Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!
Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025
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Highest 2 Lowest review: Spike Lee’s film about an old-school music mogul is never boring but lacks cohesion
Getting on board with the later stages of this film requires an almighty leap of faith
Cannes: 15 of the most unforgettable looks, from Pedro Pascal to Rihanna
Actors, musicians and models mostly adhered to the French film festival’s new ‘no nudity’ rule on the red carpet
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and Pillion
The Guide: The Ferryman, Jimmy Carr and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
January 25th–31st: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’
The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’
The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herself
Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play’
The Tina Turner actor on fairness in pay, film-making and why acting is still her first love
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows to watch in May
Ewan McGregor as Halston and the return of Special are among the month’s highlights
He Got Game: ‘I pray that you understand why I pushed you so hard’
You need dark forces behind you to make it as a basketball star – in this case an obsessive dad
Judas and the Black Messiah: Daniel Kaluuya is transcendent in this thrilling picture
The story of the killing of a young Black Panther is flawed but fiercely muscular
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
Christopher Plummer never hid his dislike of The Sound of Music
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
American Utopia: David Byrne makes a lot of sense – maybe too much sense
Review: If you like Talking Heads, watch this. If you don’t, don’t
Four new films to see this weekend
Wonder Woman, Let Him Go on release, Ma Rainey, American Utopia on demand
Normal People’s Paul Mescal named as actor to watch by Variety
The Emmy-nominated Kildare actor appears in 10 to watch list with Borat’s Maria Bakalova
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet love story Ammonite premieres at virtual Toronto Film Festival
A version of the Toronto International Film Festival glides into action on September 10th
Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, was so much more than just a gifted actor
The late actor was a star for the ages who helped change Hollywood's view on race
Ruth Negga: ‘People who say they don’t consider skin colour... are you f**king blind?’
Black Irish Lives: The actor on growing up in Ireland, the film industry, and Black Lives Matter
Spike Lee: ‘Race relations today are a direct response to having a black president’
Da 5 Bloods director on George Floyd, Covid-19 and the worst thing about actors
Four new films to stream this weekend
Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in June
Including Queer Eye, Dating Around, The Politician, Athlete A, and a Eurovision spoof
What kinds of films will we watch in the post Covid-19 era?
Stories will need to establish whether they are set before, during or after the pandemic
Abel Ferrara: ‘You can’t imagine the life I’ve led’
The Bronx filmmaker talks spirituality, creative bonds and his Italian-Irish roots
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
Adam Driver: ‘Acting is not glamorous in its making’
The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Do the Right Thing: Come for the politics, stay for the energy
Review: Previous ranting about the film nudging black audiences towards violence now sounds like so much gibberish
Oldboy: An established classic emerges in a new print
Review: Famous, often-copied action sequence remains as striking as ever
Netflix: the 10 best new films and shows to watch in May
Renee Zellweger stars in What/If; Knock Down the House looks at the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‘Mr Lacroix sent me to see an astrologist who said I should move to America. So I did’
From photography to dress design, here’s some of the Irish making it in New York’s fast-paced fashion industry
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