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Brendan Canty on his film Christy: ‘The Brits loved that it was from Cork. They thought there was an exotic flavour to that’
The director, who made a name for himself with the video for Hozier’s mega-hit Take Me to Church in 2013, on joining forces with the BBC for his feature film debut
Terence Stamp, a kid from London’s East End, appeared in all the right films for all the right directors
Stamp, who has died aged 87, and Julie Christie were the 1960s signature couple: suave, casual, staggeringly good-looking
In the case of Emma Raducanu and the crying child, it’s clear who’s to blame
The tennis star’s complaints to the umpire about this disruptive audience highlight an age-old problem
Four new films to see this week: Materialists, Together, Night Always Comes and Oslo Stories: Love
Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Kirby star in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 15th, 2025
Mel Gibson: ‘I’ve still got the Irish passport... I think I understand the quirky nature of the Irish mind’
Veteran filmmaker is in Trim, Co Meath, for the 30th anniversary of Braveheart, which he directed and starred in
The Movie Quiz: Which Saturday Night Fever song is a recommended guide to the rhythm for manual CPR?
Plus: Who, in 1999, soundtracked the apparent end of the world?
The Weir review: Brendan Gleeson and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor bring timeless play to Dublin
Conor McPherson directs his own drama, now almost 30 years old, with a cast that also includes Seán McGinley, Kate Phillips and Owen McDonnell
Together review: Alison Brie and Dave Franco star in stomach-churning masterclass in eugh
This twisty, shameless entertainment starring the real-life marrieds has tremendous fun playing with how the sexes are perceived
Materialists review: This non-romcom has the welcome oddness of a future classic
Don’t mind the baffled American critics: Celine Song’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated Past Lives is gorgeous and intelligent
Film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud: From laid-off librarian to Golden Bear-winning director of the Oslo Stories trilogy
The Norwegian director on writing a convincing teenage girl, how the camera embellishes beauty, and achieving international success at the age of 60
Four new films to see this week: Weapons, Freakier Friday, The Kingdom and Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works
A quartet of movies released in the week of August 8th, 2025
Are Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson really an item? What’s not to celebrate?
The apparently happy couple look like the sort of neighbours you’d trust to feed your cat while you’re in Marbella
The Movie Quiz: What was that feckin’ Mrs Brown’s Boys film called?
Plus: The chap behind which series is about to embark on Bond 26?
Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works review – Quietly persuasive, impressively original of the late Mayo musician
Keith Walsh has fashioned a touching study of a fascinating, if allusive, personality who died suddenly aged 36
Weapons review: The best Stephen King adaptation to not be adapted from a Stephen King story
Julia Garner and Josh Brolin star in Zach Cregger’s film about a weird disturbance in a small town
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