• Dublin Film Fest: Yasuni Man

    March 1, 2018 - By 

    The Yasuni National Park and Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador is considered one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. Its Amazonian rainforest is home to amphibians, mammals, birds and plants. The frogs, tapirs, jaguars and monkeys alone would have provided ample material for a stunning wildlife documentary. But, film-maker Ryan Killackey sets out to do more with Yasuni Man by including an intimate study of a remote forest community under siege from big business. The rainforest may have been designated an UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve but that does not protect its lucrative natural resources from exploitation. Yasuni sits…

  • Dublin Film Fest: Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts

    March 1, 2018 - By 

    Lance Daly’s Black 47 opened the Dublin Film Festival with a revenge Western filtered through Irish historical grievance, bearded men with rifles chasing eachother across Connault mud and muck. Written and directed by Mouly Surya, Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts offers a kind of feminist counterweight, an Indonesian Western which appropriates classical genre scaffolding for a regionally specific tale of female rage and empowerment. The whiplash lettering and blaring brass notes from the school of Morricone introduce us to Part 1, “The Robbery” (the others are “The Journey”, “The Confession” and “The Birth”). Marlina (Marsha Timothy) lives in the…

  • International Women’s Weekend Cork

    March 1, 2018 - By 

    Running from March 8th-11th upstairs in The Roundy, Cork, International Women’s Weekend Cork is a four-day fundraiser event for the Rape Crisis Centre. Set up by Emma Kelly aka Merakindie and friends, Elaine Malone, Izabela Szczutkowska, Marjie Kaley and Francesca de Buyl Pisco, it will present a diverse, multidisciplinary line up including daily artists market, performances from Dowry, Elaine Malone, Saint Caoilian, Lowlek, The Come Out And Play Cabaret hosted by writer Tina Pisco and a number of DJs including Toby Kaar, Aisling O Riordan and Cuttin Heads Collective. With several more names to be announced, the daily run-down of events…

  • Win Tickets for David Kitt’s LP Launch Tour

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    Set to release his first solo record for nine years, Yous, on March 9, David Kitt will embark on a nine-date Irish and UK tour across March and April. The schedule looks a bit like this: March 9th – Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny March 11th – De Barras, West Cork, Clonakilty March 23rd – Róisín Dubh, Galway March 31st – Upstairs, Dolans, Limerick April 6th – Button Factory, Dublin April 8th – Spirit Store, Dundalk April 18th – Borderline, London, UK April 19th – Eagle Inn, Manchester, UK As it so happens, we have a pair of tickets to give away…