The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse order
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Demi Moore
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the year
We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The Substance: Demi Moore’s spectacularly disgusting body horror is a two-finger rebuke to the beauty industry
This hugely entertaining spasm favours full-frontal attack on the targets of its incensed satire
‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet
Actor (61) plays a has-been celebrity who is tempted by a youth serum in hyperreal film The Substance
Are we pampering our pets too much?
Long cuddles, spa ‘treats’ and lavish pet-sthetics – pet privileging might seem like a nice idea for humankind’s best friends, but are we just breeding unhappy dogs?
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning today
June 30-July 5: From serious and comical takes on the UK election to a documentary that catches up with the Brat Pack
Demi Moore has just made one of the great film comebacks. How did that happen?
Donald Clarke: Cannes film festival has gone wild for the biggest star of 1995. Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?
Feud: Capote vs The Swans review - Glittering cast with Tom Hollander and Naomi Watts cannot save this tragedy
Television: Ryan Murphy’s portrayal of Truman Capote with swoon-worthy ensemble is not the capricious romp he may have originally had in mind
Please Baby Please: The most confounding film of the year benefits from a never-better Andrea Riseborough
Amanda Kramer’s leather-clad, neon-bathed shakedown of gender, greasers and groaning is unclassifiable
Bruce Willis: A chilling anecdote lays bare the illness that ended his long and successful career
The actor’s increasingly patchy career has been cut short by the disorder aphasia
What is aphasia, the condition that prompted Bruce Willis to retire?
Aphasia can be devastating for patients, disrupting their everyday communication
Jada Pinkett Smith calls for ‘healing’ in first comment since Oscars slap
‘This is a season for healing. And I’m here for it,’ actor and wife of Will Smith says
Will Smith breaks character – after 40 years playing the energetic, merry prankster
Oscars 2022 should have been the culmination of Smith’s extraordinary career. But he snapped
Rihanna’s baby announcement redefines the ‘celebrity pregnancy photo shoot’
The Rihanna snap is the latest in a tradition going back to Demi Moore in 1991
Ken Early: Maybe Ireland should be honoured to act as cannon fodder for Ronaldo
A whole new chapter in his career could start with breaking international scoring record
Elizabeth Perkins: ‘In 1980s Hollywood, there were no safety nets, no HR’
The Brat Pack actor on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene – ‘It would not be acceptable today’
Daft, exhilarating, iconic - Point Break still riding the wave of time at 30
Patrick Swayze’s defining feature never enters the ‘great sports film’ conversation
Girls Aloud bandmates rally around Sarah Harding after cancer diagnosis
‘I am fighting as hard as I possibly can’: The singer tells fans of her weekly treatments
Joel Schumacher: the director who made Colin Farrell a star and helped invent the 1980s
The late film-maker defined an age, made movies whole generations hugged to their bosoms
Ben Affleck: ‘It took me a long time to admit I am an alcoholic’
The Oscar-winning writer and Hollywood actor tried to drink away the pain. Now he’s trying honesty
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week?
We love Brendan Gleeson as Trump, and big-star memoirs; Insta-interiors and commuting are leaving us cold
Demi Moore says she was raped at 15 after her mother allegedly ‘sold her’ for $500
The actor reveals during TV interview that her mother put her ‘in harm’s way’
Demi Moore: ‘My life unravelled. I had no career. No relationship’
After years of scrutiny of her career, relationships and body, the movie star lets her guard down
Wild Geese: ‘Once you have it all figured out, life in LA is great’
Film director couldn’t resist the lure of Hollywood when chance presented itself
Pleasure by Le Galaxie review: fresh sound makes this a game-changer
The singing of MayKay has given the Dublin electronic pop band a dramatic shot in the arm
King of the castle: Mark Nolan making Dromoland ‘best it can be’
Five-star Clare estate is spending €20m on a tune-up as US customers flock in
Is menopause finally mainstream?
‘It’s probably never going to be exactly ‘hip’ but it is coming out of the shadows because this generation are willing to talk about stuff’
Rough Night review: dead on arrival
This ladies night out comedy plays like a feminised version of the appalling Very Bad Things
Dublin Dance Festival: Striptease, Extraterrestrial Events, Deep Dish and Displacement
In a world of where trust in truthful speech is decaying, how much truth resides in the body?
Seattle: Wide awake on the coffee and grunge trail
Catherine Conroy dines well, but there’s no tossed salad and scrambled eggs on offer
2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’
Something for everyone in first Assembly leaders’ debate
Participants asked which actor they would wish to portray them
Bob Geldof weds long-term partner Jeanne Marine
Bono, Richard Branson, Demi Moore and Marianne Faithful among guests at wedding in France
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