The Irish Times

Travel Desk: Strictly Jane Austen and bus rides to Nepal

All the latest deals and travel new from Fionn Davenport, including a hotel guide to Prague, Watergate hotel reinvented and a 60-secod guide to Orlando, Florida.

Sat Dec 20 2014 - 00:00

Redemption song: what’s eating Tommy Lee Jones?

The actor and director has been in fiery form of late. His latest film, a feminist take on the high plains yarn, stars Hilary Swank as a brave frontierswoman. But don’t dare call it a western

Wed Nov 26 2014 - 06:00

The Homesman review: All kinds of grit to be savoured here

Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank spark off each other like flinty knives in this elegantly elegiac and magnificently mean western

Fri Nov 21 2014 - 06:00

Paul Haggis: “I do feel quite guilty sometimes . . . This is who we are. We’re vampires”

From Scooby Doo to his Oscar-winner Crash, Paul Haggis is a man supremely in charge of his craft

Fri Nov 14 2014 - 02:42

Cork Film Festival to open with Australian film Charlie’s Country

Irish romantic comedy ‘Standby’ also to feature in extensive festival programme

Tue Oct 07 2014 - 20:44

Jewels to be found amid quiet weekend at Cannes weekend summary

Two films seem to be battling for the Palme d’Or: Mr Turner and Winter Sleep

Mon May 19 2014 - 01:00

Cannes 2014: the serious, the silly and the scandalous

The main programme this year is dominated by serious, off-centre film-makers including Loach, Leigh and the Dardennes, while a welcome sprinkling of controversy accompanies a film about the late Princess Grace

Wed May 14 2014 - 01:00

The Family

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00

Hailee regarded

Only 16, Hailee Steinfeld’s CV already boasts an Oscar nod and roles alongside the likes of Bridges, Ford Streep and Kingsley. How did she find herself in such illustrious company? “I never really found something that I loved as much as I love acting,” she tells Tara Brady

Fri Oct 25 2013 - 00:00