Five for your Radar: Saoirse Ronan in Blitz, Ted Danson's new comedy, and more
Cher's memoir is out Tuesday, November 19; and Mohammad Sykfhan opens Quiet Lights at Coughlan's in Cork on Thursday, November 21.
Directed by Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger), Blitz follows the stories of a group of Londoners during the German bombing of the city in the Second World War. It stars Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing) and Ireland’s own Saoirse Ronan, returning to the big screen just weeks after the release of The Outrun. It also sees her returning to the era of her breakthrough role, Atonement (2007).
You know when a music memoir comes in multiple parts that there’s a lot that needs to get in. Cher has released an album in every decade since the 1960s.
Her mother moved them around the US in the early days in the hope of finding fame. She eventually lands in the arms of Sonny Bono. Enter Phil Spector and wide-eyed fame. It’s over 400 pages long and should take you right through to Christmas.
A new comedy by Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, The US Office), starring Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Ted Danson (star in too many to mention)!? Where do we sign up!?
Charles, a retired man, gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a private investigator and becomes a mole in a secret investigation in a nursing home. All eight episodes drop Wednesday.
Returning for its fifth edition, Quiet Lights is like a gentler version of Other Voices as acts on the rise mix with more established musicians, all with besotted crowds.
Kurdish/Syrian bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan opens the festival with a gig at Coughlan’s on Thursday, while over at Live at St Luke’s at the same time, Muireann Bradley, the 17-year-old folk and blues guitarist and singer from Donegal, fresh off a Vicar Street headliner, will leave watchers-on mesmerised.
The 14th edition of Dublin Art Book Fair kicks off with guest curator Adrian Duncan, an award-winning writer, presenting his theme Fictions: The makings of other worlds.
Through a consideration of selected books, he will look at the different ways stories can be told through text, images, spaces, objects, figures, and feelings, and explore the sorts of truths fictions can propose.
