...watched the following films:
20th Century Women - dir. Mike Mills ★★★
7 Minutes (7 Minuti) - dir. Michele Placido ★★½ (ADIFF)
A Ghost Story - dir. David Lowery ★★★★
A Monster Calls - dir. J.A. Bayona ★★★★
A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria) - dir. Roy Andersson ★★★★½
A Woman's Life (Une Vie) - dir. Stéphane Brizé ★★½ (FFF)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - dir. Mandie Fletcher ★★½
After the Storm - dir. Hirokazu Koreeda ★★★★ (ADIFF)
All These Sleepless Nights - dir. Michal Marczak ★★½ (ADIFF)
Alone in Berlin - dir. Vincent Perez ★★½ (ADIFF)
Aquarius - dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho ★★★ (ADIFF)
Atomic Blonde - dir. David Leitch ★★★
Baby Driver - dir. Edgar Wright ★★★½
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) - dir. Eva Husson ★★
Battle of the Sexes - dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris ★★★
Berlin Syndrome - dir. Cate Shortland ★★★
Big Game - dir. Jalmari Helander ★★½
Blade Runner 2049 - dir. Denis Villeneuve ★★★★
Blue Jay - dir. Alexandre Lehmann ★★★½
Borg v McEnroe - dir. Janus Metz ★★½
Boy - dir. Taika Waititi ★★★★½
Café Society - dir. Woody Allen ★★
Call Me by Your Name - dir. Luca Guadagnino ★★★½
Carrie Pilby - dir. Susan Johnson ★★
Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women - dir. Hubert Woroniecki ★★
Cleo from 5 to 7 - dir. Agnès Varda ★★★★★
Colossal - dir. Nacho Vigalondo ★★★★
Comedian - dir. Christian Charles ★★★
Daddy's Home 2 - dir. Sean Anders ★½
Daphne - dir. Peter Mackie Burns ★★★★
David Bowie - The Last Five Years - dir. Francis Whately ★★★★
David Lynch - The Art Life - dir.Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm ★★½ (ADIFF)
De Palma - dir. Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow ★★★½
Demolition - dir. Jean-Marc Vallée ★★
Don Verdean - dir. Jared Hess ★★
Don't Breathe - dir. Fede Alvarez ★★★½
Don't Think Twice - dir. Mike Birbiglia ★★★½
Dreamland - dir. Robert Schwartzman ★★
Duel - dir. Steven Spielberg ★★★
Dunkirk (70MM) - dir. Christopher Nolan ★★★★★
Elle - dir. Paul Verhoeven ★★★★
Endangered Species (Espèces menacées) - dir. Gilles Bourdos ★★★ (FFF)
Fitzcarraldo - dir. Werner Herzog ★★★½
Florence Foster Jenkins - dir. Stephen Frears ★★★
Frantz - dir. François Ozon ★★★★
Free Fire - dir. Ben Wheatley ★★½
George Best: All By Himself - dir. Daniel Gordon ★★★
Get Out (Surprise Film) - dir. Jordan Peele ★★★★½ (ADIFF)
Gimme Danger - dir. Jim Jarmusch ★★★
Girlfriend's Day - dir. Michael Paul Stephenson ★★½
Glory (Slava) - dir. Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov ★★★½ (ADIFF)
GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling - dir. Brett Whitcomb ★★★
Goon: Last of the Enforcers - dir. Jay Baruchel ★★
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - dir. James Gunn ★★★★
Halloween III: Season of the Witch - dir. Tommy Lee Wallace ★★½
Handsome Devil - dir. John Butler ★★★½ (ADIFF)
Happy End - dir. Michael Haneke ★★★½
Harry and Walter Go to New York - dir. Mark Rydell ★★
Headshot - dir. Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto ★★½ (ADIFF)
Hello, My Name is Doris - dir. Michael Showalter ★★★
Hidden Figures - dir. Theodore Melfi ★★★½
Hiroshima, Mon Amour - dir. Alain Resnais ★★★★★
Hounds of Love - dir. Ben Young ★★★★ (ADIFF)
Hungry Hearts - dir. Saverio Costanzo ★★
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore - dir. Macon Blair ★★★½
I'm All Yours (Je suis à vous tout de suite) - dir. Baya Kasmi ★★★
In Loco Parentis - dir. Neasa Nà Chianáin, David Rane ★★★★½ (ADIFF)
In the Shadow of Iris - dir. Jalil Lespert ★★★
Ingrid Goes West - dir. Matt Spicer ★★★½
Ismael's Ghosts (Les fantômes d'Ismaël) - dir. Arnaud Desplechin ★★ (FFF)
It Comes at Night - dir. Trey Edward Shults ★★★½
Jackie - dir. Pablo Larrain ★★★★½
