At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
Tom Waits
Barns ignoble – Frank McNally on Tom Waits’s barn obsession (and why Macbeth is innocent)
Tom Waits seems to have moved the scene to 20th century America
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t – especially on an Aer Lingus plane
Hugh Linehan: ‘Trapped in a confined space with loud music played at you is what they do to terrorists,’ one commenter said about last weekend’s impromptu session
‘The Rolling Stones wanted me to compromise. And I didn’t want to compromise’
Paul Charles is no pushover. One of the lessons of Adventures in Wonderland, the Irish music agent’s new memoir, is that sometimes you have to say no
Badhands: Far Away – Touching songs of love, loss and emotional flux
Second album from Dublin composer and songwriter Daniel Fitzpatrick, aka Badhands
On the Rocks – Frank McNally on shipwrecks, old salts, and a rainy night in Sydney
An Irishman’s Diary
Johnny Cash gave her a daisy and the rest was history
The New York film maker who tumbled upon creativity in the haystacks of Kildare
Damon Albarn’s criticism of Taylor Swift is ‘hopelessly out of date’
Comment: He wrongly said she didn’t write her own songs – revealing a pop-vs-indie snobbery
Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s son
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative
‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin
The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Traditional music meets jazz as Damien McGeehan hits uncharted terrain
Donegal fiddle players’s new album Kin has a strong sense of people and of place
The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’
Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body art
Jack O’Rourke: Wild Place review – Chamber-pop class through and through
Forget about comparisons to Glen Hansard and other guitar-swinging troubadours
Mick Flannery: ‘I listen to Leonard Cohen dying’
Soundtrack of My Life: From Tom Waits to Van Morrison; I’m allergic to hope at the moment
Paddy Hanna: 'You have to exorcise things like guilt and regret'
The musician admits there was a low period before he began making his third album
Jarv Is ... : Beyond the Pale review – Too much art, not enough commerce
Jarvis Cocker’s wit is intact as he channels Leonard Cohen, but tunes are lacking
Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’
The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne
Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpiece
Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory
Daniel Johnston: An out-of-tune piano, a cheap organ, beautiful songs
The late songwriter, who had mental health issues all his life, remains hugely influential
Daniel Johnston, enigmatic cult songwriter, dies aged 58
American artist sang candidly and sometimes disturbingly about his demons
At Swim-Two-Bobs – Frank McNally on the mysteries of numerology in the work of Bob Dylan and Flann O’Brien
At Swim-Two-Birds pays extended homage to the number 3 with three beginnings, three ends and a similar number of plots in between
The Dead Don’t Die: The most light-hearted film of Jim Jarmusch’s career
Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies
Jim Jarmusch: ‘The Dead Don’t Die cast were paid in oatmeal’
The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the world
The Mick Flannery album that grew into a musical
The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home
Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplenty
Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint
Cannes 2019: New Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach films, but no Tarantino
Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition
Being a mum but not having a mum
About to have her first baby, Tanya Sweeney reflects on her youth and her late mother whose maxim was 'don't make me a gran'
The Old Man and the Gun: Robert Redford’s almost perfect swansong
Review: David Lowery’s film works its magic by treating its elder characters with respect
Nine of the best Netflix shows and films to watch in November
House of Cards, new Coen Brothers movie, and a double bill of Orson Welles
Ciaran Lavery on Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (1985)
This albun changed my life: The singer on the frightening and otherworldly Tom Waits
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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