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Marie Jones on taking her universally loved play to the Moon and back
Audiences from here to New York, Canada and Scandinavia have identified with Fly Me to the Moon, the comic tale of two carers, which continues to speak to the sector's emotional demands and the relationships between workers and patients -
My career constructing the soundscapes behind Game of Thrones, Hunger and The Fall
Ronan Hill reveals how he went from recording audio for local news stories to winning Emmys for his work on TV's most talked about show -
Everything you need to get into the games industry is at the tips of your fingers (and thumbs)
The boss of award-winning Belfast studio Italic Pig says there's nothing to stop those dreaming of being developers from teaching themselves how it's done -
Owen Jones: Change Isn't Beyond Imagination
The noted 'activist who happens to write' discusses hope as the basis for political progress and the importance of inciting young people ahead of a sold-out Belfast talk -
The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio and the makers of Birdman combine for the visceral, awe-inspiring culmination of their cinematic careers -
Twenty Films You Have to See in 2016
Whether they're awards season heavyweights, box office giants or something that sparks excitement closer to home, these feature-lengths aren't to be missed in the year ahead -
Back to the Future Day
How John DeLorean's Belfast-built failure of the motoring industry became an icon of cinema and helped render a family franchise a timeless cultural phenomenon -
Pan
Despite an occasionally turgid narrative, Neverland's potential to thrill remains undeniable in Cinemagic's film festival opener -
Miss Julie
Fermanagh's Castle Coole stands tall in Colin Farrell's simmering Victorian drama, despite the stage-to-film adaptation's big screen shortcomings -
Ten Unmissable Films Still to Come This Year
From Matt Damon on Mars to Tom Hardy's turn as East London's evil twins, the big screen has much more to offer before 2015 is out -
13 Minutes
David Holmes reunites with Oliver Hirschbiegel as the Downfall director returns to familiar ground, albeit with more mixed results -
The Best Moments from Game of Thrones Seasons 1 - 5
As HBO's fantasy behemoth reaches the end of its published source material we look back on its most memorable sequences so far. Spoilers ahead... -
Timbuktu
As far removed from the mainstream as its setting, Abderrahmane Sissako’s unflinching picture is rich in its portrayal of totalitarian rule in Africa but not without its glimmers of hope -
Girlhood
The third instalment of Céline Sciamma's coming-of-age trilogy is a poised and fascinating picture drawing towering performances from its street-cast actresses -
The TV company helping to 'transform lives' documenting dance projects for vulnerable people
Triplevision has been producing cutting edge programmes for nearly 20 years, but for filmmaker Gerard Stratton it's recent work with DU Dance that's been most creatively rewarding -
Film producer Brendan Mullin on how up-and-comers can make 'the Cut'
Having gone from Sundance to the Mecca of streaming with his company's feature debut, the Strabane native says there's no better time for the next generation to find success on the big screen -
Street artist Glen Molloy: 'I’m not painting to be trendy. I’m painting to survive'
Urban murals and graffiti marketing may be a current craze, but for the 'Belfast Banksy' it's a passion that's taken perseverance and a positive outlook to turn into a living -
The 10 Best Kenneth Branagh Films
As Belfast prepares to celebrate its next Freeman of the City, we count down his greatest contributions to cinema in front of and behind the camera -
Murder on the Orient Express
Kenneth Branagh keeps Agatha Christie's detective tale on the right track as both director and lead amidst a cast bristling with star power -
Working Towards a Comm(on) Goal
Freelancers unite in a networking event to face challenges they each share and confront isolation felt within the independent industries -
Best (George Best: All By Himself)
Though arguably too linear in scope, the latest chronicle of our greatest footballing talent's tragic journey is nonetheless elegantly and fearlessly told -
The Fits
This adolescent dance drama eschews coming-of-age tropes in favour of a more unorthodox yet fascinating slow burn -
Silence
Liam Neeson is the white whale of Scorsese's monumental 26-year passion project, which caps a career-long study of spirituality on the big screen -
Anthropoid
Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy excel as Czech army agents in a tense and compelling account of one of the Second World War's less heralded moments -
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
The artistic director of a major centenary revival of the seminal play on providing an outsider's perspective on Frank McGuinness's vision -
Shooting for Socrates
We may not be Brazil, but with its see-through 'period setting' and wafer-thin plot James Erskine's chronicle of Northern Ireland's 1986 World Cup fails to even suspend disbelief -
Ash - Kablammo!