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton - dir. Chris Smith ★★★
John Wick: Chapter 2 - dir. Chad Stahelski ★★½
Joshy - dir. Jeff Baena ★★★
Kedi - dir ★★★½
Knock Knock - dir. Eli Roth ★½
Kong: Skull Island - dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts ★★★½
La La Land - dir. Damien Chazelle ★★★
Lady Macbeth - dir. William Oldroyd ★★★★
Land of Mine - Martin Zandvliet dir. ★★★½
Le Bonheur - dir. Agnès Varda ★★★★
Les Bleus une autre histoire de France - dir. David Dietz, Sonia Dauger ★★★★
Like Crazy (La Pazza Gioia) - dir. Paolo Virzì ★★★½ (ADIFF)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World - dir. Werner Herzog ★★★
Logan - dir. James Mangold ★★★★½
Look Who's Back (Er ist wieder da ) - dir. David Wnendt ★★½
Loving - dir. Jeff Nichols ★★★★
Manchester By The Sea - dir. Kenneth Lonergan ★★★★★
Marguerite & Julien - dir. Valérie Donzelli ★½
Maudie - dir. Aisling Walsh ★★★½ (ADIFF)
Mindhorn - dir. Sean Foley ★★★★ (ADIFF)
Mirror - dir. Andrei Tarkovsky ★★★★
Miss Sharon Jones! - dir. Barbara Kopple ★★★
Molly's Game - dir. Aaron Sorkin ★★★
Moonlight - dir. Barry Jenkins ★★★★½
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea - dir. Dash Shaw ★★½ (ADIFF)
My Life as a Courgette - dir. Claude Barras ★★★★★
National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead - dir. Douglas Tirola ★★★
Okja - dir. Joon-ho Bong ★★★½
Operator - dir. Logan Kibens ★★½
Oslo, August 31 - dir. Joachim Trier ★★★★
Paddington 2 - dir. Paul King ★★★★½
Personal Shopper - dir. Olivier Assayas ★★★★
Phantasm - dir. Don Coscarelli ★★★
Play - dir. Ruben Östlund ★★★★
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping - dir. Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone ★★½
Precinct Seven Five - dir. Tiller Russell ★★★½
Prevenge - dir. Alice Lowe ★★★½
Redoubtable (Le Redoutable) - dir. Michel Hazanavicius ★★★½ (FFF)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - dir. Gareth Edwards ★★★½
Sausage Party - dir Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon ★★★
Scribe (La Mécanique de L'ombre) - dir. Thomas Kruithof ★★★ (ADIFF)
Sisters - dir. Jason Moore ★★★
Sorcerer - dir William Friedkin ★★★★
Spider-Man: Homecoming - dir. Jon Watts ★★★
Take Me - dir. Pat Healy ★★★
Telefon - dir Don Siegel ★★½
The Age of Shadows - dir. Jee-woon Kim ★★★★½ (ADIFF)
The Babysitter - dir. McG ★★
The Beguiled - dir Don Siegel ★★★★
The Beguiled - dir. Sofia Coppola ★★★★½
The Big Sick - dir. Michael Showalter ★★★★½
The Circle - dir. James Ponsoldt ★½
The Daughter - dir. Simon Stone ★★★
The Death of Stalin - dir. Armando Iannucci ★★★½
The Disaster Artist - dir. James Franco ★★★★
The Drummer and the Keeper - dir. Nick Kelly ★½
The Edge of Seventeen - dir. Kelly Fremon Craig ★★★½
The Farthest - dir. Emer Reynolds ★★★★
The Final Girls - dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson ★★½
The Florida Project - dir. Sean Baker ★★★★½
The Founder - dir. John Lee Hancock ★★½
The Girl With All The Gifts - dir. Colm McCarthy ★★★★
The Handmaiden - dir. Chan-wook Park ★★★★½
The Invitation - dir. Karyn Kusama ★★★
The Killing of a Sacred Deer - dir. Yorgos Lanthimos ★★★★
The Levelling - dir. Hope Dickson Leach ★★★½
The Love Witch - dir. Anna Biller ★★★½ (ADIFF)
The Meddler - dir. Lorene Scafaria ★★★
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) - dir. Noah Baumbach ★★★★
The New Kid (Le Nouveau) - dir. Rudi Rosenberg ★★★
The Odyssey (L'Odyssée) - dir. Jérôme Salle ★★½ (ADIFF)
The Other Side of Hope - dir. Aki Kaurismäki ★★★
The Price of Success (Le prix du succès) - dir. Teddy Lussi-Modeste ★★½ (FFF)
The Rehearsal - dir. Alison Maclean ★★★★ (ADIFF)
The Salesman (Forushande) - dir. Asghar Farhadi ★★★ (ADIFF)
The Transfiguration - dir. Michael O'Shea ★★★
Their Finest - dir. Lone Scherfig ★★★ (ADIFF)
They Are Everywhere (Ils sont partout) - dir. Yvan Attal ★★½
