12 metrolife Wednesday, January 20, 2010 D About Town THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN We have four pairs of tickets to see AS YOU ARE / FAUN tomorrow at Project, 8pm For a chance to win, e-mail your answer to the question below to life@metroireland.ie by noon today with Hot Tickets in the subject line. With the answer include your name, address and a number where you can be contacted between 1pm and 3pm. Strictly one entry per person; entrants must be age 18 or over. Q. Faun is inspired by a controversial ballet created by which dancer? A Vaslav Nijinsky B Michel Fokine The winner of yesterdays tickets to The Homecoming is: Harriet Browne Eoghan Colgan Theyve supported Tom Jones tonight Colgan and band are back in the spotlight after a studio sojourn recording the soundtrack to upcoming British film Love/ Loss, starring Virginia Born Free McKenna Tonight, Whelans, 25 Wexford Street D2, 8pm, 10. Tel: (01) 478 0766. www.eoghancolgan.com Karen Egan Chaos Thaoghaire Championed by Modest Mouses Isaac Brock, this Montreal quartet return to Vicar Street two years after their last sell-out gig. That the band havent released an LP since 2008s At Mount Zoomer (recorded in Arcade Fires church studio, no less) makes this upcoming tour even more hotly tipped, its ringmasters Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner poised to shake up their songbook of stampeding prog rock smattered with synths May 20, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street D8, 8pm, 19. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.myspace.com/wolfparade Book Now Wolf Parade metrometro lifeStaying In & Going Out The Big Interview Tobey Maguire Not left danglingperson who lives in desire and constantly wants more, youll never be satisfied. As human beings were searching for fulfilment, not money and prestige. Maguires bid for contentment is leading him back to his more character- driven roots, and the news hes hanging up the Spidey suit comes at a good time. Even though the web-slinger is his most famous role, Maguire has a diverse CV, including Ang Lees The Ice Storm, Gary Rosss Pleasantville and Lasse Hallstrms The Cider House Rules. He is currently earning strong notices for his powerhouse performance in Brothers, the latest family drama from Dublin director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name Of The Father), which opens this week. The film is a remake of the 2004 Danish movie of the same name and casts Maguire as Sam, a captain in the US Marines, husband to Natalie Portmans Grace, father of two beautiful daughters and older brother to bad boy Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal). He is very much the apple of his familys eye. When Sam is deployed to Afghanistan, his helicopter is shot down, the Taliban imprison him and the Marines presume he is dead. His family is informed and, as they try to rebuild their lives, Grace and her daughters find themselves drawn to Tommy. Things become further complicated when Sam, who has undergone a life-changing ordeal at the hands of his captors, struggles home and flounders when readjusting to family life. Whats interesting about the movie, says Maguire, who shed 9kg (20lbs) in five weeks in preparation for the role, is that while Sam suffers during the war in Afghanistan, this is definitely not a war movie. Its a story about a man and what he will do to get back to his family, and how he struggles to reconnect. M aguire has two young children of his own with his wife, jewellery designer Jennifer Meyer, who he met in 2003 while shooting horse-racing movie Seabiscuit. He says his own experiences helped feed into the role. Im sure that me being a father lends to my experience, although were very different as parents, he says. My character, Sam, is a lot more at home at war than he is with his kids or in his living room or with his wife. As much as I love my work, I prefer being home with family. I now have a home office and its nice because I have close proximity to them. Im like: OK, Im going to eat breakfast with my children and then Im going to get on the ground and play blocks. Then I go to work and Im much more focused. After Brothers, Maguire has the indie black comedy The Details and may team up again with Ross for civil-rights legal drama The Crusaders. Whatever happens, it seems hell survive quite happily in the post Spider-Man era. Im not sure how this year will pan out, he says. I think different films have different purposes and the Spider-Man movies, at the time I accepted the role, were something different for me. Theyve given me success and Ive learned a lot from that. Brothers (15A) is in cinemas from Friday. If youre the kind of person who lives in desire and constantly wants more, youll never be satisfied obey Maguires stint inside the Spider-Man suit might be coming to an end but the 34-year-old actor seems to have acquired some of his most famous characters superhuman attributes. Whats that noise? he asks midway through our interview. I cant hear a thing. Theres a really high-pitched squeal I think its your recording machine. Upon closer inspection, my machine is squealing but the noise is almost inaudible. I have very good hearing, clearly, he smiles. Maguires shift as Peter Parker came to an end last week with Sony Pictures announcing that both the star and director Sam Raimi are leaving the franchise after a phenomenally successful three-movie run that has earned the studio more than 1.5billion in box office sales alone. Sony says it is now working with a script for Spider-Man 4 that focuses on a teenager dealing with both contemporary human problems and amazing superhuman crises, implying that Maguire is a little too old. The actor, however, remains sanguine. Of course Spider-Man has made me incredibly successful, he says, but Ive learned that it doesnt bring fulfilment. Success brings a lot of fun stuff with it but, ultimately, if youre the kind of T The US actor tells Will Lawrence why his new film Brothers sees him put the Spider suit away for good Theres rarely a dull or scandal-free moment in Pete Dohertys world. Last month, the former Libertines/ Babyshambles man had one of his most surreal brushes with the law when, having just appeared in court for dangerous driving, he was arrested and charged with heroin possession. If it were anyone else, this would have been a front page story. Where Doherty is concerned, however, run-ins with the authorities are so frequent, they seem to scarcely warrant a mention anymore. The crying shame, of course, is that such silliness continues to obscure his progress as a songwriter. Having moved beyond the Strokes/Clash pastiche he peddled with The Libertines, he appeared to have hit upon a genuinely original sound with Babyshambles. Better yet was 2009s solo LP, Grace/Wastelands for which he restyled himself Peter Doherty and tried his hand at Kinks-style balladry, the arty end of Britpop and even inner-city dub. He is unquestionably a talent, then, but, having turned 30, the days when Doherty could trade on the boy-genius tag are fast diminishing. Heres hoping his first Irish performance since his car- crash Late Late Show interview marks a belated return to the straight and narrow. Eamon de Paor Tonight, The Academy, 57 Middle Abbey St D1, 7pm, 26.50 (returns only). Tel: (01) 877 9999. www.myspace.com/gracewastelands GIG Pete Doherty The burlesque chanteuse and former barrister presents La Charlatanne, a cocktail of Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen and her own eclectic material, with live accompaniment from The Cian Boylan Sextet Tonight, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace D2, 8pm, 20 to 22. Tel: (01) 417 0000. www.nch.ie Weird and wonderful monthly table quiz, where being cunning is as important as knowing the answers. Tonights theme is epiphanies, and curated by Sorcha Kenny and Fiona Sheil who performed the play Lavender at last years Fringe Fest Tonight, Odessa, 13 Dame Court D2, 7.30pm, 5. Tel: 087 412 9837. www.chaosthaoghaire.com index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html