nation of its economic sovereignty. Since then, the nation has been putting itself through a relentless cycle of self-examination over the radio waves, in the Sunday papers or under the lights of the … Read more
Let Them See Plays
“No money” is the daily refrain of the humble college student. The hierarchy of student priorities begins with rent and utilities, followed by transport and food, and concluded with the necessary luxury of alcohol. But where does culture figure in this hierarchy? It is well-known that the Friday-night date haunts of college students, like the … Read more
The Woman in the Fifth – Review (2.2)
A father separated from his daughter, a seductive widow, an innocent child – The Woman in the Fifth (or La femme du Vème) has all the ingredients necessary for a great tragedy yet seems incomplete in its finale. Ethan Hawke plays Tom Ricks, a college lecturer and writer who has come to Paris to see … Read more
Open City (Teju Cole) – Review
With his debut novel, Open City, Teju Cole proves himself a talented writer fully attuned to the loneliness, the vicissitudes and the serendipity of modern urban life. Set largely in New York City, we are guided through the metropolis by Julius, an African-born psychiatrist ruminating his way through the streets of Manhattan and the landscapes … Read more
