REVIEW: Tokyo Story
BY CATHAL McGUIGAN 
Tokyo Story is a film which enjoys perhaps the highest critical acclaim of any film. As I sat down to watch it, I imagined it would be so inherently likable that I would have to agree with all the critics. I was wrong.
February 6th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Mugabe and the White African
BY COLIN WILLIAMSON
“If good men do nothing, evil will prevail”. As the tag line suggests, this is a documentary which follows the struggle of a righteous few against the actions of the oppressive state in which they live.
February 6th, 2010 | No Comments
COMMENT AND OPINION: Sectarianism isn’t over
BY PADRAIC GRANT
The recent revelations concerning the two meetings between the DUP and UUP, hosted by the Grand Master of the Orange Order Robert Saulters, attended by a representative of the British Conservative Party, and centred on the possibility of a unionist electoral pact, have raised several significant issues. Despite their apparent failure, and the subsequent downplaying of their importance by both the UUP and the Conservatives, the talks reiterate the fragility of the Stormont Executive and the persistence of tribalism in the “new” northern society. What comes out of the DUP and UUP getting together with the Orange Order and deciding how to thwart Sinn Fein is the familiar sign that politics and religion remain intertwined in unionism’s highest levels, a mutually beneficial relationship that also resulted in the prominence of the parade issue in recent discussions on the devolution of policing and justice.
February 6th, 2010 | No Comments
COMMENT: The Iraq Inquiry
The past few weeks have seen intense media interest in the Iraq Inquiry which began in July with private hearings, but has only recently began to publicly feature high-profile members of the Establishment, the most prominent being Tony Blair but also members of the then-British cabinet including Alastair Campbell, Jack Straw and Clare Short, with Gordon Brown to be interviewed sometime in the future. The Inquiry’s remit includes analysing the reasons the war on Iraq was undertaken in the first place, if preparations for the war were satisfactory, if British soldiers were properly equipped, and whether the British government had a workable plan for the aftermath of the invasion. BY PADRAIC GRANT
February 6th, 2010 | No Comments
William Drennan Commemoration Day
13th February 2010 Come join Queen’s Ógra Fianna Fáil, Cumann William Drennan in their annual commeration of William Drennan and the acheivements of the United Irishmen.
February 5th, 2010 | No Comments
NEWS: Cars vandalised in Holylands
A number of students contacted the police after witnessing a crowd of young men jumping up and down on a car bonnet outside their apartment in College Park Avenue, around 3am on Sunday morning. One of the students recalled how the men kicked the windscreen through and ran down the street laughing. BY KERRI-ANNE CAMPBELL
February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: The Road
One of the greatest anticipated films of 2010, and definitely a must see, ‘The Road’ is set in a world that has fallen apart after an unexplained post-apocalyptic event, and follows the trials and tribulations of a man and his son as they attempt to travel south to the coastline. As director John Hillcoat has adapted from the original Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, there’s a high level of expectations after the seamless transition of ‘No Country for Old Men’ to the silver screen by the Cohen Brothers in 2007. I’m confident to say that if you’ve read the book or not, Hillcoat has successfully translated the encapsulating feel of the novel into a powerful and intense drama. BY LAURA SHEARER
February 1st, 2010 | No Comments
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