By no means a perfect comeback, but there is much to admire about Downpatrick's most famous sons' 'back to basics' first album in almost a decade -
The Monday Club
New feature film written and directed by Brian Mulholland is a love letter to his home city. 'The Belfast psyche is peculiar. We slag each other out of love. That's worth celebrating' -
Rosewater
Satirist Jon Stewart's directorial debut tells the remarkable story of one journalist's interrogation at the hands of the Iranian government after appearing on The Daily Show -
My English Tongue, My Irish Heart
Martin Lynch tells a contemporary cross-border love story set against the backdrop of departure and based on the book The Literature of the Irish in Britain -
The Survivalist
Stephen Fingleton’s tense, hypnotic and masterful debut, shot in and around Ballymoney, is a mesmerising dystopian tale -
Shooting for Socrates
Screenwriter Marie Jones tells the epic story of Northern Ireland's meeting with Brazil at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. 'It's about normal people fighting against the odds' -
The Survivalist at Belfast Film Festival
Oscar-nominated writer/director Stephen Fingleton on helming the 'anti-science fiction' feature he wanted to be 'the best thing ever shot in Northern Ireland' -
Mark Cousins: I Am Belfast
'Did we really do that? Were we that inhuman? Yes, we were.' Auteur on exploring the past, present and future of his birthplace in a special, UK-wide film programme -
Abbie Spallen's Lally the Scut
Lauded playwright on the 'divide and conquer' approach to arts funding cuts in Northern Ireland, why satire is 'an absolutely vital weapon' in the fight against austerity, and her new production at The MAC -
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Brett Morgen's artful documentary uses home movie footage and Kurt Cobain's extensive journals to reveal the man behind the music -
Filmmakers Find Online Success With Farr
Four part Belfast-set crime series among the most popular programmes available on RTÉ Player – director Aiden Largey and actor Shaun Blaney on making it through the Storyland commissioning process -
Robot Overlords
Carrickfergus and Donaghadee provide the backdrop for this bland sci-fi that could yet find an audience as an inadvertent cult comedy -
Cinderella
Director Kenneth Branagh's straight adaptation of the familiar fairy tale is a witty visual spectacle that will charm well beyond the stroke of midnight -
Run All Night
Liam Neeson's latest action flick is an unexpectedly engaging take on the Irish-American mafia narrative in which he cements his position as this generation's Charles Bronson -
Boogaloo and Graham
Michael Lennox's BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated short took on the world and won the hearts and minds of millions – read our review ahead of two screenings at Queen's Film Theatre -
Liam Neeson's Five Best and Worst Movies
We appraise the Ballymena-born Hollywood heavyweight's five best and five worst films. Agree or disagree? -
Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics
New festival endorsed by Stephen Fry and scheduled to encourage creative engagement ahead of the May 2015 election – enter your five proposals for change to the Alternative Manifesto -
It Follows
Fright fans, remember the name – David Robert Mitchell channels his inner John Carpenter in a gripping feature stalked by an unseen, unknown spectre -
Deprogramming at Void Gallery
'What is a game and what is art?' Three of Derry's digital innovators blur the lines between artistic expression and entertainment gaming with interactive installation -
Etcetera Theatre Company
Connal Parr, board member of new organisation dedicated to giving voice to the loyalist working-class community in Northern Ireland, on why 'theatre is very important in a general cultural sense' -
Selma
Northern Ireland's own Bloody Sunday is foreshadowed in Ava DuVernay’s civil rights drama featuring an Oscar-worthy central performance by British actor David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr -
Inherent Vice
Queen's Film Theatre screen Paul Thomas Anderson's trippy noir starring Joaquin Phoenix -
A Most Violent Year
Passed up in every major category at the Academy Awards, JC Chandor's period drama is a powerful, complex picture -
Bad Vibrations
Richard Dormer on acting alongside Michael Gambon in new Sky Atlantic series 'Fortitude' and how his career was built on arts funding -
Whiplash
JK Simmons is the drum tutor from Hell in Damien Chazelle's scorching jazz opus -
Taken 3
Liam Neeson runs out of steam in Olivier Megaton's excruciating pay off to a high-earning trilogy -
Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain's war memoir makes for an intense cinematic experience -
The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne becomes scientist Stephen Hawking in revealing biopic -
Cinemagic Film A Christmas Star
Despite impending funding cuts, the film organisation for young people train new generation of cast and crew and deliver their feature film under budget -
The Hobbit
Peter Jackson's unrecognisable The Battle of the Five Armies is a triumph of style over substance -
Support #SaveNIFilm Campaign
With filmmaking funding on the line, two of Northern Ireland's most promising directors vie for Oscar glory -
Black Sea
Michael Smiley joins an ensemble crew searching for Nazi gold in Kevin MacDonald's tense thriller -
St. Vincent
Bill Murray is an unlikely babysitter in Theodore Melfi's quirky comedy also starring Chris O'Dowd -
The Drop
James Gandolfini's final film is a gripping ensemble adaptation of the gritty Dennis Lehane novel
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