Keith Duggan: Forget Euro 2028, Irish soccer’s awakening has begun
Domestic league is on the up and national team is selling out the Aviva for friendlies
Drop the needle, it’s the 1970s on screen – again
Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies
Juliette Lewis: ‘Life-work balance? You just work your ass off until you crash and burn’
Now 48 and starring in thriller Yellowjackets, the actor has discovered how to regenerate
‘Let’s go Brandon,’ sweeping across the American sporting landscape
Misheard ‘F**k Joe Biden’ chant has become a slogan for those of a right-wing persuasion
Christopher Walken: ‘I’m not disturbed. I pay my bills. I’ve been married for 55 years...’
In 1964, a nightclub dancer named Ronnie Walken changed his name to Christopher
Watching 9/11 unfold: A scene of endless horror
Conor O’Clery recalls how viewing the Twin Towers attack left a lasting sense of guilt and inadequacy in the face of catastrophe
An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled
I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this
Raging Bull’s gut-wrenching violence is even more shocking today
There’s no redemption, but there is dark magic at work in Scorsese and De Niro’s film
Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star
He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront
Neil Jordan: ‘I couldn’t make The Crying Game today’
The director on his new historical fiction novel, Harvey Weinstein and ageism in film
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
How Goodfellas and the gangster class of 1990 changed Hollywood
How Martin Scorsese and other crime tales raised the stakes for filmmakers to come
Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive
A $70m campaign and 24 nominations may not bring it a big night
Screen Actors Guild awards 2020: Parasite scores historic upset
Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger take lead acting prizes as Jennifer Aniston wins for The Morning Show
Martin Scorsese: ‘Crime is glamorous at first if you’re young and stupid’
The director on his endless curiosity, making gangland films, and how he thinks about death
Martin Scorsese: ‘Maybe The Irishman is the last picture I’ll make’
The director on De Niro, Netflix’s effect on cinema, and CGI as the new make-up
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
The true story behind The Irishman
As Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman arrives on Netflix, it’s a good time to explain who the real-life gangsters were
The Irishman review: The sort of grown-up flick they don’t make any more
Al Pacino gives his most enjoyable performance in decades in Martin Scorsese’s sprawling film
De Niro v Trump: He’ll start a war to get a third term
The Hollywood star isn’t letting up on the US president in their (mainly one-sided) beef
The restrained genius of a Joe Pesci performance
The Irishman shows what we’ve been missing for so long from an underrated actor
The Irishman: Scorsese says no one else in Hollywood would back movie
Director defends Netflix deal after pioneering ‘de-aging’ technology sends costs soaring
De Niro and former aide trade lawsuits as actor accused of sex bias
Star’s ex-employee Graham Chase Robinson alleges discrimination and harassment
Joker film review: Terrific, tear-out-the-follicles acting from Joaquin Phoenix
Satirical masterpiece or manifesto for psychopathy, this is a beautifully made film
Miriam Lord: Brendan Ogle eager to get back in the leftie limelight
With Paul Murphy starting his own party, Ogle thinks it’s a good time to unite socialists
The Irishman: Full trailer released for new Scorsese film
Robert De Niro stars in the highly anticipated new film, released on Netflix in November
Oscars race: who are the real contenders and who have blown their chances?
Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months out
Joaquin Phoenix: ‘You’re driving down the street, you go, Again? This face? It is so tired. Enough’
How did the unpredictable star figure out his Joker character? He’s in no hurry to explain
Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
Joker: final trailer with Joaquin Phoenix as supervillain released
Phoenix plays the nascent Joker as a struggling stand-up comic who goes over to the dark side
How can you spot a deepfake, and if you can’t is that a problem?
A harmless doctored video of Bill Hader becoming Tom Cruise has triggered full-on panic
The Irishman: New trailer for Netflix movie starring Robert de Niro and Al Pacino
The trailer exists to reassure the millions who grew up with Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.
Stars and their cunning plans for dealing with famous catchphrases
How do actors cope with having their defining line shouted at them in the streets – for decades? Richard Wilson, Maureen Lipman and Tony Robinson tell all
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Netflix: The 9 best new films and shows to watch in June
Black Mirror and Jessica Jones return, Tales of the City and The Black Godfather debut
Robert De Niro’s best work in years – and it’s an ad for bagels
Peddling bread on the mean streets of Bolton seems to suit the star. Take note, Scorsese
Stop your scrolling and watch these online trailers now
Two decades after the Phantom Menace teaser, they are our age’s internet art form
Robert de Niro: I felt I had to make the ‘F**k Trump’ speech
Interview: The once reticent star on becoming one of Donald Trump’s most vocal critics
David Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ Donald Trump and, yes, that ending
It’s 20 years to the day since the landmark TV series began. Its creator looks back
Penny Marshall, director of ‘Big’ and ‘A League Of Their Own’, dies aged 75
The Laverne & Shirley star beame one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood
Bertolucci’s legacy marred by ugly stories about ‘Last Tango’
Oscar winner Bernardo Bertolucci was one of Italy's great post-war directors
US pipe bombs suspect charged with five federal offences
Cesar Sayoc (56) has a long criminal history and could face up to 58 years in prison
US investigation into pipe bombs turns focus to Florida
Actor Robert De Niro and former vice-president Joe Biden are latest Trump critics targeted
Suspicious package sent to restaurant owned by Robert De Niro
A package has been found to have been sent to former US vice-president Joe Biden
Mayo's latest designs on Sam Maguire off to a storming start
New football manager James Horan to lead senior team’s hot pursuit of All-Ireland in 2019
Matt Damon plays ‘keg-half-full’ Brett Kavanaugh on SNL
Saturday Night Live video: ‘Look, I like beer. OK? I like beer. Boys like beer. Girls like beer’
Darragh Ó Sé: Galway hardly in the ideal mindset to face Dublin
Kevin Walsh can’t just click his fingers and fix his players’ attitude before Saturday
Dwayne Johnson: Can ‘The Rock’ save Hollywood?
The golden era of a film selling itself on its star is over – but ‘Skyscraper’ does just that
The Deer Hunter: 40 years on, the Russian roulette scenes feel racist
Review: The brutal, murky American tragedy has been reissued for its anniversary
Robert De Niro applauded for ‘f**k Trump’ speech at Tony awards
Actor has continually criticised US president since he announced his candidacy
The worst film titles of all time
The upcoming ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ is so bad it's good
Presumed innocent: a history of adolescent sexuality
From acknowledged reality to hidden taboo, the representation of sexuality in art and culture has a long and difficult history
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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
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