Legend

Those looking for an enjoyable scare for the Halloween season are unlikely to seek one out in a European medieval manuscript. Those things are stuffy and deeply religious, right? It would just be silly to look for anything creepy…

The Armstrong Lie (2013) Dir. Alex Gibney Yeah, so it’s been a bit of an Alex Gibney fest in the past few weeks in my house (see We Steal Secrets and Enron) but it’s not a bad sort of fest really when you have a documentary…

The story of how Margaret Keane became one of the most successful artists in America that nobody had ever heard of is both fascinating and terribly sad. For over 20 years Margaret was a virtual slave to her husband Walter who took the…

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970) My relationship with Black Sabbath can be summed up as such; I know an incredible amount about them despite never listening to their debut album. A consequence of being friends with mainly metal…

Of the many stars on the Hollywood walk of fame, 13 belong to Irish people. Roscommon man George Brent has two stars on Vine street, one for his television work and another for cinema. Born in 1899, Brent was an IRA courier for Michael…

I'm going to be controversial. Horror movies are deadly. Few things are as enjoyable as sitting in a dark room with a bunch of like minded strangers having the shit scared out of you. Throw in the knowledge that you're relatively safe…

Recently on the ‘sharing is caring’ site, a challenge to readers to list the ten books that have made a lasting impression on them has been busily doing the timeline rounds. As I have many bookish friends, not only was I tagged into this…

Just throw a look at this. Just, do it. Hozier does a cover of Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys and in so doing does something really spectacularly special. Good man, Hozier.

Some movie characters can transcend through time and rightfully claim their place in the pantheon of popular culture and one such character which has achieved this is Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp. One hundred years ago the world was first…

A Most Wanted Man is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last major performance and is an ode to his immense capacity as a character actor, once again Hoffman reveals his obsessive dedication to his craft, and it is sad knowing now how this dedication…