Mia Wasikowska: I got in trouble for an Irish accent before

Alice in Wonderland made her a star but she prefers to stay out of the limelight

Apples & Knife by Intan Paramaditha review: Uneven horror stories

Tales of an unexpected nature combine horror with fairy tales and a feminist focus

Children’s books: what were the standout titles of the year?

Peter Donnelly’s ‘The President’s Cat’, Louise O’Neill’s ‘The Surface Breaks’ and more

Six of the best TV shows to watch this weekend

Ozzie hard bods hook up in Love Island Australia, plus a second series of Cardinal

100 books by women you have to read

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Six of the best films to see this weekend

Quality blasts from the past include Wonder Woman and a Fritz Lang classic

Nymphs, shepherds and monsters in a rural Irish bar

‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish setting

Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worlds

It has taken 10 years for Mia Gallagher to follow up her debut novel, but the almost labyrinthine Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is well worth getting lost in

In praise of Biddy Jenkinson, by Caitlín Nic Íomhair

The Irish language poet is famously private, but her work is anything but witholding, full of love and laughter, amazement and hope

From Janet Mullarney’s fairy tale realm to Paul Seawright’s living nightmare

Mullarney sets memorable characters loose on stage; while Seawright shows us malevolent landscapes

Spooky stories you won’t want to read in bed: Through the Woods

Review: Emily Carroll’s beautiful book is confidently written and lavishly designed

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Review: Maleficent

Angelina Jolie is unimpeachably well cast as the hitherto evil - now merely misunderstood - foe of Sleeping Beauty

Word for Word: ‘I lost my heart to a Western’

The witches of Oz

Rachel Weisz, star of Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, talks feminism, witches and Elizabeth Taylor