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Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
‘F**k you. Next question’: The day Adam Driver ran out of patience
Donald Clarke: There’s something refreshing about watching a star nudge away the PR training during a Q&A session
Venice International Film Festival: An Irish film becomes favourite to win the Golden Lion
An opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael Fassbender
Why red carpets still matter even to striking Hollywood stars
There is no more convincing way of assuring your sponsors and patrons what you signify than getting photographs on the front page
Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
Matt Damon’s The Last Duel big winner in tax relief for films
Disney’s Disenchanted only other film to recieve betweem €10m and €30m in support
Lady Gaga: ‘When I got back from Italy, I threw out my cigarettes, threw out the booze’
The singer discusses her role in House of Gucci with film director Ridley Scott
The Last Duel: Yes, it brought Matt Damon to Dublin, but there’s far more to it than that
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Donald Clarke: The country easily delivers the desired sense of mildewed desolation
Matt Damon: ‘Ben came over for dinner, then called me at 7am the next day and said, Let’s do this’
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Nicole Holofcener on making their film The Last Duel with Ridley Scott
‘Perhaps if I was 20 I would think, Oh my God, maybe I’m going to have an Oscar’
The Call My Agent! and Stillwater star Camille Cottin doesn’t take success for granted
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
Lady Gaga on being raped: ‘I felt full-on pain, then I felt numb, then I was sick for weeks’
Attack at 19 ‘changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed thoughts’
‘It’s a sort of family business’: Danny Huston on being part of a Hollywood dynasty
American actor reflects on growing up with famous dinner guests in Ireland and Rome
Oscars 2022: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how next year’s category may look as the industry creaks back into action
Call My Agent’s Camille Cottin: ‘People thought I was this senseless b*tch’
The scene-stealing star on her journey from Paris prank show to co-stardom with Matt Damon
Record number of big Hollywood films had female directors in 2020
Women directed over 15% of top 100 grossing movies but ‘stunning imbalance’ off-camera remains
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
John Boyega says Star Wars has a problem with actors of colour. Is he right?
The London actor, who found fame as stormtrooper Finn, criticised how Disney treated non-white characters in the franchise
Sparks still flying after all these years
Ron Mael and his brother Russell still believe in their maxim ‘innovate or die’
20 great travel movies to take you around the world while you’re stuck at home
From city breaks to train trips, Rome to the Amazon, these are all on streaming services
Dark Waters: A solid, old-fashioned whistleblower drama
Review: This is the kind of issue-driven cinema that used to win Oscars
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Compromised and astonishingly unfinished
Review: 25 years in the making, the hollowness of the female characters is bad timing
Screen Actors Guild awards 2020: Parasite scores historic upset
Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger take lead acting prizes as Jennifer Aniston wins for The Morning Show
Adam Driver: ‘Acting is not glamorous in its making’
The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen
Oscars 2020 nominations: the complete list
Saoirse Ronan gets nominated for Little Women role as best director shortlist dominated by men
Baftas 2020: The full list of nominations
Saoirse Ronan earns nod for Little Women as Joker leads with 11 nominations
Baftas 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress award for Little Women
Joker leads with 11 nods, while The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood earn 10
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – For fans, there are things to love in this film
It has a good baddie, spectacular battles and the outstanding Adam Driver
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker review. It’s unworthy of the word ‘cinema’
This isn’t a proper film – just a nondescript, boring component in the Star Wars machine
Which Skywalker? And nine other questions Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker must answer
Like: Who are Rey’s parents? Who are Finn’s? Is it okay to include a digitised Carrie Fisher?
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