Daily Archives: October 13, 2010

Facts Movies have taught us

  By Maxi Cane | October 13, 2010 - 1:37 pm | Movies & TV
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Been a while since my last venture into Culch Towers, but I thought you might be tickled by this. *** *** *** 1. When they’re alone, foreigners all prefer to speak English to each other. 2. If being chased through a city, you can take cover in a passing St Patrick’s Day parade. At any time of year. 3. All beds have L shaped sheets that reach up to armpit level on the woman, but only waist high on the man lying beside her. 4. The Chief of Police will either suspend his star detective or give him 48 hours to complete the job. 5. All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French bread. 6. Anyone can land a plane provided there is someone to talk them down.

Competition: Win tickets to see an exclusive sneak-peak of Tron: Legacy

  By Niall | October 13, 2010 - 12:45 pm | Competitions, Movies & TV
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*** Competition Closed *** *** Congrats to Dooley*** TRON Night: 3D Experience, a special event on October 28, 2010, that will give audiences worldwide the first opportunity to step onto the Grid and into the cutting-edge, 3D world of Walt Disney Pictures’ high-tech adventure TRON: LEGACY, during an exciting 20-plus-minute sneak peek of the highly anticipated film. Here in Ireland, TRON Night: 3D Experience will take place at 6.15pm in Cineworld Cinema, Parnell Street, Dublin 1. And you can get 4 tickets to this exclusive event right here on Culch.ie!

I know I have a pair of white skinny jeans somewhere…

  By Lisa McInerney | October 13, 2010 - 12:00 pm | Music
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… aaaaand we’re over the hump of the week. Happy Wednesday afternoon, everyone! You haven’t, by any chance, made a resolution to be much more hip from here on in, have you? Perhaps to age backwards? To be Down With The Kids? Such a resolution, in itself, is ruddy tragic, but you may still fancy a listen of The Answering Machine’s latest song, Animals, to bolster your little journey. That’s an ortistic video they’ve got there, isn’t it? It’s NMETVtastic! The kids are readying the release of their second album, Lifeline, for early 2011, and I quite like that they’ve built on the buzz that their debut stuff drummed up, rather than overdosed and withered on it. Catchy, this. Did you like it? You can download it for free here. Hoopla!

Review: Vampires Suck

  By Kitty Catastrophe | October 13, 2010 - 10:30 am | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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Dear oh dear. Dear oh dear oh dear oh dear. I decided to give Vampires Suck a fighting (biting?) chance, based solely on my intense and utter disdain for the sulky heap of balls that is the Twilight saga. I had quietly (foolishly, more like) hoped for even a semi-decent spoof, but it appears that the genre well and truly died on its arse around the time of Scary Movie. Gone are the days of Airplane!, The Naked Gun and genuinely funny Mel Brooks parodies, supplanted instead by films based on fart jokes and pop culture references that are out of date by the time you leave the cinema. The few actual funny moments (there are around three, and they’re probably all in the trailer anyway) are the ones where they just recycle and exaggerate exact scenes from Twilight. Although they’re still not even close to enough to make it … There’s more →

Ad Nauseam: Toothy Smiles All Round

  By Éilish Burke | October 13, 2010 - 9:55 am | Adverts, Featured Post, The Culch
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Greetings readers. I hope you are all shiny happy people this Wednesday. I hope you have big toothy grins on your faces and I especially hope that there aren’t any rotten teeth in our midst. That’s because this weeks post is all about advertising in the exciting area of dental hygiene! I know, you just can’t contain yourself, can you? I’m not sure why, but I have a bit of a thing about dental ads. It’s probably because they are on telly all the time. No matter what the economic climate, people still have to brush their teeth (unless they’re Shane McGowan who by all appearances has never knowingly walked past a toothbrush), so advertisers have to keep on convincing us there’s a reason to buy Colgate over Aquafresh. Toothpaste manufacturing is a pretty recession proof business come to think of it. Let’s put it on that list alongside fast … There’s more →

Machete

  By brogen | October 13, 2010 - 9:30 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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After he is betrayed by the organisation that hired him, Machete – an ex-Federale - embarks on a bloody rampage of revenge against his former boss. In 2007, Robert Rodriguez – among others – made a fake trailer to play between the Planet Terror and Death Proof, the Grindhouse double bill written and directed by Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. That trailer was for a Mexploitation film called Machete. This film is an expansion of the trailer. Rodriguez originally planned a character called Machete for Danny Trejo in 1993, but apart from a character of the same name in the Spy Kids franchise, this is the first feature length outing for the character… And to be honest, it’s a little disappointing.