As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

Cork Cine Club’s new season of films starts on January 23 at St John’s Central College with a screening of the 2012 French film Rebellion (L’ordre et la morale) directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine), who also stars in the film.

Author Dan Brown has been confirmed for the Dublin Writers Festival from May 20-26.

There are many different kinds of violence explored in writer-director Dan Turner’s The Man Inside (15A), as boxer Clayton Murdoch (Ashley Bashy Thomas) negotiates the perilous labyrinth of crime-ridden inner-city London.