SPORT: Queen’s players thrive at Junior World Championship
BY SEAN ASHFORD
Two players from the Queen’s rugby team represented Ireland at the recent IRB under 20 Junior World Championship in Italy in what has proved to be a disappointing campaign for the team.
July 4th, 2011 | No Comments
NEWS: New sabbatical team takes office
BY SEAN ASHFORD
The new sabbatical officers have taken over from the previous years’ team this week, marking the beginning of their year long tenure in office.
July 4th, 2011 | Comments (20)
REVIEW: Countdown to Zero
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN FULL STORY
It’s been a good year for Lucy Walker with two of her documentaries seeing wide releases. The Waste Land won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Her second this year, Countdown to Zero, is a didactic film championing nuclear disarmament.
July 1st, 2011 | No Comments
REVIEW: Avenue Q
BY SAMANTHA TAN FULL STORY
So you’ve just graduated from university, you’re excited and looking forward to the rest of your life, finally being a proper adult. But after the initial high, you realise you’re facing a string of rejections, unemployment, and the sad truth that the real world is a lot less rosy than it seemed as a child.
July 1st, 2011 | No Comments
REVIEW: Incendies
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN FULL STORYIncendies, by Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, losing out to Susanne Bier’s In A Better World. Set in and around the Israeli conflict, the film, not unlike Samuel Maoz’s fantastic Lebanon, considers the human effects of the conflict over the conflict itself.
June 30th, 2011 | No Comments
REVIEW: How I ended this summer
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN FULL STORY
Beautiful landscapes, a bizarre soundtrack and a wry sense of humour, teamed with a limited cast and an intriguing what-would-you-do style narrative makes for one of the most original films in recent years. How I Ended This Summer is a recent Russian film from director Aleksei Popogrebsky set entirely on a barren island in the Arctic Ocean.
June 30th, 2011 | No Comments
FEATURES: Q-Con Takeover
BY JANETTE LOUGHLIN FULL STORY
Hardcore music fans go to Glastonbury, hardcore cupcake fans go to the sabb office for Sam Tan cupcakes, and hardcore gamers? They rock the Q-con. From 24-26th of June, Queen’s Students’ Union plays host to the largest gaming convention in Ireland. The event attracts gamers from all over the country; from the rural hamlets of Cork to the fantasy land of Hyrule à la Zelda. If there’s an internet connection, there’s a way.
June 25th, 2011 | Comments (2)
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