8½ LIKE all great art there are many sides to Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8½.

HOUSE OF GUCCI (15, 158 mins) Drama/Romance.

ENCANTO (PG, 109 mins) Animation/Musical/Fantasy/Adventure.

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers THE 1950s were awash with high concept, low budget science fiction B-movies.

MICHAEL C. Hall had already established himself, winning acclaim for popular television roles in Six Feet Under and Dexter while treading the boards on Broadway during a run of the glam rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, before taking on the lead in the musical Lazarus, written by David Bowie and Irish playwright Enda Walsh.

CHRISTMAS wouldn't be Christmas without Grimes & McKee, and this year the comic pair are delighted to be back on stage together.

OH yes it is..

ANDRÉ Rieu may not be back on tour just yet, but the Dutch 'King Of Waltz' is once again inviting Irish fans to enjoy a specially recorded live extravaganza in cinemas this December - this time from his newly created 'Winter Palace' in his hometown of Maastricht.

EVERY author attempting to write a book on Winston Churchill faces many potential bear traps.

IN the century that has elapsed since the signing of the Treaty on December 6 1921, much has been made of the naiveté and relative inexperience of the Irish negotiators compared to their British counterparts.

FEW places in Ireland have a better literary pedigree than Enniskillen.

BRUCE Clark, who hails from Upperlands, Co Derry, has been on a life-long Greek odyssey and his latest book Athens: City of Wisdom is a classic journalistic and academic analysis of the ancient and the modern.

Notes and musings from the arts scene as it emerges from lockdown, by Jane Hardy TIMING is all in the theatre.

1. When did you think about a career in the arts and what were your first steps into it? I was first in a play when I was 10 years old - a production of Macbeth.

CHRISTMAS wouldn't be Christmas without Grimes & McKee, and this year the comic pair are delighted to be back on stage together.

How do you unwind at the weekend? For almost two years, every day has been like Sunday.

GO mBEANNAÍ DIA daoibh, hello to the angry and the calm, it’s another Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. The Bluffer was reading an article by Umair Haque in medium.com about the collapse o...

DIA DAOIBH a chairde, we’re back with a fun-filled hello Bluffer’s Guide to Irish – or maybe not. Many people find it difficult to learn a language for a number of reasons. T&aacut...

DINNSEANCHAS Shannonbridge - Droichead na Sionnainne - the Shannon bridge Shannonbridge is a village located on the River Shannon not far from the historical site of Clonmacnoise, the famous monast...

TÁ Father of the Cyborgs ar cheann de na scannáin faisnéise is fearr atá feicthe riamh agam ar an iliomad cúiseanna – cionn is go dtógann sé an o...