Scorsese takes us to the Island Sunday, March 14, 2010
By John Maguire, on film In Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese’s first dramatic feature since he won Academy Awards and box office esteem with The Departed, he turns Dennis Lehane’s creepy novel of the same name into a dark, intense thriller about madness, trauma and violence arranged as an elaborate homage to Hollywood’s less respectable genres.
Documentary Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Helen Boylan For the uninitiated, Banksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist who is revered across the art world. Underground street artists admire him for his satirical creativity, artistic talent and prolificacy.
Hallé breathes new life into Mahler’s classic Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Dick O'Riordan The Hallé Orchestra from Manchester came to Dublin for the second time in as many years, as part of The Sunday Business Post International Concert Series.
Opera Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Dick O'Riordan I Capuleti e I Montecchi - the second of the Romeo and Juliet pair of productions in the Opera Ireland spring season - looks more like a Wexford ‘long-lost gem’ offering.
TV Review Sunday, March 14, 2010
By Emmanuel Kehoe One aspect of change over the past 40 years is the way people go to the pictures.