It would be hard to imagine a more worthy recipient of the Belfast Film Festival’s Réalta award than Ken Loach. From Poor Cow in 1971 to I, Daniel Blake in 2016, his work has entered the...

20TH Century Fox had two big science fiction spectaculars lined up for their release schedules in 1977.

WE'VE all secretly wondered what it would be like to walk in someone else's shoes (preferably flats).

MORE than 25 years after they last shared the big screen in Bethune: The Making Of A Hero, Dame Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland reunite for a bitter-sweet journey of self-discovery in The Leisure Seeker.

ELVIS Costello doesn't have a relationship with nostalgia.

Alison Moyet The Other Live Collection IF YOU were ever in doubt that Alison Moyet has a beautiful voice, her latest live album will make it very clear: she really, truly is the proud owner of some stunning vocals.

SCOTS alt-rockers Biffy Clyro will be returning to Ireland this September with a rather different show than fans are used to.

BLUESFEST Dublin has just added two massive acts to the annual music event which returns to the 3Arena in October: Led Zeppelin man Robert Plant will bring his Sensational Space Shifters to town on Sunday October 28, while Belfast's own Van Morrison is also confirmed for a show at the festival on the same date.

FICTION All The Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson is published in hardback by Faber & Faber, priced £12.

Trick To Time by Kit de Waal is published in hardback by Viking, priced £12.

JUDITH Kerr confesses she has a bit of a hangover, due to a little too much prosecco at a National Literacy Trust party she attended the night before our interview.

BOOK OF THE WEEK Tangerine by Christine Mangan is published in hardback by Little, Brown, priced £14.

1. When did you think about becoming a comedian and what were your first steps into it? There was no definite moment that I thought, "Guess what? I’m going to be a comedian.

HAIL to The King, baby – Sam Raimi's classic horror series The Evil Dead meets classic snake-hipped rock and roll head on in Rob Kemp's acclaimed live show The Elvis Dead, which arrives in Belfast tonight courtesy of the Belfast Film Festival.

When playwright Fintan Brady first heard the stranger than fiction events surrounding a family of renowned spiritual mediums, the Golighers, from South East Belfast, he knew it was a story he couldn&r...

WHEN actress Alison Steadman appeared as Beverly, the 'hostess with the mostest', in Mike Leigh's iconic play Abigail's Party, it was one of the TV moments that defined the 1970s.

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