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Emma Thompson has pulled out of the large-scale animated film. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm
  • Film
  • February 20, 2019, 15:15

She pulls out of role in Luck after Skydance controversially hires the former Pixar chief

How do you write a feelgood musical about the Miami Showband massacre? How do you write a feelgood musical about the Miami Showband massacre?
  • Culture
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • February 20, 2019, 12:00

The Miami Showband Story tells of the rise and violent death of ‘the Beatles of Ireland’

Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene
  • Music
  • John Fleming
  • February 20, 2019, 05:30

The cult Dublin fanzine celebrated a grim, golden age of originality and ambition

Irish Gothic: fairy stories from Ireland’s 32 counties Irish Gothic: fairy stories from Ireland’s 32 counties
  • Books
  • Steve Lally and Paula Flynn Lally
  • February 20, 2019, 05:49

‘We believe in fairies like the next person believes in God, angels or miracles’

Michael Jackson: Leaving Neverland ‘devastating’ first trailer released Michael Jackson: Leaving Neverland ‘devastating’ first trailer released
  • Film
  • February 20, 2019, 09:44

The film features two men who allege the singer sexually abused them when they were children

On The Basis of Sex: Cheesy telling of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life story On The Basis of Sex: Cheesy telling of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life story
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • February 20, 2019, 10:30

Review: Too often the film strains as it – oh, the irony – juggles its subject’s home life and career

Jascha Heifetz’s New York debut turned up the heat on violinists Jascha Heifetz’s New York debut turned up the heat on violinists
  • Music
  • Michael Dervan
  • February 20, 2019, 05:00

The 16-year-old’s recital in 1917 had Mischa Elman remark, ‘It’s hot in here, isn’t it?’

The Jonestown massacre: a technicolour tragedy The Jonestown massacre: a technicolour tragedy
  • Books
  • Laura Elizabeth Woollett
  • February 20, 2019, 05:57

A 25-year-old writer flew to San Francisco to interview survivors of the 1978 mass suicide

All Together Now festival line-up revealed All Together Now festival line-up revealed
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • February 19, 2019, 08:49

The festival, which was the brainchild of John Reynolds, will take place in Co Waterford over the August bank holiday weekend

Derry Girls series two premiere leaves audience ‘buzzing’ Derry Girls series two premiere leaves audience ‘buzzing’
  • Culture
  • Freya McClements
  • February 19, 2019, 11:57

The stars of the hit Channel 4 show hit the red carpet in Derry for the global premiere

Latest Film

Emma Thompson has pulled out of the large-scale animated film. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm
Michael Jackson with James Safechuck, one of his accusers, in 1988. Photograph: Eugene Adebari/Rex Features Michael Jackson: Leaving Neverland ‘devastating’ first trailer released
Frozen 2: record breaking trailer. Photogrtaph: Disney Frozen 2 trailer smashes record for viewing figures
  • Felicity Jones: ‘It’s not enough to see more women on camera’
  • Dublin International Film Festival: Don't miss these movies

Film Reviews

Felicity Jones stars as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On The Basis of Sex On the Basis of Sex

 
Jessica Rothe brings her considerable comic chops to Happy Death Day 2U Happy Death Day 2U

 
Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in ‘The Lady Eve’ The Lady Eve

 
The juvenile actors are satisfactory without doing anything to trouble the scorers at Bafta The Kid Who Would Be King

 

Latest Music

The Blades. Photograph: Terry Thorp Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene

The cult Dublin fanzine celebrated a grim, golden age of originality and ambition

Curraghmore House in Co Waterford lit up for the All Together Now festival All Together Now festival line-up revealed
Hozier: I share the worries and anxieties of what we may be facing. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Hozier: Why Seamus Heaney's last words mean so much to me
  • ‘There needs to be a bit of a re-education around how artists can make money’
  • The tune is out there . . . David Duchovny heads our pop and rock highlights

Album Reviews

Hozier: Wasteland, Baby!

 
Picture This: MDRN LV

 
The Gloaming: 3

 
Yann Tiersen: ALL

 
Bayonne: Drastic Measures

 
Rachael Boyd: Weave

 

Latest Books

Dead bodies lie around the compound of the Peoples Temple cult on November 18th, 1978 after more than 900 members of died from drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid; Photograph: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images The Jonestown massacre: a technicolour tragedy

A 25-year-old writer flew to San Francisco to interview survivors of the 1978 mass suicide

Irish Gothic: fairy stories from Ireland’s 32 counties
Ambassador Collins, Louise O’Neill, Sara Baume, Audrey Magee and moderator Deike Diening of Der Tagesspiegel Irish women writers: ‘This country’s done punishing me. I can do whatever I like now’
  • Magical thinking: Is Brexit an occult phenomenon?
  • I hoped to God that I’d just die in the night and get it over with

Book Reviews

Mothlight by Adam Scovell review: an unconvincing tale
The Collected Letters of WB Yeats Vol V, 1908-1910 review: An intimate chapter in the history of Ireland
Adèle review: Brisk, unadorned tale of sex addiction
Happening review: An investigation of ‘the reality of an unforgettable event’

TV & Radio

Cyclists versus the motorists: RTÉ’s Now You See Me is about achieving better visibility, from both perspectives. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Now You See Me: When cyclists and motorists collide

Review: In RTÉ’s new road safety magazine show, do cyclists or motorists have to give an inch?

