Amy Adams: ‘There is so much women normalise in relation to pain and sacrifice’
In Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s new film, the star plays a woman crushed by childrearing. It’s not the only pressure women are under, she says
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s son
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative
Vicky Krieps: ‘I lit a candle every day to not be nominated for an Oscar’
The Luxembourger did not share Daniel Day-Lewis’s ire over Phantom Thread snub
Eimear Ryan: ‘I thought that there was some trick to writing a novel’
‘Writing is in your head. Camogie is spontaneous and physical,’ says debut author and GAA player
Oscars 2022: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how next year’s category may look as the industry creaks back into action
The Capote Tapes: From impoverished childhood to cocaine-fuelled decline
‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?
A beautiful, happy accident - Moneyball is the best sports movie ever
A gorgeous study of human frailty and the ways in which people are under-valued
The 25 best films of the 2010s. None of them won best-picture Oscar
The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?
The Dude abides: The Big Lebowski 20 years on
The Coens’ 1998 comedy works as a caper but repeat viewings unwrap layers of meaning
Amy Adams: ‘I have this internal voice that is just not a cheerleader for myself’
In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist
My Friend Dahmer: The lunatic as a confused young man
Review: This biopic reminds us what a terrifying place American high school can be
Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’
Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel
Joaquin Phoenix: The man who wasn’t really here? He’s still here
He plays Jesus Christ in ‘Mary Magdalene’, in an echo of his own childhood as part of a cult religion. But the eccentric actor says his unconventional family kept him grounded
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final film
Review: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around him
'I have managed to become one of those elites Trump voters despise'
Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo says liberals in America 'have some soul-searching to do' and is bemused by the fact that he's become viewed as a political writer
Issues & Questions: Are we wrong to mourn Bowie on social media?
The outpouring of grief on Twitter and Facebook generates a good deal of cynicism
‘Foxcatcher’: Steve Carrell as you’ve never seen him
Director Bennett Miller on his latest film, in which the likeable actor gets malevolent as doomed chemical heir John Du Pont
The year in review: 12 months of big stories
The year began with devastating weather and followed up with political storms over ‘homophobia’ remarks, those cancelled Garth Brooks gigs and water charges. Cian Traynor refreshes our memory
What did Irish people search for on Google in 2014?
World Cup, Garth Brooks and the ice bucket challenge among top trending searches
Robin Williams: So plentiful were his gifts he rarely reached for ‘off’ switch
He always said he was most liberated when doing stand-up – protected by the force field of genius the way he was not when he was ‘Robin Williams’ walking down the street
Christina Hendricks: ‘People think I’m Joan. They think I’m sexy and sophisticated and really cool’
How do you leave the office politics of ‘Mad Men’ behind? Starring opposite the late Philip Seymour Hoffman is a smart move. TV's `embodiment of beauty’ talks about saying goodbye to Joan, surviving high school and the power of hair colour
Behind the News: Heroin, the celebrity drug
The image of the addict may be of a ravaged, destitute person on a street corner, but film stars, musicians and supermodels are no less immune
Putting the brakes on sexist mores
While we’re banning ‘bossy’, here’s a few more words I’d like to usher into oblivion
Philip Seymour Hoffman killed by toxic mix of drugs
Oscar winner was found dead at his home in New York City last month with a syringe in his arm
Elementary my dear Watson
Cautious and couched, Emily Watson is an actor who exhibits reason and calm at every turn. So how did such a sober person find herself in such as dangerous business? “I was pretty bloody minded . . .”
Results of actor Hoffman’s post mortem ‘inconclusive’
New York medical examiner’s office says further tests needed to determine cause of death
‘Heroin-like’ substance found in Hoffman’s apartment
Results of autopsy could take several weeks to come through
Philip Seymour Hoffman: a strange kind of movie star
Rather than being bullied into adoration by tub-thumping promotion, filmgoers felt they had discovered Hoffman all on their own
Tributes paid to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hollywood in shock as award-winning actor is found dead in New York apartment
Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in New York
Oscar-winning actor (46) dies from an apparent drug overdose in his apartment
Imogen Poots -“You’re going to be judged whatever you do. So you might as well do things your way, right?”
Aged 24, Imogen Poots is already an industry veteran with credits alongside Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, to name just a few. Yet she manages to keep it refreshingly real at the top of the acting pile
Film review - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
This incendiary sequel to The Hunger Games actually betters the already exciting original, writes Donald Clarke
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices