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From Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 years
From Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 years
The author of the classic children’s stories left Belfast as a boy, but his homeland remained a powerful force in his imagination
It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next year
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Plus: Which David Bowie song did Greta Gerwig choose to take with her on Desert Island Discs?
The weekend-long celebration of Swiftness has passed but the memories remain
Cannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest film
Test your movie mastery with our 2024 Cannes film festival special quiz
Cannes Diary: Juliette Binoche was choked up, Meryl Steep was classy and Greta Gerwig didn’t hold back
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?
In the lead-up to International Women’s Day, we asked students from St Louis High School in Rathmines, Co Dublin, to discuss the women who inspire them
Were Barry Keoghan and Andrew Scott ever in the race?
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things scores a huge 11 nominations, a record for an Irish-produced film
Bafta nomination system has rendered connections between the US and British academies less robust than was the case
Actor ‘gutted’ to miss out on role in hugely successful film
Did Barry Keoghan edge out Andrew Scott? And might Paul Mescal’s chances at the Oscars be revived?
All the winners from the 81st annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California
Cillian Murphy triumphed over Barry Keoghan, nominated for Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
‘I didn’t feel represented in the Barbie narrative. It felt like a world that wasn’t accessible to me,’ says one of the stars of Greta Gerwig’s 2023 film
Donald Clarke: Her Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert film ever. She was Time magazine’s person of the year. But another woman had an even better year
Greta Gerwig’s smash hit has amassed €8.85m, making it Ireland’s highest-grossing movie, as it continues to break records worldwide
Greta Gerwig becomes first woman to direct a billion-dollar blockbuster solo as Barbie hits landmark
Radio: Sharon Magennis, of Largy College in Clones, told Audrey Carville about the loss of two ‘beautiful girls’
It has no point of view, no message and no understanding of who its audience is. If this is Hollywood’s best shot, the big screen is in trouble
There are spoilers for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie here, so don't read until you've dressed in pink and gone to see it
The Light House cinema in Dublin and Pálás in Galway annihilate records with busiest weekends ever
Barbie’s would-be boyfriend has a less fragile ego than the owner of the newly rebranded social media app
Does the Mattel-backed film succeed in its attempt to be meta and funny while still being politically astute?
The screenplay is positively philosophical at times, as a self-conscious plot spins ever deeper into creative absurdity
Stars of Greta Gerwig’s new film talk ‘Kenergy’, tackling the complexity of Barbie and Gosling’s disappointing rollerblading skills
The actor, who stars in Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie film, talks loneliness, life without a mobile phone and the difficulties of fame
If the box-office projections are right, the battle between Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie won’t even be close
Inspired by a German ‘exhibitionist and floozy’ and reviled by generations of feminists, Barbie now synonymises more than a child’s doll
Donald Clarke: These days there’s only one way for promising directors to get their reward
Film reportedly contains a scene depicting a map showing what appears to be the ‘nine dash line’
The films to watch out for this season – including two that make up the most anticipated movie weekend in years
Planet Business: Summer blockbusters, the man behind Nvidia and how people use technology on holiday
Donald Clarke: The frenzy of online irony is woven in with reasonable expectations the film could turn out to be a classic
If you offered today’s cornucopia of readily available culture to any child stuck with one channel in 1970s Ireland they’d have clawed your arm off in gratitude
Noah Baumbach’s fitful adaptation of Don DeLillo book is sometimes funny, sometimes mad, sometimes flaccid
Greta Gerwig tells Maureen Dowd about making Barbie, working in front of and behind the camera and collaborating with her partner, Noah Baumbach
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
Jessie Buckley and Niamh Algar among nominees for Irish Film and TV Awards
The film-maker, accused of sexually assaulting his child in 1992, is done treading carefully
What often strikes me in the face of illness, is how the kindness of strangers prevails
Greta Gerwig’s film of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel features some very modern items
International Women's Day: Why is the film industry still resistant to female directors?
Planet Business: The toys are back in town
McGowan said Portman’s embroidered Oscars dress protest was ‘deeply offensive’
Portman’s dress embroidered with names of un-nominated women film-makers
Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards
The film-maker on family, Hollywood sex scandals, and feeling rooted in Co Wicklow
The four-time Oscar nominee is the most successful Irish film actor ever – and she is still only 25
How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices