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Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?
Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly lose
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – an emotionally unengaging slog
The spell had been long broken before this barely tolerable third instalment
Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’
The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herself
Noomi Rapace: ‘I’ve always revolted against cuteness and the need to be likable’
Actor on the ‘trauma’ of making Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and her unsettling new film Lamb
Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Maradona inspired me to become a film-maker’
The soccer star was the film-maker’s first contact with spectacle, with ‘a high form of entertainment’
Ross O’Carroll Kelly: ‘You are not giving me a combover – I’m a quiff goy’
Blinky the borbor in Monkstown suggests a Jude Law or a Matt Damon
Jude Law: ‘I was told, Don’t get above yourself. It was quite crushing’
His new role highlights for the actor how US can-do culture changed class-ridden Britain
The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer
Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+
UK’s homes of the super rich to air over Christmas in Channel 4 TV show
Selling Sunset’s British equivalent is coming to a TV near you
Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dream
Patrick Freyne: Antiques Roadshow delves in second World War jingoism while cats plan our demise
Sally Potter: the always adventurous filmmaker
Potter explores the fluidity of thought in her new movie about a father and daughter dealing with dementia
Jude Law: ‘After I became a parent, I cried at anything’
As he plays a troubled dad trapped on a sinister island in The Third Day, the star reveals how the drama unlocked his deepest parenting fears
‘We wanted the kids to have a second language so we flew over on a whim’
Wild Geese: Niamh Stack went from flight attendant in Dublin to life coach in Madrid
Covid-19 has proved worse than the film-makers imagined
It’s hard, in 100 minutes, to convey the slow terror of a virus that kills in low percentages
TV production of Sally Rooney’s Normal People major beneficiary of tax relief
Brown Bag Films amongst others who availed of such breaks
The Rhythm Section: Blake Lively looks more Pilates addict than heroin addict
Review: Just one of many reasons to avoid this weird, thrown-together thriller
Vox Lux: A monstrous star turn from Natalie Portman
Review: Portman is the pop star from hell in this unrestrained fun ride
Jude Law photos: proof that middle-aged men can break the internet
The 46-year-old actor in white Speedos is an inspiration to all men with receding hairlines
Captain Marvel: It’s such a shame this film isn’t a little better
Review: The first Marvel release with a woman protagonist can’t do for the 90s what Bumblebee did for the 80s
As KLF they burned £1m. Now they’re firing bricks of human ashes
Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project
Woody Allen: Woman says she had sexual relationship with director when she was 16
Christina Engelhardt alleges she had eight-year relationship with Allen who was 41 at time
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Like a hugely dull work bash
Review: JK Rowling’s yarn plays like a fragmented fan fiction assembled through Twitter
Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary
Toronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinema
Woody Allen’s latest film shelved by Amazon
‘A Rainy Day in New York’ may never been screened as distributors pull out
Rupert Everett: ‘Lots of my friends got sick. I got famous’
The ‘Happy Prince’ star on being gay, playing Oscar Wilde, and surviving the film world
Antony Beevor: My favourite war movie – and the ones I can’t bear
I groaned at ‘Valkyrie’, ‘Darkest Hour’ and ‘Dunkirk’, and despaired at ‘Saving Private Ryan’
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – first full trailer revealed
The follow up to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and atherine Waterston
Lynne Ramsay: From Ratcatcher to revenge thriller
The Scottish film-maker on her taut new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, watching movies with her mum, and the awkward fallout from that Natalie Portman flick
Golden Globes: Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh and Caitriona Balfe up for awards
‘The Breadwinner’, by Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, nominated for best animated feature
Can Michael Fassbender rescue his terrible year?
The Irish actor has had 12 months of terrible films, in an otherwise sparkling career
Miriam Lord: Juncker’s MEP outburst disrupts bloc party
Meanwhile, Leo proves to be the perfect host as Fine Gael looks forward to summer nights
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?
Yes to ‘Search Party’; no to ‘The Young Pope’. Yes to clearing the mess; no to overcrowded gyms
Calais ‘jungle’ threatened with closure
Thousands face immediate evacuation if Lille tribunal decides against them on Tuesday
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