It is the most shattering experience of a young man’s life when one morning he awakes and, quite reasonably, says to himself: “I will never play the Dane.”
Live from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week. Fun for all the family while the pubs are closed.
Mick Hannigan, recently made redundant as CEO of the Cork Film Festival, speaks out and the festival board issues its own statement
The oldest film festival in Ireland lays off Mick Hannigan, CEO, and Úna Feely, festival programmer, “due to the financial position of the company”.
Helen Mirren expreses disappointment that Sam Mendes failed to include any women in his list of influences.
The star of The Hangover has crossed over to respectability with some aplomb.
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman will, come May, be hanging from every lamppost at the Cannes Film Festival.
This week’s quiz really works the grey cells with a series of particularly testing connections. Scroll carefully. Answers at the bottom.
White House Down and Olympus has Fallen both see the President under attack from pesky terrorists.
Scottish Nationalists don’t really rage at the new Star Trek trailer. In fact, everyone thinks it rocks.
The controversies surrounding the increasingly troubled star distract from the talent she hasn’t yet had a chance to exploit.
An American TV show presents a version of the Devil that looks eerily like the current US president. It’s a conspiracy.
We may be bucktoothed simpletons with eyebrows on our cheeks, but we greatly admire the first trailer for the upcoming Alan Partridge movie.
This week’s quiz features the usual round of twisty conundra, cheap connections and absolute gifts. Still on the blog, it’s the famous, much requested quiz of the week.
Hooray! It’s the day we celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. That’s C/d or π or 3.14159 26535 89793 23846…. (and so forth).
The Irish Film Board turns to a famous face for its next chairperson
As many had predicted, Baz Luhrmann’s version of the classic novel — starring Leo DiCaprio as the unreliable protagonist — is set to launch the world’s greatest film festival in May.
Publishers Weekly is on a search for the Great White Whale of literary discourse. What can it all mean?
The weekly film quiz from The Ticket, missing in action for a few weeks, makes a rare appearance in Screenwriter
Screenwriter bravely finds the energy to recommend films that can be enjoyed when laid low by seasonal complaints. Nice old films featuring nice old people prove to be just the ticket.
The Oscar-winning director of American Beauty is standing down from Bond duties. The fans will surely cry out for Chris Nolan. Maniacs want Carlos Reygadas.
Bieber turned up outrageously late at the O2 and caused children to be abducted by white slavers. Or did he?
The granite-hewn actor and director, a supposed conservative, once again confounds pundits by calling for marriage equality in the US.
Sam Raimi muses about making a prequel to the Wizard of Oz and about getting over his phobia of watching another director’s Spider-Man.
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