Daily Archives: June 9, 2011

An Interview (of sorts) with Mark from Ash

  By Andy Gaffney | June 9, 2011 - 11:30 am | Festivals, Gigs, Music, The Culch
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With the Temple House Festival nearly ready to rock off with its socks off this weekend, I caught up with Mark from headliners Ash to chat about it. Which was the plan really, however in true past form the interview soon turned into chatting about Star Wars (a lot) and girls (the lack thereof). So yeah, enjoy it, he’s a bit lovely. A: ‘Ello Mark! Dear god whats that noise? M: Its pissing down rain here, its awful. A : What are you doing outside then, man? M : I was rehearsing in the studio but the reception is awful, so I’m hiding out here, trying to avoid the rain. A: Well, I’ll be quick and let you get indoors. The bonus of this being a phone interview, though, is I don’t need to mess about with tie knots and I can do this in my underwear in between busting … There’s more →

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda 2

  By Sue Murphy | June 9, 2011 - 9:00 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Director: Jennifer Yuh. Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Jackie Chan It was inevitable that we were going to see a sequel at some point on reflection of the original Kung Fu Panda. The first film generated more questions about the lovable panda than it did answers and following his training, there would obviously be more quests in store, saving China, again proving his worth … you get the picture. It may have helped that the original animation made just over $630 million gross at the box office and couple that with the fact that Dreamworks are no strangers to the sequel, Po the Panda was certain to again see the light of day. However, completely unexpectedly, Dreamworks have managed to churn out a better film, impressively in a shorter period of time than the first which took four years to … There’s more →