Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original song
Two Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, landed spots in the shortlist for best live action short
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Nicole Kidman on sex, death and her risky new film, Babygirl
The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old
‘They are stupid people for stupid times’: Cate Blanchett on presidents, prime ministers and power
The Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7
All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia: ‘In India we have fables because women can’t always express their feelings’
The acclaimned film-maker on the dynamics of Mumbai, the significance of rice cookers and why doesn’t mind being overlooked in India’s Oscar race
Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering
This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation
‘I took one pill and my whole body was gone’: Kathy Bates on opioids, ageing and selfish co-stars
Actor plays lead in new version of 1980s legal drama Matlock, which sees lawyer avenging her daughter, who has died of opioid overdose
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
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?
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