Wannabe-impresario Jimmy Rabbitte has a question: “Have you got soul?” The question opens an ad Jimmy has placed in a Dublin paper aimed at recruiting members for a new R&B band. It also underpins ...

There are many Irish movies one could pick to watch in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Jim Sheridan’s In America is a good choice. Certainly the recent, Oscar-nominated Brooklyn is a great one, too. But I ...

ROCK star Glen Hansard has ­spoken of how the experience of making feel-good movie The Commitments was tainted for him because of a bust-up with late director Alan Parker. The Frames singer has ...

We turn to anniversaries again for our latest movie quiz, as 'The Commitments' turns 33 years old. Taking movie cameras to the streets of Dublin, 'The Commitments' was a risky project that many ...

The 30-year nostalgia pendulum took a swing at 1991 on the Ray D'Arcy show recently, as two massive pop-culture icons from that year featured in the same segment; The Den kid’s TV show with Zig and ...