‘You took the money’: Tarantino responds to Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction racial slur criticism
Director has received criticism on multiple occasions during his career over use of word in his films
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Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!
Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025
Highest 2 Lowest review: Spike Lee’s film about an old-school music mogul is never boring but lacks cohesion
Getting on board with the later stages of this film requires an almighty leap of faith
Cannes: 15 of the most unforgettable looks, from Pedro Pascal to Rihanna
Actors, musicians and models mostly adhered to the French film festival’s new ‘no nudity’ rule on the red carpet
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and Pillion
The Guide: The Ferryman, Jimmy Carr and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
January 25th–31st: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’
The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’
The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herself
Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play’
The Tina Turner actor on fairness in pay, film-making and why acting is still her first love
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows to watch in May
Ewan McGregor as Halston and the return of Special are among the month’s highlights
He Got Game: ‘I pray that you understand why I pushed you so hard’
You need dark forces behind you to make it as a basketball star – in this case an obsessive dad
Judas and the Black Messiah: Daniel Kaluuya is transcendent in this thrilling picture
The story of the killing of a young Black Panther is flawed but fiercely muscular
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
Christopher Plummer never hid his dislike of The Sound of Music
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
American Utopia: David Byrne makes a lot of sense – maybe too much sense
Review: If you like Talking Heads, watch this. If you don’t, don’t
Four new films to see this weekend
Wonder Woman, Let Him Go on release, Ma Rainey, American Utopia on demand
Normal People’s Paul Mescal named as actor to watch by Variety
The Emmy-nominated Kildare actor appears in 10 to watch list with Borat’s Maria Bakalova
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet love story Ammonite premieres at virtual Toronto Film Festival
A version of the Toronto International Film Festival glides into action on September 10th
Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, was so much more than just a gifted actor
The late actor was a star for the ages who helped change Hollywood's view on race
Ruth Negga: ‘People who say they don’t consider skin colour... are you f**king blind?’
Black Irish Lives: The actor on growing up in Ireland, the film industry, and Black Lives Matter
Spike Lee: ‘Race relations today are a direct response to having a black president’
Da 5 Bloods director on George Floyd, Covid-19 and the worst thing about actors
Four new films to stream this weekend
Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in June
Including Queer Eye, Dating Around, The Politician, Athlete A, and a Eurovision spoof
What kinds of films will we watch in the post Covid-19 era?
Stories will need to establish whether they are set before, during or after the pandemic
Abel Ferrara: ‘You can’t imagine the life I’ve led’
The Bronx filmmaker talks spirituality, creative bonds and his Italian-Irish roots
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Adam Driver: ‘Acting is not glamorous in its making’
The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Do the Right Thing: Come for the politics, stay for the energy
Review: Previous ranting about the film nudging black audiences towards violence now sounds like so much gibberish
Oldboy: An established classic emerges in a new print
Review: Famous, often-copied action sequence remains as striking as ever
Netflix: the 10 best new films and shows to watch in May
Renee Zellweger stars in What/If; Knock Down the House looks at the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‘Mr Lacroix sent me to see an astrologist who said I should move to America. So I did’
From photography to dress design, here’s some of the Irish making it in New York’s fast-paced fashion industry
They fixed the Oscars! Or did they just get harder to predict?
Analysis: How did Green Book, an indifferent film with lazy racial politics, win best picture?
Oscars 2019: ‘Ref made a bad call,’ Spike Lee says of ‘Green Book’ win
‘BlacKkKlansman’ director turns back on best-picture acceptance speeches
Oscars 2019: The full list of winners – Roma, Green Book and more
Multi-nominated Roma won best director, cinematography and foreign language film
Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman and Green Book triumph in a night of shocks
Green Book is best film, Bohemian Rhapsody wins most. Glenn Close overlooked for 7th time
Oscars 2019: Donald Clarke’s guide – Who will win? And who should?
The Favourite may be overlooked for the big prizes with Roma likely to steal the show
Baftas 2019: complete list of winners
‘The Favourite’ and ‘Roma’ win the top prizes while Olivia Colman and Rami Malek take acting honours
Oscars 2019: Nominated films play fast and loose with history
Most factual liberties are dramatically justifiable. But some seriously mislead viewers
Barry Jenkins: ‘Being poor and black in Miami was all I knew’
The 'If Beale Street Could Talk' director on the Oscars mix-up and what's next
Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon: ‘Like Gandalf on his way to work in the House of Lords’
Paddy McAloon on his unsensous name, intelligent songs and being a ‘health disaster’
Oscars 2019: the complete list of nominations
Irish-produced film The Favourite and Netflix’s Roma lead the way with 10 nominations each
Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today
Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed
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
Golden Globes 2019: full list of winners
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ beats runaway favourite ‘A Star Is Born’ to best drama film
The 50 best films of 2018
Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year
‘In Freddie Mercury I saw a very shy and at times lonely figure’
Actor Rami Malek on portraying the late Queen frontman in the new biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’
His 25th film tackles US racism but director says far right's rise a global phenomenon
BlacKkKlansman: New Spike Lee movie is funny, agitated and dynamic
Review: Spike Lee also manages something unexpected from a political film: warmth
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teenage years in ‘bombed out’ New York
Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
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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
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