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A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventure
Restless review: Perfectly pitched thriller makes an everyday irritation impressively stressful
Mr Burton review: Absorbing Richard Burton origin story features a tremendous Harry Lawtey as the future Hollywood star
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Andrew Scott: ‘It’s a potentially scary thing to think that you might live up to your potential’
Scott is starring solo in New York in a production of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy Uncle Vanya, with the action relocated to rural Ireland
A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventure
There’s plenty here for fans of Minecraft to recognise and enjoy
Pulse review: Plot is far from a priority in this Greys Anatomy-inspired soapy distraction
Television: It may be honkingly derivative but it sure goes down easily
Mike Scott: ‘Ireland is recovering from a long trauma, and opening out in to a liberal future. I feel very at home’
The Waterboys frontman on his adopted home and the band’s ambitious new album, based on the life and times of the Hollywood maverick Dennis Hopper
Restless review: Perfectly pitched thriller makes an everyday irritation impressively stressful
A woman is pushed to the edge when noisy neighbours move in next door
Mr Burton review: Absorbing Richard Burton origin story features a tremendous Harry Lawtey as the future Hollywood star
Lawtey doesn’t simply inhabit the role in Marc Evan’s fine biopic: he metamorphosises
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner review – ‘small, random stabs of extreme interestingness’ captured on the page
Published entries written as a series of fragments, chosen for ‘muscle’ and lightly edited
Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain review – Compelling documentary never resorts to finger-wagging
Television: It would have been tempting for Dr Brian Pennie to make this film all about his own addiction story but he never labours the point
The Beatles: It’s great Mescal and Keoghan landed roles in biopics, but are we entering Fab Four overload?
The entertainment industry reckons Beatles content is as close as you can get to a sure thing in a world beset by uncertainty
Val Kilmer: Avatar of American swagger who only occasionally got the roles he deserved
Symbolising a brash period in pop culture, the handsome Californian had an up-and-down professional journey
Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize
There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from French by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, is also longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025: Miranda July, Elizabeth Strout and four debuts make shortlist
The winner of the £30,000 award will be announced on June 12th, along with the winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Val Kilmer, Top Gun and Batman star, dies aged 65
Actor received critical acclaim for portrayal of musician Jim Morrison in 1991 film The Doors
Irish composer John Buckley: ‘I never try to write music that’s difficult to play. It’s just the way it emerges’
Carol McGonnell performs Buckley’s new Clarinet Concerto as part of New Music Dublin festival 2025