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The Incomer: Domhnall Gleeson at his amiable best in this tale of oddball isolation
Louis Paxton’s fascinating feature debut alternates briny whimsy with something more sinister
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Venice film festival 2026: Werner Herzog’s imagination is as creatively offbeat as ever in this film starring Kate and Rooney Mara and Domhnall Gleeson
Saoirse Ronan to make her directorial debut at Venice film festival
New movies from Martin McDonagh, Danny Boyle and Werner Herzog will also take centre stage at Italian event
Domhnall Gleeson: ‘My life in Ireland means too much to me. It’s no sacrifice to live here’
The actor has carved out a place at the centre of the Hollywood film industry. But it comes second to his sense of home
Irish interest at Venice film festival 2026: Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard and more
The Venice event is, after Cannes, comfortably the second most important film festival on the calendar
Cannes 2026: Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard
The festival opened with a very French, very odd ceremony featuring Jane Fonda, Peter Jackson and bad impersonations of Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts
Cannes 2026: Barry Keoghan, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew films win prestige slots
Butterfly Jam and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning to screen in Directors’ Fortnight. Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle announced for Critics’ Week
Off to the Oscars: The Irish film that’s making a big splash worldwide
Creator, director and co-writer John Kelly and producer Andrew Freedman fly to Los Angeles for awards ceremony
Bumping into Brad Pitt at Fallon & Byrne will be a big moment in my life
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Domhnall Gleeson, Graham Norton and Cillian Murphy star in new Taylor Swift music video
Video for Swift’s song Opalite was released on streaming platforms on Friday afternoon
Oscar-nominee Dubliner got idea for film after ‘quiet panic attack’ on plane
John Kelly’s Retirement Plan has been nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short
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