Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review: This nauseating Irish horror film is an absolute blast
Talented Dublin director of the title is proving to be a master prankster of the genre
Brendan Fraser
Four new films to see this week: Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Megadeth: Behind the Mask
Brendan Fraser, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell and Dave Mustaine feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 16th, 2026
Early Edition podcast: Friday’s top stories in 10 minutes
Preferred name and pronoun guidance issued to schools, Greenlanders on Trump’s threats, Brendan Fraser on Irish roots and more
Brendan Fraser: ‘My great-grandad escaped the Famine. He came across the Atlantic by himself aged 11’
The Oscar-winning actor’s peripatetic life makes him a perfect fit for his new film, Rental Family
Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly splutter over e-scooters
Radio: The Newstalk Breakfast hosts won’t need to change much as they move slots, while Rick O’Shea needs to stay on as Arena host
Rental Family review: Brendan Fraser helps sell this odd but charming American-in-Tokyo comedy
Fraser plays a struggling actor hired to pose as the estranged father of a young mixed-race girl
Darren Aronofsky: ‘What happened over Covid was the streaming war. That’s what killed cinema’
The director’s latest film, Caught Stealing, keeps more within genre lines (this time, crime caper) than many of his other, less categorisable works such as Requiem for a Dream and Mother!
Killers of the Flower Moon review: Scorsese’s new epic is long and sprawling, but the great man still has it
Cannes 2023: Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the film rates high in the 21st-century Scorsese canon, but it asks for substantial patience
Oscars 2023: Was that the real Jenny, and nine other key questions about this year’s Academy Awards
Including: Was The Banshees of Inisherin ever going to win anything, and what was Colin Farrell’s SNL remark about?
Oscars 2023: Ireland wins two Academy Awards – and delivers one of the great Oscar moments
Everything Everywhere All at Once has an extraordinary night at the 95th Academy Awards, winning seven Oscars
Tom Cruise hands back his awards. NBC pulls out. Is it all over for the Golden Globes?
A Los Angeles Times exposé has left the Hollywood Foreign Press Association reeling
Eye for an Eye: John Travolta in an early contender for turkey of the year
Film review: A militantly awful misuse of good actors who really don’t need the money
Chronically ill people are the experts in this strange new world
After months of staying inside it’s natural to feel nervous about leaving our homes – even if we desperately want to
The Mummy: Story of the world’s most expensive movie poster
An original lithograph of the 1932 classic is set to sell for $1-1.5m, a record-breaking sum
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