It's the most wonderful time of the year – NO ENCORE reviews the RTÉ Choice Music Prize~! Not a lot of ceremony this year for obvious reasons but a great story to celebrate in the form of Denise Chaila's victory. Dave Hanratty and Craig…

The Stylist is the debut feature of Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian. It's a crowdfunded expansion of Gevargizian's 2016 short of the same name. The film follows Claire (Najarra Townsend), a socially awkward hair stylist. She lives alone in a large…

I’m in a cottage by Coney Island, looking out at a relentless and grey Irish sea. I’ve come here to the natural fringe of the island to try and process what has been the strangest of years. The beach is a mere ten metres away across a…

I don’t think anyone working on Death Stranding would have guessed that their game would be the perfect encapsulation of 2020. In fact, the game didn’t even initially release last year; the PS4 version came out in 2019. But it was the PC…

Locus  By Kevin Graham You ask for clarity so I set  a glass of water on the counter,  look at the clock and count  backwards from a hundred  with my eyes closed, listening  to you breathing very slowly  from a few feet away like a…

Last week saw the 2021 iteration of the all singing, all dancing European Film Promotion Shooting Stars Award (disclaimer: the singing and the dancing may or may not be metaphorical). The awards ceremony, which for over 20 years has…

Pour out a can of motor oil, Daft Punk are no more. That's the lead news story on a busy episode that takes in the new album from Mogwai, an emotional reaction to that work, and a spotlight on instrumental songs. It's Dave Hanratty. It's…

The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) returns from March 3 - 14, moving online for the first time due to Covid-19. While the cinema setting will be missed, on the positive side, cinephiles can have the best of current…