Oscars 2026: How Ireland lured Hollywood film-makers across the Atlantic
Ireland is ‘going gangbusters’ at turning itself into whatever environment a movie or TV show needs
Ethan Hawke
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Unless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy Award
Patrick Freyne: If I could marry a TV show, I’d choose this one about a bearded man
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‘It’s important for ice hockey players to be clean!’ I jot down during Heated Rivalry’s shower scene
There’s also a focus on special ice-hockey exercises. Our heroes engage in these nudely, like Spartans. I try to draw diagrams
Sydney Sweeney looked unstoppable. But she leaves 2025 a divisive figure
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Four new films to see this week: Blue Moon, Christy, Pillion and The Ice Tower
Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Marion Cotillard and Sydney Sweeney feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 28th, 2025
‘When I got the call I cried. It was wild’: Irish actor Amybeth McNulty on her role in Stranger Things
Donegal actor speaks her mind on self-definition, bereavement and joining the cast of Stranger Things
Blue Moon review: Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott make performances to remember
Both are upstaged by Richard Linklater’s obsessive attempts to shrink his leading man to a sub-five-foot stature
From Saipan to John Boorman: 10 events to catch at the 70th Cork International Film Festival
You can also catch Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, Richard Linklater’s acclaimed Blue Moon and talks with Ed Guiney of Element Pictures and producer David Puttnam
Jon Hamm: ‘I’ve never claimed to be a sober person’
Jon Hamm, best known for Mad Men, has taken his first lead TV role since saying goodbye to Don Draper a decade ago
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
Sean Penn and the gay roles debate: We are still negotiating a huge shift in identity politics
Acknowledging once-ignored sensitivities is progress but nuance is preferable to black-and-white binaries
Twenty new horror films to scare the living daylights out of you
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