As I hop into the video chat with Lindsay Ellis and Angelina Meehan, they are discussing the best way to handle a visual gag in their upcoming Game of Thrones video. It’s 8pm in my home, 3pm in Angelina’s, and … Continue reading Lindsey Ellis and Angelina Meehan// Interview
If the abundance of meme pages are anything to go by, our collective unconscious has been deeply infected by The Simpsons. In America, Ireland, and anywhere else that had access to TVs over the past twenty years, the yellow-skinned family … Continue reading Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play Former TN2 Theatre Editor Eoin Moore questions our popular culture through a Springfield lens
●●●●● Get Out opens with a black man (Atlanta’s Keith Stanfield) getting abducted in a white suburban neighbourhood. The following scene features Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), also black, asking his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) whether her parents know he is … Continue reading Get Out – review
●●●●○ A compelling aspect of the video game, and perhaps its most profound strength compared to other artistic mediums, is their unparalleled potential to evoke the player’s sympathy. At their greatest, games can totally immerse their players in the world … Continue reading Tyranny – review
Last month, the iDIG Music Festival, a celebration and showcase of video game music, returned to Dublin. Having been lucky enough to speak to two of the event’s organisers last year – Blizzard composer Eimear Noone and former tn2 Games … Continue reading “I Feel Like the First Big Hit Is About to Land…” – tn2 visits iDIG 2016
●●●●○ The Corn Exchange have made a name for themselves as theatrical adaptors of the highest calibre. Previously, they have produced stage versions of Nabakov’s Lolita, Joyce’s Dubliners, and recently an award-winning adaptation of Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a … Continue reading Through a Glass Darkly – Review
●●●●○ Davey Wreden is a game reviewer’s worst nightmare. Game reviews are, by convention, lengthy and encyclopaedic, conveying the gaming experience with as much detail and accuracy as the written word will allow. With The Stanley Parable, and now with … Continue reading The Beginner’s Guide – Review
●●●●○ Justin Kurzel, a director best known for his chilling depiction of a series of murders in Snowtown (2011), has brought his slow-paced, atmospheric, and graphically violent style to Macbeth. Kurzel chooses to set his version of the Scottish Play … Continue reading Macbeth – Review
●●●●● Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, the creators of Rick and Morty, had a tough act to follow. Season 1 introduced Rick, a mad scientist and self-destructive alcoholic with deep-seated emotional problems, and his grandson Morty, the sometimes reluctant companion … Continue reading Rick and Morty, Season 2 – Review
●●●○○ Following successful runs in London and New York, Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive had its Dublin debut as one of the headline acts in the Dublin Theatre Festival. Showing at the Gaiety, The Night Alive follows the classic formula … Continue reading The Night Alive – Review
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. opens with typical Guy Ritchie energy: as a chaotic cat-and-mouse chase unfolds through the streets of East Berlin,bullets and perfectly timed quips fly overhead. 1960s Soviet-occupied Germany is a kind of Disneyfied fantasy-land, with spooky shadows … Continue reading The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Money isn’t everything, and the world is ending. Both of these quite jarring sentiments tumble awkwardly out of the patriarch of a honey-farming family under the gaze of hot stage lights and judgemental eyes in the climactic scenes of Alice … Continue reading The Wonders – Review