Anya Taylor-Joy

Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan

Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy

Thu May 23 2024 - 11:02

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy has barely any lines. The plot is irrelevant. The mayhem is operatic

A good three-quarters of the screenplay might read ‘automotive hell breaks out’

Wed May 22 2024 - 05:00

Alexander Skarsgard: Filming The Northman in Ireland was ‘months in the mud’

The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers

Wed Apr 20 2022 - 06:00

‘I am grateful for the experience. It was like I got a PhD in filmmaking’

Director Robert Eggers on making his bloody Viking epic The Northman in time of Covid

Sat Apr 16 2022 - 00:00

The Northman: Gruesome Viking epic bustles with intelligence and invention

No dull moments in Robert Eggers’ third film, though the extreme violence will not be for everyone

Mon Apr 11 2022 - 18:00

Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory

TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger

Sun Feb 27 2022 - 23:55

Netflix to face $5m lawsuit from first female chess grandmaster over Queen’s Gambit

Streaming service fails in bid to have Nona Gaprindashvili’s defamation suit dismissed

Fri Jan 28 2022 - 21:43

Last Night in Soho: New horror ends in uncertain, muddy territory

Review: Edgar Wright’s time-travel diversion explores the seedier side of the 1960s

Fri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00

Emmy Awards 2021: Netflix finally takes throne as The Crown wins best drama

The Queen’s Gambit won best limited series, another first for the streaming platform

Mon Sept 20 2021 - 08:29

‘You quickly learn that you’ve got to toughen up. You’ll have to stand up to some pressure’

Ireland’s only chess grandmaster, Alexander Baburin, on what the game teaches its players

Fri Sept 17 2021 - 06:00

Venice Film Festival: Who will triumph as all eyes turn to the Golden Lion?

Reviews: Paul Mescal and Kristen Stewart among stars featuring in this year’s festival

Tue Sept 07 2021 - 11:40

Irish chess champ follows in father's footsteps to win title

Popularity of chess growing in Ireland thanks to Netflix series and lockdowns

Sun Aug 08 2021 - 19:34

Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations

Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix

Wed Jul 14 2021 - 09:42

Shakespeare wrote King Lear in lockdown. What did you achieve?

An Irishwoman’s Diary on auditing your lockdown goals

Mon May 17 2021 - 19:01

SAG Awards 2021 go to The Trial of the Chicago 7, Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis

On the Screen Actors Guild Awards’ TV side, The Crown and Schitt’s Creek win top honours

Mon Apr 05 2021 - 10:26

Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film

Chloé Zhao becomes only the second woman, after Barbra Streisand, to win best director

Mon Mar 01 2021 - 05:57

Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?

Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards

Sun Feb 28 2021 - 06:00

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

Sat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00

The Green Gambit: The Irish chess stars making waves internationally

Thanks to The Queen’s Gambit and talented Irish players, chess is growing in popularity here

Sat Dec 05 2020 - 06:00

Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in October

Highlights include Rebecca, Emily in Paris, The Trial of the Chicago 7, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

Thu Oct 01 2020 - 05:00

Emma. review: It’s cool but it’s no Clueless

Review: Anya Taylor-Joy suffers as too-cool direction get in the way of a pretty enough diversion

Thu Feb 13 2020 - 06:00

Mia Goth: ‘I always felt it’s plan A or I’m f**ked’

The actor on staying in character and why starring in Emma is a rite of passage

Wed Feb 12 2020 - 12:27

Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse

In 10 years no movie has attracted such a buzz at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes

Sat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00

Playmobil: The Movie – Shameless, terrible promo for German plastic dolls

Review: This effort to replicate the commercial sucess of The Lego Movie is a creative flop

Wed Aug 07 2019 - 05:00

Glass: M Night Shyamalan goes on the downward slide again

Review: If James McAvoy tried any harder in this film he’d burst a blood vessel

Fri Jan 18 2019 - 05:15

The Secret of Marrowbone: it’s familiar, but not always eerily familiar

Review: It’s a shame Sergio G Sánchez didn’t stretch himself more in his directorial debut

Fri Jul 13 2018 - 05:00

Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Sat May 26 2018 - 05:00

Thoroughbreds: a film so deliciously unpleasant, we highly recommended it

Two bored, haughty shrews plot a murder – it’s ‘Heathers’ meets ‘Double Indemnity’

Fri Apr 06 2018 - 05:00