Odysseus is all around us, not just in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster
He is everywhere in our cities, anywhere we see shipwrecked people adrift and wandering
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Matt Damon, Zendaya, Seth Rogen and Kieran Culkin feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 17th, 2026
Going Gone – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Irish go-go dancing
Plus: Diplomacy requires envoys of bad luck to avoid Spain’s and Argentina’s embassies on Sunday
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have won Oscars for roles in Christopher Nolan films?
Plus: Which Odyssey character is played by a veteran of the Dark Knight trilogy?
The Odyssey review: Set aside any doubts. This star-studded film is Christopher Nolan at his best
This take on Homer’s classic – with a celebrity cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya – should win over even the most passionate sceptics
Christopher Nolan interview: ‘It’s exciting to bring The Odyssey out. It’s also terrifying’
Christopher Nolan on big-budget pressure, finally conquering Ulysses and why The Odyssey, his highly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s epic, deserves to be seen on the big screen
What is The Odyssey? The 3,000-year-old question
Everyone knows the story of the Trojan horse. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey follows what happens after
Himesh Patel on Enola Holmes 3: ‘The casting decisions were made to tell a very honest story about colonialism’
The actor has gone from his teenage break in EastEnders to playing Dr Watson in Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, and roles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files
The Wow! Signal review – Only Muse can make this gravity-defying sound. It’s ludicrous but great fun
The trio’s 10th album, a glam odyssey, fuses metal, techno, science fiction and prog rock into an overstuffed inferno of absurdity
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey isn’t evidence of a cultural void. It’s the opposite
With a little hindsight we will know what is interesting about the 2020s. It won’t be Marvel franchises, but it could be Taylor Swift
So the Odyssey trailer has upset you. Shut up and stop whinging
Christopher Nolan's film doesn’t open for another two months, and pedants are already getting their underwear in knots
Communion by Jon Doyle: A genuinely idiosyncratic way of describing the everyday
Novel has a meandering quality and a subtlety in terms of what’s actually happening that proves a bit too subtle
Oscars 2027: Which films will be up for best picture? Donald Clarke predicts the nominees
From Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, a look at next year’s potential best-picture contenders
Lupita Nyong’o, Odessa A’zion and the Norman Nobrains of racially controversial casting
Nobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actors
From black holes to wormholes – welcome to the warped side of the Universe
Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to understand more about space
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debut
Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’
An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub
The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop
Wolf Man director Leigh Whannell: ‘For most film-makers, a lot of movies that happen are accidents. It feels very chaotic’
Australian creator of the Saw horror series talks about rebooting a werewolf classic and why he never thought Hollywood was his destiny
The Penguin review: Colin Farrell’s powerhouse performance is the best thing about this Batman spin-off
Television review: As a showcase for Colin Farrell, the series has its charms but The Penguin is hugely uneven and often extremely slow as a moribund script gets in the way
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a ‘favourite’ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards
Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things – a remarkable feat for an Irish production
In pictures: Cillian Murphy’s night of glory at the Oscars
Cillian Murphy wins best actor award at the Oscars after a remarkable night
Oscars 2024: ‘Very proud Irishman’ Cillian Murphy wins best actor, one of seven awards for Oppenheimer
Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards
Oscars 2024: the complete list of winners
Here are all the winners of the 96th Academy Awards - and all the nominees
Cillian Murphy: ‘Moving home from London was the best thing we did’
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy looks unbeatable. Who else should win and who will win?
It’s shaping up to be Oppenheimer’s year at the Academy Awards. What about Barbie? And could Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things also do well?
What do the Baftas tell us about Ireland’s Oscar hopes?
The Age of Cillian has firmly arrived, but past history tells us anything can happen between now and next month
Baftas 2024: the complete list of winners
Oppenheimer takes top Baftas as Irish-produced film Poor Things and Zone of Interest also triumph
Baftas 2024: Cillian Murphy scoops best actor award for Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy remains on track to become the first person born in Ireland to win best actor at the Oscars
Oscars 2024: Was Greta Gerwig snubbed for a best director nomination and nine other questions
Were Barry Keoghan and Andrew Scott ever in the race?
Cillian Murphy on hearing about his Oscar nomination: ‘We were just having a cup of tea, and then my mum brought out the cake’
The Irish star earned his first Academy Award nomination today, for his leading role in Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy’s best actor nomination leads a strong showing for Irish film
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things scores a huge 11 nominations, a record for an Irish-produced film
Oscars 2024: best actor frontrunner Cillian Murphy secures first nomination
Poor Things puts in a strong showing with 11 nods as Oppenheimer leads race with 13, but there’s no luck for other Irish acting talent
Oscars 2024: Will Barry Keoghan make the cut? Donald Clarke predicts this year’s nominees
Bafta nomination system has rendered connections between the US and British academies less robust than was the case
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