Films about middle-aged pregnancy, road bowls and power-lifting ... and a few tunes

Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders

Canadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendar

There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival

Extra Ordinary, Never Grow Old, Animals and Supervized on bill for 31st festival

Waterboys, Ash, Aslan, Joan As Police Woman and the guy out of Barenaked Ladies

Mutual goodwill between supporters in 1980s evaporated as peace process gathered pace

With the release of The Last Jedi imminent, a look back at how the ‘Star Wars’ juggernaut started in a ‘galaxy far, far away’

The Coronas sell out (in the good way) and Wolves in the Throne Room bring the metal

Sadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best work

Collaboration with Schlöndorff in running for Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival

The Irish writer has teamed up with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss and Volker Schlöndorff to make his first film, about ‘rewriting reality’

The ‘Pulp Fiction’ star speaks about her new album and her friend John Travolta

Actor played Estragon in the long-running Gate Theatre production of ‘Waiting for Godot’

Northern Ireland is only part of UK or Ireland where gay couples cannot marry

Hit comedy series set in Boyle is co-written by, and stars, Chris O’Dowd

He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’