Daily Archives: September 6, 2009

Point Blank at Absolut Fringe 2009

  By Steph | September 6, 2009 - 11:52 pm | Featured Post, The Arts, Theatre
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Fascinatng, disturbing, engaging, thought-provoking and encouraging. These are some of the words I would use to describe my first Absolut Fringe Festival 2009 experience - Point Blank at the Project Arts Centre. Upon finishing high school, Nada is faced with the challenge of deciding what she wants to do with her life. Despite the expectations of her peers, Nada doesn’t want to go to university. She finds the notion that she is expected to know what she wants to with her life at such a young age absurd and thus decides to leave home and head into the unknown to figure out her path. She takes her camera (which has a powerful zoom lens) with her and begins to secretly photograph people from a distance observing the lives of others in an attempt to decide what kind of life she wants to lead. From her travels she has so far collected … There’s more →

Colonel Popcorn’s Minute Movie Mystery

  By Colonel Popcorn | September 6, 2009 - 10:18 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Cheating in this will result in you being made to go on a date with Ben Affleck’s chin. You may not use Google, Twitter, Facebook, the IMDB, Wikipedia, texting, emailing, phone calling, writing, and/or Jedi mind tricks or any other form of cheating. I’m watching and I know where you live. Under the clock at Clery’s you’ll go. 000OOO000 Guess the movie - Released in 1980 American chat show host David Letterman screen tested for the movie Barry Manilow was considered for a role in the movie Christopher Lee turned down a role in the movie It took only 34 days to shoot The last sentence of the copyright notice in the end credits is “So there!”

To Whom It Concerns

  By Will | September 6, 2009 - 7:27 pm | Music, TV
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To nearly everyone in Ireland, this means “The Late Late Show“, which restored the old theme tune to our screens on Friday. However, it turns out that the theme we know is actually a number 13 UK chart hit by Chris Andrews from 1966. I know that the Late Late started in 1962, however I don’t know when the theme associated to the show was first used. Direct link to the video if you can’t see the embedded one. Video link courtesy of TheChrisD. Interestingly Chris Andrews is still alive and working in Germany, so its possible that he might show up on the show yet. In fact, its also possible that Ryan is related to Chris (in a Today FM interview Ryan mentioned that he was trying to find out as he is part of the Andrews family). And I wonder if it is possible to get an old … There’s more →

Get your votes in for RTE’s Storyland final - it’s city vs culchie

  By darraghdoyle | September 6, 2009 - 3:41 pm | The Culch, The Internet, TV
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Have you been following Storyland on RTÉ? It’s down to the final two shows - Rental Boys and Hardy Bucks - almost a case of city vs culchie… Rental Boys - the story of two feuding video stores - stars some of the crew from the Diet of Worms. We’ve followed the team around for the past few months bringing us up to date with Brian (played by Shane Langan), the disgruntled Movie Visions employee who aspires to be a sci-fi screen writer, with Darren (played by Paul Butler-Lennox) and his introducing of the tanning beds to the store while Andrew (played by Rory Conolly) and Sharon (played by Amy Stephenson) provide some interesting (to say the least) storylines in the background. Directed by Garret Daly and written by Gemma Creagh, who also co-produces with Daly, Rental Boys has been an-all-too-uncomfortably realistic (because I worked in Xtra-vision) and funny series … There’s more →