THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASES

1 [BLU-RAY] MICHAEL COLLINS

NOTHING like a bit of rabble-rousing and just in time for the Easter Rising celebrations. Liam Neeson is the Big Fella laying waste to the Brits in Neil Jordan’s entertaining historical biopic.

2 [CINEMA] LONDON HAS FALLEN

GAUDY explosion-fest with Gerard Butler as a secret agent who discovers a plot to blow up all the world’s leaders in London.

3 [DVD] THE LADY IN THE VAN

MAGGIE Smith plays an eccentric old dear who lives in a van, no less.

4 [MUSIC] THE CORAL – DISTANCE IN BETWEEN

SCOUSER scallywags – albeit a bit more grizzled now – return to the scene after a six-year hiatus with some typically bouncy indie rock and psych-pop.

5 [BOOK] KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD – SOME RAIN MUST FALL

THIS autobiographical epicp is hugeg in the author’s native Norway, and in this part five, he ponders over his Twenties.

6 [CINEMA] HAIL, CAESAR!

THE Coen brothers direct their customary starry cast t (George Clooney, Josh h Brolin, Scarlett-Johansson et al) in this is ensemble comedy-mystery about a day in the life of a Fifties Hollywood studio fixer.

7 [BOOK] OLIVER JAMES – NOT IN OUR GENES

WANT to raise happy kids? Well accordingdi t to clinicalli i l psychologisth l it Oliver James in this fascinating read, it’s nurture and not nature that plays the key role. So, no pressure then...

8 [CINEMA] THE CHOICE

MORE cinematic Mills & Boon from the pen of Nicholas Sparks (The(Th Notebook) about starcrossedcro lovers in a coastal town.tow

9 [MUSIC] RAY LAMONTAGNE – OUROBOROS

GRAVELLYGR voiced singersongwriterso ditches the ‘wandering‘w troubadour’ shticks for something more psychedelic on this his sixth album.

10 [CINEMA] TRUTH

CATE Blanchett and Robert Redford star in this true-life newsroom drama about CBS’s investigation into the military career of George W Bush.