This Summer Feeling (Ce sentiment de l'été) - dir. Mikhaël Hers ★★★
Thor: Ragnarok - dir. Taika Waititi ★★★★
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - dir. Michael Cimino ★★★
To Live and Die in L.A. - dir. William Friedkin ★★★ (ADIFF)
Tomato Red - dir. Juanita Wilson ★★★★ (ADIFF)
Toni Erdmann - dir. Maren Ade ★★★½
Unless - dir. Alan Gilsenan ★½ (ADIFF)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - dir. Luc Besson ★★
War for the Planet of the Apes - dir. Matt Reeves ★★★½
War Story - dir. Mark Jackson ★★ (ADIFF)
White Bird in a Blizzard - dir. Gregg Araki ★★½
Wonder Woman - dir. Patty Jenkins ★★★
ADIFF= Audi Dublin International Film Festival
FFF= IFI French Film Festival
...also re-watched:
Midnight Special - dir. Jeff Nichols ★★★★
Shampoo - dir. Hal Ashby ★★★½
Storefront Hitchcock - dir. Jonathan Demme ★★★★★
...also watched the following:
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown S10 eps1-10
Apres Match of the Day S2
Big Fat Quiz of Everything
Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2016
Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2017
Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out - dir. Jay Karas
Black Mirror S3
Bojack Horseman S2
Bojack Horseman S3
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe 2016
Crazy Ex Girlfriend S1
Curb Your Enthusaiasm S9 Ep1
Fargo S1
Game of Thrones S7
Giles
GLOW S1
Have I Got More News For You S54 eps1-10
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S12
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid - dir. Rhys Thomas
Love S1 & S2
Maron S3
Master of None S2
Masterchef S13
Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes
Norm Macdonald: Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery
Oh, Hello on Broadway - dir. Michael John Warren, Alex Timbers ★★★★★
Only Connect S12 Eps 24-37
Only Connect S13 Eps1-13
Outnumbered Christmas Special 2016
QI S14 Eps 8-18
QI S15 Eps1-9
Rick & Morty S2
Rick & Morty S3
Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up for the First Time - dir. Scott Moran
Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust - dir. Liam Lynch
Stranger Things S2
The Crystal Maze 2017
The Crystal Maze: Celebrity Specials
The Great British Bake Off S8
The Trip to Spain
Top of the Lake: China Girl
Travel Man S5
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Florence
Uncle S1
University Challenge 2017/18 Ep1-21
University Challenge 2016/17 Eps 23-36
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
...read the following books:
A Model World by Michael Chabon
Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina - Jonathan Wilson
Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
Easily Distracted by Steve Coogan
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (A Memoir) by Carrie Brownstein
Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager by Michael Calvin
Love in Row 27 by Eithne Shortall
Sick In The Head by Judd Apatow
The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age - Andrew O'Hagan
Young Skins - Colin Barrett
...got the following music:
a-ha – The Living Daylights 7" (Vinyl)
a-ha – The Sun Always Shines On T.V. 7" (Vinyl)
Aimee Mann – Mental Illness (Vinyl/Download)
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug (Vinyl/Download)
Beach Fossils – Somersault (Vinyl/Download)
Beach House – Teen Dream (Vinyl/Download)
Betty Davis – Betty Davis (Vinyl)
Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde (Legacy Edition) (Vinyl)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Night Moves (Vinyl)
Bonzo Dog Band – The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse (Vinyl)
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice (Vinyl/Download)
Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life (Vinyl/Download)
