In 1946, French critic Nino Frank invented the neologism Film Noir to describe black and white dark movies of the 1940s, reflecting the murky milieu of shady people, wet streets and neon lights, or as Dashiell Hammett wrote, ‘Down those […]
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It was not too long into the month of January that many shops, terrified by the festive void left over by Christmas, began to put their Easter eggs out on display front and centre. The moral of the story is: […]
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Sunday afternoon sees the Irish Film Institute screen Howard Hawks’ 1944 classic To Have and Have Not, the first pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The couple ooze chemistry, delivering some of cinema’s most sexually charged dialogue (“You know how to […]
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Amongst our myriad and many talents here at NewsFour, we are a Docklands newspaper. For many, talk of the Dublin Docklands might inspire picture-postcard mental images of the Convention Centre or Grand Canal Dock and its upmarket image, acquired by […]
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Get down to The Grand Social for a fascinating evening of talks, as the Irish Architecture Foundation and Totally Dublin present Pecha Kucha 2015! Pecha Kucha will be bringing you a night of talks with a difference: each speaker is […]
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Paul Durcan is a name that will need no introduction for lovers of poetry. Referred to recently by Irish Central Online as ‘Ireland’s unofficial Poet Laureate’, Paul has a level of international recognition which is bestowed on only a few […]
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Do you live in an apartment or have a small patio or balcony that needs some cheering up? Gardening can be a little overwhelming for a beginner and if you are tight for planting space it is sometimes hard to […]
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Readers of NewsFour will be familiar with the poet Mary Guckian, whose verses have been featured in our pages before, and who was one of our Poets in Profile in 2014. This year, Mary’s words have lead to the creation […]
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As well as being a perennial topic in the pages of NewsFour, the River Dodder is a source of natural fascination for D4 residents and South Dubliners in general. Along the flow of its course, there are surprises aplenty. We […]
Read more →The Salvation is a cracking new western from Denmark of all places. Mads Mikkelsen (TV’s Hannibal) plays an immigrant in the old west who seeks vengeance when his wife and son are murdered. It’s very much an old school western, […]
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