Film
Lady Gaga soars in A Star is Born
What truly elevates ASIB compared to its modern rivals is surprisingly simple. They casted people who could actually sing. Read more…
arts
Television
Sierra Burgess is a Loser vs Insatiable – who does body positivity better?
Insatiable’s message is that even if you outwardly ‘fix’ your problems, in this case, by becoming skinny, everything under the surface still remains. Read more…
Television
South Park’s season premiere critique’s artificially “woke”
Cartman is a parody of the typical ‘Woke’ individual. He engages in insincere virtue signalling to prove that he is not a racist, despite having not said anything racist. Paradoxically, his reduces Token to his race identity by assuming that all black people think collectively. Read more…
Music
Lil Wayne returns with Tha Carter V
The redemption from this is undeniable though as Wayne drops Uproar, a diss track fuelled with a fiery passion. Sampling the beat from ‘Special Delivery’ by G-Dep, Wayne tells his enemies to beware of him. Many are speculating that the biggest enemy in question is Birdman, CEO of Cash Money records with whom Wayne had the legal battle. Read more…
The Hype
A visit to Roderic O’Conor and The Moderns
Similarly, one can see how O’Conor begins to discard the styles of Impressionism. Instead, he focuses on the emotions that pervade a painting and how that can change its direction. Within this room, we can see when O’Conor truly embarks into Post-impressionism territory alongside Gauguin. Read more…
Books
Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive inspires hope
(He) hammers home the point that depression and anxiety do not pick and choose who to affect. Being rich or successful is not an immunity against mental health problems. Read more…
Television
What reality shows have the X Factor?
There is one tanned and collagen filled outlier known as Love Island, which dominated the last couple of summers, consistently smashing ITV2 rating records. Read more…
Film
Black 47 is the Irish action movie we’ve been waiting for
We root for our murderous hero throughout the movie as his actions are on the side of justice. Read more…
The Hype
The problem with authors meddling with their finished works
The beauty of the arts is that it allows its audience to interpret concepts in whatever manner they wish to. It inspires creativity, what happens after the story ends is up to the reader to imagine. By telling a story, you are allowing others to interpret it in whichever way they wish to Read more…
The Hype
Atelier des Lumières lights up the art scene
When the light flashes and suddenly all paintings have diminished, the audience is met with the stark reminder that they have been walking around a grey room. The projectors had given the illusion that they had been on an ethereal adventure. Read more…
Articles
The rise and fall and rise again of musical film
Modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, but ground breaking
works such as Oklahoma! didn’t appear until the 20th Century. Some of the most famous
musicals throughout the decades that followed include West Side Story, Les Misérables, The
Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Read more…
The Hype
Exploring the world of Instagram poetry
This generations ‘instapoets’ are a breath of fresh air for an artform that seemed to be dying. Many young people can no longer relate to the heavy poetry of the likes of John Keats of whom they may have studied laboriously throughout their secondary school education. Read more…
Music
Tebi Rex’s Max Zanga talks about songwriting, the Irish hip-hop scene and more
“There’s a juxtaposition to our work, we have an idea, go off on our own and come back with completely different angles.” He says, “It leads to an interesting contrast where the music is really upbeat and energetic but then the lyrics are super grim”. Read more…
Music
Arctic Monkeys storm the 3 Arena
Each song was intertwined brilliantly with the one that came before it, carrying a smooth transition from either an energetic hit, to a calmer sound. Kicking off with ‘Star Treatment’, the expertise and professionalism of the band shone. Read more…
Music
Ross from Friends takes a break at the Button Factory
The style of music he creates can be compared to that of other artists such as DJ Seinfield and DJ Boring who seem almost reflective of the 90’s pop culture that these artists would have grown up listening to. Read more…
Music
Hip hopping onto centre stage
Since then, a huge cultural shift has occurred, a rise in hip-hop and critical interest in pop has meant that many music festivals have had to completely rebrand themselves as the demographic of audiences attending these festivals has changed. Read more…
Flux
This Summer’s sizzling hot festivals
Malahide Castle will host acts ranging from rock and roll to disco soul including LCD Soundsystem and Lykke Li on June 5th, Kodaline on June 8th, Gorillaz on June 9th, Liam Gallagher on June 15th and Nile Rodgers and Chic and Craig David on June 16th. Read more…
Flux
Are phones ruining the concert experience?
Concerts are places where you go to forget about everything happening around you, embrace that moment because it’s one you’ll never experience again, no one concert will ever be the same as another. Read more…
Flux
When is the pen mightier than the camera?
The main advantage of the novel is the fact that you aren’t merely witnessing the story and the emotions the characters are feeling onscreen, but you are experiencing them yourself. The novel encourages you to use your imagination, there’s no limit to how long a book can expand unlike a film that must be cut to stay concise. Read more…
Television
Netflix’s ‘Love’ takes a bow after three seasons
Most real-life love stories don’t have the fairytale ending often portrayed in television, which is why it’s probably a good thing Netflix’s Love has concluded after only three seasons.
Articles
Ready Player One novel falls flat
You could debate for days about book to movie adaptations. Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’ leaps from pages to the silver screen in Ireland on March 30th, a release that is highly anticipated due to Read more…
Music
DCU Glee dazzle at the Helix
The Helix hosted incredible singing and dance routines as DCU’s Glee performed on Monday 26th March.
Style
Is Ballet an under appreciated art?
Ballet itself is an artform, with the human body being used in a similar manner to that of the paintbrush of an artist or the voice of a singer; conveying passion, grace, elegance and physical Read more…
Music
George Ezra’s ‘Staying at Tamaras’
English singer George Ezra released his first album in 2014, immediately receiving high-praise and reaching number one in the UK charts. Though he’s 24, his deep and rich voice makes it hard to believe he is anything Read more…
Film
Red Sparrow: empowering but inconsistent
The release of Francis Lawrence’s film, Red Sparrow has received a series of mixed reviews since its initial release on February 28, 2018.