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The Girl With The Men Who Hate Women…

  By NaRocRoc | March 10, 2010 - 10:00 pm | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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Set in a dark and frosty Sweden, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a gloomy thriller about a journalist and a young female hacker who delve into the past and uncover a myriad of dark secrets. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, and based on the novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, this film will be eagerly anticipated by the many Irish fans of Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy”. Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist for one last job; to solve a long unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious and troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two uncover a darker world of brutality, deception and ritualistic murder. Alone and not knowing who to trust, they must fight for their own survival and reveal the truth.

When was the last time you bought… a comic book?

  By Darren Byrne's Waistcoat | April 20, 2009 - 11:51 pm | Books, Comics, The Culch
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When was the last time you bought… a comic book? (The first of a four-part trilogy.) Ironman. Batman. Superman. Spiderman. Watchmen. Thor. (There are even rumours about Wonder Woman.) They’ve all been adapted for the big screen and chances are that you’ve seen one or two of ‘em too. But when was the last time you dropped into your local bookshop, comic store or haberdashery to pick up a comic? And no, getting a new reprint of Watchmen in Eason’s doesn’t count… But where do you start? Every story is mid-way right now and to catch up you’d have to pick up the last ten issues… But if it’s just a taste you are looking for then why not have a look at the Marvel News site? It’s a great chance to catch a sneak peak of what some of the best writers in the genre are up to. Such … There’s more →

James Frey | Masterclass on making it all up

  By Darren Byrne's Waistcoat | March 11, 2009 - 10:42 pm | Books, The Culch
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Recent chat from round the giant book bonfire… Me: Have ye heard the news? Them: No? What news would that be? Me: Yer man Oprah fell in and out of love with is coming to Dublin. Them: Tom Cruise? Me: No ye saps. James Frey. He’s giving a fiction masterclass in Waterstones. Them: Ah ask me arse, yer making that up. Me: Ha. That’s just what Oprah said. James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning visits Waterstone’s on Dawson Street in Dublin. Friday, 13 March 2009, 18:30 - 20:00 Tickets are €4 Call for details: 01 679 1260 “A rare opportunity to meet the internationally acclaimed author of the renowned debut, A Million Little Pieces, who will reading from his latest novel, Bright and Shiny Morning, and talking about his work. Reviewed in Time Magazine: Relentlessly entertaining….It’s reminiscent of one of Tom Wolfe’s billion-footed beasts”