Tuathals song below aludes to some of the significant Irish interest in this year’s Oscar nominations. As well as the Best Original Song nomination for Hansard and Marketa Irglova for ‘Falling Slowly’ from ‘Once’, we have made a strong showing in the acting shakes with Daniel Day Lewis nominated for ‘There Will Be Blood’ (Best [...]

Economics is always a subject that interests me but one I have never studied it. So here is a quick thought on something I know not alot about. Which might annoy John Walters but I never read him and I guess he never reads me. Anyway. Consumer confidence seems to be one of the main [...]

Australian actor, Heath Ledger, has been found dead in a New York apartment with initial reports suggesting his death is drug related. The Oscar nominated actor was only 28 and was set to give the character of the Joker a new lease of life in this years ‘The Dark Knight’.
Update: So I feel I want [...]

As you all know, we’re massive fans of the Frames here at Dossing Times Towers.
By chance, we’ve managed to get our hands on the lyrics to the first track of their upcoming album, Oscar.
Nominate
My simple song
An award gong
My director mate
My nominate
Are you so far from me this day
That you didn’t hear of my nominate
 
My [...]

Read here coverage from the Huffington Post of a debate amongst Democrat candidates, with Obama and Clinton going after each others personal record and John Edwards feeling distinctly left out.

The Watchmen, originally published as a 12 series graphic novel by DC in the mid ’80s is credited with revolutionising what we view today as a graphic novel. The layers and dimensions of the work earned it a place amongst TIME’s greatest novels of all time and universal adulation. From the off the story packs a [...]

In advance of tomorrows (Tuesday) Oscar nominations, the nominations for those responsible for some reprehensible work in film this past year were announced today. Now the people at the Golden Rasperry Award Foundation have guaranteed the event will go ahead, not being tied to the neessity of people turning up, in the same way the [...]

My route home sees me passing a decent butcher, an Asian store, the stalls of Moore Street where the ladies are happy to unload discount veg to me. At one point I went to a stall for two tomoatoes and came away with 10 tomatoes, 8 peppers and it being the time of year 3 [...]

Israel continue their hypocritical defence of their security by adding to the plight of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by severing fuel supplies to the power station supplying 60% of the areas power. Access to the Gaza Strip has been stopped since last week even to aid workers and a representative of the [...]

That Tim Burton chooses interesting premises or sources of inspiration and then has fans baying for the release of his work and the uniquely gothic, macabre style he delivers is something undoubtedly mentioned in every review of his work. For the initiated or familiar this style never ages and expectations are consistently high. For someone wanting purely [...]