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Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10

Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog

Cannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for mutts

Mon May 20 2019 - 13:05

Liam Neeson: Unexpectedly beating up people at age 65

Liam Neeson never expected to be beating up people on a train at the age of 65 – or still getting into trouble for opening his big Ballymena mouth

Fri Jan 19 2018 - 05:00

The Climb review: a big-hearted crowd-pleaser in the name of love

Film tells real-live story of Nadir Dendoune who went from Parisian banlieue to Everest summit

Thu Dec 28 2017 - 05:00

Blockbusted! What was the worst film of the summer?

Blockbuster season is almost over, and while it wasn’t as bad as last year, there were still some real stinkers

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 13:00

Luc Besson’s $200m movie flop: how bad can it be?

Valerian review: After a promising start, the film plummets into atrociousness

Tue Aug 01 2017 - 13:07

The first Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival kicks off today

Classics such as ‘Barbarella’ and ‘The Fifth Element’ to get big-screen outings

Fri May 05 2017 - 10:36

Liam Neeson: on iconic roles, Irish pride, and the influence of Ian Paisley...

Ahead of receiving an industry award at the IFTAs, Liam Neeson on the journey that saw him play Michael Collins, a Jedi and God

Sat Apr 09 2016 - 06:00

Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

Sat May 23 2015 - 07:15

Lucy review: The Church of ScarJo will be with you soon

Fri Aug 22 2014 - 10:08

Luc Besson is back – and he’s bending minds, and spacetime, again

It has taken Besson 10 years to get his latest sci-fi flick Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, to the big screen – and much of that time was spent asking science professors questions like “What if we could access our bodies at a cellular level?”

Fri Aug 22 2014 - 00:00