Jeff Bridges

Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges smoulder in a sweaty, macho arm-wrestle of a story

John Heard, who has died at 71, was best known as Macaulay Culkin’s dad in ‘Home Alone’

Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy Awards

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

Michael Martin led a Robin Hood-style life, before becoming the last man to be hanged in New England for the crime of highway robbery

Can sunny favourite ‘La La Land’, with 14 nods, hope to match the 11 gongs of ‘Titanic’?

‘La La Land’ is the film to beat, earning 14 nominations including best picture

Winners will be announced on February 26th

It’s the time of year when we accurately pick around 83 percent of the main nominations

It's December 2016 - the likes of Home Alone and It’s A Wonderful Life could do with a bit of updating

David Mackenzie evokes the spirit of Peckinpah in a thriller about hard men from the old school

Elitist playground or boring retirement community for the wealthy? It’s neither – Santa Barbara defies expectations

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

Only 16, Hailee Steinfeld’s CV already boasts an Oscar nod and roles alongside the likes of Bridges, Ford Streep and Kingsley. How did she find herself in such illustrious company? “I never really found something that I loved as much as I love acting,” she tells Tara Brady

As New York prepares for today’s St Patrick’s Day pageant, volunteers from the city’s Irish enclave of Woodlawn have been working tirelessly to help Manhattan’s hungry and homeless