HARRISON Ford was initially attracted to The Call of the Wild for two reasons.

THE timing of surfing film Riss couldn't have been better.

Villain IT'S HARD not to think of what might have been when you think of Richard Burton.

IT'S one thing to have a job postponed, but it's quite another when said job will take you to the palm-lined beaches of Fiji.

Sparks A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip EVER felt that rush of the familiar and the unfamiliar at the same time? It's like that in Sparksland.

"YOU start in your late teens as a kind of self-obsessed narcissist," explains Laura Marling with just a hint of wry humour.

Me thinking to myself: – Flute-player Michael Walsh wants to be your friend on Facebook.

Todrick Hall Quarantine Queen IT'S fair to say, at the beginning of the year no-one expected a worldwide lockdown.

FICTION Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh is published in ebook by Penguin, priced £7.

BOOK OF THE WEEK The Residue Years by Mitchell S Jackson is published in ebook by Dialogue Books, priced £10.

FREYA Lewis keeps a MAC lipstick in the centre of her make-up drawer, used by her best friend Nell Jones during the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena nearly three years ago.

BY HER own admission, she has become The Postcard Woman and despite picking up the very serious EU Prize for Literature for Ireland last year, it is a light-hearted label that somehow suits the ever-engaging Jan Carson.

A west Belfast actress has come up with an innovative idea to keep the acting community's spirits up in lockdown.

1. When did you think about a career as an artistic director and writer and what were your first steps into it? I trained at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin which I loved and worked for several years as an actress and stage manager.

'YER the onions in me burger, yer the sugar in me tea, so horse it into ya Cynthia fer yer the girl fer me.

WHAT is the sound of 50 women keening? Well if you come to the Wonders of the Wake show at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast this weekend you'll find out.

Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund is seeking applications from fluent Irish speakers for the ILBF New Entrant Scheme.  Trainees on the schemes will learn the craft of...

A BIG HELLO to wallflowers and boasters alike, you are all welcome to the Buffer’s Guide to Irish. As regular readers will know, the Bluffer could never be described as mórtasach - ...

Cé go bhfuil sé ina bhlár folamh faoi láthair, éiríonn gártha molta agus ochláin an éadóchais le beagnach 70 bliain anuas aníos as Páirc thaibhsiúil Mhic Easmainn agus ár gcomhfhreagraí speisialta ag dul siar ar bhóithrín na smaointe go dtí na cluichí a mheall é mar pháiste agus na fathaigh a d’aidhn an tine bheo ann do na cluichí Gaelacha, paisean a mhaireann go dtí an lá atá inniu ann ...

TAMALL Ó SHIN, dúirt Jonathan Powell, iarcheann foirne  Tony Blair, agus é ag caint ar “an teorainn i Muir Éireann” a bhí faoi chaibidil ag an am: ...