The gorgeous adaptation of John McGahern's last novel THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN opens this week & audiences Queen's Film Theatre will be treated to a special Q & A on Friday night with the director, Pat Collins and our Hugh Odling-Smee on hosting duties.
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Congratulations to Larne, but my god that was hard to watch. Concrete football.

Blimey. As ever, John Candy brings warmth to our cold, cold hearts. Sara Gunn-Smith

Rear Window is such a great film. My neighbour across the street watches it all the time.

This was a match worth going to Portadown for. Every single player in green played their heart out. Up the rip roaring Duns.

In the belly of the beast. Up the Duns.

Delighted to welcome great people from across Newry, Mourne and Down to an info day about our @bfi initiative SPOTLIGHT which is focused on developing cinema activity across the local area. A beautiful morning in sunny country Down! #BFISPOTLIGHT #BFIFAN #COMMUNITYCINEMA

Ronnie O'Sullivan

A podcast. With reporting. No rent-a-gobs. Doesn’t recap every 2 minutes. Presenter does not appear to be on a personal journal. open.spotify.com/episode/5zlfRM…

'When it was over
I said to myself
Is that all there is to the circus?'

Rest easy Dickie Betts. #ramblingman
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The transport system of Belfast would drive a man to drink or ruin.

This night 5 years ago, I’d my last conversation with Lyra. Hours later, she was dead. The kindest, sweetest, most extraordinary person I knew was murdered by morons on a Derry street. Her precious life snuffed out for nothing. There’s not a day I don't miss her.❤️u kid.

Like I say, John Bond with an iPad. #Arsenal

Reading about films screened on a disused hovercraft. The imagination and creativity of those who love cinema never ceases to amaze me. Long live cinema.

What makes football clubs special is their status as community institutions, shaped by and embedded in their own unique culture, geography and people. Once they are removed from that, they are no longer any of those things. They won't represent anything except shareholder profit.

Today’s fraying of the civic fabric

I have a new short story on R4, on Friday 26th April at 3.45pm (and afterwards on BBC Sounds). Thank you to Producer Michael Shannon and to Seána Kerslake (@BallywalterFilm, Blue Lights) who reads it so beautifully. The title is 'At Heart Centre'. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…