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Donald Clarke: Enticing domestic releases include new works by Pat Collins, Dermot Malone and Danny McCafferty
One Life: Anthony Hopkins, indisputable great, gets one more chance to show us what he can do
The master of introverted distraction plays the real-life Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 endangered children from Czechoslovakia before the Nazi invasion
The Son: Hugh Jackman shines in devastating drama that probes depression, guilt, and duty
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James Gray: ‘I’m hostile to the idea of whose story can I tell? It’s my right to put it out there’
The New York auteur’s new film, his most personal to date, details that Trump’s father paid for his education
Cannes 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick to be shown at film festival
Up to 35,000 accredited to attend the festival this year, the biggest showing since 2019
Oscars 2022: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock overshadows CODA’s best picture award
Kenneth Branagh takes best original screenplay for the autobiographical Belfast
2021: The year in highlights
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Srebrenica massacre drama shock winner in European Film Awards
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Dutch journalist clings to life after being shot at close range
Assailant fires five rounds from close range in attack family describe as ‘worst nightmare’
Stephen Scullion: ‘I’ve been like a wrecking ball since I was 18 years of age’
Irish marathon runner on his battles with binge drinking that led him to give up alcohol
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
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Nothing like a bizarre Oscars to trigger desire for magic of cinema
Single remark from Frances McDormand is enough reminder of what we’ve missed
Oscars 2021: Anthony Hopkins skips ceremony despite becoming the oldest actor to win
The Father actor, who is 83, later pays tribute to fellow nominee Chadwick Boseman
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
Golden Globes 2021: A stunning year for women filmmakers. And, again, for Netflix
Donald Clarke on the female-led best-director nominees and the streaming giant’s 42 nods
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Michael Flatley’s house clear-out: from Hannibal Lecter mask for €85,000 to ‘gorgeous cushions’ for €190
The dancer’s taste is eclectic if nothing else, judging by the sale of items from his Co Cork estate
Anthony Hopkins: ‘I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be rich’
The actor on his Welsh childhood, keeping things simple and his approach to performing
Michael Flatley's Hannibal Lecter mask among sale of Castlehyde contents
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When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile
Late psychiatrist felt a deep sense of foreboding when interviewing sexual predator
Oscars 2021 could be the best awards season ever
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Diana Rigg: the husky voiced, leather-clad star who made England hip
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‘He’s so strapping and virile’: Patrick Stewart at 80, by Shatner, McKellen, Grammer and more
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Ben Affleck: ‘It took me a long time to admit I am an alcoholic’
The Oscar-winning writer and Hollywood actor tried to drink away the pain. Now he’s trying honesty
Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive
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