Reviews

By Noel Atcheson Eoin French, aka Talos, has developed a reputation as perhaps one of Ireland’s best-kept musical secrets. A

By Barry Lord Martin McDonagh’s multi award winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane – first staged to wide critical acclaim

By Barry Lord It was perhaps fitting that Paul Verhoeven’s film ‘Elle’ (‘She’) was released in a week when the

By Caitriona McMahon This weekend I was lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to experience life on an

By Barry Lord The Weir instantly reminded me of the lyrical hook from ’80s American sitcom Cheers  because “Sometimes you wanna

By Barry Lord Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is another in that seemingly new category of film releases; the ready-to-eat, just-add-water-and-voila cinematic

By Barry Lord Make no mistake; few plays in recent years have been as dark in tone as The Pillowman,

By Brendan Callaghan Bearing in mind the distinctly frosty nature of the film under review, this article will be preceded

If you have escaped Christmas Day relatively unscathed or are still in a familial war zone, Tolstoy’s masterpiece Anna Karenina