Declan Burke
Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance
Author, editor and journalist, although rarely in that order. Novel: The Lammisters (@NoAlibisPress) “The funniest book of the year." ~ Sunday Independent
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6 days ago |
irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke
★★★★☆ A sport, a way of life, a philosophy for living: surfing lends itself to extravagant myth-making, which (15A) is happy to lean into as the movie opens, with our eponymous hero (played by Nicolas Cage) informing his estranged son (Finn Little) that life’s crucial moments are a lot like encountering a massive wave: ‘You either surf it,’ he says, ‘or you get wiped out.’ But when the Surfer returns home to surf the remote beach at Luna Bay, he discovers that the shore has been colonised by...
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3 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke
Good and evil are flip sides of the same coin, at least according to (16s), which opens in Mississippi in 1932 with brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B Jordan) returning to their old stomping ground after learning the gangster trade in Al Capone’s Chicago. Smoke and Stack plan to use their ill-gotten gains to open a juke joint in the town’s old sawmill, a scheme the local white folk, and particularly the resident Klansmen, don’t look too kindly upon.
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1 month ago |
irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke
‚ėÖ‚ėÖ‚ėÖ‚ėÜ‚ėÜFootball is a team game, but one man ‚ÄĒ Pele, Maradona, Fran Costello ‚ÄĒ can be the difference between a good side and a team of immortals. (12A) stars Darragh Humphreys as Fran, assistant manager of St Peter‚Äôs Celtic in the footballing heartland of Sallynoggin, a humble slogger who suddenly goes viral when he calls national treasure Brian Kerr a ‚Äėsnakey geebag‚Äô live on air during the televised draw for the FAI Cup.
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1 month ago |
irishexaminer.com | Declan Burke
★★★☆☆Post-apocalyptic movies come in all shapes and sizes, but (12A), which was largely filmed in Ireland, pretty much defies categorisation. Living half a mile down an abandoned salt mine, a wealthy family — Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton), and Son (George MacKay) — are determined to maintain the patrician values of their formerly dominant class, even if the world they once knew has been blown to hell.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Declan Burke
The sleuth with the outsider’s eye is a convention as old as the crime genre itself, but Jess Kidd gives it an interesting twist in her latest novel, Murder at Gulls Nest (Faber, £16.99).
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