Eoghan Lyng

4 days ago | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM INDIELISBOAThis is a movie-within-a-movie. João takes on the role of Liberada, a fictitious gender non-conforming saint in a biography based on the Inquisition. The more the crew film these scenes, the more they query their views on representation during a turbulent time in Portuguese history. Worse, a spectral version of Liberada haunts João through the medium of dreams.

1 week ago | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng

Florence Pugh’s Yelena is bored. Tired of killing people for the CIA, she pleads to director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to give her life another purpose. De Fontaine agrees, provided that she destroys some evidence for her, materials that are hidden far away in the mountains. When she gets there, she is accosted by John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and former nemesis Taskmaster (Olga Kuylenko).

1 week ago | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng

James McArdle stars as Edward, an openly gay Irish novelist who has just penned a book that is reaching an American audience. Thrilled by the reviews, Edward is nonetheless daunted by the prospect of a fortnight promotional tour, particularly as it means leaving his elderly mother (a virtually mute Fionnula Flanagan) on her own.

2 weeks ago | popmatters.com | Eoghan Lyng

If You Asked For a Picture Partisan Blondshell’s If You Asked For a Picture is one of the most overtly polemical and confessional albums since Hole‘s Celebrity Skin. A cascade of riffs is interspersed with lyrical portraits of characters experiencing distress fueled by societal expectations and an unhealthy dependency on alcohol. Sometimes, for variety, Blondshell lets the vocal harmonies do the heavy lifting, as heard in the closing, almost a cappella-oriented seconds of “Arms”.

2 weeks ago | culturesonar.com | Eoghan Lyng

In 2000, The Beatles issued The Beatles Anthology, a giant book that encompassed interviews from the four bandmates discussing their memories of the 1960s. Lit up with photographs, drawings and mementos, it was their gift to the fans, a portal back to a less cynical time. Twenty-five years later, Night Divides the Day by The Doors delivers something very similar, permitting readers a chance to identify with Jim Morrison et al.