When Douglas Kennedy’s half-drunk father called him “a loser” he emptied his bank account and returned to Ireland where he had studied at Trinity. He’s been more or less travelling since. He explains all to Declan Burke. 

This week, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ken Watanabe face a monstrous threat to humanity in the action-packed blockbuster Godzilla, and a sexually repressed young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) struggles to break free from a loveless marriage in ‘In Secret’.

KICKBACK CITY is a Rory Gallagher album with a difference. Joining him in the band for this one is the crime fiction writer Ian Rankin, the actor Aidan Quinn and cult illustrator Timothy Truman.

John Connolly and Declan Burke convinced great writers to write about their favourite mystery novels. Val Nolan is impressed

Triskel Christchurch champions art house and leftfield film screenings in Cork, Colette Sheridan reports

A WOMAN’S work is never done, especially when that work involves excavating the fears, hopes and traumas that lie at the heart of crime fiction.

KILLER Mark Papazian had a fascination with murder — both real and imaginary.

Irish-born Mark Papazian wanted to go down in history as a serial killer. But he was caught after writing a diary about the murder of his first victim, a gay pensioner, writes Paul Kelly in the first of a two-part series.

The new film adventure of author Patricia Highsmith's murdering anti-hero Tom Ripley bears little relation to the book on which it is based, according to sources on the set.

Patricia Highsmith's deliciously evil 'hero' - played here by Malkovich and a funny beret - is reunited with us many years after the events of The Talented Mr Ripley, living quietly in Italy.

The talented - if flawed - Mr Ripley returns to do more harm in the world.

Charlotte Rampling delved into the works of women crime novelists as part of her research for her latest film The Swimming Pool.