Events: FirstFortnight kicks off tomorrow with Delorentos/Tieranniesaur @ The Workman’s for €5

Our New Year’s resolution here in Culch Towers is to be more deadly. More deadly, you see, because we’re already a degree of deadly. (1% is still a percentage, friends.) First on the list is to go to more gigs in 2012… so step up FirstFortnight you are all over our radar. The 10-day festival (now in its third year, though it’s first time out as a 10-dayer) is a mental health-based arts festival full of live music, spoken word, theatre and film events. The organisers say they expect the first two weeks of January to become synonymous with mental health awareness and ending stigma and if dancing to Tieranniesaur is the way to do that, we’re all over it. Kicking off tomorrow night in The Workman’s Club (say it with us now y’all: Culch is gay for The Workman’s) the first of the Therapy Sessions is just €5 and … There’s more

Movie Review: Haywire

It is an odd sight to see a woman bound across roof tops, having scaled up the stairs of Wynn’s Hotel on Lower Abbey Street, Dublin. Things become more surreal when her pursuers are heavily armed and in riot gear with the Garda logo emblazoned on the back. Our heroine soon finds her way to Dublin port and puts an eventful overnight trip to Ireland behind her. The previous night, she was escorted by a suited Michael Fassbender to Russborough House out in Wicklow, and on retiring to the Shelbourne Hotel their date turns sour and sets in train a tense morning and eventful departure from our shores. That a significant part of ‘Haywire’ was set, and more significantly shot, in Dublin was a surprise but a happy one for this reviewer. The city looks great, modern if a bit littered, European, cast in blue hues as is director Steven … There’s more