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Is anyone else completely sick of end of year lists? I know I am, but then there’s something compulsive about reading them and you always hope to find an unknown recommendation that may have slipped through your net. So in the spirit of perhaps pointing you towards an album you’d forgotten or a band you’ve […]

Decent gigs are a bit thin on the ground in December, but tonight (Thursday, 14th December) there’s a cracking line-up at Whelan’s courtesy of the Foggy Notions folk. Chequerboard (aka John Lambert) and his fantastic Spanish-guitar-meets-laptop set blew me away at The Sugar Club last weekend so be sure to get down early to […]

Last week, a chance conversation with a friend revealed our mutual love of Napoleon Dynamite, one of the funniest films ever. It totally cheers me up and given that my RSI has reared up again with a vengeance, I could do with a laugh. As much as I love Jon Heder, his geeky internet-obsessed bro […]

As mentioned in this post, Donogh is still calling on bloggers to post some (short) reviews of books they enjoyed in 2006. Anyone who’d like to take part should post a review on their blog and include the technorati tag at the bottom of this post. More details here:
The Emigrant’s Farewell by Liam Browne

Irish literature […]

Seeing as Guardian film critic Mark Kermode’s name came up recently in the comments here, I thought I’d post this - BBC Radio Five Live’s Mark Kermode Advent Calendar. For each day of December, you get the bequiffed one reviewing a film a day - today it’s Walk the Line. Thanks to Sore Eyes […]

Donogh is looking for reviews of ‘Books of the Year’ from bloggers and two things occured to me:
1) Most of what I read this year wasn’t published this year, and
2) Most of what I managed to read from this year (work-related, not chosen by me) wouldn’t make a ‘Best of’ list, especially when considered […]

What a coincidence that in the week I spotted Copernicus post about Don’t Look Now and James Bond, a Special Edition DVD of the 1973 Nicolas Roeg classic has just been released.
The film - about a couple on holiday in Venice after the death of their child - is a masterpiece of cinema, often […]