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<3 Donald Clarke

  • 23-06-2006 10:00am
    #1
    DapperGent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭


    Anyone read his review of Aquamarine in the Ticket today? Comedy gold. It's seldom I'd read reviews of films I have zero intention of seeing, with the exception of reading everything Donald Clarke writes. I almost prefer seeing a single star above the review, knowing that you're going to see the boot stuck in in a creative manner. :)

    Wish I had an ireland.com account so I could cut and paste it for the amusement of those who don't buy the Irish Times.


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  • #2
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Haven't seen today's Ticket yet but agree wholeheartedly, Clarke's reviews are a large part of why I buy the Times on a Friday. His review of the Da Vinci Code was one of the best reviews I've ever seen.


  • #3
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Glad I'm not the only one. I'm always raving about Clarke's review and adored his Da Vinci code review, which I posted in part here (going on about the ivory tower). His reviews are the best thing about a bad movie - does anyone else recall his review of "De-Lovely" which he did entirely in verse?

    As it stands, I nearly always agree with him too - his Top 10 of the year match very closely with my own for the last several years and he's by no means a critical snob either, lauding a movie based on how much he enjoyed it as well as other factors.

    BTW you can access the Ticket, and hence Clarke's excellent reviews, for free at http://www.ireland.com/theticket.


  • #4
    PhiliousPhogg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭PhiliousPhogg


    Any chance Donald Clarke's reviews could be found online these days? I know he has a blog on the times website but are his archived reviews available?


  • #5
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Whoa, quite a bump.

    All his reviews should be on the Irish Times website, which is a total mess and doesn't have dedicated pages for its writers except for their blogs. You'd also have to subscribe to read anything older than a year, I think. It's a sh**ty website.


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