Irish-led start-up with tech to break down plastics secures near $100m deal

Niall Dunne’s Polymateria seeking a £200m valuation

Come Out Ye Drunken Dads – Frank McNally on the curious reinvention of a spoof rebel song

If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk

Re-released this week, the ‘absolute rubbish’ film is one of the most entertaining movies ever

Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?

There has been a stunning variety of screen Santas. But one outshines them all

Oh! What a peculiar film! Anti-war classic comes to west Cork

Richard Attenborough’s son will visit Skibbereen for ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’ screening

‘Any chance of a passport?’ asks the Queen while Lars Von Trier takes on Mrs Brown

Patrick Freyne previews this year’s Christmas TV and gives away some plot twists

A bloodless coup: The clean fight in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk

The auteur’s war film is stunning, but its heroic approach reflects an industry still uncomfortable with the bloody reality of the second World War

The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh

Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film

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John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

Charlie Chaplin film posters sell for three times estimates

Rare film memorabilia at Bonhams auction in London

Steve Rider and Gary Lineker squabble an Open and shut case for the BBC

British Open’s defection to Sky has left a groundswell of resentment from established broadcaster

Richard Attenborough was a gifted actor and director, but so much more than that

Kindly-old-uncle façade hid inner steel and prodigious gift for the macabre

All the world’s a stage for Sabina Higgins

President’s wife enjoys visit to Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Jeremy Paxman’s Great War: the unrevised edition

Jeremy Paxman is best known as the pugilistic presenter of ‘Newsnight’, but he pulls no punches in his new book on Britain during the first World War