Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months out

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

The reality of creative control is increasingly muddy in what is a large team sport

Netflix once had the field to itself. Now Disney and other Hollywood behemoths are closing in – and they’re here to take your money

We all have our own Oz, be it fame, money or love. For immigrant families like mine, it is usually an actual place

When is a reboot not a reboot? When it’s a new version of Frasier starring Kelsey Grammer

Galbraith still busy pulling the strings at Taney Parish in Dundrum

Sonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s Call

‘In reality, it was a boozier Bloomsday organised by the cast of The Inbetweeners’: a Dubliners tour of Dublin pubs

‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in film

Review: The first hour is as funny and romantic as any mainstream film this decade

Will the new Lady Gaga film make as much cash as the Barbra Streisand version?

Red shoes worn by Judy Garland were taken from hometown museum in Minnesota

In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside Dublin’s Central Library

For Roseanna Purcell, taking to the saddle has provided an excellent payoff with very few pitfalls

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

The golden era of a film selling itself on its star is over – but ‘Skyscraper’ does just that

‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedy

Actor Bradley Cooper makes his directorial debut with Lady Gaga in major role of remake of the classic story

Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry

Review: ‘The young man could not be less animated if he were fashioned from Bakelite’

Singer-actor auctions items including iconic bowler hat and Judy Garland possessions

Almost 3,000 people on Twitter returned a clear winner from a four-strong shortist

Toilet Day is in fact a proper ‘day’, recognised by the UN. And cut the crap, it’s dead serious

The lost theatres of Dublin revealed

Political solution needed as building industry cannot solve permanent emergency

ThisIsPopBaby brings its cabaret, club culture and GAA aerial dance to Vicar Street

America Letter: On the Walk of Fame, the Trump star once had a wall built around it

The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees

As a festive favourite celebrates a quarter of a century enthralling Irish audiences, Vicki Notaro lists 25 of the most enduring Christmas movies

Dorothy dress from 1939 film sold in less than three minutes in New York

Lack of economic pressure and a sense of being cut off from the surrounding world encouraged creative experimentation in 1980s West Berlin

Actress with throaty voice shot to fame in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart

Review: Joseph O’Connor has swapped his high style for a talky approach in this homage to rock’n’roll

Actor became top box-office star at 19, bankrupt in his 40s, comeback kid on Broadway at 60

The singer-songwriter has a galaxy of high-profile fans and a dizzying range of achievements under his belt – but has never troubled the top of the charts. Does that matter to him – and, if not, what does he focus on instead?

Shirley Temple Black

Maximilian Schell: December 8th, 1930-February 1st, 2014