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Film Review: Packing a punch
Tuesday, 12 Apr, 2011 – 14:04 | One Comment
Film Review: Packing a punch

Title: Sucker Punch

Film: Limitless potential
Tuesday, 29 Mar, 2011 – 14:02 | Comments Off
Film: Limitless potential

Film Review

de Brún defends lack of collaborative effort on SU diary
Tuesday, 21 Sep, 2010 – 14:00 | Comments Off
de Brún defends lack of collaborative effort on SU diary

The publication of the first UCD Students’ Union diary has been published, without collaboration with the university diary.
A similar diary was published by the university, as has been for several years. This raised questions about …

Top 10: Worst Superhero Films
Tuesday, 30 Mar, 2010 – 14:01 | Comments Off
Top 10: Worst Superhero Films

In the midst of the arrival of Kick-Ass to blow the minds of the movie-going populace, Breffni O’Sullivan looks back at some misfiring superhero movies

Film: Shutter Island
Tuesday, 2 Mar, 2010 – 14:01 | Comments Off
Film: Shutter Island
Electric Dick Valentine
Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009 – 14:01 | Comments Off
Electric Dick Valentine

Six albums in, and no longer desiring company for trips to gay bars, Dick Valentine of Electric Six talks to Breffni O’Sullivan

TV / WWE: Here come the Future Boys
Tuesday, 27 Oct, 2009 – 14:01 | Comments Off
TV / WWE: Here come the Future Boys

WWE might not be a real sport, but it’s still entertaining, Breffni O’Sullivan previews the stars of the future

Film / Adventureland
Tuesday, 15 Sep, 2009 – 21:00 | Comments Off
Film / Adventureland

Adventureland, Greg Mottola’s follow-up to the raucously entertaining Superbad, is not more of the same gross-out comedy; instead the film unravels as a rather more realistic interpretation of the overdone coming-of-age archetype that offers a …

Film / An offshore success
Tuesday, 14 Apr, 2009 – 11:59 | Comments Off
Film / An offshore success

If nautical nonsense be your thing, then Breffni O’Sullivan recommends The Boat that Rocked.