'Digger' is a step away from Tom Cruise's typical action movie. Credit: Odeon Cinema. Verdict: 7/10 Genre: Political Satire Runtime: 129 minutes Rating: 15A An oil rig blows up along the coast of Greenland – causing a massive iceberg to sail across the Atlantic and hit the European coast. Enter Digger, aka Rockwell (Tom Cruise) – an oil tycoon who can’t let well … [Read more...] about ‘Digger’ film review – Hollywood giants return
Creative Corner
Ink and Paper
I write nonsensically Why must I write where it hurts? It’s the price we pay, a happy writer never sells Give us a tortured poet and they fly off the shelves. Should I bide my time? Wait and hope for someone to stab with a knife, For my blood to soak into paper And weave itself into something worthy of a Booker prize? Sometimes I don’t want to write … [Read more...] about Ink and Paper
On Landscape (Knocknacarra)
Yellow diamonds, cheap ones to wear in my ears my first day. They sit on my nightstand latelyin a pile of seashells I often reach forinstead of my pen.I love the sound they make,turning them over in my palm and let fall,that I might join them where they land. I picked them up in the Chemist anyway,the earrings I mean.Two doors down from the newsagentwhere I buy chocolate … [Read more...] about On Landscape (Knocknacarra)
Tea and cigarettes
There’s a field behind her house that nobody goes near anymore. It’s overgrown and soft underfoot, wet even when it hasn’t rained. The cows were moved years ago, after one of them got stuck in a drain. The gate leans open now, as if no one ever meant to close it. She walks there every Sunday morning, just after her mother leaves for Mass. Her boots squelch through muck and … [Read more...] about Tea and cigarettes
The Council
Image from pexels I’d be up and out the door by twenty-five to seven at the very latest. I would take the long road over, the ‘old road’. Fields turned from green to blonde to brown and back in one journey, or so it seemed after the first few years. I once said to John in the yard that I had blinked fourteen years ago and here I am. He laughed, but it was true. Time flies … [Read more...] about The Council