This new film with “mumblecore energy” is “ambiently amusing … raw, witty, but rarely gut busting”.
“I feel nervous, it’s such a responsibility in a way and the area has experienced a lot,” says Muirne Bloomer.
“There’s a beating heart somewhere beneath the metallic surface” of this film, “but it’s hard to hear over the same old cyberpunk beeps and boops we’ve been hearing for 40 years”.
The 21-year-old Dublin singer, “the city’s best rising artist … crushed it”.
“It’s a real skill to transfer stories like these to the page without losing any of their magic.”
Near Christ Church, artist Ross Carvill made a cafe’s window look all “warm and fuzzy”. In Lucan, artist Louise Butler brightened a family’s home with Pikachu and snowflakes.
In an era that conjures up Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, Campbell worked in diving bells and heavy, spacesuit-like diving gear.
Martha Fitzgerald says she was inspired by the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick to write a spooky, magical musical about three women, set in Dublin – The Witches of East Wall.
The trio from Ringsend nearly made it huge in the 1990s, signing to a major label in London – but then that fell apart.
This documentary, based on 10 years of following the career of the band Interference’s Fergus O’Farrell, is a celebration of his musical life and legacy.
Brightening the recently dark stage this winter is this Rough Magic show with a magic all its own — the story of the first ever performance of Handel’s Messiah.
“We just want to bring everyone together,” says Tadhg Kinsella, who founded the collective, which has so far put on about ten events.
