Hugh Linehan

The new Trump origin film is not a flattering portrayal either of the former president or of Roy Cohn, the legal attack dog and Mob fixer who was his mentor

What a pleasure to observe the flare-up between the composer and last surviving Dubliner and the drone-folk maestros and bouncy balladeers

You’d be hard pressed to tell latest AI voices from the real thing. It’s bad news for actual human beings who fear being left on scrapheap

Prime Video is investing untold amounts in its Lord of the Rings fantasy. But the fastest-growing new streamer has a very different approach

The main parties’ approaches to Ireland’s cultural life was encapsulated by the opposing outlooks of Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald

The debate needs to move on from the best way to fund a public-service broadcaster to the best way to fund public-service content

Death of oldest living chimpanzee in human care raises issue of recurring human impulse to anthropomorphise other species

What began as the high idealism of Arab Spring-style community reporting has soured into the preserve of right-wing provocateurs

Lisa Nandy, the UK’s new culture secretary, announced this week the ‘end of the era of culture wars’, but an armistice is not actually within her remit

The events that have unfolded over the past five years at the national theatre raise obvious parallels with the RTÉ debacle

We waited an age for A New Direction’s ‘third age’, and it already feels rather out of date

Hugh Linehan: With his Kubrick-derived film AI Artificial Intelligence, the director created a surprisingly convincing version of where technology is leading us

The investment firm has met the ire of literary activists amid accusations of greenwashing

Countless politicians have tried to co-opt pop hits as campaign anthems

Hugh Linehan: Director set up in Galway in the mid-1990s, when he was in his 70s, and churned out his trademark low-budget exploitation movies there

Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters

Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit organisation, set out to counter misleading online content. Instead it seems to be stifling legitimate debate

Hugh Linehan: The streamer’s new drama is just another lethargic entry into the often unlovely genre of hero-journalist movies

Hugh Linehan: There are sound practical and ethical reasons for colourblind and colour-conscious casting. Other attempts to rewrite the past are absurd

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