From black holes to wormholes – welcome to the warped side of the Universe
Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to understand more about space
Christopher Nolan
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debut
Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’
An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub
The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop
Wolf Man director Leigh Whannell: ‘For most film-makers, a lot of movies that happen are accidents. It feels very chaotic’
Australian creator of the Saw horror series talks about rebooting a werewolf classic and why he never thought Hollywood was his destiny
The Penguin review: Colin Farrell’s powerhouse performance is the best thing about this Batman spin-off
Television review: As a showcase for Colin Farrell, the series has its charms but The Penguin is hugely uneven and often extremely slow as a moribund script gets in the way
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a ‘favourite’ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards
Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things – a remarkable feat for an Irish production
In pictures: Cillian Murphy’s night of glory at the Oscars
Cillian Murphy wins best actor award at the Oscars after a remarkable night
Oscars 2024: ‘Very proud Irishman’ Cillian Murphy wins best actor, one of seven awards for Oppenheimer
Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards
Oscars 2024: the complete list of winners
Here are all the winners of the 96th Academy Awards - and all the nominees
Cillian Murphy: ‘Moving home from London was the best thing we did’
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy looks unbeatable. Who else should win and who will win?
It’s shaping up to be Oppenheimer’s year at the Academy Awards. What about Barbie? And could Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things also do well?
What do the Baftas tell us about Ireland’s Oscar hopes?
The Age of Cillian has firmly arrived, but past history tells us anything can happen between now and next month
Baftas 2024: the complete list of winners
Oppenheimer takes top Baftas as Irish-produced film Poor Things and Zone of Interest also triumph
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices