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The Ballad of Shirley Collins

This wonderful, warm film centres on the ‘lost’ singer who made her most recent album at 82

Welcome newcomer Valkyrie is given a boozed-up, kicking-out-time vigour by Tessa Thompson

Review: A smashing film of inter-galactic significance and of no importance at all

In Geostorm, most of the good, dumb action seems to have taken place before the opening credits roll

Dr Gerard Butler. Let that one sit with you for a while

Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor in The Death of Stalin

The Death of Stalin

Given the mortal terror, Armando Iannucci’s latest political satire is weirdly light on its feet

Is the voiceover a case of panda-ing to the American market?

Earth One Amazing Day

Robert Redford has been drafted in for the big-screen voiceover. It’s all sorts of wrong

Margaret Mulubwa in I Am Not a Witch

I Am Not a Witch

Rungano Nyoni’s knockout debut tackles the treatment of ‘witches’ in Zambia

Chadwick Boseman in Marshall

This clunky Thursgood Marshall biopic still (annoyingly) works a crude magic on the viewer

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

My Little Pony: The Movie

Feature-length update of now snub-nosed equine will appeal to kids and Bronies alike

Vince Vaughn: brooding brilliance

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Brawl in Cell Block 99 review: Vaughn has never brooded bigger and badder than he does here

Tomas Alfredson’s slice of Scandi noir is the kind of thriller that now belongs on TV

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The last ever Screenwriter “blog” post

After seven years of service, this weblog has finally come to the end of its days. Goodbye.

Movie quiz for March 31st

What's done is done

Five films to catch in April that aren’t Guardians of the Galaxy

As we move towards high season the cinemas still groan with interesting, eccentric alternatives

Let’s talk about the It trailer

The promo for the first episode in the two-part Stephen King adaptation has attracted a lot of attention

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A sneak preview inside the refurbished Stella cinema in Rathmines

Any idiot could play Magneto. You just turn up, scowl a bit, throw a submarine at an aeroplane with your mind and then cash the cheque

Can Michael Fassbender rescue his terrible year?

Beck: U2 are generous, personable and masters of songwriting

Susan Ryan: author of The King of Lavender Square

Writing is not just a desk job

Risurrezione at Wexford Festival Opera. Photograph: Clive Barda

Wexford Festival Opera: the opening weekend’s reviews

Rob Pinnington, a member of the British Spartathlon team in The Road to Sparta

Doing the Dublin Marathon this weekend? You need to see this film first

‘I’m done with humble,’ says Caoilfhionn Dunne’s mercurial Katie, shrugging off the shackles of 1930s Ireland. ‘Didn’t I always know I have greatness in me.’

Katie Roche: Ambitions of greatness for a woman in search of character

Prison drama: inmates watch David Ganly in Sebastian Barry’s On Blueberry Hill at Mountjoy. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Sebastian Barry’s prison drama plays to captive audience at Mountjoy

Mick Jones (left), Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of punk band The Clash performing in about 1980. File photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The day The Clash and punk turned Trinity into a war zone

Welcome newcomer Valkyrie is given a boozed-up, kicking-out-time vigour by Tessa Thompson

Thor Ragnarok: ‘For anybody who likes the scent of the herb’

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