Archive for the ‘Arts + Ents’ Category
REVIEW: Rango
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Surprisingly not presented by a well-known animation company, Rango shows that its independent flourish of originality is on a par with the big studio contenders. Possibly the best animation this year so far, Rango is a little bit of what you know muddled up with the enigmatic. A creation to be proud of, it’s surely a work worth the box office success it’s receiving.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: The Rite
Monday, March 28th, 2011
The Rite is the latest exorcist film, a horror subgenre with much unfulfilled potential and a lot of woeful films to answer for. The Rite aims for a more back-to-basics approach. Jettisoning the comic gimmickry of the recent Season of the Witch and the faux documentary tactics of The Last Exorcism¸ The Rite feels like a return to the principles and ideas of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic The Exorcist.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
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REVIEW: Waste Land
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Waste Land was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar (however, Inside Job won). It starts off with a festival full of people, lights and sounds. Filmed on an epic scale, it seems more like a setting for a major fiction film. The festival is big, grand and full of life. Suddenly, it’s the next day and bin lorries mill around the same empty streets, picking up the debris of the previous night’s celebrations. The banners and a giant dragon, so vibrant and colourful before, are now wreckage waiting to be picked up. Yesterday’s art becomes today’s rubbish.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
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REVIEW: White Lies – Ritual
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Since their debut album To Lose My Life briefly topped the charts in January 2009 London three-piece White Lies have regularly been compared to such gloom-rock luminaries as Editors, Interpol and of course Joy Division. In a recent NME interview, they identified a very different source of inspiration though, unexpectedly citing Kings of Leon as the band whose career trajectory they are aiming to replicate.
BY MATTHEW MISKIMMIN
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REVIEW: The Boxer Rebellion – The Cold Still
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
In the midst of the harsh winter elements, there’s perhaps no better time for The Boxer Rebellion to release their third effort The Cold Still: an album that boasts a frosty ambience and sends a chill right to the bone. This time around, the international four-piece have opted for a more minimalist approach, one they momentarily hinted at on preceding album, Union.
BY CHRIS JOHNSON
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COMPETITION: Win 2 tickets to Simon Munnery at the Black Box
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
Simon Munnery is going to wear a suit for his first ever major UK tour. Despite being in the business for twenty years and having won or been nominated for all the most prestigious awards going, he now finds that his chosen career is a serious commercial business and he’s going to have to knuckle down and set off to work nice and early to forty dates throughout the UK including a week at London’s Soho Theatre. Simon is now working for himself and knows that without a vast support system of agents, managers, stylists, publicists, make-up artists and dog-walkers that he’s been used to the life of a stand-up comedian can be tough.
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ARTS: Striking a chord – An interview with Brian Robb
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
2010 was a busy year for local musician Brian Robb. He graduated with a 2:1 in Music, composed music for a computer game, judged a portion of Southern Ireland’s Teen Idol and travelled to Moscow for the final of the Karaoke World Championship (KWC).
BY SCOTT MCWHINNEY
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