The One to Watch: ‘In Treatment’
Gabriel Byrne won a Golden Globe in the early weeks of 2009 for this HBO show, which is another entry in the output of this cable network that sets it apart from, well, anything else on television. Byrne plays a therapist and each episode focuses on one therapy session. The show will play 5 nights [...]
Read moreTop 6 Friday: Bad Guy Hideouts
6. Base: Funeral Parlour, West Baltimore, USA
Bad Guy: Stringer Bell, Barxdale Crew (’The Wire’)
I’m currently watching Season 3 of ‘The Wire’ – while the Barxdale operation was run out of the unimaginative upstairs office of a strip joint in series 1, Stringer Bell is currently running his operations and strategising from a funeral home, while [...]
Tasty Lunch
I’ve sung the praises of Taco,Taco before as my favourite place for lunch. I’m going through a particularly frugal period at the moment (hardly unique I know) but on getting paid today I decided to treat myself to a trip to Taco, Taco based in the Epicurean Food Hall on Abbey Street in Dublin. Efficient, [...]
Read moreJai Ho
Other than Hugh Jackman gone cabaret, music from the movies actually nominated for Oscars last weekend, did not feature in the clip show shown on RTE 2 on Monday night. As a means of remedying this here is the good mood song Jai Ho, from Slumdog Millionaire which won Best Song.
Read moreBlogging Awards
Dan has started a big old debate on the nature of the Blog Awards. Now many of the points he seems to brings up are interesting.
For instance that 2 of the blogs were highly inactive in the time period.
And that many of the people who won are friends or close to the organisers.
Now on [...]
The Simpsons come to Ireland
On St Patrick’s Day Homer and Grampa will come home in an episode being broadcast in Ireland ahead of its transmission in the US for the first time in the 20-year history of the show. In The Name of the Grandfather sees Homer make Grampa’s dream of a final beer in a pub in the [...]
Read moreHamlet 2
Looking back on comedy in 2008, results were decidedly mixed. A comedic performance got an Oscar nomination admittedly (Downey Jnr in ”Tropic Thunder’), however the lists of classic comedy moments compiled every so often will not be stalling to consider the likes of ‘Role Models’ and ‘Pineapple Express’ for too long. In this same vein [...]
Read moreThe Oscars as it happened
00.40…I’m already wrecked, Fearne Cotton has been on Sky 1 for over an hour now desperately trying to grasp a few minutes with people who are there inexplicably (Zach Efron) and deservedly (Mickey Rourke). Lots of filler, lots of talking heads and lots of ‘who are you wearing?’
12.58…hot chocolate, popcorn and Corona’s ready, I’m really [...]