Stuart Baker’s “Mirror to the Soul” documentary examines the huge influence of Caribbean life on British society and culture
A few months ago, What Richard Did director Lenny Abrahamson was one of the guests at a Banter session at the Earagail Arts Festival which looked at how Irish culture has dealt with the move from boom to bust in …
OneTwoOneTwo is a brand new music documentary festival taking place at Dublin’s Lighthouse Cinema from October 19 to 21. Docs on the big screen will include Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (the best concert flick of all time – fact), …
The best gigs-on-film are often nothing like the gigs you experience in real life. Real gigs are messy affairs. Even when the band are on fire up on that stage, kicking out the jams as if their lives depend on …
Like the best music, the best music documentaries are often the ones you have to go searching for. Cheap technology means any doofus with a video camera can put together a documentary featuring a band talking blandly about their music. …
My blogging and Ticket colleague Donald Clarke is a sensible man. He filed his Top 20 Movies of the Decade, chuckled, called a cab and scarpered for the airport. As Clarkey is currently sitting in a jacuzzi in an eight-star …
The funniest moment comes after the film ends and the credits begin to roll. You’ve just watched two hours on the rise and fall of Christopher Wallace AKA Notorious B.I.G., AKA Biggie Smalls, AKA Big Poppa AKA “Christy, come in, …
A nod and a wink to The Walkinstown Roundabout Chancer for this link to the trailer for The Damned United. Opens in cinemas on March 27, which gives you plenty of time to read David Peace’s truly wonderful book on …
