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Kinds of Kindness review: A pounding headache might be the only reward for your patience

Yorgos Lanthimos’s new triptych film features the talented Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and others, but it dissolves into a mess of half-decent ideas

Wed Jun 26 2024 - 05:00

‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos Lanthimos

If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness

Sat Jun 22 2024 - 05:30

Cannes 2024: Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at festival

Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or

Thu Apr 11 2024 - 13:43

Patrick Freyne’s favourite TV shows of 2024: An Irish national treasure, bickering hitfolk and the best actor of her generation

Andrew Scott in Ripley and Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in Mr & Mrs Smith are among the highlights thus far

Thu Apr 04 2024 - 05:00

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a ‘favourite’ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards

Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things – a remarkable feat for an Irish production

Mon Mar 11 2024 - 15:02

Oscars 2024: ‘Very proud Irishman’ Cillian Murphy wins best actor, one of seven awards for Oppenheimer

Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards

Mon Mar 11 2024 - 07:53

Oscars 2024: the complete list of winners

Here are all the winners of the 96th Academy Awards - and all the nominees

Mon Mar 11 2024 - 05:04

If we want to grow the next generation of Cillian Murphys, we need to treat film like the tech industry

Politicians will stampede to be photographed with the actor if he wins the Oscar. But where are they when the industry is looking for support?

Sat Mar 09 2024 - 07:00

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy looks unbeatable. Who else should win and who will win?

It’s shaping up to be Oppenheimer’s year at the Academy Awards. What about Barbie? And could Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things also do well?

Fri Mar 08 2024 - 05:15

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2024: full list of winners and nominees

Oppenheimer cemented its status as the frontrunner ahead of the Oscars as Lily Gladstone picks up acting award for Killers of the Flower Moon,

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 09:02

Cillian Murphy wins best actor at SAG awards as he now looks near-unstoppable favourite for Oscar

Corkman wins at 30th Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles for lead role in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Oppenheimer

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 08:12

Oscars 2024: How Dublin’s Element Pictures has set new records for Irish film

Analysis: Relationships with director Yorgos Lanthimos and Disney-owned backer Searchlight Pictures have been key to Irish production company’s success

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 18:17

Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy’s best actor nomination leads a strong showing for Irish film

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things scores a huge 11 nominations, a record for an Irish-produced film

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 16:55

Oscars 2024: best actor frontrunner Cillian Murphy secures first nomination

Poor Things puts in a strong showing with 11 nods as Oppenheimer leads race with 13, but there’s no luck for other Irish acting talent

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 15:55

Oscars nominations 2024: the complete list

From 11 nominations for Irish-produced Poor Things to 13 for all-conquering Oppenheimer, here are all the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 15:18

Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift

Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift

Sun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00

Screen Actors Guild Awards: Cillian Murphy nominated as best male lead actor

Mixed news for Irish talent at the guild awards that have fast become one of the more significant pointers to Oscar success

Wed Jan 10 2024 - 17:22

Poor Things review: Emma Stone is properly unsettling in this provocative feminist fable drenched in Victorian horror

This deranged comedy with shades of Pygmalion is a feast of cinematic excess loaded with intellectual traction and psychological grit

Wed Jan 10 2024 - 05:00

‘Emma Stone came up with a lot of the sex stuff that we did’: Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos

The master of cerebral weird has made a string of angular comedies with Element Pictures. Their latest, Golden Lion-winning collaboration is their wildest ride yet

Sat Jan 06 2024 - 05:15

Sex is back in the movies, and the Irish have a lot to do with it

Donald Clarke: Hollywood’s treating us like infants. And too many of us like it that way

Sun Oct 29 2023 - 05:15

Venice film festival: Irish-produced Poor Things wins top Golden Lion award

Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden Lion

Sat Sept 09 2023 - 20:54

Poor Things first-look review: Emma Stone has never been better, and a moustache-twirling Mark Ruffalo has a ball

Venice International Film Festival 2023: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film won’t be in Irish cinemas until January. It’ll be well worth the wait

Fri Sept 01 2023 - 17:45

Venice film festival 2023: Liam Neeson and Emma Stone movies lead Irish interest as line-up unveiled

A sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announced

Tue Jul 25 2023 - 16:46

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

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 13:30

The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer

Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+

Sun Jun 27 2021 - 05:00

Epic Games v Apple, M&S Brexit woes and the dawn of the cross-Border cinema trade

Planet Business: Working to find sustainable models

Sat May 29 2021 - 05:15

Forever contemporary Cruella leaves Mary Poppins in ‘olden times’

Both films were originally made about 50 years after the period they recreate – and raise a curious question about the past in culture

Sat May 29 2021 - 05:00

Cruella: Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name

Unconvincing origin story reimagines puppy-killer as tween-friendly feminist

Fri May 28 2021 - 05:00

Ruth Negga: ‘I didn’t experience explicit racism growing up. Maybe some exoticism’

The Limerick actor is determined to play her part in making sure diverse voices are represented

Sat Mar 13 2021 - 05:00

Hong Kong – ‘Not the kind of place you would come on your own’

Wild Geese: Dublin DJ Barry O’Brien quickly found his groove in his new home

Fri Jan 15 2021 - 05:50

‘I thought my dreams were so out of reach, I contemplated coming home’

Wild Geese: Kate Synnott is an Irish make-up artist working with A-list celebrities in the US

Fri Dec 18 2020 - 04:50

The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Sun Dec 08 2019 - 06:00

Married to Gene Kelly: 'He didn't seem that old to me'

Film star's widow on curating her husband's archive, and the 47-year age gap

Sun Jul 21 2019 - 06:00

Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary

Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer

Sat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00