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  • White boys can dance

    Like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, it's a combo that should be so wrong, yet The Rapture's marriage of art-rock with disco/dance just hits the spot.  Brian Boyd goes on the trail of the hybrid that refuses to die.

  • What the funk?

    It's called punk-funk but also trades under the aliases dance-punk, disco-punk, and dance-rock and it's the sound you get when two opposing music cultures collide.

  • Immediate Gratification

    It may finally be time for a ticker-tape parade down O'Connell Street. For the first time in years, a Dublin rock band has produced an album brimming with imagination, ambition and bloody great songs. It has, you will agree, taken a long time.

  • Taking the lead

    Playing the lead in The Front Line , a new film about Congolese immigrants to Dublin, was a challenge for Eriq Ebouaney. The Parisian actor of Cameroonian descent was more than willing to rise to it, he tells Donald Clarke

  • Soundtracking Cinema

    A Paris-based label has made it a mission to bring the work of homegrown film composers to the masses. Jocelyn Clarke finds out the score from Amelie de Chassey

  • Turn on, tune in, drop off

    The greatest myths surround the greatest rock festivals. As Ireland steadies itself for a last drop of the summer festival wine at Electric Picnic, Brian Boyd on the truth behind outdoor music extravaganzas.

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  • She's gotta have it

    Reviewed - Volver: Forget the false bottom -Penélope Cruz positively shines in Almodóvar's latest, writes Donald Clarke

  • Danger in Dublin

    Reviewed - The Frontline: David Gleeson, the Limerick-born director of Cowboys & Angels, has followed up that diverting 2003 comedy with a serious thriller set among the African communities in Dublin.

  • Guest of dishonour

    Reviewed - You, Me and Dupree: Now, I know what you're thinking. Ah, a comedy in which Owen Wilson, the perennial buoyant good buddy, plays a best man, frequently drunk, always genial, who refuses to leave the newly-weds' home.

  • Knocking-off time

    Reviewed - Severance:  Glancing back at notes made during the screening of this gleefully unhinged slasher film, I find myself inadvertently assembling a terrifying magic-realist novel in my head, writes Donald Clarke.

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  • A lollapalooza for the new millennium

    During the second World War, the United States military used a shibboleth - a word or phrase that can be used to distinguish members of a group from outsiders - to prevent infiltration of their ranks by Japanese spies. The shibboleth they used was "lollapalooza", which was difficult for even the most proficient English-speaking Japanese spy to pronounce.

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  • Wicker Man feeling the heat

    The slightly disappointing opening weekend suffered by Snakes on a Plane - this year's internet sensation - suggests that the studio's decision to ostentatiously deny the press advance screenings may not have been such a clever wheeze after all.

  • Oh my god! They stomped on Tokyo!

    The Best Film Ever has just gone into development. Think we've gone mad? Well listen to this. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, progenitors of South Park and the mighty Team America: World Police, are set to make a picture entitled Giant Monsters Attack Japan!

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  • Who'll pay joe blogs?

    It's the online truism which keeps on giving: content is king. I've heard that line hundreds of time since the first internet age began. One of its first airings was to headline a pep talk which Bill Gates gave to his Microserfs in early 1996. Bill, he was on the ball back then, writes Jim Carroll  

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