Daily Archives: October 2, 2009

Army of Crime: review

  By Niamh | October 2, 2009 - 10:03 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Army of Crime is a French World War II film, featuring a variety of young men in occupied France trying to get their own back on the Nazis they are forced to live side by side with. It was described to me by someone as the ‘real’ Inglourious Basterds. The men, mostly immigrants to France in fact, are eventually pulled together by the Resistance movement into an underground revolutionary unit, headed by Missak Manouchian an Armenian man long settled in France. Missak, against violence or blood shed of any kind at first, slowly comes to embrace the guerilla warfare favoured by the younger men in his command. These men and one women become heroes of sorts, avoiding capture by the French police and German soldiers equally. When pressure is exerted on the local french Chief Inspector from on high to crack down and pull off something spectacular he has them … There’s more →

Culchie Catch-Up (5)

  By Lottie | October 2, 2009 - 3:44 pm | Catch-Up, Featured Post, Site News, The Culch
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It’s October already! So much to do, so little time. Last week saw the passing of Arthur’s Day which we fully believe should be a public holiday from now on. We are also being a very cultured lot this week, feasting in the goodies of the Dublin Theatre Festival. October is going to be a very interesting month. Between Horror-fests, Beer festivals, new movie and so many gigs, I just hope we can keep up. Movies Niall’s roundup of this weeks Cinema releases. I am ever so excited about the new Freddy movie but as Darren asked, where is the classic theme? BEST.MOVIE. CROSS. OVER. IDEA. EVER! Music A bit of Irish music for October.

Emma - BBC1 Sunday 9pm

  By bngr | October 2, 2009 - 12:21 pm | The Culch, TV
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Calling all period drama fans. BBC have made a new version of Jane Austen’s Emma which is to air in 4 weekly parts starting this Sunday at 9pm on BBC1. Check out the promo video: The BBC are being very quiet about this new version which gives us room to speculate on what it’s going to be like. For starters, it’s a new period drama which is always a plus. The casting looks a bit off with Mr. Knightley not being old enough and Harriet being too pretty & Emma not enough so; but the same rookie casting errors were made in the BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice which still turned out to be a masterpiece so I wouldn’t let that worry us. In its favour, the screenplay writer - Sandy Welch - is the same woman who wrote the screenplay for North and South, which was, for me, possibly … There’s more →

Celebrating Arthur

  By Anto | October 2, 2009 - 10:56 am | Events
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Last Thursday, the good people from WHPR were nice enough to give me and few bloggers access to the Guinness 250 festivities in Dublin. As you well know at this stage, there were a wealth of gigs going on across the city on the 24th. Myself, Christian Hughes and Damien Mulley were in Bruxelles as the clock rounded to 17:59. As we toasted Arthur and Christian grabbed this video: The pub itself was jammed with all venues selling out for the day. Looking out onto the street, where crowds seemed to overflow from each and every pub, there was a jovial atmosphere which almost looked exactly like the television ad. The one name on everyone’s lips was Tom Jones and specifically where he was doing his second gig of the evening. When you have a media access lanyard on, people tend to assume you know the whole lineup. After watching … There’s more →