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Review – Project Hail Mary
By Aislinn O’ Keeffe Spoiler Alert Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi adaptation of a novel by Andy Weir,…
Review: Kate Nash calls out TERF ideology in blistering new single
By Kate Quinlan In her new single GERM, British singer-songwriter Kate Nash doesn’t just join the cultural conversation…
Review: Strike – An Uncivil War directed by Daniel Gordon
Reviewed by Thomas Carmichael On the morning of 18 June 1984, a scorching summer’s day, 5,000 striking miners…
Review: Blue Lights
What differentiates this show from other police dramas is its attempts to navigate the political dynamics of Northern Ireland. It avoids the case-of-the-week format of other cop shows in favour of a longer story centring around a paramilitary drug-gang led by the fictional McIntyre family.
Review: Belfast directed by Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh's biopic, Belfast, released in January 2022 to much applause. But for many Belfast natives, it fell flat. The film opens like an on-screen city break brochure, with all the modern visual icons, before fading to black and white and scenes of a typical Belfast street in 1969. Here we are introduced to a nine year-old Kenneth Branagh, "Buddy", as he naively navigates Belfast at the outbreak of the 30-year conflict which became known as "the Troubles".
Review: One Man’s Terrorist by Daniel Finn
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Provisional IRA. This new book, One Man’s Terrorist: A political history of the IRA, is therefore a timely study of this movement. Seán Burns looks at the book and the lessons that can be learned for today.
Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
Reviews tend to over-focus on either the micro-detail of the relationship between the two protagonists, or the capital ‘P’ Politics (or lack thereof) in both works.
A ‘third industrial revolution’
New technological innovations are having a huge impact on the capitalist system, a subject explored in a new…
This Changes Everything: capitalism v the climate, Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein’s newly published book is a welcome and much needed addition to the debates on how to…
Review: Two Days, One Night – Dardenne Brothers Film
Firstly I must comment on how I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It’s drama and social content were very…