Review: Gotye – Making Mirrors
Point the first – it’s pronounced ‘gauthier’. Point the second, nobody have a Lana Del Rey-esque hissyfit, but it’s not his real name. He’s actually called Walter de Backer. He ‘gotye’ there, wha’?...
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Movie Review: Polanski causes Carnage
When a collage of Oscar winning stars and an Oscar winning director get together for a project, you know the results are going to be good. Renowned director Roman Polanski’s latest comic clash of...
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Album Review: Camille O’Sullivan’s Changeling
This is my first video review for Culch.ie, so I would appreciate any feedback you have, not just on the review but also on my irritating voice and awkward looking face. Camille O’Sullivan’s Changeling...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Bookworms in The Abbey Theatre
I went along to see Bernard Farrell’s Bookworms in The Abbey Theatre on Wednesday. Check out my thoughts on it below. Bookworms plays from February 9th until to March 17th in The Abbey Theatre, Dublin,...
View ArticlePop Culture Show Pilot: The Format
Over the past week we’ve been trying something new. The Format, our pop culture web TV experiment, is the result of many hours of planning, filming and editing. As it is a pilot, filmed in Culch Towers...
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Movie Review: Bel Ami
Between Twilight and period drama, we’ve never seen Robert Pattinson with normal hair. Perhaps, like Sampson, his hair is the source of all of Pattinson’s power. But whether long, sideburned and flopsy...
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Movie Review: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
At last Hugh Grant plays a likeable character! The Pirate Captain is on a quest to win the Pirate of the Year Award with the aid of his motley crew of pirates that includes Brendan Gleeson and Martin...
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Theatre Review: Improbable Frequency @ The Gaiety
Having debuted in 2004, Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency is by no stretch a new production but its current run is our first time to see it. Although it was new to us we heard many good things before...
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Movie Review: Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows
I should probably throw down my thoughts on Dark Shadows as quickly as possible – the more I think about the film, the more flaws I find to pick at and the the more that initial lustre of having seen a...
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Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
Perhaps the best way to start is to tell you to block the last decade of Spider-Man movies from your mind and treat The Amazing Spider-Man as it is, a complete revamp of the Spider-Man franchise. In...
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Games Review: Rocksmith (on XBox 360)
My first draft of this review was a huge long post giving details of all the features, what I liked and what I didn’t. But really it boils down to this…. If you want to learn to play guitar, go buy...
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Album Review: Cat Power’s Sun
We live in a world where even the most minor celebrity ‘crisis’ is blown up out of all proportion. I recently spotted the cover of Heat, or some similar publication, fretting about Cheryl (Cole or...
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Album Review: Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
Generally in life, the things that we least understand are the things that intrigue us the most – some of us anyway. David Lynch’s films, Lee Evans’ popularity, Paul Galvin’s dress-sense. I came upon...
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A Good Day to avoid Die Hard
This will be short. The film was so poor, it doesn’t deserve many words. However, I do feel the need to warn you off it. Bruce Willis’s latest visit to John McClane’s insane life is A Good Day to Die...
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Movie Review: Man of Steel, AKA Superdull
It should have worked. But it didn’t. It should have been the best Summer actioner. Directed by Zack Snyder, who drove the excellent 300 and The Watchmen, this movie had the full package on paper –...
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Theatre Review: Best Man in the @ProjectArts Theatre
Performances in the Project Arts Theatre can be hit and miss. The very experimental nature of the space means that I’ve seen some amount of self-indulgent tripe mixed in with some brilliantly...
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Review: Spirit of Folk Festival 2014
This is all maybe, going to sound just a bit freaking odd, maybe…. And either, says my funny head, you are going to empathise with me on this one entirely or, you will consider drawing a very tiny...
View ArticleMagic Mike XXL: May not be bigger but it’s definitively more fun this time
Channing Tatum comes out dancing (and most likely winning) once again in the sequel to the film that solidified his status as a male entertainer in Hollywood back in the year 2012. He and his old crew,...
View ArticleLove & Mercy: The atypical biopic for the atypical music legend
‘Love and Mercy’ is a song released in 1988 by the co-founder and leader of the Beach Boys band, Brian Wilson, and it’s also the name of the 2014 movie, starring John Cusack, Paul Dano and Elizabeth...
View ArticleInside Out: As good as everyone is saying. Probably better tbh
Pixar and Disney are back to form in the latest film, ‘Inside Out’, with the voice talent supplied by the likes of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith and Mindy Kalling, helping to tell an incredibly sweet,...
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