At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
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Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
Irish WWE star Lyra Valkyria: ‘At its core, we’re storytellers. Everything comes down to good versus evil’
With its mix of larger-than-life faux rage in the ring and genuine connection with fans, it’s not hard to understand the huge popularity of WWE – and it means big business, too, for Netflix
Katie Taylor: ‘Win borne out of courage, determination, skill and stamina’
President and Taoiseach lead tributes to fighter on biggest night for women’s boxing
Ambulance: Faint praise, but this is easily Michael Bay’s best film in 25 years
Film review: The director delivers a slightly more sophisticated take on his usual mayhem
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish man
People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed
Cinematographer killed by Alec Baldwin made movie in Ireland during lockdown
Halyna Hutchins stayed in Dublin while filming indie movie at Birr Castle in 2020
New subscriptions at Netflix fall short of expectations
Streaming giant blames ‘pull-forward’ effect from bumper 2020 and production delays
Netflix has spent millions on its films, so why are they so mediocre?
Streaming giant Netflix has spent gazillions making movies, with little of quality to show for it
My Spy review: The best nonsensical family comedy out there
Ex-wrestler Dave Bautista follows Dwayne Johnson out of the ring and into our hearts
Chris Messina: ‘Ireland is extraordinary; I could spend the rest of my life there’
Birds of Prey actor is a genuine nice guy, not of the disingenuous syndrome variety
Childish notions may be away with the fairies – but all the better for it
‘There is no harm in allowing our children occasional magical-thinking coping mechanisms’
Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good fun
Review: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The Rock
Kevin Hart car crash: Actor ‘is awake’ and ‘going to be just fine’
Justin Bieber, David Beckham and Dwayne Johnson send messages of support
The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed
Dwayne Johnson, Robert Downey Jr, Bradley Cooper make Forbes list
Hobbs & Shaw: Fast & Furious needs to get back to basics
Review: Neither Johnson nor Statham has much to work with, but the banter is awful
We should stop calling Boris Johnson by his first name only
The informality invites us to view his less lovely outbursts as the forgivable ramblings of a silly pal
The Office: It wasn’t a plan, here’s how we get famous. It was never that
English writer Stephen Merchant on helming Fight With My Family, trying to move away from satire and revisiting The Office
‘Pregnancy is boring’ and other things you’re not supposed to say
Maria Boyle on her new book, Instagram fame and being honest about motherhood
Big hitters: Which film will make the most money in 2019?
Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: Episode IX, Frozen 2, The Lion King look like the big hitters this year
Skyscraper: I enjoy The Rock’s films as much as anyone, but there are limits ...
Review: It’s a shameless retread of ‘Die Hard’, lifting entire scenes from the 1980s classic
The seven best TV shows to watch this weekend
GLOW returns in all its spandex glory while Romesh Ranganathan visits the most dangerous places on Earth
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
The World Cup is keeping the big movies out of cinemas in June
Movie scheduling is a voodoo science - nobody knows why certain releases work in certain slots
Rampage review: the Rock v a giant ape. It’s worse than it sounds
A flying wolf can’t make up for awful dialogue, absent humour and ropy CGI
A very belated Jumanji sequel: Family fun let down by kinky boots
Follow-up to 1995 kids’ flick has a ‘big idea’ – but sadly succumbs to crass objectification
Steve Carell: Some people sprint to the top. For me it happened over years. I didn’t notice
The actor on hitting every rung on the Hollywood ladder
Baywatch: A hunk of junk that not even The Rock can rescue
This reboot of the 1990s TV show is so poor, it even messes up the David Hasselhoff cameo
Fast and Furious 8 review: It’s completely stupid. It’s completely awesome
Less may be more, but much more is much, much more - and no stunt is too crazy or extravagant for this barmy franchise
2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
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’
Luc Besson is back – and he’s bending minds, and spacetime, again
It has taken Besson 10 years to get his latest sci-fi flick Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, to the big screen – and much of that time was spent asking science professors questions like “What if we could access our bodies at a cellular level?”
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