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Donald Clarke: Four out of five young people say they regularly watch subtitled content
Ian O’Riordan: Olympic documentary series keeps focus despite shifting horizons
Darragh Bambrick’s three-part series looks at nine Irish athletes on the long road to Tokyo
If the film's great, who cares if it's faithful to the book?
When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming
There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?
Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist art
John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic American
A limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravado
Beyond Netflix: where to find Golden Age classic movies
Apple and Google are excellent options for the greatest era of American cinema
Raymond Chandler: Crime writer's family left Waterford, but the city never left him
The author created the fictional detective Philip Marlowe and many of his novels became major Hollywood movies
Le Mans ’66: ‘If the sponsors are staying away, we’ve done something right’
Le Mans ’66 director James Mangold on Scorsese, the Marvel controversy and the state of film
James Gray: 'I went back to the US and got told I was nothing'
The director’s on working with Brad Pitt on Ad Astra, being ignored in America and making movies in Northern Ireland
Netflix is a huge disappointment in the ‘Golden Age of TV’
I naively thought Netflix would mean the world’s best films and TV at your fingertips
Nobody’s perfect. But ‘Some Like It Hot’ is
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?
Susan Wood: On My Culture Radar
The photographer on her run-in with John Wayne and her love of Grace and Frankie
Louise Brooks: ‘I was always late, but just too damn stunning for them to fire me’
The dancer, actor, gossip columnist and muse was one of the most modern of stars
Solo: A Star Wars Story. Great start, shame about the rest
Review: It has pretty good opening 20 minutes, but slides quickly into incoherence
Boy babies wet their nappies at any lurch towards gender equality
The three highest grossing movies in the US have women in leading roles – about time
Oscars 2017: This year's best picture nominees, from grand to great
Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy Awards
Hell or High Water review: Chris Pine ups the neo-western ante
David Mackenzie evokes the spirit of Peckinpah in a thriller about hard men from the old school
John Carpenter: He shoots, he scores
How do you make class-A films on B-movie budgets? Few know better than John Carpenter. The director sits down with Derek O’Connor to talk slow-burning suspense, anti-establishment leanings and the art of the soundtrack
Lauren Bacall, star of Hollywood’s golden age, dies
Actress with throaty voice shot to fame in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart
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