Writer Lisa McGee with cast members Nicola Coughlan , Louisa Harland, Dylan Llewellyn and Saoirse-Monica Jackson in Derry for the Derry Girls premiere. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Derry Girls series two premiere leaves audience ‘buzzing’
The Umbrella Academy: mixed-up superheroes The Umbrella Academy: Robert Sheehan and Ellen Page drenched in superhero washout
  • Russian Doll: Why it’s the must-stream hit of the year
  • Steve Coogan: Why I’m bringing back Alan Partridge

Stage

Marie Mullen and Seán McGinley: ‘We don’t talk about work at home.’ Photograph: Luca Truffarelli Seán McGinley: ‘I just wonder why more actors don’t marry each other’

‘The Children’ brings Marie Mullen and her husband on stage together for first time in 27 years

Heather: Dermot Magennis and Aenne Barr in Thomas Eccleshare’s two-hander Heather review: If you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, should you judge it by its author?
Scottee: “The only time we ever see fat bodies are as the lowest-common denominator.” ‘People think when I talk about fatness that I’m trying to get everyone fat’
  • Matthew Bourne: A showman from his head to his toes
  • The week's theatre highlights: Glasgow Girls and The Cripple of Inishmaan

Art & Design

Robert Armstrong, ‘Kiribat’ Robert Armstrong takes a swipe at explosive landscapes

‘Squeegee Paintings’, the new exhibition by the former head of painting at NCAD, is all about what's left out

“Treating time specially is a human construct and we’re using the wrong language,” says Prof David Berman. ‘Time Tries All Things’: magical physics and the nature of chronology
Detail from Landline Gray (2015) by Sean Scully (see full work below). Collection of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, copyright the artist Art in Focus: Landline Gray (2015) by Sean Scully
  • Valentine's Day: A gentle Dublin love story played out on a bus
  • Separating fact and fiction in Islamic art

Unthinkable

‘Adventures in Philosophy’ illustrator Paula McGloin with author Brendan O’Donoghue. Photograph: Ruth Medjber Ireland does philosophy: A new guide for the perplexed

Unthinkable: A philosophy book designed for younger readers takes inspiration from Kerry sage John Moriarty

A group of Chinese Shaolin Buddhist monks on a visit to Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien How to find your inner Zen Buddhist
‘Sometimes we make better choices by taking the long view, and seeing all parts of time as equally real.’ Photograph: Reuters/Brian Snyder Living in the now: It’s not as simple as you’d think
  • In despair over climate change? Try ‘active hope’
  • Are humans losing the ability to be idle?

Michael Viney's Another Life

Illustration: Michael Viney Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Restoring the golden eagle to the west has found the limits to bringing back a carnivore

“Like our neighbours, we once depended wholly on the stream, piped to the house by gravity from one of its higher pools.” Nature takes refuge as drought dries the landscape
“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
  • For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches

Heritage

Trinity College Dublin The day women demanded to eat at Trinity’s Dining Hall

A ‘striking advance in the progress of the feminist movement in Trinity’

When you pronounce the words food and good, do they rhyme? Do you say roll, bap or blah? The British-Irish Dialect Quiz knows where you come from
Today’s rush-bought petrol station flowers are simply following a grand tradition. Photograph: Reuters Valentine’s Day: rampant consumerism since 1869
  • Plan to turn St Patrick’s Day into month-long shindig
  • How was the Irish Border drawn in the first place?

Tuarascáil

I dtuarascáil na bliana seo atá le foilsiú ar an Déardaoin an 28ú Feabhra áireofar ainmneacha a bhfuil síneadh fada iontu, don chéad uair ó 1964. Grianghraf: Getty Aitheantas don síneadh fada ón bPríomh-Oifig Staidrimh

“Is fearr go deireanach ná go brách” a deir an Coimisinéir Teanga, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, faoin gcinneadh

Más í an réaltfhisic do rogha beidh bóithre romhat ón gcruthú in aon lá amháin go dtí an Ollphléasc ar ais timpeall ar theoiric na foistine agus siar go dtí na turtair an tslí ar fad síos. Griangraif: Getty Lego agus brící eile
Seolfar Eolaire na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge agus an suíomh gréasáin nua ar Dé Satharn an 23ú lá Feabhra. Grianghraf: Getty Nótaí: Eolaire na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge le seoladh
  • Dhá fhocal atá im chloigeann le tamall
  • Gá le reachtaíocht teanga a fhoilsiú go luath - Ó Domhnaill

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1 Emma Thompson has pulled out of the large-scale animated film. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins firm
2 Michael Jackson with James Safechuck, one of his accusers, in 1988. Photograph: Eugene Adebari/Rex Features Michael Jackson: Leaving Neverland ‘devastating’ first trailer released
3 Brie Larson: ‘I don’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work about A Wrinkle in Time’. Photograph: Noam Galai/WireImage Brie Larson is sick of being interviewed by ‘white dudes’
4 Irish Gothic: fairy stories from Ireland’s 32 counties
5 Frozen 2: record breaking trailer. Photogrtaph: Disney Frozen 2 trailer smashes record for viewing figures
6 Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson can do nothing with material that has become worse with each installment. Fifty Shades Freed: About as sexy as a 1990s ice-cream ad
7 The Umbrella Academy: mixed-up superheroes The Umbrella Academy: Robert Sheehan and Ellen Page drenched in superhero washout
8 In her prime: a youthful Whitney Houston on stage in June 1988. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
9 The Blades. Photograph: Terry Thorp Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene
10 Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in an elevator scene in Fifty Shades Darker Bad sex in the movies: from Top Gun to Fifty Shades
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