Paul Mescal rides A Streetcar Named Desire to New York stage
Gladiator II actor reprises role of Stanley Kowalski, following in footsteps of Marlon Brando
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Academy Awards
Show Clint Eastwood some respect. His new film Juror #2 is no dud
The way Warner Bros has handled the veteran star’s 40th film as director is in keeping with Hollywood studios’ new approach to the movie economy
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
The Movie Quiz: What three Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Plus: What was the first film Clint Eastwood directed in which he did not act?
Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’
The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar
Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’
If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so
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
Maggie Smith obituary: Exceptional actor whose comic genius was often refracted through tales of sadness
Her comedy was fuelled by anxiety, and her instinct for the correct gesture was infallible
The Shawshank Redemption at 30: is it really the greatest film ever made?
No, but there are a few explanations for why a lot of people on IMDb think it is
How Netflix won the streaming wars
The company has staged a remarkable recovery since the ‘great correction’ of 2022 and now has the edge over Hollywood rivals
James Earl Jones: It was as if no screen was wide enough to contain him or his voice
The acclaimed stage and screen actor, voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, has died
Michael Keaton: ‘I could have made tons more movies, much more money. But I wanted to be a father’
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star with a Cheshire cat smile talks Tim Burton, family and being a ‘Montana Man’
Barry Keoghan to star alongside Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders film
Dublin actor will take on an undisclosed role in Steven Knight’s Birmingham-based period drama
Colman Domingo: ‘I was noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, and I thought, what?’
Actor looks to be on track for another Oscar nomination for imminent prison drama Sing Sing
Recycled plastic lids to stained-glass ‘wearable art’: Claire Garvey reimagines waste for new collection
Designer’s eccentric creations have attracted customers ranging from music legends and actors, to those wanting a dress that looked like a tree
Barbie tops the charts with Irish cinema audiences
Margot Robbie hit takes in 54% more at the box office that multi-Oscar winning rival, Oppenheimer
Lily Gladstone: ‘We are done with being told our stories won’t resonate. That’s been proven wrong so often’
The Native American Oscar nominee broke new ground in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her new film, Fancy Dance, picks up the same issues 100 years later
‘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
Kerry Condon: ‘Sometimes people look at me but they can’t place me. And that’s what I want to be – an actor’
The intensely private star likes to stay out of the limelight, despite being the most successful Irish actress at the global box office
‘When my grandad arrived he was illiterate, and now his grandson is earning this country an Oscar nomination’
The Teachers’ Lounge director Ilker Çatak on his tense, multilayered film about attempts to identify a thief in a multicultural German school
Percival Everett: ‘What’s amazing to me is this denial that this history belongs to all of us’
The veteran novelist, whose book Erasure became this year’s Oscar-winning American Fiction, on why he decided to retell Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Emer McLysaght: Dryrobes and Francis Brennan pyjamas – here’s Cillian Murphy’s actual bedtime routine
The New Yorker thinks it knows the Cork actor but, having met him twice – though we didn’t speak – I am best placed to speculate on his sleep preparations
Louis Gossett jnr, first black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies aged 87
Death of US actor, known for roles on Broadway, as well TV and film including An Officer and a Gentleman, confirmed by nephew
The Movie Quiz: Who has yet to play the title character in a Marvel Cinematic Universe feature?
Plus: Who has never held the record as the oldest ever winner of best actor Oscar?
Irish cinema’s green wave: There are many stories about Ireland better than Irish Wish that need to be told
Aoife Barry: How do we make sure that the stories Ireland tells about itself on screen are not reductive?
Jonathan Glazer’s Gaza remarks have been twisted by both sides. It requires effort to misunderstand the Oscar-winner
Donald Clarke: The film-maker’s relatively mild snatch of humanist polemic has resulted in a furore that shows no signs of going away
Robot Dreams: How Pablo Berger created the most soulful tin man since The Wizard of Oz
Director’s animated depiction of friendship between a robot and dog in 1980s New York is far more affecting than its expensive Oscar rivals
Post box painted gold in honour of Oscar winner Cillian Murphy who ‘delivered for Cork’
Post box in Dublin also given gold treatment by An Post to mark success of Element pictures
‘Wouldn’t it also be wonderful in a few years to have a predominantly Irish women Oscar green wave?’
Silent Grace director Maeve Murphy is glad to celebrate the Irish women making and starring in movies
Humble, cool Cillian Murphy has more than a touch of Jimmy Barry Murphy about him
With his graceful demeanour amid incessant public attention and his deft handling of praise, the Oscar winner has the unmistakable air of Jimmy Barry Murphy, Cork’s original matinee idol
Oscars 2025: Donald Clarke predicts these 10 films will get best-picture nominations
He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?
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