Features
Editorial
Following the Ray Rice domestic abuse controversy in America, Odrán de Bhaldraithe looks at the entertainment industry’s method of dealing with similar situations. Read more…
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Features
Aisling’s Special Favourites
Flux columnist Aisling Kett gives her top special favourites of the last two weeks. Read more…
The Hype
Review: Comedy Crunch
Wafer ice-cream, comfy couches, big name acts and lots of laughter – one of Dublin’s best comedy nights, reviewed. Read more…
Music
Review: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Musical perfection is what has come to be expected from the alternative Aussies and fans of The Bad Seeds will hear just that delivered on their 15th studio album, Push The Sky Away. This is Read more…
Film
Review: This Is 40
Judd Apatow returns to directing, perhaps hoping to reclaim his crown as the king of big screen comedy, a title that was in many people’s eyes lost following 2009’s Funny People. However, while a “sort-of-sequel” Read more…
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Flux goes to the entertainment.ie Erics Awards
With awards for the ‘Raunchiest Radio Voice’ and the ‘Ledgebag of the Year’, it was always going to be a night to rival no other. Entertainment.ie’s The Erics Awards 2012 saw crowds pack the Village Read more…
Books
Review: The Charm Bracelet
Take all the chick lit novels you’ve ever read. Now add in a Christmas in New York setting and some mystery and you have the recipe for Melissa Hill’s latest offering, The Charm Bracelet. Holly Read more…
Music
Review: Alicia Keys – Girl on Fire
Fourteen-time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and producer, New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur and humanitarian, Alicia Keys has just released her highly anticipated fifth studio album, Girl On Fire. The title track and first single released Read more…
Music
Cracking the Kode: Flux talks to Kodaline
When you think of big Irish bands, who springs to mind? U2, obviously, but more recently we’ve had The Script, Snow Patrol and Two Door Cinema Club, who have all enjoyed massive success at home Read more…
Film
Review: Skyfall
After the latest offering from the Bond series, one could be forgiven for disowning the franchise and pledging your allegiance to Bourne, or Jack Bauer, even Johnny English. After the gritty and punchy panache of Read more…
Film
Shaken, Stirred and Shocking: 50 Years of 007 on the big screen
With the release of “Skyfall”, James Bond films will have graced our cinema screens for half a century, enduring several wars, the fall of Empires and countless similar cinematic contemporaries. Through five decades, Bond has Read more…
Television
How low can you go? The Valleys and “constructed reality” TV
Three years ago, a new type of television programme was born. A Frankenstein’s monster composed of parts of Big Brother, The Apprentice and Boozed Up Irish Abroad, they called it Jersey Shore. The premise was fairly Read more…
Film
What Roisin Did: Flux talk to Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy has always wanted to be an actress – starting her career by appearing in a Goodfellas pizza ad with her mother Charlotte Bradley, and moving to starring in RTE’s The Clinic and Stardust Read more…
Film
Review: Sinister
Sinister is the latest horror endeavour from director Scott Derrisckson, best known for his chilling masterpiece The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It is also the latest in a recent spate of horror movies in which Read more…
Music
Review: Roses – The Cranberries
Love and longing: Two things Dolores O’Riordan did very well before The Cranberries imploded over 10 years ago. Originally rising on a tide of alternative melancholy-ridden songs, the band soon morphed into a wannabe, stadium Read more…