Stranger Things has turned us inside out and upside down. Is the best yet to come?
Geeks were already going mainstream before the sci-fi franchise landed, but the love letter to nerd culture took the trend to another level
Steven Spielberg
Hollywood’s obsession with reissued films makes cinemas feel like museums with popcorn
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cinema, along comes another anniversary rerelease
Colin Farrell recalls being so drunk on set he needed 46 takes to deliver a line: ‘Tom Cruise was not happy’
Colin Farrell describes one of his 'worst days’ on set, both hungover and freshly intoxicated on Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi drama Minority Report
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley on their new film Hamnet: ‘I only want to make films as brave and as human as this’
Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews
Thursday Murder Club review: The weak link here, sadly, is the greatest James Bond of all
Television: A hollow page-turner adapted for film with all the zing of a lesser season of Inspector Morse
Brendan Gleeson: ‘I can’t go into a pub any more. I really miss it’
With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a people
The Movie Quiz: How many times has Steven Spielberg directed Richard Dreyfuss in a feature?
Plus: What does Lady share with Tramp?
Jaws: As Steven Spielberg’s film turns 50, we’re still living in the shadow of the shark
Jaws is accused of destroying US cinema, but it was popcorn entertainment of the kind the studios would always shift back to
Jurassic World: Rebirth review – the plot is mid-level dumb but ‘good film’ belongs among its keywords
It’s no masterpiece. The plot is mid-level dumb but ‘good film’ belongs among its keywords
Jurassic Park adviser unimpressed with Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs: ‘What didn’t he get wrong?’
‘Dino’ Don Lessem objects to depictions of the animals as vicious monsters, saying humans could, in reality, outrun and outsmart a T-Rex
Jurassic World: Rebirth director Gareth Edwards – ‘I think I’ve got the wrong personality for this job’
The self-effacing film-maker has never been an obvious fit for the Hollywood mould. What’s it like at the helm of one of the summer’s biggest titles?
‘Burn them all out’: The prejudice bubbling under Ireland’s thin veneer of normality
Radio: Newstalk and RTÉ cover unrest in Ballymena and Los Angeles
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals
The cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savagery
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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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