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis (Vinyl)
Dan Auerbach – Waiting On A Song (Vinyl/Download)
David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Vinyl) The Cars – Shake It Up (Vinyl)
David Kitt - Yous (Download)
Desmond Dekker – You Can Get It If You Really Want (Vinyl)
Eels – Daisies Of The Galaxy (Vinyl/Download)
Eels – Shootenanny! (Vinyl/Download)
Elastica – Elastica (Vinyl)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Trust (Vinyl)
Euros Childs - House Arrest (Vinyl)
Euros Childs – Situation Comedy (Vinyl)
Euros Childs – Sweetheart (Vinyl)
Fats Domino – Fats Domino (Vinyl)
Fred Thomas – Changer (Vinyl/Download)
Future Islands – The Far Field (Vinyl/Download)
Generationals - Let It Flow (Download)
Generationals - Mythical (Download)
Gorillaz – Demon Days (Vinyl/Download)
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (Vinyl)
Grandaddy – Last Place (Vinyl/Download)
Grandaddy – Now It's On (Vinyl)
Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway (Vinyl)
Green Day - Dookie (Vinyl)
Jay Som – Everybody Works (Vinyl/Download)
Jeff Buckley – Grace (Vinyl)
Jon Tabakin – Jon Tabakin (Vinyl/CD)
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – The Best Of (Vinyl)
Josh Rouse – The Embers Of Time (Vinyl/)
Kacy & Clayton – The Siren's Song (Vinyl/Download)
Kevin Morby – City Music (Vinyl/Download)
Kim Jung Mi – Now (Vinyl)
Liam Finn – Fomo (Vinyl)
Liam Finn – I'll Be Lightning (Vinyl/CD)
Lie Ins - Loose Lips Are for Losers b/w Sweet Galway (Download)
Lie Ins - The Only Man Left in the Race b/w You Don't Deserve to Wear Glasses (Download)
Love – Da Capo (Vinyl)
Mac DeMarco – 2 (Vinyl/Download)
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Vinyl/Download)
Mac Demarco – This Old Dog (Vinyl/Download)
Madness – Driving In My Car 7" (Vinyl)
Madness – It Must Be Love 7" (Vinyl)
Madness – My Girl 7" (Vinyl)
Madness – Shut Up 7" (Vinyl)
Madness – The Return Of The Los Palmas 7 7" (Vinyl)
Main Source – Breaking Atoms (Vinyl)
Mark Geary - The Fool (Vinyl)
Matt Berry And The Maypoles – Matt Berry And The Maypoles Live (Vinyl/Download)
Miike Snow – III (Vinyl/Download)
Miles Davis – Sorcerer (Vinyl)
Neil Young – On The Beach (Vinyl)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live From KCRW (Vinyl/Download)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Boatman's Call (Vinyl/Download)
Nick Lowe – Labour Of Lust (Vinyl)
No Monster Club - Aardvark - Blessing (Download)
No Monster Club - Blimp - Casino (Download)
No Monster Club - Casket - Drum (Download)
No Monster Club - Drunk - Fantasy (Download)
No Monster Club - Faqir - Hex (Download)
No Monster Club - Hiccup - Kalimanko (Download)
No Monster Club - Kaluli - Mexico (Download)
No Monster Club - Meza Mate - Orphan (Download)
No Monster Club - Orpheus - Radio (Download)
No Monster Club - Raffle - Samhain (Download)
No Monster Club - Samoyed - Tragiverse (Download)
No Monster Club - Trahira - Zygote (Download)
O'Jays – Back Stabbers (Vinyl)
Panda Bear – Person Pitch (Vinyl)
Paul McCartney And Wings – Band On The Run (Vinyl)
Phoenix – Ti Amo (Vinyl/Download)
Prince – 1999 (Vinyl)
Pulp – Different Class (Vinyl)
Pulp – His 'N' Hers (Vinyl)
R.E.M. – Out Of Time (Vinyl/Download)
Radiohead – OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997-2017 (Vinyl)
Ramones – Rocket To Russia (Vinyl)
Real Estate – Atlas (Vinyl/Download)
Real Estate – Days (Vinyl/Download)
Real Estate – In Mind (Vinyl/Download)
Rob Corcoran & the Necessary Evils - Inverse Alchemy - (CD/Download)
Robyn Hitchcock – I Wanna Go Backwards (Vinyl/BoxSet)
Robyn Hitchcock – Robyn Hitchcock (Vinyl/Download)
Ryan Adams – Prisoner (Vinyl/Download)
Sam & Dave – Soul Men (Vinyl)
Scott Mannion - Your Kinda Love (feat. Clara Viñals) (Download)
Sea Pinks - Dreaming Tracks (Download)
Sea Pinks - Watercourse (Vinyl/Download)
