Christian Bale

Le Mans ’66 director James Mangold on Scorsese, the Marvel controversy and the state of film

Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael

Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months out

Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film is the book’s eighth screen adaptation. So why the excitement?

Blame the Walkman for bringing us all to the point of listening to music in isolation

Henry Ford III, a great-great-grandson of the motor giant’s founder, is helping to revitalise the auto maker’s spiritual home

If you are looking for a motorsport event for your bucket list, nothing compares to this high-speed masochistic marathon

Donald Clarke predicts next year’s best picture nominees. He used to be good at this...

Review: The movie is never boring, but too often treats the audience like morons

The Favourite could hardly have done better, but most of the big races are still competitive

Irish-produced film The Favourite and Netflix’s Roma lead the way with 10 nominations each

Academy Awards: Dubliner Robbie Ryan has been nominated for best cinematography

Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed

Chris Cornell’s widow, friends and family in heartfelt tributes at I am the Highway special concert in Los Angeles

Freddie Mercury biopic and ‘Green Book’ win big at awards ceremony on Sunday night

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ beats runaway favourite ‘A Star Is Born’ to best drama film

Roma, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Dumplin’, The Innocent Man, Springsteen on Broadway

Actor has gained 40lb to play former US vice-president for ‘Big Short’ director

In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist

The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for children

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

There is something of ‘The Searchers’ in director Scott Cooper’s elegiac tale

`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence

The beast sniffs out Jon’s Targaryen parentage in an emotional CGI encounter

At the core of The Promise is the first World War genocide of the Kardashians’ fellow Armenians, a cause close to the family's heart

Oscar-winning Irish director Terry George's latest sees Oscar Issac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale adrift in the Armenian genocide

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Having started out as a spinning instructor, Stephen Amell is continuing something of a family tradition with his comic-book roles. And he's certainly not short of confidence

Kate Beckinsale might be a go-to girl for Jane Austen adaptations, in between badass superhero roles. But her family life growing up had more to do with miners’ marches, Trotskyism and having their phone tapped

‘The Revenant’ or ‘Room’? Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Fassbender? Brie Larson or Saoirse Ronan? It’s the most unpredictable best-picture race in decades

Brilliantly accessible, scathing account of the financial crisis based on the bestselling book

There are more mysteries and imponderables this year than over the past decade

Actor pens essay on sexism in the film industry and says she’s tired of being ‘adorable’

Genisys crams every key trope into the mix; Schwarzenegger’s older, cuddlier Terminator adds the corn

Angry exchanges between major Hollywood figures revealed in Sony Pictures hack

Tim Schmalz is hoping the capital can find a home for his controversial statue, an ambition that is especially pertinent after the death of a homeless man near the Dáil

Hot: Indoor skiing. Not: George ’n’ Amal’s third wedding

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