WHEN the news broke last week that actor Ray Liotta had passed away at the age of 67, I felt an immediate compulsion to re-watch Goodfellas.

DOCS Ireland is set to return to Belfast this month for four days of screenings, discussions and special events, live and online, featuring well known names alongside up-and-coming film-makers.

Get Carter IN THE seedy world of the classic British gangster film there are many show-stopping central performances to savour.

THE idea behind one of the most unsettling films you'll see about the loss of a child came to film-maker and writer Stacey Gregg when she was young.

CELEBRATING its 10th year, the Belfast Pops Orchestra returns to the Ulster Hall on Saturday for an evening of contemporary to classical music.

PETER Wilson, aka Duke Special, seems jaunty when rendezvousing in east Belfast at one of Ballyhackamore's numerous cafés.

Notes and musings from the arts scene as it continues to emerge from the pandemic, by Jane Hardy EMERGING from the restrictions of the plague years, you might have expected the arts to provide fun, distraction, an escape from reality.

JOHN Prine was the songwriter's songwriter, and it's hard to think of anyone who has won as many plaudits from fellow musicians and contemporaries.

ONE hundred years ago today Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was shot dead on the doorstep of his home at 36 Eaton Place in London, by two disabled veterans of the First World War, Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan.

"I WILL have to join the modern world and get a smartphone, because my phone is as dumb as can be," quips acclaimed children's author Jacqueline Wilson, lamenting her confusion at dialling in for our interview.

This is my home and country.

FINAL auditions recently over, the stage is now set for British Youth Music Theatre's (BYMT) latest reincarnation of Belfast author Tony Macaulay's "ordinary" childhood, with the much-anticipated Breadboy opening at the Lyric in July.

Notes and musings from the arts scene as it continues to emerge from the pandemic, by Jane Hardy EMERGING from the restrictions of the plague years, you might have expected the arts to provide fun, distraction, an escape from reality.

1. When did you think about a career in comedy and what were your first steps into it? I never thought of comedy as a career but always loved going to see live comedy.

This is my home and country.

FINAL auditions recently over, the stage is now set for British Youth Music Theatre's (BYMT) latest reincarnation of Belfast author Tony Macaulay's "ordinary" childhood, with the much-anticipated Breadboy opening at the Lyric in July.

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