Selda – Selda (Vinyl)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way (Vinyl)
St. Vincent – Masseduction (Vinyl/Download)
Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination (Vinyl/Download)
Swimmers Jackson - Life's Short {Embrace It} (Download)
Swimmers Jackson - Summer's Here (Download)
Switzerland - Long Gone (CD/Download)
Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal (Vinyl)
Tennis – Yours Conditionally (Vinyl)
The Apples In Stereo – Travellers In Space And Time (Vinyl)
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – I'm The Urban Spaceman 7" (Vinyl)
The Chills – Kaleidoscope World (Vinyl/Download)
The Human League – Dare (Vinyl)
The Lovebirds - Filled With Hate (Download)
The Minus 5 – Dungeon Golds (Vinyl/Download)
The National – Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Vinyl/Download)
The National – Sleep Well Beast (Vinyl/Download)
The Ruby Suns - Sprite Fountain (Download)
The Shins – Heartworms (Vinyl/Download)
The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow (Vinyl)
The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding (Vinyl/Download)
The White Stripes – Elephant (Vinyl)
Toro Y Moi – Boo Boo (Vinyl/Download)
U2 – Live "Under A Blood Red Sky" (Vinyl)
U2 – U218 Singles (Vinyl)
Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes (Vinyl/Download)
Washed Out – Mister Mellow (Vinyl)
Waxahatchee – Out In The Storm (Vinyl/Download)
Weezer – Maladroit (Vinyl)
Weezer – Weezer (Green Album) (Vinyl)
Whitney - Light Upon The Lake (Vinyl)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Vinyl/CD
...saw Republic of Ireland draw 1-1 with Wales and lose 1-0 to Iceland at the Aviva
...saw St. Pat's draw 0-0 (aet) with Bray Wanderers (Pat's win 5-3 on pens) at Richmond Park
...saw Ireland beat Uruguay 3-1 (Walters (27'), Giménez (38'), Christie (51'), McClean (77') and draw with Austria 1-1 (Hinteregger (31') Walters (85') at the AVIVA Stadium
...saw Bohs lose 2-1 to FC United of Manchester at Dalymount Park
...saw Manchester United beat Sampdoria 2-1 (Mkhitaryan, Praet, Mata) and Liverpool beat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 (Firmino pen, Williams, Woodburn, Solanke) at the Aviva Stadium
...saw Bohs draw 0-0 with Bray Wanderers at Dalymount Park
...saw the Republic of Ireland beat Moldova 2-0 at the Aviva Stadium (Murphy x2)
...saw the Republic of Ireland get hammered 5-1 by Denmark (yes that's a Thor reference) at the Aviva Stadium
...saw Jon Ronson Psychopath Night at Vicar St
...saw Werner Herzog at the National Concert Hall in converstaion with Carlo Gébler for ILF Dublin
...saw The Lemon Twigs in the Workman's Club
...saw Green Day and Rancid at Royal Kilmainham Hospital
...saw Future Islands, Fleet Foxes and Belle & Sebastian at Iveagh Gardens (different nights obviously)
...saw the Magnetic Fields play 50 Song Memoir over two nights at the National Concert Hall
...saw Phoenix at Alexandra Palace
...saw Swimmers Jackson, Bokito, Fontaines, Other Creatures, Paddy Hanna and Thumper at HWCH at the Workman's Club
...saw Grizzly Bear at Vicar Street
...saw Omid Djalili - Schmuck For A Night at Vicar St.
...saw Richard Herring: The Best at the Sugar Club
...saw Limmy: 'That's Your Lot' The Book Tour at Vicar St.
...saw Kyle Kinane, Michael Ian Black, Emily Heller, David O'Doherty, Tommy Tiernan, TJ Miller, Maeve Higgins, Chris Distefano (twice), Karl Spain, Neil Delamere, Tom Rhodes, Jackie Kashian & Eric Lalor at the Vodafone Comedy Festival at Iveagh Gardens
...saw Sean Lock at the Olympia Theatre
...went to Football Weekly - Live! James Richardson / Barry Glendenning / Barney Ronay / Amy Lawrence at the National Stadium
...attended PODCAST Masterclass: Ben Green (AKA Producer Ben) at the National Concert Hall
...joined a cult Second Captains World Service