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IT SAYS something about the ambition of Cúirt 2014 that an eminent author like Sebastian Barry; Irish fiction’s rising star Dónal Ryan; and the Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton, are among the major - but far from only major - names coming to this year’s festival.

There is no doubt that 2012 will be hard pressed to be half as interesting as 2011, but taking a look into my crystal ball, I can see some fascinating developemnts in the months ahead.

BY GETTING back to basics, recapturing the comedy and the brilliance that saw everyone falling in love with Captain Jack Sparrow, On Stranger Tides brings all the best qualities flooding back with the result that this movie is almost as good as the first, almost.

This spy ‘mistaken-identity’ thriller was entertaining but it could have been so much more, with big guns such as Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in the lead roles, given a plot that could have been promising.

DEAR JOHN, the new film staring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum is released in cinemas this week and we have five film tie-in goodie bags to give away.

There was plenty of madness, effects, and stars galore but there just wasn’t enough ‘muchness’ in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, a film which probably hit its head on the way down the rabbit hole.

This Saturday March 6 from 11am to 1.30pm a free acting workshopwill take place at the Passionfruit Theatre, Athlone.

The most photographed square rigged sail ship in the world, the HMS Bounty, will be part of this year’s Galway International Oyster Festival.