A Streetcar Named Desire review: Hot and bothered in New Orleans
Theatre: Cathal Cleary’s lucid production features a pleasingly young cast, including an impressively fluid Eavan Gaffney as Blanche DuBois
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Sass, sex and recreational slaying: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on Drive-Away Dolls
The film director and his wife have long worked together. Now they’ve teamed up to direct a wacky, anarchic, proudly lewd lesbian road movie
Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
Oscars 2022: Can Jessie Buckley win an award before Saoirse Ronan?
Kerry woman Jessie Buckley has been nominated for best supporting actress
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish Play
Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama
Ruth Negga: ‘I found London quite limiting to be honest’
The actor on her journey from Limerick to LA and her performance in Rebecca Hall’s Passing
The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend
Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial
‘Good American’ dishes satisfy a hole I have in my soul for home
‘Many would say the best American fare comes from the traditions of our melting pot of immigrant cultures’
The 10 best movies of 2021 so far – in order
Our film correspondent on Nomadland, A Quiet Place Part II and a few overlooked gems
‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
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
Frances McDormand: ‘I’m not going to be your movie star’
The Nomadland actor likes to keep out of the public eye. That’s tricky for a triple Oscar winner
Oscars 2021 in pictures: The fashion, the Hollywood A-listers – and Kilkenny Castle
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony went international amid a year for film like no other
Nomadland review: Chloé Zhao’s triple Oscar winner is a film at war with itself
Frances McDormand plays a widow who takes to the road after losing her job
Maureen Dowd: Hollywood’s bleak conveyor belt obscures the dream factory
This year’s Oscar contenders are less about escapism and more about our sad reality
Donald Clarke: Digging for dirt in Nomadland’s soil
Mud-slinging at Chloé Zhao over work scenes set in Amazon warehouse unlikely to stick
Ian McKellen as Hamlet: Is ageism the last great barrier in the arts industry?
Will the critics let them be sexagenarian murderers in peace? I wouldn’t count on it
Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film
Chloé Zhao becomes only the second woman, after Barbra Streisand, to win best director
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
That Guy: The actor everyone recognises but no one can name
John Carroll Lynch on life as an almost famous face, his Irish roots and his new Disney+ series
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
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Oscars 2021 could be the best awards season ever
With big releases postponed, this awards season looks more welcoming of smaller films
Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet love story Ammonite premieres at virtual Toronto Film Festival
A version of the Toronto International Film Festival glides into action on September 10th
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Saoirse Ronan agrees sale of Greystones home for more than €1.6m
Another well-known Irish actor and leading sportsperson both interested in star’s house
Saoirse Ronan puts her €1.5m Greystones home on the market
The Golden Globe-winning actor recently bought a home in Notting Hill, in London
Thousands of angry Christians petition Netflix to cancel show. There was just one big problem...
US Christian group condemns Good Omens show as ‘making satanism appear normal’ – but petition wrong company
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to star in Joel Coen’s Macbeth
Oscar winners to take lead roles in Coen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy based on his own script
A year on from ‘inclusion rider’, Hollywood accepts 4% challenge
Stars and some studios are backing a push to see more women and minorities hired
Neil Gaiman on honouring Terry Pratchett’s last request: ‘You have to do this’
The writer explains how his four years of intense devotion to ‘Good Omens’ will never happen again
Only maniacs and journalists stay up to watch the Oscars
Donald Clarke: The academy has been tying itself in knots trying to reverse a decline in ratings
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