The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchise

Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity

Patrick Freyne: Wild Mountain Thyme and my all-time favourite Oirish films

Here’s seven of the best Oirish films including a soulful hunky IRA man, and a corned beef and cabbage plot

Why are actors quick to blame everyone else for bad films?

There is a long history of actors deriding poorly received work, with Cats star Rebel Wilson being the latest

Official Secrets: Fascinating Iraq War whistleblower tale

Review: Hood’s study of Katharine Gun is an efficient, diverting exercise that will educate

How my work mistake caused an ‘international incident’

Early in my career, I was asked to type up a secret memo. The error I made is now in a movie

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales: More for parents than kids

This very French animation featuring very English voices is reassuringly old-school

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: as bland as mashed potatoes

Review: It’s polite, tweedy and so anaemic you feel the urge to feed it a pint of Guinness

Are these the Irish film stars of the future?

Four Irish actors and one producer made it onto Screen International’s 'future talent' list

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The Sense of an Ending review: A smart piece of translation

Julian Barnes’s dryly comic Booker winner is nimbly adapted to suit the demands of mainstream cinema

Leap year proposals: ladies pop the question

February 29th is the day women can ask men to marry them, but can leap year love last?

Downton Abbey ends on a happy note in swansong episode

Spoiler alert: Irish television viewers say goodbye to the Crawleys in Christmas finale

The Imitation Game review: the highest form of flattery

Alan Turing and his colleagues get the popular tribute they deserve in this pacy tale of derring-do

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Korea goes to Hollywood

Korean directors are making an impact on Hollywood, just as their films did before them. What’s the appeal?