Daily Archives: September 21, 2009

Holy Blind Io! It’s the 1st Irish Discworld Convention!

  By Lisa McInerney | September 21, 2009 - 11:41 pm | Books, Events, The Culch
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If you’ve ever thought the name “Havelock” sexy, or used the Vimes’ Boots Theory at a dinner-party discussion, or roared, “I Aten’t Dead!” at yer da, then you’ll be just as excited as I am that the first ever Irish Discworld Convention takes place from the 6th to the 9th of November in the Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Discworld, for the uninitiated, is a series of comedic fantasy books by Sir Terry Pratchett set on the … well, Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four gigantic elephants, carried through space on the back of a celestial turtle. Lest that frighten you back into your Al Gore tomes, it should be stated that the Discworld books are probably the most side-splittingly funny, savagely satirical, and emotionally validating books you’ve never read. In short, if you’re not familiar with Discworld due to “ooh, not much liking fantasy, thank … There’s more →

Colonel Popcorn’s Minute Movie Mystery

  By Colonel Popcorn | September 21, 2009 - 3:48 pm | Movies & TV
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If you cheat in this I’ll make you watch each and every Jack Black movie to try and find one that doesn’t feature him running out of breath before the end of a sentence. 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. It’s near impossible, it’s like he forgets that he has to inhale after exhaling. Tool. 000OOO000 Guess the movie - Released in 1988 Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro both turned down the same one of two lead roles The actor who did get the role convinced the producers and director to let him play the character as withdrawn, not happy and full of energy and joy as written in the script The fart in the phone box scene was improvised when one … There’s more →

Tommy Tiernan - the gombeen in the striped pyjamas

  By lecraic | September 21, 2009 - 3:25 pm | In The News
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So, Tommy Tiernan is in hot water again over one of his outbursts/jokes/random mental thoughts. This time it’s the Jews. Irishcentral says he is facing a worldwide storm of protest over these comments : “But these Jews, these f**king Jews come up to me. F**king Christ killing bastards. F**king six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that. No f**king problem. Two at a time they would have gone. Hold hands, get in there, leave us your teeth and your glasses.” Tiernan made them during a Q&A at Electric Picnic a few weeks ago and he prefaced the comments by saying that comedy was “about allowing whatever lunacy is inside you to come out in a special protected environment where people know that nothing they say is being taken seriously.” We get it Tommy. You’re an artiste - you must follow your muse, challenge perceptions, push … There’s more →

Edvard Munch Prints Exhibition

  By bngr | September 21, 2009 - 3:19 pm | The Culch
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From 19 September to 6 December 2009 the National Gallery are hosting an exhibition of prints by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Munch is best known for his painting the Scream (and the fact that it was stolen, twice); a print of which (above) features in the exhibition. The exhibition features 40 prints by Munch spanning his career. The exhibition takes place on the ground floor of the new Wing of the Gallery, tickets €5, with other concessions including free entry all day on Mondays. Hence I went and had a look today at lunchtime and it is well worth a visit. It’s rare for Ireland to get this quality of famous art. The prints are beautiful and are typical of turn of the century expressionist art. Any Klimt fans will appreciate the prints. Go see.

Vultures PI: Attack of the Pinkertons

  By Niamh | September 21, 2009 - 11:24 am | Comedy, The Culch, The Internet, TV
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Attack of the Pinkertons, the newest episode of Vultures PI is now live online. Attack of the Pinkertons is the long awaited sixth episode of the hilarious Kilkenny based webcom. If this is your first time to see Vultures, you can check out the previous 5 episodes on their website. And if you’d just like to read a bit more about the background of this episode go here. Otherwise just sit back, relax and enjoy…

Dr. Horrible Hijacks the 61st Emmys

  By Niall | September 21, 2009 - 10:30 am | The Culch, TV
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Irish actor Brendan Gleeson was amongst the winners at last nights Primetime Emmy awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The star picked up the award for best lead actor in a miniseries for his role as Winston Churchill in Into The Storm. Gleeson gave a heart-felt thanks to the producers of the series who allowed his mother to see a first cut of his performance before her recent death. Elsewhere in a night of few surprises the BBC emerged big winners with their adaptation of Charles Dicken’s lesser known work Little Dorrit nabbing 7 Emmy awards, more than any other show. Little Dorrit won for best mini-series as well as getting awards in outstanding writing, art direction, costumes and cinematography. In addition, Little Dorrit picked up an award for best direction with the Emmy going to Irish actress Dearblha Walsh. The BBC also won for its Iraq war drama House of … There’s more →

Batman: Arkham Asylum Review

  By Stephen Colfer | September 21, 2009 - 9:30 am | Comics, Featured Post, Games, The Culch
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There’s four henchmen below me, three armed and one with a pipe. They’re close together and calm. No chance of knocking three out before one pulls the trigger and the batsuit is far from bullet proof. The un-armed man leaves the group, getting board. He walks underneath a stone gargoyle the same gargoyle I happen to be perched upon. I drop and suddenly he’s strung upside down hanging from the statue. That’s one. His companions rush towards him while one stays behind frantically looking for the bat. But he’s too late, I’m two feet away from gliding feet first into the back of his neck. That’s two. The two remaining henchmen stand back to back but they’re afraid. Pulse rates are averaging at 140bpm when I emerge from the floor grates between them, a swift punch to the back of the neck forces the first to drop his gun, the … There’s more →

You’re so money…

  By bngr | September 21, 2009 - 9:25 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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*small spoiler alert for 500 Days of Summer* Went to see 500 Days of Summer and was a tad disappointed - sorry Darren and Niamh. She may be culch’s no. 1 crush but Zooey Deschanel’s (bring back the days of simplistic stage names) character was just too heartless for me to get past. In the context of “boy meets girl - boy loses girl - boy spends bulk of film not getting over it - boy gets over it” films, and there hasn’t been many, this film constantly reminded me of it’s superior 90s equivalent - Swingers. Swingers was one of those smalltime indie cult films that didn’t reach a wide audience but was a classic all the same, spawning the famous quote “you’re so money” (multiple f-word usage warning).