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Raya and the Last Dragon looks to buck the trend of mediocre serpent-centred features
How Enter The Dragon became a martial arts phenomenon
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Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
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‘Liberate Hong Kong’: Voices of the people echo throughout city
Once widely praised for order and efficiency, city is now bitterly divided by violence and politics
Eddie Murphy: ‘I was kind of an a-hole’
The star explains why he is returning to stand-up and the big screen in Dolemite Is My Name
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood review: Exhilarating and infuriating
The film isn’t about the murder of Sharon Tate and friends in 1969. It’s about the end of eras
Hong Kong: Lennon and Lenin locked in posthumous ideological battle
‘Lennon Walls’ become violent flashpoints as well as potent symbols of resilient protest
Anger and anarchy: Hong Kong’s summer of discontent
‘We have nothing left to lose,’ shouted Hong Kong’s desperate, disenfranchised protestors
Fighting arts: Tell me about . . . Wing Tsun
Main focus is self-protection: It enables a weaker individual overcome a larger assailant
Once upon a Time in Hollywood trailer drops, and it’s unreconstructed Tarantino
Prepare for DiCaprio, Pitt, freaky dancing and an awkward Manson Family association
Sergio Agüero stays cool and cold in the middle of all the fury
Striker a beacon of certainty from the front on a night where Man City won very ugly
High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded
US director says his heart lies with action movies like The Equalizer 2
‘By lifting others, you also lift yourself ’ - John McGrath’s remarkable journey
The Waterford man whose only limits are those of his imagination
The man who has made 100 films in Afghanistan but can't read or write
With 110 movies under his belt, Afghan filmmaker Salim Shaheen finally made it to the red carpet in Cannes as the star of a charming and hilarious documentary portrait by French journalist Sonia Kronlund
Alexandre Lacazette gets in the groove to bury West Brom
French striker scores twice in impressive performance at the Emirates
Ken Early: Mayweather learned quickly not to take his eyes off McGregor
Mayweather will try to make his opponent feel lost and lonely in the boxing ring
McGregor: Boxing coach not needed to prepare for Mayweather
UFC fighter has been happy to stick with trusted team ahead of Las Vegas bout
Conor McGregor’s Dublin: Just an Irish kid, a boy from Crumlin . . .
His circle of trusted friends, his father and former boxing coach, tell McGregor’s story
The 12 best unsung cult films from the depths of Netflix
Get your fill of cult horror, kung-fu, spaghetti westerns, Blaxploitation and whatever Troll 2 is
MMA fighter’s drubbing of tai chi master sparks debate in China
Viewers shocked as traditional champion pummelled by mixed martial arts expert
Science Week: Giving textbook physics lessons the chop
DIT lecturer uses Korean martial arts to impart understanding of mass and velocity
Kung fu master seeks apprentice to pass on ancient martial arts tradition
Suogugong, or body shrinking, is one of the most challenging forms of kung fu
The Get Down: Netflix's latest series that cost $10m an episode
Baz Luhrmann breaks the bank with $10m an episode in Netflix’s hip-hop odyssey, while John Oliver has the last word
Niamh Buffini is putting vast experience back into sports
Paralympics Ireland’s appointee is one of a kind in martial arts
‘Pink Panther’ actor Burt Kwouk dies aged 85
British actor appeared in three Bond films and BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine
MMA fighter Catherine Costigan not caged by convention
Limerick woman has not let the negative opinion of others detract from her passion
From beating up the local bully to martial arts master
As a kid Eoin O’Brien had to face down a bully in a karate competition. Now he squares up to his heroes in martial-arts films
The Grandmaster review: wing chun this
Tony Leung is properly enigmatic in this vandalised bio-pic of Ip Man, the maestro who trained Bruce Lee
Hong Kong media mogul Run Run Shaw dies at 106
Shaw built up a TV and film empire in a 90-year career
Sensory healing
Can art boost mental health? Lauren Murphy speaks to artists taking part in January’s First Fortnight Festival to find out whether creating a song, a play – or a smiley-face cloud – is cathartic
The 50 best videogames of all time
It could’ve been 200 – or 500 – but in the end we made our trigger-happy game reviewers Joe Griffin and Ciara O’Brien narrow their best videogames of all time down to just 50 . . . Plus, we talk to celebs Jason Byrne, Mike Ross and Ed Smith about their all-time highs
The 50 best videogames of all time
It could’ve been 200 – or 500 – but in the end we made our trigger-happy game reviewers Joe Griffin and Ciara O’Brien narrow their best videogames of all time down to just 50 . . . Plus, we talk to celeb gamers Jason Byrne, Mike Ross and Ed Smith about their all-time highs
Brewing up a storm – Irish craft beer goes from strength to strength
From a Belfast Blonde to a Troubled Hooker to a White Gypsy – Festival Fit gets bogged down in brew
Poet who vowed never to be poor
Middle class was not enough for publisher Felix Dennis – he realised he needed to be rich if he wanted to live life his way
Together at last
Mark O’Rowe transforms his two-hander monologue play into an epic one-man performance for Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
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