A long-time painter and art enthusiast, at 71, Brosnan doesn’t often show the whole of himself. He refers to it all as ‘the Celtic alchemy’
Television: Helen Mirren’s Irish accent is another phonetic fumble, but Brosnan seems determined to scupper his national treasure status
This flawed, fascinating film, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, resists the hollow allure of cheap tribalism
Director on getting out of his southern US comfort zone and his plans to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s final two novels
Actor on the ‘trauma’ of making Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and her unsettling new film Lamb
Film: Marvel sequel might have been a blast if the exchanges were not so dull
Donald Clarke: For 60 years we have been living with Next James Bond speculation
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in film
The stinkily reviewed ‘Venom’ proves that the right film at the right time still can sell
Review: Tom Hardy comes across like Marlon Brando playing Animal from the Muppets
Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry
The format has been on the wane for years. Home Again could be its nadir
And when he's finished as 007? Clondalkin man Aidan Turner looks nicely positioned
The greatest spectacle of the summer puts all others to shame
He made sense of Batman. He is bossing Dunkirk. Is Nolan signed up for Bond 25?
Actor apprehends teenager after a ‘dramatic’ chase through gardens and a building site
Our fearless Film Correspondent tries to predict the films that will battle it out for the Best Picture Oscar next February
Taboo’s a complicated man and nobody understands him but his woman, who’s also his sister. Herself is up to her old tricks. And Code Black is jumping the shark bites
Tom Hardy, a genetic stalemate between beauty and brutishness, is picking a fight with the British empire in the BBC’s new antihero vehicle
There are many things we could resolve to do this year – join a gym, fight fascism – but if the TV screen wins out instead, there are some promising shows to while away the hours
Nicolas Winding Refn’s feud with fellow Danish director Lars Von Trier shows no sign of letting up. “It is natural for youth to destroy the old”, he says
Mainstream entertainments such as Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant jostle with independents including Brooklyn and Room
With roles in ‘Frank’, ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, and a star turn in ‘The Revenant’, Gleeson’s career has gone stellar
Actress Emily Browning on her role in new film ‘Legend’, about the Kray Twins
Noomi Rapace certainly knows how to make an entrance – and how to talk. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Prometheus star discusses her love of Iceland, life as a 15-year-old wild child in Stockholm, and how acting saved her life
Irish romantic comedy ‘Standby’ also to feature in extensive festival programme
It’s the seventh X-Men feature and the entire team are gonna get down like it’s 1973. But how does the relentlessly upbeat Hugh Jackman manage to bring all that gloomy menace to the party as Wolverine? "He’s like my older brother; my tougher, cooler older brother. And it does save me a fortune in therapy"
As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
