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The Princess and The Frog: Irish premiere

(L-R) Directors Ron Clements, John Musker, Anika Noni Rose (Tiana), Producer Peter Del Vecho and Supervising Animator for ‘Mama Odie’ Andreas Deja at the Irish Premiere of The Princess and the Frog at the Savoy Dublin Jan 27th 2010. Image from Image.net.

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Got To Dance

Yes, another talent show!
 
 
There is a serious tidal wave of talent shows on tv these days from X Factor to Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent, American Idol, Dancing on Ice, Strictly Come Dancing, Popstar to Operastar etc. etc. One of the American ones I have always enjoyed, though not watched religiously, has been So [...]

All About Steve: review

In a moment of desperation, a friend asked me to go to the cinema with her last Friday night and there was nothing on at a decent time apart from All About Steve. I hadn’t heard or seen anything of it and she hadn’t either but Sandra Bullock was in it, so how bad could [...]

It’s Complicated: review

I saw It’s Complicated last week and although Niall had already talked about it here , I thought I’d give you my tuppenceworth too.
To put it very simply, Jane and Jake are married, have three children and divorce after twenty years of marriage. Fast forward ten years, Jake has a young wife and step son, [...]

Liffey Faces

Thanks to @nonsequitir on Twitter, I’ve been made aware of this short film being shown in the IFI over the next few weeks.
Liffey Faces is the first in a new series of lunchtime screenings of short films portraying life in Dublin in the 1970s from the IFI Irish Film Archive. The films, all [...]

Francis Bacon: A terrible beauty

An exhibition Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty is being shown in the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square to celebrate the centenary of Francis Bacon’s birth in a nursing home on Lower Baggot Street, Dublin in 1909.

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NINE review

Lucky little me got to see five times Golden Globe nominated movie NINE on Wednesday with thanks to Kate Bowe PR . The five nominations are for Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), Best Actress (Marion Cotillard), Best Supporting Actress (Penelope Cruz), Best Song (Cinema Italiano, featured in the trailer below) and finally, Best Picture of [...]

Picturing New York

The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham is hosting an exciting exhibition from New York’s MoMA this winter. The photography exhibition, Picturing New York, is made up of 145 pieces from the photographic collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. All of the photos are of New [...]

Pink Glove Dance

Maybe everyone has seen this before, I hadn’t. But over 4.8 million views tell me that some of you will have.
Some staff at a Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon got together to make a video to raise awareness of breast cancer in their hospital. The video has gone above and beyond that with 4,838, 228 [...]

The Seafarer at the Abbey Theatre

Wednesday night, with thanks to David McCadden at the Abbey I was lucky enough to see The Seafarer in the Abbey Theatre.
It’s Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who’s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, [...]

Accidental Death of an Anarchist: review

Devious Theatre put on a run of Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ this past weekend in Kilkenny’s new Set Theatre . It was my first time to be inside the Set Theatre so I was looking forward to seeing that as much as seeing the play. And I wasn’t disappointed with either [...]

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

Granny O’Grimm is an Irish-made animated short film, short-listed for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2010. They have just put the full version online and it is wonderful. A beautifully made bedtime story with an Irish flavour, I love it! Granny O’Grimm certainly lives up to her name.
‘Granny’ is voiced [...]

Play a part in Verdi’s AIDA

Verdi’s famous opera Aida, is said to be one of the greatest operas ever written. It tells the story of an Ethiopian princess whose love for an Egyptian soldier is complicated by the fact that their two countries are at war with each other and Aida’s love rival is the Pharaoh’s daughter.

Aida will be performed [...]

Smash Hits Christmas Dance Party

Smash Hits – like so totally the ultimate 90s band – are playing a special 90s Christmas party in The Button Factory next Saturday evening 5 December in aid of International Volunteer Day.
Described as “a 6-pc band performing the cream of 90s dance, pop and RnB chart classics from Technotronic, N-Trance, Culture Beat, Dr. Alban, [...]

2009 IMTV Irish Music Video Awards Winners

Last night a few of us Culch.ies went along to the IMTV Irish Music Video Awards to see what it was all about. This was the first of the IMTV Video Music Awards and they did a great job. In The Sugar Club -  always a great venue – the awards started off relatively [...]

Yikes, I want a Yike!

How cool are these? A foldable, baggable, super cool electric bike. These Yike Bikes have been listed at Number 15 in the Times ‘The 50 Best Inventions of 2009′ list.

I found them thanks to Laughykate’s blog. She was lucky enough to have a spin on one – thanks Kate!
The bad news is that [...]

Alice In Wonderland, new promo posters

Just because we’re all looking forward to it so much and they are so pretty, I thought I’d post the brand new Alice In Wonderland posters.
I’d love prints of some of these. March 2010 cannot come quickly enough!

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Pushers Out on DCTV

DCTV are having a themed weekend this weekend, Drugs: They’re Everyone’s Problem. As part of that, a documentary will be premiered chronicling the huge ‘Concerned Parents Against Drugs’ movement of the early 80’s to get pushers out of inner city communities where they had taken hold. Communities were destroyed as Dublin’s first heroin epidemic [...]

Glorious 39 review

“On the eve of World War II, while the formidable Keyes family tries to uphold their traditional way of life, their daughter Anne sees her life dramatically unravel when she stumbles upon secret recordings of the pro-appeasement.”

The story of Glorious 39 centres on Anne Keyes (played by Romola Garai), a young actress and daughter of [...]

Nativity! review

Nativity! is simply a lovely, beautiful and funny film. Mr. Maddens, a primary school teacher played by Martin Freeman, attempts to run a successful school nativity after the headmistress has thrust the duty upon him.
His protests of “the children are useless. I’m useless!” and “it was a disaster four years ago” are met with headstrong [...]