His head is still displayed proudly above my mantelpiece. His deep brown eyes are as bright and full of life as the day we played our little of cat and mouse all those years ago. They are dead, but yet somehow still alive and while they place me under constant surveillance, I suppose it…
Fashion Editor Kieran Murphy examines whether the new Condé Nast College is worth a student’s time. This year, The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design announced that they would offer a ground-breaking opportunity in all aspects of the fashion industry for potential students, starting in January 2013. Based in London, the college will…
Gaming editor Fergal Carroll serves up men in shorts, pandas and indie darlings for this week’s gaming menu. The Biggie(s): The biggest game that is being released this side of the pond this week is the one and only FIFA 13. If you listened to me last time and brushed up on your mad FIFA…
Gaming editor Fergal Carroll takes a look at Nintendo’s next gen console. The date has been set. November 30th is the day that Nintendo, the first of the big three, launch their next gen console – the Wii U. All was revealed in a Nintendo event in mid-September. Price points were set, bundles announced,…
There’s some charm left in the ‘manic pixie dream girl’ stereotype, writes Susan O’Sullivan. This feature presentation has been brought to us by the directors of the stunning Little Miss Sunshine, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. While Ruby Sparks is not quite as invigorating as their 2006 classic, it is anchored by the same…
I thought I walked Cathal Dennehy finds Lawless ultimately disappointing. Australian director John Hillcoat returns with Lawless, the story of the Bondurant brothers who ran a successful bootlegging racket in 1930s Virginia. Coming on the wave of considerable hype (including calls for Tom Hardy to be given an Oscar for this performance on the…
Film and TV Editor Kellie Morrissey welcomes back the newest incarnation of the Judge. Comparisons to the 1995 Sly Stallone version are trite and irrelevant – Dredd impresses and does so without the need for a two-and-a-half hour long plot whose third act consists of crashing skyscrapers and big explosions. It does so without…
While those spikes may have been cool for your Confirmation, Fashion Editor Kieran Murphy explains there’s more to life than hair gel. Hair gel is the staple styling item for any young Irish lad – and even a TD or two – but it’s a new dawn for male grooming and it is high…
While the start of term isn’t the best time to hit the couch with a DVD boxset, Emmet Curtin explores the best options available – without having to revert to Home & Away. Frasier: Psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane leaves Boston after his divorce from his wife Lilith, and returns to his hometown of Seattle….
In the greyness before, when I’m alone with the greyness, and this burning inside, and the time, the time till I see her again, I wait. I wait. Strange images dancing around me my head broken, I can taste her still, and I wait. I wait until that appointed hour, that shitty little second,…