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1h ago
I.S.S. – Film Review
by Brian Merriman
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Writer: Nick Shafir
Starring: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Masha Mashkova, Costa Ronin, and Pilou Asbæk.
I.S.S. stands for the International Space Station, a place above the earth where American and Russian experts work as one team to observe, develop and record matters from a perspective of no borders.
Firstly, the production design by Geoff Wallace and the cinematography by Nick Remy Matthews, with Art Direction by Kevin Hardison and Set decoration by Kevin Pierce are exceptional. Not only do y ..read more
No More Workhorse
1h ago
The American Society of Magical Negroes – Film Review
by Brian Merriman
Director: Kobi Libii
Writer: Kobi Libii
Stars: Justice Smith as Aren, David Alan Grier as Roger, An-Li Bogan as Lizzie
Drew Tarver as Jason, Michaela Watkins as Masterson
“The Magical Negro is a trope in American cinema, television, and literature. In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock character who comes to the aid of white protagonists in a film” –
‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’ is a mixture of many genres under the comedy/ fantasy tag. Can racism be funny? If this was the ..read more
No More Workhorse
20h ago
Tender Mercies – The New Theatre – Review
by Brian Merriman
Event Dates: 23/04/2024 – 27/04/2024
Author: Colette Cullen
Developed at Scene + Heard and New Theatre New Writing Week – Duration 55 minutes
‘Tender Mercies’, the latest work from playwright Colette Cullen, was inspired by a tragic headline of a person discovered in their home long after they had passed. These tragedies defy and shake our reputation for being an intimate society and often prompt the question: ‘Did anyone miss them? I suppose that is why it is so important, that for an hour or so, we get to meet ‘Mary Fortune’.
Mary i ..read more
No More Workhorse
2d ago
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Film Review
by Frank L
Director – Pat Collins
Writers – Eamon Little, Pat Collins
Stars – Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Ruth McCabe
This is an adaptation by Pat Collins and Eamon Little of John McGahern’s 2002 novel of the same title. It was McGahern’s last novel before he died in 2006. It is set in the late seventies or early eighties in County Leitrim, where McGahern was brought up and lived for many years. At the time, rural Ireland was already transformed by electrification but telephones were rare in many small communities. The internet and the mobile phone ..read more
No More Workhorse
3d ago
If Only I Could Hibernate – Film Review
by Hugh Maguire
Director – Zoljargal Purevdash
Writer – Zoljargal Purevdash
Stars – Taivanbat Alexandar, Batmandakh Batchuluun, Tuguldur Batsaikhan
Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer prize-winning Angela’s Ashes (1996), and subsequent film (1999), all of twenty-five years ago, would for some capture the prize for depictions of adversity and struggle in the face of abject poverty. McCourt depicts a world of grimness in 1930s New York and 1940s Limerick it would appear that conditions in 2020s Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, are little better, compounded by a numbing ..read more
No More Workhorse
3d ago
Children of the Sun – Abbey Theatre – Review
A Rough Magic and Abbey Theatre co-production – Children of the Sun
By Hilary Fannin after Gorky – Directed by Lynne Parker
We meet the Professor (Stuart Graham) while he is at home with his wife Melania (Fiona Bell). The Professor is obsessed with his work as he aims to explore the final frontier of science; time. His wife is more concerned with mundane matters like how the bills are going to be paid. Their house is a sprawling mansion but the couple are broke with hardly enough money to pay for food, despite the presence of maids, gardeners and o ..read more
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5d ago
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter – Album Review
by Killian Laher
Pearl Jam are the great survivors of the 90’s Seattle grunge scene. Never the coolest, Eddie Vedder was always just a little too earnest, and the band were definitely more classic rock than punk. But they figured out how to have success on their own terms, stopping ‘playing the game’ when it all got too much. After the reflective, pleasingly plodding Gigaton, they have done something of an about-turn for their 12th album.
Scared of Fear is the opener, an old-fashioned rabble-rouser that will no doubt play we ..read more
No More Workhorse
6d ago
Album of the Week – 19/04/24
It’s the battle we’ve all been waiting for Taylor Swift vs the Pillow Queens! There could be only one winner, right? Of course, it’s the Pillow Queens!
Other albums worth checking out this week include Eliza Hardy Jones of The War on Drugs (Pickpocket), Chanel Beads (Your Day Will Come) and A Certain Ratio (It All Comes Down to This).
Album of the Week – Pillow Queens – Name Your Sorrow
Albums of Note:
— Eliza Hardy Jones (of The War on Drugs) – Pickpocket
— Local Natives – But I’ll Wait For You
— Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
— A Certain Ratio ..read more
No More Workhorse
6d ago
Abigail – Film Review
by Fran Winston
Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Starring: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Will Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Alisha Weir, Giancarlo Esposito
This is ostensibly a reboot of the 1936 Universal creature feature Dracula’s Daughter. I am a huge fan of those early monster movies and as such I am familiar with the original work but it is unlikely anyone outside of the horror buffs who love these flicks will have it on their radar. Hence the filmmakers had a lot of leeway to do what they wanted with the character.
As such this ..read more
No More Workhorse
6d ago
The Book of Clarence – Film Review
by Frank L.
Director – Jeymes Samuel
Writer – Jeymes Samuel
Stars – LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, Anna Diop
“Struggling to find a better life, Clarence is captivated by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence.”
Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) is the drug-dealing, twin brother of Doubting Thomas (who is also played by Stanfield). However, Thomas’s doubting has taken a more powerful hold on Clarence who is an atheist. The action takes place in Jerusalem in 33 AD. Clarence is in a fix as he owes money to the loc ..read more