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Henry Cavill: “Moustachegate is now a thing. My moustache has been immortalised.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/NYT Henry Cavill: ‘Ireland taught me how to love the rain’
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 20, 2018, 06:15

The Mission: Impossible star on Tom Cruise, #MeToo and taking over as James Bond

Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 20, 2018, 05:00

Donald Clarke on the film’s enduring legacy, literary roots and Willis’s breakout role

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 20, 2018, 06:00

New this week: Mamma Mia!, Summer 1993, Boom for Real

Gordon Ramsay: as rancid as last year's calamari Gordon Ramsay: as rancid as last year's calamari
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • July 19, 2018, 23:00

24 Hours to Hell and Back review : The restaurant needed a saviour. Instead it got Ramsay in a fake moustache

Irish architect nominated for Sterling Prize for Oxford building Irish architect nominated for Sterling Prize for Oxford building
  • Art & Design
  • Anna Joyce
  • July 20, 2018, 10:27

Niall McLaughlin: ‘Modern buildings can take their place in older stark settings’

You will feel like throwing away your phone after this article You will feel like throwing away your phone after this article
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Anna Joyce
  • July 19, 2018, 15:24

With the world unfolding beneath your fingertips, why would anyone want to disconnect?

The movie quiz: Do you know your Bond villains? The movie quiz: Do you know your Bond villains?
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 20, 2018, 06:10

Also: Paul Newman shoots some pool and a puzzling location question

Five of the best TV shows to watch this weekend Five of the best TV shows to watch this weekend
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • July 20, 2018, 08:00

Francis Brennan takes 12 tourists to South Africa while John Creedon takes the roads less travelled around Ireland

Hotel Artemis: distinguished actors try their best to save hurried picture Hotel Artemis: distinguished actors try their best to save hurried picture
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • July 20, 2018, 14:32

Review: ‘It feels like an adaptation of a cult comic you’re never going to read’

Punch Brothers: All Ashore review – a thrilling marriage of head and heart Punch Brothers: All Ashore review – a thrilling marriage of head and heart
  • Music
  • Joe Breen
  • July 20, 2018, 05:00

Latest Film

Henry Cavill: “Moustachegate is now a thing. My moustache has been immortalised.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/NYT Henry Cavill: ‘Ireland taught me how to love the rain’

The Mission: Impossible star on Tom Cruise, #MeToo and taking over as James Bond

The movie quiz: Do you know your Bond villains?
Meryl before she was mamma: Lily James in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
  • Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated
  • Dominic Cooper: ‘Working with ex-girlfriends? What's the alternative? Sulk in a corner?’
Jeff Goldblum and Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis Hotel Artemis

 
Vincent Lindon in The Apparition – beats Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code anyday The Apparition

 
Laia Artigas as Frida Summer 1993

 
Jean-Michel Basquiat in Boom for Real. Photograph: Alexis Adler BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

 

Latest Music

Bruce Springsteen performs during Springsteen on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York, in October 2017. Springsteen’s show will be recorded and released as a Netflix special on December. 15th. Photograph: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show to become Netflix special

Netflix special to be released on December 15th, the day of final onstage performance

Cher on the red carpet for the world premiere of the film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in London on Monday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Cher to release Abba covers album
The festival takes place in Cullahill, Co Laois, on 21st and 22nd July Inside Ireland’s first and only gender balanced festival
  • The world’s 100 richest celebrities revealed
  • Joe O’Connor: Bob Dylan the punk and me
Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose

 
Punch Brothers: All Ashore

 
Diplomat M: Collaboration One (Sound)

 
Jessica’s Brother: Jessica’s Brother

 
The Whileaways: From What We’re Made

 
The Internet: Hive Mind

 

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Photograph: iStock Why you need to read this to learn how to really read

In this hyper linked world of gifs and meme, we risk, in a take on the words of Socrates, becoming what we see

Chris Connolly: won the Tom-Gallon Trust prize of £1,000 (€1,121) for his short story, The Speed of Light and How it Cannot Help Us Irish writer Chris Connolly wins Society of Authors’ Award for short story
Stuff, it’s just stuff, but revealing stuff. Photograph: iStock Can a list of someone’s stuff double as literature?
  • ‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape’
  • ‘I didn’t realise how much of a big deal the first woman thing was’
Testament review: a sad and beautiful novel about Holocaust
My Year of Rest and Relaxation review: an arresting, original read
Vernon Subutex 2 by Virginie Despentes: more vicious wit and stark insight
Fenianism: a hard movement to pin down

TV & Radio

Francis Brennan takes 12 tourists on the trip of a lifetime to South Africa Five of the best TV shows to watch this weekend

Francis Brennan takes 12 tourists to South Africa while John Creedon takes the roads less travelled around Ireland

WTF: Gordon Ramsay with chef Louis Cilento. Photograph: Channel 4 Gordon Ramsay: as rancid as last year's calamari
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, at his production office in Santa Monica, Califonia. Photograph: David Banks/The New York Times ‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening: ‘People feel so powerless, they’re picking the wrong battles’
  • You will feel like throwing away your phone after this article
  • My Broken Brain review: A portrait of people coping with the unimaginable

Stage

Wicked: A dazzling display of stagecraft and social commentary

Based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this asks who was the Wicked Witch of the West?

