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Gone Girl | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. October 28, 2014. David Fincher has stepped into Brian DePalma’s shoes when it comes to directing ice-cold, stylised murder mysteries that are gorgeous to behold but who keep your emotions so far at bay that you feel barely acquainted with the final product. He brings the comedy and carnage down on the movie like a heavy metal object on a skull-cap so that you can’t but react to his Grand Guigonol. Posted in Film Reviews. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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No Escape | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. April 24, 2010. It is terrific theatre finely acted by the performers who let the truth ring out in their restrained characterisations. The catalogue of crimes committed against the young is something we have long been inundated with but here we are stewed in the vile, despicable acts, the cold-hearted ignorance and the utter lack of compassion dispensed by these so-called men of god and their statutory enablers. The clergy are often referred to as...
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Dublin Oldschool at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. Dublin Oldschool at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. September 30, 2014. Rushing off your tits, after ingesting the candyflip of Emmet Kirwan’s words and Ian Lloyd-Anderson’s performance, the heart, soul and yearning reverb of Dublin’s dancefloors will stick to you like a sweated-through t-shirt, in this wildly entertaining, touching two-hander. Exceptional acting squared with exceptional writing, this show in a ‘baggie’ was unmissable, yet unattainable....
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DruidMurphy 2 at the Olympia Theatre | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. DruidMurphy 2 at the Olympia Theatre. October 4, 2014. The hunger of the Irish has long been a preoccupation of Murphy’s writing. Our continual re-imagining of our flaws through folklore the sucky sweet that both sates the pang, but adds to the rot in our national psyche. The church aren’t long shutting him up though. They try to colour the darkness and pagan lineage his work adheres to. And his desperation for his craft to bear a tru...It’s ...
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Spinning at Smock Alley | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. Spinning at Smock Alley. October 28, 2014. Conor is not the only one ‘spinning’ in this Jim Culleton helmed original play from Deirdre Kinahan. All the disparate elements seem to be slightly out of control in a production that is admirable, involving but ultimately un-fulfilling. Kinahan’s script deals with meaty subjects like infanticide, the desperate position many fathers are left in by the law and the corrosive wear and tear by present or...
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Diatribes of a Dilettante | He's Keane, Willing and Able | Page 2
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. March 3, 2016. There’s no bum sex or drunken jazz freak-outs in The Night Manager, which makes it the perfect old-school spy-caper for mum and dad of a Sunday evening. Read the rest of this entry ». March 3, 2016. The narrative simplicity of Dora the Explorer meets the survivalist shtick of Bear Grylls in director Alejandro G. Iñárritu gorgeous, gory and- seemingly, never-ending scavenger hunt. Read the rest of this entry ». Posted in Film Reviews.
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Begorrah at Smock Alley | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. Begorrah at Smock Alley. September 30, 2014. Most comedy acts are lucky if their show contains one uproarious laugh that unites the whole audience. This Irish troika are good for one per sketch, in a fifty-minute performance that’s greased with charm. Posted in Theatre Reviews. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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Interstellar | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. November 12, 2014. Earth, as ever, is hurtling towards extinction, a blight wiping out most of humanity’s crops and leaving the United States looking like a TV adaptation of the Grapes of Wrath. History is being rewritten, the government claiming that the Moon landings were staged to bankrupt the Soviet Union. While society has regressed away from technology and back to nature, all be it too little, too late. Where he just so happens to run into Mi...
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Our Few and Evil Days at the Abbey Theatre | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. Our Few and Evil Days at the Abbey Theatre. October 28, 2014. The bravest piece of programming by Fiach Mac Conghail since he doused the Abbey in Amyl Nitrate (via Alice in Funderland) and his most successful artistic achievement since Mary Raftery’s No Escape. It sounds contrived, and it’s incredibly ordinary, so when the revelations come- and there’s a shit load of them, they are startlingly comic, one of the many contradictions that ...If itR...
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Northern Soul | Diatribes of a Dilettante
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Diatribes of a Dilettante. He's Keane, Willing and Able. October 27, 2014. As half-formed and full on as a teenage romance, Northern Soul may prematurely ejaculate when it comes to its plot, but it’s endearing enthusiasm for its subject makes it an enjoyable, if forgettable, watch. School life is cast aside for factory life, drink for drugs, one friend for another in a story that’s as wispy as bum fluff and equally as amusing. But I was still enamoured with this coming of age story in spite of a silly cr...
