Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
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The Wild Robot review: This superb family film could become a classic
Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal star in what is the best feature cartoon from a major studio in years
The First Omen review: Horror prequel is much better than it needs to be
Expect gynaecological macabre and the tearing of bodies cleanly in half
Olivia Cooke: ‘Colm Meaney does everything with a wink and it’s so delicious’
The Manchester actor on making the leap to Hollywood, and starring in new Irish-set film Pixie
Emma. review: It’s cool but it’s no Clueless
Review: Anya Taylor-Joy suffers as too-cool direction get in the way of a pretty enough diversion
Mia Goth: ‘I always felt it’s plan A or I’m f**ked’
The actor on staying in character and why starring in Emma is a rite of passage
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The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland
The Bookshop: Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy hold this uneven film together
Review: Period detail is a little off in this Spanish-German co-production shot in Co Down
TV this weekend: Attenborough on eggs and Geldof on the ‘Late Late Show’
The Ray D’Arcy show will discuss consent in wake of Belfast trial while Aidan Gillen plays Dave Allen
WB Yeats ‘showed Ireland wasn’t just about the Famine’
DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released
Grand old feminist potboiler from the murky streets of London
The Limehouse Golem review: Wonderful cast make themselves at home in the streets of 1880s London
Diane Keaton: ‘Where would I be without Woody? I wouldn’t be here’
An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton
Their Finest review: Oh! What a lovely war film
A great ensemble cast, featuring Gemma Arterton, Richard E Grant and Bill Nighy, put in a sterling effort in this second World War-set film-within-a-film comedy
Television: Bob Geldof busts his baggage allowance in a poetry-political broadcast
Review: ‘A Fanatic Heart’, ‘Children of the Revolution’ and ‘The Night Manager’
Dad’s Army review: perpetrating a bit of a phoney war
When the film sticks to old jokes, it serves some purpose. But too often we’re stuck in tea shops on dates with Catherine Zeta-Jones
People who think they are useless make the best managers
One problem of getting older is both your self-knowledge and complacency go up
Donald Clarke: Why is marriage still so popular?
Far from being obsolete, weddings are louder, gaudier and more expensive than ever
Bill Nighy on success, ambition and the box-office the appeal of older actors
Until ‘Love Actually’, you might have seen Bill Nighy on the street and thought he was your dentist – not any more. “Look, there are no downsides to this,” he tells Donald Clarke
Wanted: Netflix ‘tagger’, must withstand TV torture
The company loves categorising everything, but its micro-genres can never be ‘objective’
Marti Pellow: 20 years on, he still feels it in his fingers
The Wet Wet Wet singer, currently playing Che Guevara in the musical Evita, recalls the the summer of 1994, when love (and then loathing) was all around the charts
Domnhall Gleeson, a star in his own time
It hasn’t taken Domhnall Gleeson long to establish a reputation as a versatile actor, equally at ease on stage and screen. He talks about working on Richard Curtis’s new time-travel rom-com and a forthcoming role opposite his dad Brendan
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