Five for your Radar: Bambie Thug's homecoming, Cillian Murphy back on big screen
Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These, which is in cinemas on November 1 and Bambie Thug, who plays Cork City Hall on November 7.
Cillian Murphy returns to the big screen for the first time since the Oscar-conquering Oppenheimer last summer with a much more contemplative affair. Small Things Like These is adapted from Claire Keegan’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It’s about the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church as a caring man considers a Magdalene laundry.
The British comedian and actor, known for his writing work on the Young Ones and Blackadder, Ben Elton returns to Ireland this weekend with his new show Authentic Stupidity.
Five years on since his last tour, he says: “Apparently artificial intelligence is going to destroy us all! Well I reckon our real problem isn’t artificial intelligence it’s good old-fashioned Authentic Stupidity! Forget AI! It’s AS we need to be worrying about!' Ben Elton is also in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Friday, November 1.
After a sold out headline show in Dublin on Halloween last week, Bambie Thug returns to their hometown for a show at City Hall as their Crown the Witch tour wraps up. It’s the capper to a memorable year for the Macroom artist after wowing with Doomsday Blue at Eurovision. The prolific Limerick rapper Hazey Haze is on support duties.
Cork City Ballet reawakens the timeless tale of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, The Sleeping Beauty, for a three-night run at the Opera House on November 7-9.
Directed by CCB’s artistic director Alan Foley, and with moves by chief choreographer Yury Demakov, prima ballerina Katerina Petrova takes the lead role with husband Tsetso Ivanov as her prince - they’re both stars with the Sofia State Ballet in Bulgaria. They return to Cork after performing the Nutcracker at the Opera House in 2022.
The 69th edition of CIFF begins with the opening gala showing of Conclave.
The Pope has died and Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) must lead the Conclave, one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, to select the new leader of the Catholic world. It features a stellar cast, including Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, and Cavan actor Brian F O’Byrne (Million Dollar Baby, Love/Hate, Little Boy Blue).
