A Minecraft Movie: Cinemas warn audiences over ‘chicken jockey’ TikTok trend
Minecraft film has proved successful at the box office, but not without disruption from audiences
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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
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
How Minecraft became a cultural phenomenon: ‘I have hundreds of worlds. When I get sick of one I just start again’
The most popular video game of all time is about to become a Hollywood movie starring Jack Black
Borderlands review: Cate Blanchett plays an intergalactic bounty hunter in Eli Roth’s straight-up, uncomplicated pulp
The problems mount when this wacko video-game adaptation decides it wants us to care about the stupid, stupid plot
Irish people have been doing the Gaelic gasp since the Vikings first landed on our shores
Irish people love talking, and we’re not going to let pesky breathing get in the way
Kung Fu Panda 4: A weaker entry in the franchise that is still vastly superior to most mainstream animated features
Caveats and niggles ultimately don’t dent the magnanimous-natured enjoyment
Thanksgiving director Eli Roth: ‘Seeing all these Black Friday tramplings, we thought this is a fantastic way to open a horror film’
What began as a joke 1980s trailer in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez’s Grindhouse is now a very contemporary slasher
The Mandalorian: Wacky casting, imploding ratings, tumbling appeal. What’s gone wrong with the Star Wars spin-off?
Television: Jon Favreau’s ‘well-made pulp’ became a phenomenon. But season three has been a letdown. Can its finale arrest the decline?
Building an audience for contemporary classical music
Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival
RL Stine has sold 400 million books: ‘And people say kids don’t read’
The Goosebumps author on his rules for writing and the new Fear Street films on Netflix
School of Rock star Kevin Clark (32) killed while cycling
Jack Black among those to pay tribute to musician who played drummer Freddy Jones
Different Strokes: Lowry keen on Ryder Cup dream team with McIlroy
Cejka checks out with mini-tour win, Pádraig’s tasty tips, remembering the great Patty Berg
First sushi, now manga – will AI ruin great Japanese inventions?
Japanese tech giant Kioxia is to create a new comic with the ‘Walt Disney of Japan’
Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good fun
Review: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The Rock
Wrestler ‘Silver King’ dies during London bout
Cesar Barron, who starred in Hollywood film Nacho Libre, dies after collapsing during show
Chris Cornell: Metallica, Foo Fighters lead star-studded tribute to Soundgarden singer
Chris Cornell’s widow, friends and family in heartfelt tributes at I am the Highway special concert in Los Angeles
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: Good biopic that hits a wall
Review: Gus Van Sant in better form in film about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan
Eli Roth: ‘At a certain point there’s no more body parts to chop up’
The once gore-happy director has made a kids’ film, The House with a Clock in its Walls
Grumpy Cat wins €571k over company’s copyright breach
Coffee owners countersued and said Grumpy Cat had not held up deal to promote ‘Grumppucinos’
The Polka King: Likeable, lightweight larceny tale with an ‘Oom-Pah-Pah’ beat
New Netflix original sees Jack Black star in the real-life story of a Polish-American polka band leader jailed in 2004 for running a Ponzi scheme
‘You meet certain actors and it’s just... no’
Brad’s Status director Mike White on the blurred lines between comedy and drama
A very belated Jumanji sequel: Family fun let down by kinky boots
Follow-up to 1995 kids’ flick has a ‘big idea’ – but sadly succumbs to crass objectification
Dead Poets Society, Grease and Harry Potter: Top class films set in school
Music, poetry and magic are the main lessons to come out of these classics
Been there, done that: learning from leaders
At the Pendulum Summit in Dublin, delegates heard inspiring stories of change and re-invention
Life coach Jack Black: ‘Happiness is not an unrealistic goal’
A full-price ticket to the Pendulum Summit costs €425. Here we give you the Glaswegian motivational speaker’s advice for improving yourself and your life for free
Deepak Chopra tops impressive bill at motivational Pendulum Summit
Speakers will ‘shower the audience with truth and inspiration’
Billy Connolly: he's not your average 71-year-old
The comedian was diagnosed with prostate cancer on the same day he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but it seems nothing can stop the Big Yin laughing
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