The Irish Times

‘I don’t have many friends. Do they just want to be your friend because you’re Janet Jackson?’

TV review: Sky’s Janet Jackson works best as a rumination on fame and the toll it extracts

Tue Feb 01 2022 - 11:13

Peter Bogdanovich, Last Picture Show director, dies at 82

Oscar-nominated film-maker’s many credits include What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon

Thu Jan 06 2022 - 18:42

Marion Davies was as big as Valentino. Then she had a scandalous affair

Mank, David Fincher’s new film, goes some way to rehabilitating the film star's reputation

Thu Dec 03 2020 - 05:00

Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin

He was a fascist who walked out on the family. No wonder the star had father issues

Thu Nov 26 2020 - 05:00

Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine

Gremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film market

Tue Oct 20 2020 - 05:00

Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘I’m in an emotional flux’

Sold For Parts documentary about the Dublin band addresses the downsides of even modest success

Tue Mar 10 2020 - 14:30

It’s indulgent, disordered and wildly up itself. But you shouldn’t miss it

‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix Cove

Mon Nov 05 2018 - 11:53

Nine of the best Netflix shows and films to watch in November

House of Cards, new Coen Brothers movie, and a double bill of Orson Welles

Mon Oct 29 2018 - 06:00

Forget Bresson; the geeks have inherited the earth

Ethan Hawke doesn’t equate superhero movies with French auteurs. Is this heresy?

Fri Aug 31 2018 - 06:00

Cannes 2018: line-up features Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and fresh faces

Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors

Thu Apr 12 2018 - 13:44

Bombshell: Hedy Lamarr, movie star and scientist

Review: Treat of a documentary about the actor and inventor who died broke

Thu Mar 08 2018 - 08:37

Barry Norman obituary: immense knowledge, undeniable passion

His fame saw him feature in ‘Spitting Image’ and he won over audiences with gentle style

Sat Jul 01 2017 - 14:28

Orson Welles: Man, myth and ‘Magic’

‘He wasn’t really difficult,’ says Chuck Workman, director of a compelling new documentary about one of cinema’s giants

Fri Jul 03 2015 - 05:00

Select: food for the flicks

As the Jameson Dublin Film Festival begins its thirteenth season, Rachel Collins picks the best food to follow your film

Thu Mar 19 2015 - 05:30

Jack Reynor back on home turf for Dublin film festival launch

Kenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews and Russell Crowe lined up as part of festival bill

Wed Feb 25 2015 - 20:09

Redemption song: what’s eating Tommy Lee Jones?

The actor and director has been in fiery form of late. His latest film, a feminist take on the high plains yarn, stars Hilary Swank as a brave frontierswoman. But don’t dare call it a western

Wed Nov 26 2014 - 06:00

“It’s a part I’ve waited 77 years for” - Bruce Dern on ‘Nebraska’

After a 50-year career, Bruce Dern is finally getting some Oscar attention. Acting is “an endurance competition,” he says. “It’s like a marathon: you don’t start racing until mile 16. It will take a long time,” he tells Tara Brady

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00