Shadow and Bone’s Fantastical Adaptation
Deputy Entertainment editor Chloe Barrett discusses Netflix’s recently released adaptation based on the bestselling novels while exploring its integral theme of resistance. Leigh Bardugo’s fantastical world, commonly referred to as the ‘Grishaverse’, has had two epic seasons on Netflix, with the latter having been released only a month ago. Within it live unforgettable characters, intricate […]
When Sexuality Attempts to Obstruct Success: Sam Smith as a Symbol of Queer Resistance
Staff Writer Jessica Anne Rose examines what Sam Smith’s identity means in our modern world. At age thirty, singer and songwriter Sam Smith has won five Grammys, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, three BRIT awards, composed the theme song to 2015 Bond film Spectre, and has amassed 45 billion multi-platform streams per their Spotify biography. […]
Resistance in Late-Capitalist Art
Entertainment editor Seán Enda Donnelly talks about the nature of art and entertainment in our modern society through the lens of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism (2009) and transgressive art. In 1848, a year wracked by revolution throughout the globe and in their native Germany, philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto. The […]
Chained Bodies
An inside look at a special upcoming performance by Final Students from the UCC Department of Theatre by Séan Edna Donnelly ‘L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.’ Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains – Jean Jacques Rousseau A supernatural redemption. A utopia with a terrible secret. […]
Motley Talks to Louize Carroll: Gender, psychology and the bass.
Motley Magazine’s Ava Sommers sits down with bassist, psychologist and all-round badass Louize Carroll. The first time I came across Louize Carroll, I was about fifteen. I was beginning to play bass in a band with my friends, but had only ever heard of male bassists before that. I began looking into iconic female […]
Female Sexuality Depicted in Jane the Virgin
Baneen Talpur discusses the popular television show and how it conquers sex related stereotypes that have plagued women for generations. “Hold the flower in your hand Jane,” Jane’s grandma asks her. “Now crush it and bring it back together, you can’t right? This is what happens when you lose your virginity, you CANNOT GO BACK.” […]