Arts & Culture

FOR many, The Field is less a stage play than a film and it brings to mind Richard Harris’ oscar-nominated performance as the Bull McCabe.

THREE Clare children have been recognised as being among the best young artists in the country at the Sightsavers’ Junior Painter Awards.

Django UnchainedDIRECTED BY: Quentin TarantinoSTARRING: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L JacksonCERT: 18Despite the fact that he lost the plot somewhere around Kill Bill – deciding finally to throw out any pretence that all he was ever doing was indulging himself and his extreme fanboy fantasies – a new Quentin Tarantino movie is still an event. Because you know that, somewhere in all of the juvenile nastiness, there are going to be moments of genius, things that mark the man out as a great director, despite his own worst efforts. Django Unchained is no different.

Winter appears to have been delayed until this week, so there has been no better time to be curled up on the couch. I decided to skip watching Lance Armstrong get teary-eyed though (well, for 30 seconds anyway) as he ‘fessd up to Oprah about his rather spectacular fall from grace. Instead, I feasted on new material on Tuesday night with the arrival of Louie on Fox.

Dredd*****Directed by: Pete TravisStarring: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Heady‘Tis a brave filmmaker that will take on a beloved comic book property. The internet, you see, is rife with uber-mega-SUPER fans with stong opinions and little else to do with their day than rant and rave about how you’re doing it wrong.

MORE than a decade ago, Carsten Krieger and his wife, Ina, packed their belongings and hit the road. Swapping their careers as paediatric nurses in Stuttgart, Germany for a new home on the isolated westerly tip of Clare required guts and imagination. Their families and friends were not convinced that they would last long in Kilbaha.

ONE of Clare’s acclaimed artists, Ennis man Kieran Hanrahan will be playing two key roles in the 2013 Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin later this month.

THE Shannonside Winter Music Festival, organised by the Sixmilebridge Folk Club, will take place from this Thursday to January 20 with a host of musical talents descending on the village en mass over the long weekend.