A film review: Proxima (2019) Despite being billed as Eva Green’s best screen role Proxima is an unsatisfying and didactic film that attempts to illustrate the conflict between career and family. A commonplace issue for many people, men and women; however, in this case, we’re not talking 9-5, five days a week. Eva plays an astronaut vying to spend a year on the international space station. She’s Sarah Loreau,…
A book review of The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. A beautiful, beautiful book. Read it. Danny and Maeve are brother and sister growing up in Pennsylvania in a plush and grand three storey country house built at the beginning of the 20th century by the VanHoebeeks. Just after Danny was born their mother, who came from a very poor background and struggled to live with such overwhelming grandeur,…
A book review of The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín. Colm Tóibín is one of those gifted writers who is able to write moving, interesting, stirring and striking prose with such ease and with such a sparce use of vocabulary. And this book is no exception. The Blackwater Lightship is the sad tale of Declan Devereux, a young man dying of Aids in Ireland in the 1990s. He had…
