Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original song
Two Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, landed spots in the shortlist for best live action short
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Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’
Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940
Dr Brian Pennie: ‘I lost 15 years to heroin addiction but I wouldn’t take them back if I’d lose the happiness I have today’
Dr Brian Pennie is a neuroscientist, author, resilience specialist and former heroin addict
Kneecap movie is Irish submission for best international film at Oscars
Fictionalised biopic of Belfast rap trio Kneecap hopes to follow An Cailín Ciúin to Academy Awards
There’s a reason why we’ve become blasé about Paul Mescal’s lead role in Gladiator II
As the 25th year of the century approaches, never before has there been a period of comparable international visibility of Irish culture
Two fingers to the lot of ye. And that includes Michael Fassbender
Donald Clarke: As with other Americanisms, the single-digit salute has taken over from the good old V – even in west Belfast. Is nothing sacred?
Sundance: Kneecap film wins audience award at US festival
Fictionalised autobiography of eponymous Belfast rap outfit, directed by Rich Peppiatt, is first Irish fiction feature win at festival since Once in 2007
First Look: Kneecap the movie – Sundance has never seen anything like this immersion in acidic Northern humour
Major coup for Belfast punk-rap trio’s film with Michael Fassbender as Sony Pictures buys distribution rights
Next Goal Wins: What’s Michael Fassbender doing in this film? You may as well ask Natalie Portman to play Churchill
The ramshackle, borderline offensive farrago that Next Goal Wins has become seems unlikely to refurbish the New Zealander’s reputation
The Killer: Michael Fassbender elevates David Fincher’s sleek, hollow entertainment
The director leans into his chilly gifts for genre without too much exertion
The Movie Quiz: What Irish film was briefly the highest grossing ever at the domestic box office?
Plus: Which Irish actor competes in the Le Mans motor racing series?
David Fincher on Michael Fassbender: ‘His face can be very, very elegant. He’s so watchable’
The Irish star is attractive, suave and, in The Killer, the director’s new film, a sociopath. It could be the best we’ve ever seen Michael Fassbender
Venice International Film Festival: An Irish film becomes favourite to win the Golden Lion
An opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael Fassbender
The Killer first-look review: An icy Michael Fassbender stars in David Fincher’s excellent new thriller
Venice International Film Festival 2023: This may be David Fincher’s sleekest and most uncomplicatedly entertaining film in years
The Killer: First trailer released for new Netflix thriller starring Michael Fassbender
David Fincher’s highly-anticipated neo-noir film will premiere at the Venice film festival
Venice film festival 2023: Liam Neeson and Emma Stone movies lead Irish interest as line-up unveiled
A sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announced
Donald Clarke: Is it time to dust off your 3D specs?
Avatar kickstarted a brief and blurry 3D revival, Cameron could do it again this Christmas
Ciarán Murphy: Players may want to play games but not two in one day
Kerry players Jack Savage and Tony Brosnan drove almost 200km between games last week
David Baddiel: If casting minorities matters, why should Jews be any different?
Why shouldn’t ‘authentic casting’ apply to all minorities, including Jews?
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish Play
Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama
Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy come full circle with final offering in operatic trilogy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Donald Clarke: Video games spawned two film genres. Only one of them is awful
The other, which includes new release Free Guy, helps explain how we became what we are
Why are there so few Irish women cast in films that are made here?
Irish actresses are missing out on commercial opportunities, writes Anna Doyle
Aidan Turner: ‘That photograph. Yeah. It took away from the work’
Poldark-turned-Leonardo da Vinci actor on ballroom dancing, hazmat suits and a thirst for stout
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
‘My plan was always to make $1m; I didn’t in the end but that’s okay’
Wild Geese: Tommy Byrne, Florida
Normal People: Who are the Irish musicians on the soundtrack?
The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is a shop window for the best of Irish music
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
Make a move to Drumcondra: A quietly confident area on the up
Well-connected suburb has a good supply of family homes but many need refurbishment
Jo Nesbo: ‘The details of a murder don’t really disturb me’
The Norwegian crime writer gets up close and personal with killing in his latest thriller
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