Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?
Out of Character by Alison Steadman: A lively and undemanding memoir by an actor only a monster could fail to love
Though there is grist and insight here, for the most part this is a saunter through a largely happy life
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review - A perfectly decent doc lifted by throat-catching moments
Story of ‘hero’ actor who found new purpose as disability campaigner after catastrophic accident
Four new films to see this week
Bold trans drama/musical Emilia Pérez and Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door. Plus a lyrical Senegaelse documentary and an avant-garde depiction of an avant-garde painter
Halloween is American? Another chance to yell corrections into English earholes is always welcome
The ancient festival has become merely the end point for a month-long orgy of horror-related consumer bingeing. At least it keeps Christmas at bay
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
The Movie Quiz: Which of these horrors is not of the same literary universe?
Plus: For the season that’s in it, a Halloween quiz guaranteed to give you the heebie-jeebies
Dahomey director Mati Diop: ‘I felt I had the responsibility to make sure a new wave of African cinema exists’
The French-Senegalese film-maker won this year’s Golden Bear in Berlin for her breathtakingly imaginative new release
Dahomey review: Mati Diop’s fascinating hybrid documentary lays out its argument in sharp fashion
French-Senegalese film-maker chronicles return of 26 historically significant objects – out of many thousands – to Benin from French authorities
Emilia Pérez review: Bold, brassy, groundbreaking entertainment
Chutzpah is in plentiful supply in Jaques Audiard’s extraordinary telenovela-shaded narco-trans musical starring Zoë Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón
Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton take seats at Abbey in Dublin for Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi one-off
Stars take part in reading of Sam Shepard’s play Ages of the Moon for Irish national theatre’s Love at First Sight season
Who doesn’t savour another chance to demonise Generation Zed? (Don’t reach out to ‘correct’ my pronunciation)
‘Zee’ is an Americanism. So how come it seems to have been used in Ireland since Jack Lynch was taoiseach?
‘Trump called us human scum this morning’: Apprentice stars Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on being in the line of fire
The lead actors in a new film about Donald Trump’s early business days on why the former US president’s reaction to it is a kind of validation