Jon Hamm: ‘I’ve never claimed to be a sober person’
Jon Hamm, best known for Mad Men, has taken his first lead TV role since saying goodbye to Don Draper a decade ago
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50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
Sean Penn and the gay roles debate: We are still negotiating a huge shift in identity politics
Acknowledging once-ignored sensitivities is progress but nuance is preferable to black-and-white binaries
Twenty new horror films to scare the living daylights out of you
Whether you prefer big-budget spectacles or subversive indie splatter fests, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this Halloween
The Northman: Gruesome Viking epic bustles with intelligence and invention
No dull moments in Robert Eggers’ third film, though the extreme violence will not be for everyone
Moon Knight review: Oscar Isaac has drawn the short straw
The best thing about it is Ethan Hawke, as Moon Knight’s nemesis Dr Arthur Harrow
The book thief: He obtained hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, but nobody knows why
The FBI has arrested Filippo Bernardini, accusing him of stealing unpublished books
From Sally Rooney to Avatar: How popular culture can help address climate crisis
Inserting the crisis into popular books, films and shows can highlight challenges we face
Julie Delpy: I’m not a megalomaniac. I’m a perfectionist
The creator of cloning film My Zoe refuses to be pigeonholed
Eve Hewson: ‘I’m really lucky I grew up in Ireland, not LA’
The Irish actor on shyness, nightmares and getting to know her native country again
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and more: Which streaming services offer the best value?
Your guide to price, quality and contents from the major streaming services in Ireland
Ethan Hawke: ‘My first screen partner overdosed. That was a big lesson to me’
As the actor turns 50, he reflects on River Phoenix, race and Dead Poets Society
Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine
Gremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film market
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
20 great travel movies to take you around the world while you’re stuck at home
From city breaks to train trips, Rome to the Amazon, these are all on streaming services
The Truth review: Tender moments that stay long in the brain
Catherine Deneuve plays a great actor – not a stretch – in a Hirokazu Kore-eda gem
Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies
Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme
Netflix: The 10 best new films and shows to watch in July
Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black and Queer Eye return while Poms debuts
Oscars 2019: 10 things we learned from the nominations
The Favourite could hardly have done better, but most of the big races are still competitive
The 50 best films of 2018
Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year
‘The first day I was a ball of nerves’: Paul Dano’s directorial debut
Actor discusses crafting screenplay for ‘Wildlife’ alongside partner Zoe Kazan
Juliet, Naked review: An unexpected and enchanting rom-com delight
A frustrated Rose Byrne and menacing fan-boy Chris O’Dowd in seaside town so lovely we yearn to call it Richard-on-the-Curtis
Forget Bresson; the geeks have inherited the earth
Ethan Hawke doesn’t equate superhero movies with French auteurs. Is this heresy?
Chris O’Dowd: From big Irish teddy bear to American hard man
The Boyle star on his tough-guy role in ‘Get Shorty’ and his county’s referendum journey
On TV this weekend: Ethan Hawke, Gino D’Acampo and Tracey Ullman
Frankie Boyle goes to Russia ahead of the World Cup, plus the final of Britain’s Got Talent
Iftas 2018: full list of award winners
Wins for ‘Michael Inside’, Saoirse Ronan, John Connors, Aisling Walsh, Cillian Murphy
Paul Schrader: ‘I have lived in the sweet spot of human history’
He will always be introduced as the screenwriter behind ‘Taxi Driver’, but there are many more points of interest to Paul Schrader
Tom Hanks: The most famous man we know nothing about
The actor has written a book of short stories. Do they contain any clues to the real man?
The best films to see in the cinema in August
Kathryn Bigelow gets controversial in ‘Detroit’. Domhnall Gleeson looks cool in ‘American Made’
There have always been people like Maude Lewis. We're never kind enough to them
Maudie review: Aisling Walsh delivers a sad film about poor people, but it could scarcely be more open to benevolence and quiet humanism
Luc Besson’s $200m movie flop: how bad can it be?
Valerian review: After a promising start, the film plummets into atrociousness
Ethan Hawke: ‘It’s a dance with fire. I saw that with River’s death'
Hawke was a posterboy for generation X actors. But after seeing first hand where his precocious talent could lead, he's become a thoughtful veteran of the Hollywood machine
Critics praise Colm Tóibín’s film debut ‘Return to Montauk’
Collaboration with Schlöndorff in running for Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival
San Sebastian: Basque in the culture
As the international film festival arrives this weekend, it’s the perfect chance to visit the Spanish city that revels in its natural gifts and life’s pleasures
Linklater’s life through a lens
Boyhood is like no other film you’ve seen. Shot over 12 years, it chronicles the life of one Texan boy from six to18. ‘We were making a period film in the present tense,’ says Austin-based director Richard Linklater
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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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