Yearly Archives: 2014

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What you may need to know:

1. Set in 1970’s California, a permanently stoned Private Dick gets dragged in to a kidnapping conspiracy by a former girlfriend.

2. It’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film! The most anticipated release since the birth of Saphur II The Great.

3. The film is an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel of the same name.

4. It’s also Pynchon’s first book to be adapted for screen and he is rumored to have cameo in it. It will be hard to tell as there has not been a reliable photograph taken of him in 50 years.

5. Unlike Anderson’s last two movies – There Will Be Blood (2007) and The Master (2013) – this is less character study more slapstick comedy. He said that he took a lot of inspiration from the makers of Airplane! (1980) and The Naked Gun (1988).

6. No John C. Reilly or Luiz Guzman?

7. Anderson left film school after two days because he felt his lecturers were making film boring.

8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Vice vice baby.

Release date: January 30, 2015

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A robot searches for a playmate on the deserted streets of Paris in the aftermath of some unnamed catastrophe.

Created by Alexis Decelle, Cyril Declercq, Vincent Defour and Pierre Jury of the Paris/Montreal based Isart Digital Video Game and 3D Animation/VFX School. As Rob Munday of SOTW describes it:

Wall-E, as if directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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After a 2 week search which resulted in nearly 1500 suggestions, Fota Wildlife Park in Cork is delighted to announce the name of its Red Panda Cub; Dearg meaning Red. Dearg whose sex is yet to be determined was born in June.

Fota Announces the Name for its Red Panda Cub (FotaWildlife.ie)

Previously: Eats Shoots And Needs A Name

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Irish Water resistance is met with force in Ayrfield, Dublin 13 at 7.30 this morning.

Bewildering.

Earlier: The Tide Turns

Previously: Bringing Communities Together

Thanks Mark Malone

Meanwhile…

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(LtoR) People Before Profit Clr Dierdre Wadding, Sinn Fein’s Daithi Doolan, Unite Trade Union’s Brendan Ogle and Clr Thomas Redmond.

The announcement this morning outside Leinster House of a National Demonstration on October 11 calling for water charges to be reversed.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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‘sup?

Aoife Muray writes:

“Your readers with children might be interested to note that Stories are for Everyone, a nationwide reading promotion for kids starts this month. Our very cool poster has been designed by illustrator and picture book creator Chris Haughton.”

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Following the lead of the taoiseach’s tactic of deflecting Sinn Féin questions with mentions of Jean McConville.

Tánaiste Joan Burton raised the discovery of the body of Brendan Megraw in response to Mary Lou McDonald’s question regarding the IMMA/John McNulty debacle.

“In the day that’s in it, when we have the body of a young man finally being found for his distraught family, the action of the Taoiseach of this country taking responsibility in relation to something where he has acknowledged there was definite wrong, is in marked contrast to the absence of your own leader in relation to a very young man who has spent a very long time in a lonely grave.”

Classy.

Tánaiste hits out over Megraw when challenged on McNulty (Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times)

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You may recall this video.

JP writes:

“I hope you can help. I was struck by the stories of people living under Direct Provision in the Kinsale Road Asylum Centre, Co Cork you featured last week and want to organise the sending of care packages to the adults and the children at all these centres not just in Cork. Does anyone know if this is against some rule or even legal? Also is it possibly to get a list of residents and what items they especially need. Thank you.”

Anyone?

Previously: ‘Three People Live In This Room, I’m One Of Them.’

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Free HOUSES in Dublin.

Luis Pedro, of the Irish Architecture Foundation, writes:

“As you probably know Open House Dublin is happening from October 17-19 across the city. Can you please mention, if you don’t mind, that this year’s programme map is now available, and main collection points are Connolly Station and City Hall, but they can also be found in a number of public venues and libraries around the city and inside this month’s issue of Totally Dublin. If you need any more details for your followers you can send them to here as the full programme is also available there. Thank you.”

Open House Festival (Facebook)