Ciarán Hinds: ‘Liam Neeson wanted a go at being a film star. I didn’t have that in my DNA’
As his new film, The Three Urns, arrives, the actor talks on-set reunions, ‘proper adventures’ and his Belfast upbringing free from ‘awareness of the huge tribal divide’
The Z-factor: Zendaya and the secret of The Drama’s success
Did film’s crafty marketing campaign work or are people queuing up to see movie stars again?
Four new films to see this week: Father Mother Sister Brother, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany, The Stranger
Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Halle Bailey, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 10th, 2026
The Stranger review: eerily beautiful, psychologically acute Camus adaptation
François Ozon’s project, though touched with adjacent misery, represents a desirable sort of existence
The Movie Quiz: The Maltese Falcon ends with a slight misquote from what play?
Plus: What film just broke the all-time record for the most losses at the Oscars?
Cannes 2026: John Travolta and Barbra Streisand set to walk red carpet as film festival announces official selection
Could Irish stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew feature in Directors Fortnight?
You, Me & Tuscany review: another patronising Hollywood comedy replete with thumping stereotypes
A dazzled and bemused Halle Bailey leads this rattlebrained romcom from Kat Coiro
Aer Lingus has begun its free in-flight wifi. Bang goes a rare oasis of tranquillity
Soon the only place a person will get free of online badgering is when under general anaesthetic
Four new films to see this week: Fuze, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Amélie
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kim Novak and Audrey Tautou feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 3rd, 2026
James McAvoy: ‘I’m 75% Donegal. We’re so similar yet so different. I think the difference is independence’
The actor and California Schemin’ director on accents, X-Men and the thorniest issue in Scottish politics
The Movie Quiz: Who missed out at this year’s Oscars?
Plus: Which class of Italian professional lands back in cinemas this week?
Kim Novak’s Vertigo review: Fascinating conversation with still astute and connected star
Focus of Alexandre O Philippe documentary changed from Hitchcock’s Vertigo to 93-year-old Novak’s life and extraordinary career
Fuze review: Bomb disposal thriller opens with suspense but struggles to sustain the blast
Aaron Taylor-Johnson leads a starry cast in David Mackenzie’s London-set thriller
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: What did Mario do to offend Bob Hoskins? Plus nine other key questions about the film’s star
By 1990, Nintendo’s dungaree-wearing plumber was already bigger than Mickey Mouse. Even Salman Rushdie was a fan
How The Kinks’ musical spat with Moby blew up
Lola, which the New York musician took issue with, came out 56 years ago. That’s a long time in pop music and a geologic aeon in gender politics