Entertainment

Summer Events – Groove Festival 2016

Festival season, unlike the more by the book summer or winter, is not a 'season' in any traditional sense of the word. It is not marked by a gentle dusting of snow across a field, nor by the falling of leaves, ...

MTV Movie Awards: All Black Everything

  It seems that ‘black on black’ was the trend of the evening at this year’s MTV Movie Awards. From supermodels Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne to funny woman Rebel Wilson, head to toe black was ever...

Affleck to direct and star in stand-alone Batman film

Ben Affleck is set to direct and star in his own stand-alone Batman film. Warner Bros chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara confirmed at Cinemacon (held in Las Vegas this week) what most DC fans have been waiting...

In Defence of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Critics have been very, very… very harsh about Batman v Superman and to be honest I’m not quite sure why? Don’t get me wrong I do think there are a lot of problems with the film, but there is no way it’s as ...
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Review: Midnight Special

Midnight Special is a poor title. It really is. It evokes those cheap horror/thriller films seen late at night on ITV2. It is a bad title. Which is a pity, because the film itself is one of the best, most origi...
the witch

Review: The Witch

Directed by: Robert Eggers. Written by: Robert Eggers. Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. Running time: 92 Minutes. The Witch (or The VVitch as it has also confu...
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Review: Sing Street

Irish film has always had an intricate relationship with music. From The Commitments, to Once, to even Finbar Furey popping up to sing a song in Irish-flavoured Gangs of New York. John Carney, director of Once,...

Review: Hail, Caesar!

Directed by: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. Written by: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. Starring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Scarlett Johansson. Running time: 106 Minutes. The Coen brot...
mammal

Mammal Review

While some hated that, in Life of Pi, the journalist kept stating obvious facts (‘So Richard Parker was the tiger?’), it served a purpose. It helped you understand the facts, so you could get on with the story....
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In Photos: Slacker’s Symphony @ Whelans

  Slacker’s Symphony are a Dublin based band consisting of brothers Ed and James Grannell along with Nathan Maher, Marcin Nowak and Brian Mannion. The band took to the legendary venue...