I trooped along the other day with a few other dutiful souls to catch Jon Savage’s Joy Division documentary before it finished showing. It seemed appropriate to be ducking out of a beautiful sunny day to sit in a dark room for a couple of hours. Anyway, it was worth it to catch the [...]
The old clichés about ‘life imitating art’ weren’t really strong enough when it emerged that 24, having already committed the unpardonable sin of reviving Kiefer Sutherland’s career, has something rather more serious to apologise for. According to people who know about this sort of thing, Sutherland’s character Jack Bauer helped inspire the torture techniques [...]
There were a couple of stories in the paper the other day that hung together well if you knew how to look at them. First the bad news – according to Francesca Martin of the Guardian: “The American painter and photographer Richard Prince has just sold the rights to a film pitch. The story – [...]
With the race for the Democratic nomination in this year’s presidential election fast approaching its climax, Hilary Clinton’s campaign team have decided to bring in the heavy hitters. Rob Reiner, whose credit for giving the world This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride has sadly been tarnished by a trail of [...]
The fifth and final series of The Wire recently started airing on HBO in the States, and there’s been no shortage of TV critics and bloggers giving the show the praise it richly deserves. Charlie Brooker of the Guardian calls it ‘the best TV show since the invention of radio’, and most fans will probably [...]
It’s easy to be cynical about the Ross O’Carroll Kelly column/books/money machine – when you see a shelf-load of Paul Howard’s output on prominent display in every bookshop, your first instinct is probably to say ‘that fella’s found his meal ticket hasn’t he?’ and try thinking of a fresh metaphor that doesn’t involve dead horses [...]
This month sees the return of legendary shit-stirrer and all-round hero of our times Chris Morris to British television after a lengthy absence. The man whose record for provoking the most viewer complaints in history was recently topped by Jerry Springer: the Opera is taking a new path with ‘Nathan Barley’, a sit-com about a [...]
There’s another thing about that horrible hole that reminds me of Whelan’s at its worst – and that’s the tendency of drunken idiots to crash into you on the dancefloor. In every other Dublin club, people take care not to bash into someone else’s space for fear of getting their heads kicked in. This healthy [...]
