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Ciaran McMenamin doesn t read reviews of his work which is a shame as his new novel The Sunken Road has been launched to widespread critical acclaim. Hailed by critics as astonishing , tremendous and the author himself as being an exceptional talent , McMenamin is chuffed when told about the reaction but insists he learnt some time ago as an actor not to read reviews. It s negativity that he can t stand and so much so that he shut down all of his social media accounts a few years ago - a massive step for anyone in the spotlight. But the Fermanagh man insists his life is so much richer for it: I learnt over the years as an actor to not look for the reviews unless someone sent me one and friends tend to only send you the good ones. ....
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Louis Talpe (in pink jersey), The Racer Damon Smith George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall, The Midnight Sky FILM THE MIDNIGHT SKY (Cert 12, 122 mins, streaming from December 23 exclusively on Netflix, Sci-Fi/Drama/Action/Romance) IN FEBRUARY 2049, three weeks after a global catastrophe known as “the event”, scientist Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney) lives out his final days alone at the Barbeau Observatory in the Arctic Circle, one of the few places yet to be choked by dangerously high levels of radiation. He performs blood transfusions to counter the cancer ravaging his body and awaits the inevitable, until he stumbles upon a young girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall) left behind in the evacuation. ....
18 Dec 2020 The Racer is based on a weird knot in Tour de France history. In 1998, the world’s most famous bike race held its initial stages (the Grand Départ in Tour parlance) in Ireland for the first time, amidst a widespread doping scandal that rocked the sport pre-Lance Armstrong. Kieron J. Walsh’s film takes this potentially engaging context and squanders it, finding some interesting texture around cycling procedures but syringing too much melodrama into the film’s system, rendering it a blunt, predictable sports flick. Time and again the drama becomes overwrought. The Racer centres on Dom Chabol (Louis Talpe), a legendary 38-year-old ....
The Racer review – Tour de France takes the tablets Cath Clarke In 1998, a doping scandal rocked the Tour de France when a team masseur was caught with a pharmacy of banned substances in the boot of his car before the first stage in Ireland. The incident is the inspiration for this solid, workmanlike Irish drama with a strong performance from Belgian actor Louis Talpe as Dom Chabol, a fictional Belgian cyclist looking down the barrel of retirement at 38; he just can’t imagine life beyond cycling. And like most of the peloton, he’s doping; everybody’s doing it. Talpe looks every bit the pro cyclist, lean and light, not a pinch of fat on him. And he plays Chabol with a charisma-free dullness that’s convincing for a sportsman with tunnel vision, blocking out everything non bike-related. The details of life on the cycling circuit feel well-researched, too by director Kieron J Walsh, though his script, co-written with Ciaran Cassidy, goes heavy on ....