Five For Your Radar: Cork Film Fest, Shaun Ryder, new show from the Breaking Bad creator
L-R: Shaun Ryder comes to Cork; Rhea Seehorn stars in Pluribus
The new show from and creator Vince Gilligan is also set in New Mexico and stars Rhea Seehorn, the breakout star of the prequel. That’s where the similarities to those much darker shows end, though. Seehorn plays Carol Sturka, a downbeat author who wakes up one morning to discover she is the only person immune to an unexplained virus that transforms the world's population into content and optimistic citizens. The opening two episodes of the nine-part series are out on Friday.
Based on the best-selling novel by Andrea Mara and adapted for the screen by Megan Gallagher, follows every parent's worst nightmare as it comes to life for mother Marissa Irvine Sarah Snook). When she arrives at a house to collect her son, Milo, from a playdate with a new friend, Marissa is horrified to discover the woman who answers the door is someone she doesn’t recognise. Executive produced by Snook and starring Dakota Fanning, runs for eight episodes.
A dog-friendly screening of on Sunday at the Everyman is among the many highlights of the 70th edition of CIFF this week. Costume designer Joan Bergin (My Left Foot, The Tudors, Disenchanted) is in conversation at the Arc cinema at 12.30pm on Friday, while patron David Puttnam gives a talk and Q&A at the Triskel on Thursday. In between are the Irish and international shorts that are the heart of the festival, as well as a burgeoning programme of full-length features.
The Dublin Book Festival, which has been running since 2006, pays tribute to Seán Rocks, the late presenter of beloved RTÉ arts show on Sunday at 12.15pm (Imma). Authors Kevin Barry and Kathleen MacMahon, poet Paula Meehan, and composer and musician Colm Mac Con Iomaire join arts journalist Paula Shields in conversation as they remember his enduring influence and generosity. Elsewhere over the weekend, you’ll find walking tours, poetry slams, and Donal Fallon launching his new book The Dublin Pub.
The show is called Happy Mondays, and Fridays, and Saturdays, and Sundays - but do note it’s on a Tuesday in Cyprus Avenue. The Happy Mondays frontman and TV show regular, from to is in Cork as part of a spoken-word tour that takes him around the country, ending in Belfast on November 16. You might know the story - Ryder really shouldn’t be here considering his drug excesses of the 1990s - but you’ll enjoy the return journey.
