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A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventure
By Tara Brady
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
By Tara Brady
ALL CULTURE
Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault of four women
Comedian will appear in court in May, UK police said
ILFD 2025 programme revealed
Books newsletter: Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s French award; Hubert Butler Essay Prize; Ewart-Biggs Prize; Strokestown poetry shortlist; Global Book Crawl; preview of tomorrow’s pages
We’re told the menopause is now mainstream in culture, but is it really? And does it need to be?
Channel 4 comedy series and Women’s Prize shortlisted novel sit just beyond the mainstream, and maybe that’s okay
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper review – Sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightful
Mike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselves
A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess: ‘On a big movie there’s so much to do, so much to pull off. You’re always dry-heaving’
Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a big budget film
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played Elle Fanning’s dad?
Plus: Who said `Who am I? Are you sure you want to know’?
Pat Kenny unleashes on ‘dictatorial and despotic’ Donald Trump
Radio: The Newstalk host rejects the Tánaiste’s tact as a trade war looms, and a poetic Drama on One provides welcome inspiration
Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne: An excellent and unsettling excavation of family secrets
The book tackles dark subject matter with moral precision and a surprisingly keen sense of humour
Bruce Springsteen to release seven ‘lost albums’ in June
Collection of 83 songs will include 74 that have never been officially released
The Book of Mormon review: Gleeful, joyous and hilarious. Even Bono gets a mention
Theatre: Has this satire aged well? You can find your answer in Donald Trump’s White House
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
