Review: Barry Jenkins’s third film is least as good as his Oscar-winning Moonlight

The 'If Beale Street Could Talk' director on the Oscars mix-up and what's next

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

For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo

Rediscovered classic from a black American writer imagines a different Deep South

In conversation: Daniel McIntyre and Parker Mulherin, musicians

The message is that, at best, we are a nuisance; at worst, we are not welcome

Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol

Audience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometer

Academy Award talk is a tradition in Toronto, and this year’s festival is no different

The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto

Review: A cerebral bromance between the charismatic Marx and the rakish Engels

Review: It’s a mish-mash of quantum physics, trippy adventure and glitter

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

Dunkirk blows away the competition

We’re halfway through the year – it’s time to take cinematic stock

Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema today

I Am Not Your Negro is already attracting the attention of bigots for its brilliance

Ireland’s call: Border question needs to be isolated from sphere of economics

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

American actor Peter Macon is playing Othello for the fourth time in the Abbey’s new production, and his love-hate relationship with the ‘problematic material’ is what keeps him coming back

Doctorow was born in New York and named after American writer Edgar Allen Poe

New book explores how J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders monitored half of all known African American writers working between 1919 and 1972

Miley Cyrus let a homeless man accept her video of the year award

Maya Angelou: April 4th, 1928 - May 28th, 2014

Two themes dominate the songwriter’s latest, remarkable album – the death of her Irish-American father, and an American predilection for war