Brian Bowe rounds up the the best hidden gems to come out of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, taking place from May 13 to 24, 2025 ...

Thomas Caffrey recently finished his PhD at the School of English, Dublin City University. His doctoral research examined the reception of Haruki Murakami’s fictions in the anglophone world. Thomas ...

Ciarán O'Rourke chats with filmmaker Alessandra Celesia, whose excellent new documentary, The Flats, set in New Lodge, a housing estate in north Belfast, examines the lasting impact of the Troubles ...

If you are reading this, then you love playing video games. You also probably realize that the cost of gaming has been a bit out-of-hand as of late. The newest consoles will put you back at least $400 ...

Change is the only constant, and the only thing we can be sure of that will happen. We all face many changes daily – whether it’s a change in schedule or a change in weather, we all deal with changes ...

Laskarina Bouboulina was born in chains, both figuratively and (in a way) literally. She was conceived during one of her mother’s conjugal visits to her father in a prison in Istanbul and was born ...

A friend of mine recently said that The Marvels felt like it had been written by an AI Although I personally liked the movie, it was obvious that my friend wasn’t being complimentary. The implication ...

Jeanne de Clisson was born in the French town of Belleville-sur-Vie in 1300. She was the one of the de Belleville family, who had ruled in the area for hundreds of years. In fact, she wound up being ...

At the beginning of the 1940’s Walt Disney Studios were in distress; plummeting from the success they enjoyed after Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Instead the studios were blighted by financial ...

There are always those who see opportunity in chaos. The destruction of the old order leaves gaps that need filling, and “men of vision” see nobody better than themselves to fill those gaps. This does ...

From the opening dedication of her eight novel, Girl, Woman, Other, Anglo-Nigerian best-selling author Bernardine Evaristo, makes her intention of telling marginalised stories by usually overlooked ...