Venice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight years
Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
Aoife Barry: In a world of overwhelming choice, much of it atrocious, committing can feel impossible
Television: The real-time thriller on Apple TV+ draws on many influences to conjure that is moslty engaging, though predictable
Chris Hemsworth plays hard-boiled mercenary Tyler Rake in a loud, empty action flick that gets by on undeniable chutzpah
Idris Elba’s detective arrives at Netflix in a film about a global serial killer that is as distasteful as it is silly
From Finding Dory to Zootopia to Cats: The legendary actor takes on the role of Knuckles
Former champions Spain and Germany to meet in the group stage
People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed
Review: James Gunn’s comic-strip fantasy delivers on its own terms
The actor on fighting for his big break, and why acting helped him out of a ‘dark, weird junction’
Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+
Chilli-eating contestants step up for pain and anguish beyond what most of us can imagine
Donald Clarke: For 60 years we have been living with Next James Bond speculation
The actor known as ‘The Rock’ is urging people to wear a mask to stop coronavirus spreading
The actor spent a week in hospital after contracting Covid-19
Ghanaian politicians to renew their call-outs to people of African descent to ‘come home’
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Donald Clarke: The online kerfuffle should do Tom Hooper’s project no harm
Review: Neither Johnson nor Statham has much to work with, but the banter is awful
Patrick Freyne: A bunch of cats in an alleyway is not remotely as magical as this film depicts
Elba and Dhowre, who met on the set of The Mountain Between Us in 2017, exchanged vows in Marrakesh
At 51, Craig needs to work hard to convince as the UK’s greatest killing machine
Ricky Gervais’s After Life, Idris Elba’s Turn Up Charlie, Woody Harrelson in The Highwaymen
Donald Clarke predicts next year’s best picture nominees. He used to be good at this...
Review: Idris Elba’s brooding bobbie is back with gross-out horror and comic-book peril
From Ad Adstra to Frozen 2 and Martin Scorsese's latest, there's plenty to look forward to in the new year
Roma, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Dumplin’, The Innocent Man, Springsteen on Broadway
The TV contrarian is at it again, tweeting about Daniel Craig’s ‘emasculating’ papoose
Swapping Danny Boyle for Cary Fukunaga looks like a cautious move by the producers
Director of Netflix series Maniac takes over after departure of Danny Boyle
Seamas O’Reilly: New TV series may satisfy diehard fans but feels like a parody of itself
Review: Too many violent set-pieces, though well staged, are placed in no lucid context
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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