Daily Archives: May 10, 2011

Competition CLOSED: Win A Year’s Supply of Broderick’s Bars

  By Sinead Keogh | May 10, 2011 - 11:37 am | Competitions, Food, wantsies
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***Competition Closed. Winner has been contacted*** So your celebratory Easter chocolate has probably long since run out and you could do with something sweet at the start of the week, are we right? Just as well the gang at Broderick’s Brothers want to give you a year’s supply of Broderick’s Brothers Handmade Cakes and Bars then. You might remember the Broderick’s Brothers from last year’s Apprentice, but long before they were selling their yummy wares into Spar (and on their own website, here) their mammy, Ina, set up the family business from her own kitchen and the boys got their love of homemade sweet and delicous things from there. If you’re not familiar with Rocky Road, Chocolate Brownies, Caramel Slices, Winter Slices, Belgian Chocolate Caramel Nut Bars, Tiffin Slices and Granola Slices then we reckon it’s about time you got intimately acquainted. We recommended the Winter Slice ourselves, but don’t … There’s more →

Movie Review: Outside the Law

  By Neil | May 10, 2011 - 9:59 am | Movies & TV
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“Outside the Law” is the companion film to 2006’s “Days of Glory” from Rachid Bouchared, where Glory detailed the almost orgotten history of Algerian importance in the liberation of France in WW2, (a horrific blight on Allied Forces that these soldiers, about to enter victoriously in Paris in 1944, were replaced with more photogenic white soldiers). ”Outside the Law” is the struggle for independence for Algeria in a guerrilla war against France on her own soil.It begins in 1928 with the appropriation of land from Algerian farmers and moves through to the early 50’s when 3 brothers we initially meet as young boys leaving their ancestral home are now 3 very distant, sadly quite shallow stereotypes. There is the thief, the scholar (he wears glasses) and the one in the middle; and this sentence is in fact more character development than you will see in the entire 2hrs 20 mins.

Retro Movie Review: Phase IV

  By Stan | May 10, 2011 - 9:24 am | Movies & TV
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So defenceless in the individual; so powerful in the mass. Graphic designer Saul Bass (1920–1996) is best known for his iconic film posters and title sequences, the latter including The Man with the Golden Arm, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, Spartacus, West Side Story, Big, Goodfellas, and Cape Fear. Though not generally known as a director, he made a couple of shorts and one feature-length film: a 1974 science-fiction oddity called Phase IV. The film opens with a shimmery synthesiser soundtrack and a voiceover that tells us: “When the effect came, it was almost unnoticed, because it happened to such a small and insignificant form of life”. The “effect” came from a blast of energy waves caused by an obscure cosmic event. We see a few cryptic images, then a long, documentary-style montage of ants being ants. But all is not as it appears. We’re told they’re “doing things that … There’s more →