Daily Archives: March 15, 2009

The Mulkerrin Brothers win The All Ireland Talent Show

  By lecraic | March 15, 2009 - 11:19 pm | The Culch, TV
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Posted this video on Youtube earlier this evening after watching the show Can’t say I’ve been following it every week, but when I saw little Jack Lynch doing his hip hop at the audition I figured he was going to emerge as the winner. He came second to the Mulkerrin Brothers who represented the West of Ireland under mentor Daithi O’Se. 3 talented brothers from an Island off the West Coast are €50,000 richer tonight and long may they continue to keep traditional Irish music and dance alive.

Religulous (2008)

  By Voodoo | March 15, 2009 - 10:15 pm | Movies & TV
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I realise I am coming a bit late with this but it arrived quite randomly into my home this weekend and so I gave it a go. Bill Maher, who is well known (at least in the US) for being an atheist makes a very interesting documentary about religion in it’s various shapes and forms around the world. He doesn’t treat the subject with kid gloves and pretty much refutes the beliefs of the people he interviews and pokes holes in anything and everything for your viewing pleasure. This subject is particularly interesting to me as I come from a lapsed Catholic family (well, my parents are lapsed, my sibling and I never practised) and have many devout Catholic friends who I regularly have run- ins with about the subject. I was nodding and smiling all the way through this movie, because it echoes every hole I have poked myself … There’s more →

Ages of The Moon

  By Rick | March 15, 2009 - 9:16 pm | The Culch, Theatre
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I’m not a theatre reviewer at all up until this point. Movies, books, TV, music, I can do pretty much anything but I just don’t have any real experience of consistent theatregoing to base anything on. I’m only saying all that so you know this is the unimportant opinion of a philistine. Went to the new Sam Shepherd play Ages Of The Moon at The Peacock a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a two hander with Sean McGinley and Stephen Rea on a Southern U.S. porch, talking, drinking, pausing, staring at the moon and working their way through moments in their lives, waiting for a lunar eclipse just as Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot. It’s slow, still, not in any hurry to get to whatever destination there may be, if there even is one, but that’s what i really liked about it. I’ve always found … There’s more →

Comics on your iPhone / iPod Touch

  By lecraic | March 15, 2009 - 8:31 pm | Comics, The Culch
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Comics are coming to the iPhone thanks to a new venture by Crispy Comics. From the About page of the site, the founders say: Crispy Comics is a new mobile-only publishing company devoted to producing comic books, art books, and other content that revolves around sequential art and pop culture. Casey Lau and Jeff Kwan are long-time collaborators who had their paper-comic career come and go in 1998 with Oktomica Entertainment. The two then jumped into the web with flash animated comics and now here they go again with mobile comics. ….it really just comes down to a medium where we can get our ideas out to the widest number of people in the most immediate way possible. Whether you’re riding the bus, waiting for a friend, or out at a party where no one is really that interesting — you can pull out your mobile device and let us take you … There’s more →

A double act too far…

  By NaRocRoc | March 15, 2009 - 5:11 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch, TV
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More breaking news… Gavin and Stacey stars James Corden and Matthew Horne fear “becoming over-exposed and getting on people’s nerves”. Sorry to break it to you lads but I’m afraid it’s too late. The BAFTA-winning duo, who shot to fame in the sitcom, voiced their fears during a press conference for their upcoming film, Lesbian Vampire Killers. Corden and Horne, who played best friends Gavin and Smithy in the TV show, recently hosted the Brit Awards with Kylie and have also released their own comedy sketch show, Horne and Corden, which coincides with the release of the movie. Flavour of the month? Just a tad. Is it deserved? I for one can’t see the appeal. Horne told reporters: “Their (the shows and the movie) timings are out of our hands. But we are mindful of it and it is a tricky area we promise we will disappear for a bit.” … There’s more →

The flabby hand of Government in the mouth of Satire

  By Allan | March 15, 2009 - 4:16 pm | In The News
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Public Inquiry and The Irish Bulletin are both covering RTE’s editorial decision to tone down Nob Nation’s pieces on our buffoonish Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Satire is what keeps right minded people from going insane during regimes of inadequacy. I submit that the Daily Show and Colbert Report sustained the mental health of America during the Bush years. There is an inverse relationship between the strength of satire’s bite and the depths of ineptitude and moral bankruptcy plumbed by the political class, so if Oliver Callan is going harder on Brian Cowen than usual it should be seen as a barometer of Cowen’s performance. The real issue here is that RTE is emerging as an unreconstructed mouthpiece of Government, prepared to lean on its own talent rather than risk the disapproval of Leinster House. No better evidence of this is the totally discredited Prime Time, broadcasting as live a prerecorded autocue … There’s more →