Daily Archives: October 28, 2010

Sneak peek at Tron: Legacy? Yes please!

  By brogen | October 28, 2010 - 5:26 pm | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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A select few were invited to a sneak peek of Tron: Legacy this morning, culch.ie were lucky enough to be in this elite group to see 23 minutes of one of this year’s most anticipated films. ‘Electrify the boys and girls if you would be so kind’ - were Michael Sheen’s immortal words in the Tron: Legacy sneak peek, and electrified we were! Tron: Legacy is the follow up to 1982′s Tron. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is still in The Grid, but has managed to make contact with the outside world. Kevin’s son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) follows his father into the world of Tron and comes face to face with his father for the first time in many years.

Pop Talent Wars - Robyn 5,000,000 : Cheryl Cole nil

  By Éilish Burke | October 28, 2010 - 9:45 am | Music
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I read somewhere today that Cheryl Cole’s last album went triple platinum in the UK and Ireland. Now I’m not even sure how many albums you have to sell to go triple platinum these days (76?), but the fact that the hair extensioned bedimpled one has a career as a pop ‘singer’ when she can barely hold a note annoys me no end. Especially when you have real, proper pop stars out there like Robyn who the mainstream pop establishment largely ignore. Robyn has written one of the best pop songs of the year in ‘Dancing On My Own’. Let’s face it, if this song was sung by someone with long hair and their tits out it would have got to number one. After all Chezzel made it to number 1 with the dirgeful ‘Fight for this Love’. Imagine what would happen if she actually had a good song to … There’s more →

Review - Animal Kingdom

  By brogen | October 28, 2010 - 9:30 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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David Michod’s directorial debut – Animal Kingom – won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, and was one of the most popular films of the festival. Animal Kingdom is a dark crime thriller, based around a dysfunctional Australian family. When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, 17-year-old Josh (James Frencheville) is taken in by his grandmother and uncles. The family have been estranged for many years; Josh’s mother kept him away from them because she was afraid of their involvement with crime. Josh’s uncles, Baz, Craig and Pope, are known armed robbers and the police are staking out the family home. While all seems to be holding together at first, as Josh says, “all crooks come undone”, and when things eventually begin to unravel they do so very quickly.

Seán’s Movie Music Magorium: Interview with the Vampire

  By Seanplaywrite | October 28, 2010 - 9:00 am | Movies & TV, Soundtracks, The Culch
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Eliot Goldenthal’s score for Neil Jordan’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ is dark, frightening, luscious, pensive and evocative. Opening with the piece ‘Libera me’ the story of Louis Pont Du Lac is reflected in the twisted melodies floating over the coast of San Francisco. This movie changed the genre of vampire films for years to come – seeing the story unfold through the eyes of a tormented man, revolted at the nature of his being would lead to countless other vampire-p.o.v. films. This movie has the good fortune to be scored by Goldenthal, who not only composed an Oscar nominated score but did it in three weeks. Listening to a track like ‘Libera me’, it is a display of pure talent. As the credits roll, we are drawn into this world. One sustained note brings us into the score – a drawn out string, leading to a choir of boys joining … There’s more →