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Is the book always better than the film? Spoiler: it’s not
- Culture
- November 28, 2020, 05:00
Oh no. The champion of the untrue truism is back. He’s pressing you into the corner of the train carriage and puffing up to bore-for-Europe dimensions(...)

Malcolm McDowell: ‘I’m an old fossil these days. I sit still and stay quiet’
- Film
- July 20, 2020, 06:00
Malcolm McDowell was the insolent prince of early-70s cinema, the Liverpool salesman who stormed the establishment’s barricades. You can see him on sc(...)

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
- Film
- May 2, 2020, 05:00
Best reads of 2020: IN VERY PARTICULAR ORDER, HERE’S OUR (CURRENTLY DEFINITIVE) PICK OF THE GREATEST IRISH MOVIES EVER MADE No sane person (...)

Polish avant-garde composer who had the common touch
- Music
- April 1, 2020, 05:00
Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who has died at the age of 86, had a remarkable career. In the early years of his creative life he worked behind(...)

Gawping at other Irish people’s houses. It’s who we are
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 26, 2020, 12:24
Freud once said of the Irish: “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever”. He was essentially wrong, of course (oh an(...)

Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar
- Film
- February 6, 2020
Kirk Douglas Born: December 9th, 1916 Died: February 5th, 2020 Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age, whose(...)

Lots from Luggala and fine furniture from grand Irish houses in London sale
- Fine Art & Antiques
- January 18, 2020, 06:00
If pieces of furniture could talk and recount tales from their use, perhaps lot 72 in the forthcoming Royal and Noble sale by Sotheby’s in London, on (...)

When I was six years old, my father sat me and my sister down to tell us the story of Major Tom. There was a man who got lost in space, he began, in a(...)

Doctor Sleep: Like an evening in a Shining theme park
- Film
- October 30, 2019, 16:00
Few are the films that have such a dysfunctional relationship with their sources and predecessors. As you will almost certainly be aware, Doctor(...)

The Joker film controversy is exhausting. It does not make a hero of its lead character
- Film
- October 1, 2019, 10:30
For close to a century, newspapers have got themselves in a tizzy about the possibility that some film or other may have inspired an act of violence. (...)