Movie Review: Moneyball

Baseball. America’s National Pastime, and a complete mystery to everybody else (ok, ok, apart from some Cubans and some Japanese). So here’s a two-hour film about it: Enjoy! Moneyball tells the story of Oakland Athletics general manager Bill Beane, and how he used statistical analysis and a value-for-money approach to assemble a team of relative misfits that went on the longest unbeaten run in the history of professional baseball. Bear with me, I promise there’s interesting stuff ahead. Beane (Brad Pitt) has just had a hugely successful year with the A’s but, with the smallest budget of any Major League Baseball team, all of his best players jump ship for bigger, better contracts. Tasked to replace them, he ends up looking for players at the Cleveland Indians and stumbles upon an advisor to his Indians counterpart whose role he can’t quite figure out. This advisor has a name, Peter Brand … There’s more

Comedy Review: BadAss Comedy Cafe

The BadAss Comedy Café opened its doors last Friday for the first time. I was lucky enough to be invited along to the first night of this new comedy club. It is the run by Aidan Killian and Andrew Gilmore. I wasn’t sure what to expect to be honest; I was unsure whether the setting of a comedy club in a café would work… I have to say it did! Located upstairs in the café, I must say it’s quite a good set up. There was a good crowd in for the opening night, though I expected nothing less with the amount of advertising the lads did prior to it. I was greeted at the door by a lovely woman who even went out of her way to get chairs for myself and my friend to sit on! The lighting in the room was a little strange I have to … There’s more

Dates and Times: Where to Win PS3′s with PlayStation’s Steady Hand Challenge

Gaming enthusiast? Got steady hands? The people at PlayStation are spreading Christmas cheer by giving away PS3 consoles around Ireland in the run up to Christmas as part of their Play Everywhere campaign. They’ve already handed over freebies to six speedy competitors at Connolly Station and Heuston Station last weekend and this weekend and during next week they’ll be at it again. Want to know where? Read on. Today Friday 25th : UCD Student centre 11am - 3pm Saturday 26th: Cork Airport (Time TBC) Wednesday 30th: NUI Galway 11am - 3pm Thursday 1st: University of Limerick 11am- 3pm There’ll also be a Play Everywhere Challenge somewhere in Dublin City Centre this Saturday 26th with a Sony 3D TV up for grabs. From the press release: All those who complete the challenge in less than 5 minutes will get a Play Everywhere t-shirt, while the first 3 of those who complete … There’s more