Catnip is all the rage with today’s modern feline, but do we really understand it? Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one’s consciousness, or a downward spiraling path that can eventually lead to insanity? Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed, in the long-lost drug educational film that never-was: Catnip: Egress To Oblivion?

A rather excellent Sundance 2013 film written and directed by Jason Willis ‘for $25, all of which was spent on catnip’.

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What you may need to know:

1. We do have a soft spot for quirky little independent movies.

2. Wrong features Trailer Park faves William Fichtner (Prison Break, Drive Angry) and Steve Little, AKA Stevie from Eastbound And Down.

3. It’s directed by Quentin Duplex, AKA French electro musician Mr. Oizo, the man behind Flat Eric.

4. Remember Flat Eric? Nipper en Francais!

5. His last film, Rubber (2010), was about a killer tyre.

6. Great poster.

Release Date: TBC

Marie Fleming arriving at the High Court, Dublin this morning with her partner and full-time carer Tom Curran.

“Her courage in adversity is both humbling and inspiring. She was in many ways the most remarkable witness which any member of this court has ever been privileged to encounter.”

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns

 

High Court Rules Against Challenge To Ban On Assisted Suicide In landmark case (RTE)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

First location picture (taken this week) from the set of Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank (2013), based on the memoir by Jon Ronson.

From left: Maggie Gyllenhall, Michael Fasssbender (who plays Frank) and Domhnall Gleeson.

Frank is  “a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom”, the persona of cult musician Chris Sievey who died in 2010.

Any excuse to play this.

Thanks Neil Roddy

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