Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap scoops three main prizes
Belfast hip-hop posse’s rambunctious farce is first film in event’s history to take audience award, best Irish-language feature and best Irish film
Mark O’Rowe: ‘The plays were violent and sexual. But I can’t go back there. Everything has to be new to me’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Tallaght playwright on new play Reunion, his changing preoccupations, and the stress of TV work
There’s a reason why we’ve become blasé about Paul Mescal’s lead role in Gladiator II
As the 25th year of the century approaches, never before has there been a period of comparable international visibility of Irish culture
Four new films to see this week
Eerie serial killer thriller Longlegs, plus Auschwitz documentary The Commandant’s Shadow, spooky Korean drama Sleep, and low star wattage in romcom Fly Me to the Moon
Oz Perkins: ‘It’s still not safe to be gay and a movie star’
Film director talks about his Psycho star father’s concealed homosexuality, his mother’s 9/11 death, glam rock, Nicolas Cage and his new horror film Longlegs
Sleep review: A Korean Rosemary’s Baby? Not quite but this is a small masterpiece of tone
Is there something supernatural behind ominous unidentified noises in an apartment building?
The Movie Quiz: What is the relationship between Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Cage?
Plus: Who doesn’t make it to the end of Jaws?
Film classification moves with the times as we’re cool with sex, careful with mental health
It is hard to deny that Ireland’s unhappy addiction to pinch-mouthed censorship is largely a thing of the past
Shelley Duvall: A beloved avatar for creative individuality who defined 1970s New Hollywood
Actor, dead at 75, endured an entertainment media that still enjoyed making blood sport of supposedly unconventional women
Longlegs review: Nicolas Cage’s bloated serial killer has fun in horror hokum elevated to a fine art
Nicolas Cage is the eponymous killer in this 1990s-set chiller with echoes of Silence of the Lambs
Gladiator II trailer: Paul Mescal muscles his way in with biff, bang and ouch
Irish actor Paul Mescal is all muscle amid the sieges, riots and killer rhinos as he channels Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s epic sequel
Four new films to see this week
Gripping Irish drama The Sparrow, plus 1980s retread Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, 1980s-set slasher MaXXXine, and strange Japanese anime Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi
Axel F is a ‘legacy sequel’, apparently. Is this mangling of language to be our legacy?
Movie insiders use the term neutrally, but surely few outside the business can say the words with a straight face?
The Movie Quiz: What is Donald Trump’s big line in Home Alone 2?
Plus: Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins was only nominated for which two Oscars?
Blue Lock The Movie: Episode Nagi review – Football reimagined as a heightened form of futuristic warfare
Strange deconstruction of beautiful game believes ego is the defining characteristic of a special striker. You don’t get that in Escape to Victory