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Once a rank outsider, Coda has won best film from the Producers Guild of America
Donald Clarke: Is Spielberg returning to TV? Yes and no
The auteur’s Netflix deal is more a case of making peace with an evolving hybrid form
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Review: A dreary, woke subplot sends Maleficent to a hidden kingdom to express herself
Gloria Bell: Julianne Moore with useless boyfriends and awkward family
Review: Sebastián Lelio has accomplished a very satisfactory remake of his own movie
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot
Corn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom large
My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-Ra
The Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feminists
Helen Mirren on a motorbike? That’s a ‘grey pound’ movie
‘The Leisure Seeker’ is the latest undemanding, patronising film aimed at oldies
Has Olivia de Havilland’s last starring role just been cut short?
The Hollywood great’s failed lawsuit has got fact-based TV and cinema off the hook
Steven Spielberg: ‘I didn’t think anybody would go to see ET’
His new film ‘The Post’ neatly captures the Trumpian zeitgeist. But the director worries that ‘four-quadrant superhero franchises’ will drive these old-school films out of cinemas
Boy babies wet their nappies at any lurch towards gender equality
The three highest grossing movies in the US have women in leading roles – about time
Going out this weekend? Here’s the best of what to see
Sean Millar, Irish Opera Artists and The Grimm Tale of Cinderella come to Dublin
Dakota Fanning: Women like to watch other women on screen
At just 23, Dakota Fanning is a Hollywood veteran - just don't expect her to go all Lindsay Lohan anytime soon
Meet the man who will redesign the US ambassador’s house
'No beige', says Carleton Viney, who has been asked to redesign the next US ambassador's Phoenix Park residence
Pedro Almodóvar: Writing for men is a ‘kind of torture’
The Spanish director on the making of his latest movie Julieta, his ‘unity with women’, and the lack of authenticity in modern cinema
Macho, macho men – at least until mom enters the room
Ken Wardrop follows up His & Hers with a look at mother-son relationships in the US
Big Eyes review: Deception painted with a skilful hand
Director Tim Burton’s new film is a terrific story based on an artistic swindle
Rory O'Neill/Panti: The drag doyenne who’s the queen of the scene
She can hold an audience in the palm of her hand, or round up a crowd with a click of her well-manicured fingers – so how did Rory O’Neill go from being a small-town boy in Co Mayo to becoming Panti, the grande dame of Dublin’s gay scene
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