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Joker: Folie à Deux - Why has it been such a catastrophic box-office failure?

The film’s nosedive will have repercussions for the still-floundering DC and beyond

Thu Oct 17 2024 - 05:44

Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth it

Even if this proposition didn’t work out, it would be the right sort of failure

Wed Oct 02 2024 - 09:00

First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama

Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta

Wed Sept 04 2024 - 18:00

Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festival

Among the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film

Tue Aug 27 2024 - 05:00

Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up

Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition

Tue Jul 23 2024 - 18:38

Napoleon is riddled with historical howlers say academics; so what?

In the News podcast: Ridley Scott brushes off critics of his blockbuster biopic

Fri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00

Napoleon review: A hugely entertaining portrait that leaves history in the past

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby shine in Ridley Scott’s breathless rollick

Wed Nov 22 2023 - 05:00

Napoleon director Ridley Scott: ‘I do 120 hours a week. I think I’m working class, right?’

At 85, the film-maker has been making almost a movie a year for two decades – and there’s still something of an old-school showman about him

Tue Nov 21 2023 - 05:00

The 10 best films of 2023 so far – in reverse order

Box office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great movies

Mon Jul 03 2023 - 05:15

Beau Is Afraid: Joaquin Phoenix bosses this vast, hilarious film. But you may well hate it

Ari Aster adeptly juggles the sort of laughs you get from Samuel Beckett with the sort you encounter in Mel Brooks

Wed May 17 2023 - 05:00

‘You embrace the idea of people being alienated’: Ari Aster on his divisive comedy Beau Is Afraid

The director of Midsommar and Hereditary has taken a left turn with his new film starring Joaquin Phoenix

Sat May 13 2023 - 05:00

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

Mandy Patinkin: ‘Ukraine needs people to pay attention. I’m finished being afraid’

The Homeland star talks about writing music, praying with his dog and acting at 69

Tue Mar 22 2022 - 06:00

Spoiler alert: The Batman contains an Irish-related secret

A rumour did surface in November, but was shut down quickly. Now there’s little doubt

Fri Mar 11 2022 - 15:33

Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away

Sat Oct 16 2021 - 05:00

Gunda: The uncomfortable truth about how a sausage is made

Viktor Kossakovsky’s film raises profound questions about our dominion over animals

Fri Jun 04 2021 - 05:00

Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf

It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale

Mon Apr 26 2021 - 16:10

Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list

But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?

Thu Nov 26 2020 - 14:30

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River

River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix’s brother, died aged 23 of a drug overdose in 1993

Mon Sept 28 2020 - 14:31

Connie Nielsen on Sea Fever: ‘Right now the film has taken on a whole new depth’

The actor on her salty turn in Neasa Hardiman’s contagion-themed debut feature

Sat Apr 18 2020 - 05:00

Comedy and mental health: ‘It’s like low calorie therapy’

Some stand-ups believe finding humour in dark places can be good for well being

Thu Apr 02 2020 - 06:01

Oscars 2020: Parasite triggers great upset as cult Korean film wins best picture

Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards

Mon Feb 10 2020 - 05:53

Brad Pitt and the god-bod prob: Stop drooling and give him another Oscar

The star’s looks make us dismiss his talent. After his Bafta, he deserves the Academy Award

Tue Feb 04 2020 - 06:00

Baftas 2020: full list of winners

A big night for Sam Mendes and 1917 as Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix win best acting awards

Sun Feb 02 2020 - 22:45

Bafta awards: Two Irish stars lose out to Renée Zellweger for best actress

Saoirse Ronan in running for Little Women, while Jessie Buckley competed for Wild Rose

Sun Feb 02 2020 - 22:00

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

Mon Jan 20 2020 - 09:02

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10

Oscars 2020: Joker is a well made film but does it deserve 11 Academy Award nominations?

How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?

Tue Jan 14 2020 - 00:01

Adam Driver: ‘Acting is not glamorous in its making’

The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen

Mon Jan 13 2020 - 16:15

Oscars 2020 nominations: the complete list

Saoirse Ronan gets nominated for Little Women role as best director shortlist dominated by men

Mon Jan 13 2020 - 13:55

Baftas 2020: The full list of nominations

Saoirse Ronan earns nod for Little Women as Joker leads with 11 nominations

Tue Jan 07 2020 - 09:00

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

Tue Jan 07 2020 - 08:29

Golden Globes 2020: complete list of winners

All the winners of the 77th annual Golden Globes for film and TV

Mon Jan 06 2020 - 08:40