Daily Archives: June 15, 2009

Who likes a hangover?

  By NaRocRoc | June 15, 2009 - 7:15 pm | Comedy, Movies & TV
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Certainly not I. The Hangover is not a particularly funny movie. It’s no American Pie. It’s no Porkies. It’s no Superbad. In fact it’s not really sure what it is. It doesn’t know whether to be a crude, juvenile buddy movie or a cleverer guy bonding, road movie. It tries to straddle both, and fails. The Hangover is a Las Vegas-set comedy centred around a bachelor party gone wrong. Three groomsmen lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him. The writing is often amateurish, and gives the cast and director very little to work with. It’s chockablock with scenarios that a 4 year old could’ve dreamt up. Lots of contrived situations and predictable stock characters. And I suppose it doesn’t help when you cast actors who wouldn’t know a punchline if it jumped up and bit them. The casting is … There’s more →

Gigs

  By Rick | June 15, 2009 - 4:50 pm | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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It’s Monday. It’s the best title I can come up with… One For The Team & special guests: Heritage Centre Whelan’s, Fri 17th July Tickets €13 Faith No More play The Olympia Theatre on Thursday August 27th. Tickets are priced €54.80 (Standing/Upper Circle seating) and €59.80 (Circle Seating) and are on sale from this Wednesday, 17th June. POD presents MONOTONIX Support: TBC Friday July 24th CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2. Doors – 8pm Tickets €12 BLACK STONE CHERRY Live at the Academy on October 12th 2009. Tickets priced 17.50. AC/DC fans who missed out on securing tickets for the bands ‘Black Ice Tour’ date at Punchestown Racecourse after they sold out months ago, will be delighted with the news that a limited number of production tickets will be released for sale tomorrow, Tuesday 16th June 2009 at 9.00am sharp, limited to 4 per person. One For The Team & special … There’s more →

Two Sheets To The Wind: Top 5 Comedies

  By Darren & Lottie | June 15, 2009 - 12:01 pm | Comedy, Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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After the response to and indeed furore over last weeks post of our Top Five Action movies, we decided to make a series out of the idea. Being ever so dedicated to our beloved Culchies we did what only truly committed Pop-Culchurists do and took to the pub for a brain storming session. I know, I know, hold your applause, we will be rewarded in heaven. We put our heads and our pint glasses together to come up with our lists of top comedies. Of course this opened up the discussion of how wide do we cast the net in what defines comedy. Humour is relative. We decided to limit our lists to films that are specifically designed to be comedies disregarding those accidental comedies born of drama or horror and movies in which humour is simply a happy bonus to a great movie. Deciding between the contenders for my … There’s more →