Dear Mensturators, After many weeks of periods making headlines there has been a slight lull in the menstrual news cycle, so it seemed like as good a time as any to get back to basics and reflect on language. For the longest time periods,…

“Oh you'll probably get away with crucifixion!” In 1979, all Christian hell broke loose with the cinematic release of Monty Python’s full-length movie Life of Brian. Hailed as the finest moment of the comedic troupe, and hugely…

Kevin Staake’s documentary short, Dieorama, examines the morbid dioramas of artist Abigail Goldman. Through talking heads and exquisitely captured frames of her work, Goldman’s process and intention are realised, and discussions of…

It is important to state at the outset that the Arachnophilia is perfectly safe for any Arachnophobes. It is difficult to do justice to Arachnophilia. At times, It is laugh out loud funny, it has a serious spine running through the whole…

Not shy about his classic rock roots, singer-songwriter Damon Mitchell has returned with a new EP titled Elise. Mitchell cites mid-60s Beatles, Neil Young, Steely Dan, and other radio rock giants of the era as prime influences on his new…

Neil Marshall’s Hellboy is an utter dud, on par with Batman v Superman or Suicide Squad. It’s a shame because if one person could have successfully followed in Guillermo Del Toro’s footsteps in adapting the Dark Horse Comic about a monster…

I look out the Luan Gallery’s tall windows at the river Shannon. It moves westwards through Athlone like a slow, black brushstroke. Sunlight dances on the water, boats rock with its flow, swans glide downriver. I turn away and back to the…

Oh god. It's the one where Elizabeth becomes obsessed with Switzerland. And we mean seriously, unhealthily obsessed - like, she literally talks about nothing else throughout this book. She's so focused on forcing her friends to look at…