Alan Corr

Multimedia Journalist

Director Leigh Whannell (left) on the set of Wolf Man with Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner

Leigh Whannell gives the werewolf movie a new spin

Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell has said he wanted to put a new spin on the tired and tested werewolf horror movie with his latest film Wolf Man.

Movies • 20 Jan

Timothée Chalamet is electrifying in A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet plays the young Bob Dylan in this entertaining look through his back pages

Movie Review • 18 Jan

Charlotte (Julia Garner) and Ginger (Matilda Firth) in Wolf Man

Ozark star Garner faces some hairy moments in Wolf Man

Julia Garner, who made her breakthrough in hit crime drama series Ozark, plays a woman driven to desperate measures in Wolf Man, a new werewolf movie with a difference.

Movies • 14 Jan

Kevin Dundon and Becca Scott took their debut spin under the glitterball last Sunday

Kevin Dundon set to turn up the heat on DWTS on Sunday

He may have finished second from the bottom on the scoreboard last week but Kevin Dundon remains upbeat as he heads into the second round of Dancing with the Stars this Sunday.

Dancing with the Stars • 11 Jan

Charli XCX: her brat album became an event, transcending the mere music industry to became a cultural phenomenon

Listen: Our top Irish and international albums of 2024

Here, then, and in no particular order, are our albums of the year . . .

2024 in Review • 26 Dec 24

Robbie, a man who always had a talent for simian-like merry mayhem and very bad behaviour, is played by a chimp

Ape that: Robbie Williams monkeys about in biopic

Robbie Williams is both the hero and the villain in bizarre and bananas biopic Better Man

Movie Review • 28 Dec 24

Patrick Kielty made the whole thing run like clockwork

Review: Kielty sleighs it again on his second Toy Show

270 all-singing, all-dancing, all-chattering kids, well-chosen celebrity appearances, a video message from the Official Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey, and even an adorable labrador puppy called Star, Friday night's Late Late Show was a Christmas cracker

Toy Show • 07 Dec 24

Take a look back at the memorable opening night of Taylor Swift's 3-night residency at Dublin's Aviva Stadium

Look back at Swift's Aviva gigs as the Eras tour ends

As Taylor Swift's Eras tour comes to a close in Vancouver this weekend, take a look back at the first night of her memorable 3-night residency at Dublin's Aviva Stadium last June...

Music • 06 Dec 24

Peter M Smith: "I'm never under the impression that this is about me. I'm just a jobbing actor."

Peter M Smith steps into the Moonlight as Phil Lynott

"At the end of the day, people miss Philo," says Drimnagh-born stage and film actor Peter M Smith. "They miss him as a person and being around Dublin and having a chance to pass by him on Grafton Street."

Music • 06 Dec 24

U2 have just released the 20th anniversary re-release of their 2004 album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, along with a "shadow" album entitled How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb. Phpto credit: Anton Corbijn

Adam Clayton: U2 have been incredibly lucky and blessed

Adam Clayton has just had his breakfast and is preparing to hit the gym. "I'm full of beans!" he tells me via Zoom from his house in south Dublin.

Music • 03 Dec 24