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Review: Dopamine Chamber by Fontaines DC

By Finn McKenna Fontaines DC released their fifth album Dopamine Chamber on Friday, 16 October. Like their previous releases, this album is receiving huge domestic and international acclaim. This is justified. Those with the Fontaines DC algorithm will no doubt come across
Nov 6, 2026

Film review: The White Tiger

Reviewed by Quinn Forskitt “In the jungle, which is the rarest of animals that comes along only once in a generation?” “The white tiger.” “That is what you are. The white tiger.” A dark drama based on Aravind Adiga’s novel, its stunning
Feb 17, 2021

Review: It’s a Sin

By Kevin Henry The brilliant, inspiring, and deeply moving Channel 4 drama series It’s A Sin has touched a chord with many since its release last month. This five part series follows a group of friends and housemates living in London between
Feb 12, 2021

Film review: Dear Comrades!

Reviewed by Manus Lenihan Dear Comrades!, a film directed and written by renowned filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, tells the story of a massacre of striking workers that took place in the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1962. This is an understated film, all in
Jan 30, 2021

Film review: Rocks

By Shane Finnan Sarah Gavron’s Rocks is a modern coming-of-age film, focused on the life and struggles of the main character, Olushola “Rocks” Omotoso. The film is set in pre-Covid London, and follows Rocks’ and her group of teenage girl schoolmates in
Jan 27, 2021

Review: Unquiet Graves

Unquiet Graves opens with a harrowing re-enactment of the murder of two young men, Colm McCartney and Sean Farmer, in 1975. Returning from a Gaelic football game in Dublin, the two were stopped at a ‘British Army’ checkpoint near the village of
Dec 5, 2020

Review: The Return of Nature

The Return of Nature By John Bellamy Foster Monthly Review Press, 2020 Reviewed by Keishia Taylor John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from the beginning, dealt with ecological questions. Its long-awaited sequel, The Return of Nature: Socialism
Nov 30, 2020