Really enjoyed Double or Nothing. There are things I would’ve done differently, but they delivered a thoroughly entertaining show #tweet
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Date: May 2021
Really enjoyed Double or Nothing. There are things I would’ve done differently, but they delivered a thoroughly entertaining show #tweet
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This Russian sci-fi horror has a decent premise and appropriately bleak setting and all that, but the execution is half-baked, full of logic holes and worst of all terrifically dull. More…
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This is not a knock on Val Kilmer or the rest of the cast, but two hours of Jim Morrison’s insufferable bullshit is just too much. Still, was nice to see Michael Wincott who is a gentleman and a scholar. More…
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Yeah, sorry not sorry, I’m not having this ‘don’t blame hundreds of people gathering in a small space in the middle of a pandemic’ BS #tweet
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“Who is that guy?”
“Some asshole from outer space.” More…
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It’s Friday, I got a heap of stuff in the post from Asia Market (kimchi ramen!) and I’ve got both My Bloody Valentine analogue remastered LPs. That’s a win for me > @MacDara #tweet
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I was hoping to find Sunwatchers in this selection and I wasn’t disappointed > @Bandcamp #tweet
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Was just at the shopping centre to pick up something essential and…yeah. Say hello to Lockdown 3 in a few weeks’ time #tweet
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Feck off, rain #tweet
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Unquestionably made to be a ‘cult classic’ which is no small part of the reason why it’s fucking awful. More…
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DVD extra-standard hagiography of the pioneering US Christian rock label. I would have preferred a deeper examination of its place in the indie label environment and how it straddled the worlds of ‘Christian music’ (as a distinctly US phenomenon) and ‘secular’ rock, punk, hardcore, etc. That it doesn’t even bother to explain what the Cornerstone festival was shows the level we’re at here. I know more now than I did before, sure, but there’s another film to be made here. More…
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You can’t just slap on the themes from Tenebre and Profondo Rosso like it’s the seasoning that makes your dish. Maybe work on the ingredients and their preparation first. More…
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Aaaaand Juno emails in the small hours that the MBV reissues are in stock so of course they’re sold out now > @MacDara #tweet
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Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman > @TreyStoneAuthor #tweet
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I don’t remember ever getting hay fever when I was younger; I always had bad sinuses. But the pollen count’s literally gone to my head, ugh #tweet
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Just accidentally discovered a bumblebee nest in the back garden. Apparently they’re quite rare to find! #tweet
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Got the double LP of Sons of Kemet’s Black to the Future in today’s post. I was worried as it’s major-label vinyl but it sounds pristine #tweet
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It’s clearly made by someone (noted Blind Idiot God fan Alex Winter) with a passion for the work. But the presentation seems overly drab and stuffy for a musician whose music has such a zany reputation. Maybe that’s a problem of being too close to the thing, to feel like treating it in anything but the most reverent manner would be too frivolous or inappropriate when the opposite is more likely the case. More…
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Ornette Coleman never did get into space. But he came closer than most actual astronauts who’ve been in orbit. More…
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Far more entertaining than a film clearly built backwards from an available location has any right to be. More…
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Saturday morning death metal: the new Grave Miasma is rattling my brain > gravemiasma.bandcamp.com #tweet
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Just got confirmation that Jawbox’s London show’s been bumped to June next year > @MacDara #tweet
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Okay, now I really want a TurboExpress. More…
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Finally saw the whole thing after half-watching from midway through on Channel 4 one weekday afternoon a million years ago. It’s actually a decent story as these things go, but hangs on a hook so preposterous that it could only have allowed suspension of disbelief if it were set years ahead of right now, let alone 1995. More…
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It’s six whole months since the launch of the Xbox Series X but you still can’t buy one retail in Europe #tweet
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Wrong question: it should’ve been ‘will’, not ‘can’ > @NextIrishGE #tweet
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You know what? I didn’t mind it. It’s not great by any stretch of the imagination, but I didn’t mind it. More…
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Negativland did a Tiny Desk Concert > YouTube.com #tweet
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Found a woodlouse spider in the bathroom last night. I don’t think I’ve even seen one in the garden before, let alone the house #tweet
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My 1,500th film logged on Letterboxd, and perhaps not the wisest choice for Sunday night viewing. I feel alienated somewhat from the small-town ennui as Bradford is hardly a small town; I’ve been to smaller places than that in England’s Midlands and there’s a distinctly more connected-to-the-outside-world feel than what you’d often find here in Ireland, even nearly 60 years after this was made. But the world is what you make of it, I suppose. More…
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Gets the job done in under 90 minutes, and makes me eager to see the French original, so I’d call that a win. More…
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I’m popular out west > @Aoifedowdartist #tweet
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Soooo… there’s no way these Jawbox shows are happening next month, right? #tweet
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Ben Wheatley essentially remixes A Field in England as a Nigel Kneale-style sci-fi horror for his most interesting project in years. More…
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Just got what I believe to be a spam call from someone purporting to be from Vodafone. Watch out, people #tweet
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Never believe a politician when they tell you they’re ‘committed’ to doing anything. Unless they’ve drafted a Bill or they’re passing same, I don’t want to hear it > @rtenews #tweet
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Bass guitar > every other instrument > @atomic_elbow #tweet
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This is a rhetorical question, right? > @PatrickFreyne1 #tweet
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Don’t think we haven’t noticed that housing’s only become an issue since people who can get on the ladder found themselves at odds with policy #tweet
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Shellac playing two dates in Dublin next April like they’re feckin’ Garth Brooks or something #tweet
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The Raheny News is the first zine I ever read, without realising that’s what it was of course > @DublinInquirer #tweet
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Looking forward to our refund for the cancelled (at last) NXT UK Dublin show as after all that happened last year, I didn’t want to support it anymore #tweet
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Poison are the winners here, let’s be honest. They come off as refreshingly self-aware and self-effacing, and ultimately had the last laugh a few months after this film came out in scoring a megahit that’s still played today. Kudos. More…
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Bee found the front basket for my bike that I bought years ago and never used but then I broke the bracket putting it on so I have to get a new one anyway #tweet
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“You’re not an astrologer! You’re an asshole.” More…
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This is genuinely great stuff. Way ahead of its time in being a horror movie that’s set in contemporary Ireland, and which nods to our genuine pre-Christian folklore, without selling to the Yanks with backwards stereotypes. The accents are all over the shop, mind, but I think we can let that slide. More…
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If you want tonal shifts, this one’s got ’em in spades. More…
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Watching baseball documentaries on Pluto TV because I ran out of things to watch on YouTube #tweet
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It’s got the production values of someone’s first YouTube video essay circa 2010. But it’s worth your time for the substance; Tom Savini has lived a heck of a life. More…
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Why did I watch this?! It’s an Asylum production so I should have switched it off at the start; it’s a typically dull ‘mockbuster’ of theirs. I do have to say the two main women in the cast are pretty decent, especially given all the heavy lifting they have to do with the double burden of a rotten script and their shockingly poor male co-stars (Eric Roberts excepted, but he’s just there for the payday and the catering). More…
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