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Darren’s Movie News 26/05/09

  By Darren Byrne | May 26, 2009 - 5:21 pm | In The News, Movies & TV, The Culch
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I‘m still reeling from the possibility that there could be a Buffy movie without Joss Whedon. Argh!!! Did you know…it was 32 years ago yesterday that Star Wars was released? May 25th 1977 saw the release of the George Lucas’s massive movie franchise in just 32 cinemas. It went on to be huge of course, but it’s initial release was without much fanfare. Were you around to catch it in the cinema, or (like me) did you watch it on VHS in the late eighties? And do you remember Flight of the Navigator? That was another slow burner in the cinemas that did big business on video. Well, they’re remaking it - yup, the bastards are fiddling with my inner child. Check out the trailer for the original about a 12-year-old kid snatched by an alien spaceship in 1978, only to crop up eight years later with zero memory of … There’s more →

I Once Was a Bonnie Young Trainspotter

  By Darren Byrne | May 26, 2009 - 8:00 am | Featured Post, The Culch, Theatre
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Come here for a minute ’til I tell you about a bunch of deviants from Kilkenny, a talented bunch of misshapen misfits - The Devious Theatre Group. Last year, I was lucky enough to catch their brilliant production of Trainspotting in the Watergate Theatre. Yesterday, they announced details of this year’s production, a Kilkenny take on Willy Russell’s Stags and Hens set in the gents and women’s toilets of the disco where both the bride, Linda, and the groom, Dave, have decided to hold their respective hen and stag nights, not knowing that their other half is at the same place. When Linda’s ex-boyfriend arrives and offers her an escape she is forced with a difficult decision. Den den dennn… Being that Russell’s play is so ingrained with Liverpool’s 80′s culture (his other works Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers, etc. chronicle a similar working class culture), it will be interesting … There’s more →