TWO hospitalised teenagers fall deliriously in love as they undergo treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF) in a cliched romantic drama directed by Justin Baldoni.

IT'S hard to imagine a movie more 80s than Less Than Zero.

BEN Affleck is fiddling with the straw in his cup, in between sucking on the dregs of his iced coffee.

DIRECTED by one man, produced by two more and marshalled on to the big screen by an army of XY chromosomes, Adam Shankman's gender-reversed remake of What Women Want comes to the shocking conclusion that the sexes want the same things.

IT HAS been a dramatic few years for James Morrison – first he lost his record label and then he almost lost a child.

Nick Waterhouse Nick Waterhouse OLD school rock'n'roll albums are now so common that "retro" has become a genre all of its own.

1. When did you think about a career in music and what were your first steps into it? Being a musician was always my end goal.

CAMPAIGNERS have protested at RTÉ's headquarters calling for the state broadcaster to boycott Eurovision.

BOOK OF THE WEEK Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against Isis by Azad Cudi is published in hardback by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, priced £20 (ebook £9.

BOOKWORMS can borrow, lend or donate free titles at a new lending library - in a Co Armagh shopping centre.

A NEW art exhibition inspired by a classic Irish novel opens today at Cultúrlann Mcadam Ó Fiaich on Belfast's Fall's Road.

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli is published in hardback by HarperCollins, priced £16.

CENSORSHIP, art and love in 1950s Berlin are explored in the concert reading of a new work by Lurgan composer Conor Mitchell.

WATCHING The Big Fellow play out the Michael Collins story on St Patrick's weekend at the Lyric Theatre, you sensed a problem.

BRUISER Theatre Company's version of John Buchan's 1915 serialised novel, The 39 Steps, is a hoot.

1. When did you think about a career in theatre and what were your first steps into it? Apparently I announced I was going to be an actress when I was six, but I became properly involved when the Riverside Theatre (Coleraine) opened in the mid-1970s.

GOOD DAY to all you fans of glorious Saint Patrick, dear saint of our isle.  Have the reprobates amongst yez finally sobered up after drowning the shamrock whilst celebrating the feast day of ou...

Robert McMillen spent a few days in Madrid this week – à la recherche du temps perdu, so to speak – and fell under the spell of its bustling streets and great value food, its sometimes dark history and he even got a guided tour from a Belfastman who has been living in the city for 40 years ... 

GO mBEANNAÍ do Dhia duit, greetings to all and sundry as you have arrived at another action-packed edition of the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. Seo ceist daoibh - here is a question for you ...

CAD É mar atá sibh a chairde, how’s she cuttin’ dear readers and loyal fandom of the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish.  The Bluffer spent last night watching a brilliant ...