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
Clint Eastwood
Gene Hackman: Ageless, everyman actor who never gave a bad performance
Hackman was among actors most responsible for changing Hollywood in 1970s, becoming a generation-defining performer
Roberta Flack obituary: A hit-making soul singer who was quiet when quiet was unfashionable
Though influenced by jazz, R&B and easy listening, Flack was not quite any of them
The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Show Clint Eastwood some respect. His new film Juror #2 is no dud
The way Warner Bros has handled the veteran star’s 40th film as director is in keeping with Hollywood studios’ new approach to the movie economy
The Movie Quiz: What three Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Plus: What was the first film Clint Eastwood directed in which he did not act?
Bruce Willis: A chilling anecdote lays bare the illness that ended his long and successful career
The actor’s increasingly patchy career has been cut short by the disorder aphasia
Oscars: The last 22 best picture winners – in order of greatness
Where does this year’s winner, CODA, sit in our ranking of 21st-century Oscar winners?
The Story of Film: A New Generation – there’s hope for cinema yet
Mark Cousins offers an optimistic view of the contemporary cinema landscape
Cry Macho: Clint the old cowboy sings one more swansong
The 91-year-old's gift for expressing everything by doing almost nothing gets better with age
Clint Eastwood wins $6m in damages in CBD lawsuit
Dirty Harry actor and director was falsely claimed to have endorsed cannabidiol products
When Pelé, Stallone, and Ipswich Town took on the Nazis at the beautiful game
Escape to Victory a cult classic despite Stallone wanting the goalie to score winner
Arrested Development star Jessica Walter dies aged 80
Emmy-winning actor was famous for her role as family matriarch Lucille Bluth
Hoosiers: True story of underdog basketball team still charms
Sincere storytelling paired Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper at height of their powers
Maureen Dowd: Trump’s taste for violence bloodies Congress
Criminal charges would be welcome after craven Republicans refused to convict him
Different Strokes: Rory McIlroy’s issues plane to see as he looks to sharpen game
Amateurs get boot at Pebble; Twitter Twaddle; On this Day; In the Bag; Know the Rules
A Christmas Story never took off here, but its time will come
Some US films fail to travel – Bob Clark’s 1983 comedy, however, is worth your attention
Suspected jihadist goes on trial in Paris over train attack foiled by US tourists
Ayoub El Khazzani faces terror charges for incident that ‘could have killed 300 people’
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Sporting upsets: Shadow of ‘Susie’ still lingers over seismic rugby shock
1995 Rugby World Cup final: South Africa 15 New Zealand 12 (aet)
Trusting the advice of experts and politicians amid this pandemic
Hague Letter: ‘I needed to know before I took a potentially lethal risk, is it safe?’
Bad Boys for Life review: The funny bits are funny. The serious bits are even funnier
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in a noisy, inconsequential violent romp
Clint Eastwood’s film tells a lie, but shows us the true Clint
In the film, a real-life female journalist sleeps with a source. There’s no evidence it happened
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
RWC moments: Brave Blossoms bloom in Brighton
Japan beat South Africa in 2015 in the biggest shock in Rugby World Cup history
How can you spot a deepfake, and if you can’t is that a problem?
A harmless doctored video of Bill Hader becoming Tom Cruise has triggered full-on panic
Darragh Ó Sé: If Tyrone put as much into football as the dark arts, they'd be some team
Dublin are awesome but Kerry's young players will still be expected to perform against them
Whatever happened to the wonderful Rocky Elsom?
It is a decade since the flanker inspired Leinster to a first Heineken Cup triumph
Ironman: How a simple box of papers turned into a billion-dollar industry
A legal battle every bit as gruelling as the races themselves has ensued over 40 years
The Mule: Clint Eastwood snarls and frowns through another geriatric meltdown
Review: The actor is unsure how to play a nonagenarian transporting drugs for cartels
Sondra Locke: toxic relationship with Clint Eastwood defined talented actor
Locke, an excellent performer and serious-minded director, became trapped by her involvement with Eastwood and bitter legal disputes
Sondra Locke, Oscar-nominated actor, dies aged 74
Locke, who had turbulent relationship with Clint Eastwood, died on November 3rd after battle with cancer
Siya Kolisi and South Africa speaking to the hope of 1995
Mandela didn’t lead South African rugby to the mountain top, he gave a glimpse of it
‘A Star Is Born’: Bradley Cooper isn’t really into talking to me
In his first film as director the star wrangles with the celebrity industrial complex. So you can imagine how this interview goes
Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?
Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years
Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston
Donald Clarke on the film’s enduring legacy, literary roots and Willis’s breakout role
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts: The feminist western you need to see
Review: A vicious, Sergio Leone-style tale of one woman’s revenge on a rapist
A Fistful of Dollars: ‘See, my mule don’t like people laughing’
Review: Classic spaghetti western rerelease showcases Clint Eastwood’s star quality
Wanted: ‘Well-developed women with plenty of road frontage’
RTÉ’s ‘Stetsons and Stilettos’ throws open the barn door on a thriving Irish sub-culture
“I said ‘I’m in the movie,’ and the guy on the gate said 'Yeah sure, me too' ”
Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins (70), who shared the screen with Newman and Pacino, is finally ready for the limelight
The 15.17 to Paris: Thank-you not very much Mr Eastwood
Review: Clint Eastwood’s train attack re-enactment squeezes in too much reality
Den of Thieves: A daft drunken cousin to films like Heat
Review: You’ll need a high tolerance of meat-heads to enjoy this film
Donald Clarke: Are we living in a time of Trump-era cinema?
Hollywood has a habit of capturing the political mood before it has emerged
Jamie Bell: I hope things are getting better for women in film
The former ‘Billy Elliot’ star on Durham versus LA, acting pitfalls, and women in film
UTV cashing in on its art collection
Fine Art auction: The Belfast-based TV company will sell paintings worth up to €300,000 in Dublin
Cian O’Connor: ‘I go to my cave to escape and to admire art’
Pieces of Me: The showjumping winner favours tradition with a splash of modernity
Sofia Coppola: ‘Colin Farrell is the thinking woman's hunk’
Coppola's latest film ‘The Beguiled’ sees Dublin actor Colin Farrell stirring passions in an all-girls school during the US Civil War
'In moving abroad I have gained a bilingual family and a filmmaking career'
For Denmark-based Irish filmmaker David Bourke, the proximity to nature is the best thing about living in Nødebo
Redwater: A British, backward, Ballykissangel idea of Ireland
Kat and Alfie’s quest is slowed by native distrust, uneasy transitions and a minefield of Irish clichés
Scott Eastwood: Clint’s son rises, but under his own steam
Scott Eastwood on staying out out of his mega-famous dad’s shadow and stepping into the Fast and Furious franchise following the death of his friend Paul Walker
Dr Heimlich and how his simple manoeuvre can save your life
Michael Healy-Rae and Ronald Reagan are among those saved. Learn the technique and you’ll join Clint Eastwood and Olly Murs
Aidan O’Shea Mayo’s beating heart as they sink Donegal
Visitors go scoreless in the final 30 minutes of a blood and thunder clash in Castlebar
Jackie Kennedy letters make €110,000 in London: Clint Eastwood a hit at Adam’s
Auction results and forthcoming auctions
‘I was spooked by BMW’s hot coupe in California’
Laguna Seca was a letdown but at Mondello the M2 revealed itself as a dream car
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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