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Declan Conlon and Denis Conway dominate the Gate stage in the theatre’s first ever production of a Tom Murphy play. The play takes place entirely within the dingy office of JPW King (Declan Conlon), an Englishman who has washed up in…

The IFI is holding its annual Open Day on Saturday June 20th with an expanded line-up of free movies running from 1pm to 1am. As well as the free movies, and the customary barbecue in the courtyard and special discount on annual IFI…

Catherine Walker stars as Hedda Gabler in a lean new version of Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 classic by Our Few and Evil Days playwright Mark O’Rowe. Hedda has just returned from honeymooning with her dull academic husband, Tesman (Peter Gaynor).…

Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen faces off against Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a Western that might well have been pitched as Seraphim Falls meets Valhalla Rising. Jon (Mikkelsen) and his brother Peter (Mikael Persbrandt) were soldiers in the…

Lifelogging is the subject of the current exhibition in the Science Gallery Dublin (runs until April 18th), which explores the way in which we can use data logging to track and improve our lives. HeadStuff is exploring various aspects of…

The Man in Two Pieces, a new play starring Stephen Brennan and Gerard Adlum, premieres in Theatre Upstairs this week. It marks the beginning of a year-long residency in Theatre Upstairs for rising company Fast Intent (Nessa Matthews, Sarah…

Will Smith attempts to put the fiasco that was After Earth behind him by rediscovering his comic timing for a light and breezy conman caper. Nicky Spurgeon (Smith) is a third generation con-man. When we first meet him he’s eating in…

The 13th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival kicks off on March 19th with Mary McGuckian’s The Price of Desire, starring Orla Brady as Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray, and ends on March 29th with The Sound of Music, with Julie…

Jennifer Aniston, in her best film for quite some time, plays a woman in chronic pain who hides her constant agony behind an acid tongue. Claire Bennett (Aniston) is not the kind of person who does well at support groups. But her…

Legendary novelist Thomas Pynchon’s work is finally brought to the screen by director Paul Thomas Anderson, another man given to sprawling absurdist examinations of America. In 1970 Los Angeles narrator Sortilege (Joanna Newsom)…