Oscars 2025: Kneecap’s failure to get a nomination is a genuine upset
Biopic of the West Belfast rap trio lost out on Oscar nomination for best international picture and best original song
Oscars 2025 nominations today: What are the chances for Kneecap, Saoirse Ronan and Cillian Murphy?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod
Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples review: Trudie Styler’s documentary offers brutal truths and blissful sunlit escape
The core interview is with the stoical writer Roberto Saviano, who regrets publishing his 2006 novel, Gomorrah
The Brutalist review: Adrien Brody’s Jewish refugee mud-wrestles American capitalism in this astonishing film
Brady Corbet’s cold-eyed third film allows the possibilities of the United States while admitting the Faustian costs
John Sayles: ‘For the last 25 years it’s been hard for me to get screenwriting work, much less actually get a movie made’
The one-time darling of independent cinema is keeping busy, most recently with Save the Man, a novel about exploitation of Native Americans
The Traitors makes no sense. Its logic is flimsy, its flaws obvious. So why do I happily yell through three episodes a week?
Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviously
Four new films to see this week
Much trumpeted Bob Dylan biopic is pleasant but bland hagiography. Plus surprisingly original monster mash The Wolf Man, moving speculative documentary Pepe, and slick but decidedly unerotic remake of ‘70s softcore sensation Emmanuelle
Cameron Diaz: ‘I left movies because I wanted to live my life differently. We started our family, and that was all I wanted to do’
The 1990s megastar is back on screen alongside Jamie Foxx in Netflix thriller Back in Action
The Movie Quiz: Pick the actor who was not in Saving Private Ryan?
Plus: How many Terminator films are there?
David Lynch: the surrealist who combined depravity with wholesome iconography of small-town USA
Death of film-maker David Lynch: With Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart it seemed, for a brief magic moment, as if Lynch’s version of the avant-garde could really sit at the centre of mainstream culture. It was not to be
A Complete Unknown review: As Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet works his wee nasal cavity to death
James Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fans
Wolf Man review: Shocker finds new ways of turning the stomach as it honours the great werewolf tradition
Leigh Whannell’s focus on the psychological over the physical may alienate some gorehounds, but it makes for an original take with subtexts that linger
‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language film
Baftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chance
Kneecap film and Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These lead Ifta nominations
Irish Film and Television Academy awards: Say Nothing and Bad Sisters among other nominees
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making