Stanley Townsend in Incanttata. Photograph: Patrick Redmond When grief and art become a gruelling, physical process
An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own
  • Come On Home: A tale of sexual repression and provincial suffocation
  • Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

Art & Design

RIBA Sterling Prize shortlist: The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford, designed by Irish architedt Niall McLaughlin. Photograph: Nick Kane Irish architect nominated for Sterling Prize for Oxford building

Niall McLaughlin: ‘Modern buildings can take their place in older stark settings’

Fiona Tan, Vox Populi: London, 2012, 267 individually framed colour photographs, 210cm x 700cm. Collection De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL) Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spell
‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), mixed media, Catherine Owens (Oliver Sears Gallery). Art in Focus: ‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), by Catherine Owens
  • Five of the best art shows to see this week
  • Maser video: Watch his latest artwork take shape in Crumlin

Unthinkable

Irish Yong Philosopher Award winner Luke Rickard (16) with President Michael D. Higgins. Photograph: UCD Colleges of Social Sciences and Law Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year

Unthinkable: The Irish Young Philosopher Awards hopes to become as big as the Young Scientist exhibition

‘There is a paradox in war: Why do individuals sacrifice themselves for their groups?’ Photgraph: Reuters/Joe Raedle Is fighting in our genes? A biological theory of warfare
Rhetorical rivals Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. Photographs: Getty Images Was Ireland’s most prominent philosopher ‘too womanly’?
  • How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?
  • Would lowering voting age justify being tougher on under 18s?

Michael Viney's Another Life

“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life

Michael Viney: The cliffs of Ireland are the island’s last wild land, the views enchanting tourists on the Wild Atlantic Way

Upland peat. Illustration: Michael Viney For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
Weeping beech: We found a drift of self-sown beech seedlings, a few inches high, and pocketed one for the garden. Illustration: Michael Viney Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches
  • We’ve known of ‘the plastic perils in the sea’ for 30 years
  • Michael Viney: As hedges and trees have grown, the acre is amassing quite a fernery

Heritage

It is believed to have been built 500 years after Newgrange. Photograph: Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Newgrange: Henge discovered may be astronomically aligned

Anthony Murphy says the new henge could be aligned to Bealtaine and Lughnasa

Alanna O’ Kelly beside her piece, A Kind of Quietism. Her site-specific once-off work, Anáil na Beatha, takes place at Schull Workhouse on July 21st. Photograph: Maxwells Schull to relive Famine experience at workhouse
The angled bastion with red and white poles English fort discovered during Castlecomer hotel development
  • Newgrange: More ‘unparalleled’ prehistoric sites discovered
  • A magical vision is hidden in the Irish language – we need to rediscover it

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1 Henry Cavill: “Moustachegate is now a thing. My moustache has been immortalised.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/NYT Henry Cavill: ‘Ireland taught me how to love the rain’
2 The movie quiz: Do you know your Bond villains?
3 It is believed to have been built 500 years after Newgrange. Photograph: Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Newgrange: Henge discovered may be astronomically aligned
4 Jomo - or the joy of missing out - requests people take a break from their digital love affairs, and connect with their offline environment. Photograph: iStock You will feel like throwing away your phone after this article
5 Meryl before she was mamma: Lily James in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
6 The Irish language derives from a world in which the unseen is as real as the seen. Photograph: Istock A magical vision is hidden in the Irish language – we need to rediscover it
7 The 102 best films to watch on Netflix
8 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
9 Donald Clarke: Willis was among the first actors to go from A-list TV star to A-list movie star. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Getty Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston
10 Marie Newton, left, musician and actor Bronagh Gallagher and Sharon Austin at the Beyond the Silence launch ‘Our house died. It was filled with life but it became empty. We were like shells of people’
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The cast during rehearsals of Paul Howard’s ‘Copper Face Jacks’ in the Olympia Treatre, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Copper Face Jacks: The Musical: Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’
London children: we played the same games and watched the same TV programmes and listened to the same pop songs Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal
'Shy but wild': Dolores O’Riordan in 2007. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The young Dolores O’Riordan: ‘Shy and wild, then that voice would explode’

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Paul Lynch: serious fiction is a form of knowledge. The writer seeks to understand the truths that define the human condition. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/ Getty Images
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Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture
 

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Galleries

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, his mother, Wendy O'Connor and sister Kim Cobain pictured this morning with Kurt's Dodge Dart car at the Newbridge Museum of Style Icons where the Cobain family opened an exhibition 'Growing Up Kurt Cobain'. The exhibition runs until 30th September 2018. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin Gallery: Kurt Cobain exhibition in Newbridge
HETTY LAWLOR: Overall winner, Young Mayo artist Hetty Lawlor - a 17-year old student from Kilmeena, near Westport and a pupil at the local Sacred Heart School - with her picture entitled 'Grainne', winner of the 64th Texaco Children's Art competition held at the RHA Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times Texaco Children's Art Competition
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