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Kirsten Dunst leads a posse of gallant reporters in the film-maker’s dystopian adventure set in a divided United States
Civil War review: Kirsten Dunst has never been better than in Alex Garland’s action stormer
The director’s latest offering imagines a dystopian America through a carefully ambiguous lens
Oscars 2024 red carpet: Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie in Versace as classy black gowns win the night
Leading ladies such as Carey Mulligan and Jamie Lee Curtis favoured black and sculptural dresses that harked back to old-time Hollywood glamour
The Virgin Suicides: The most 1999 film of 1999 is even more persuasive now than it was on release
Sofia Coppola’s beautiful debut film, restored to 4K quality, returns us to a time when the world had no clue what was coming
Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?
Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far
Oscars 2022: Can Jessie Buckley win an award before Saoirse Ronan?
Kerry woman Jessie Buckley has been nominated for best supporting actress
Oscars 2022: Will any Irish nominees win? Will Lady Gaga’s snub break the internet?
Donald Clarke: Here are 10 key questions on this year's Oscars nominations
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations: The list in full
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names are among the nominees for the 28th SAG awards
Peter Bogdanovich, Last Picture Show director, dies at 82
Oscar-nominated film-maker’s many credits include What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon
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From a thrilling new Star Wars series to a second season of Emily in Paris
Anne Rice: Game-changing author of supernatural fiction who inspired a hit film
Interview With the Vampire writer turned established tropes on their head
Jane Campion: ‘If New Zealand can be Middle Earth, it can be Montana’
The director’s new film is a powerful study of masculinity set on a ranch in the 1920s
Jamie Dornan: ‘Since my dad died, it’s lit this extra fire within me’
With Belfast, the Fifty Shades of Grey star has planted himself firmly in prestige filmmaking
The Power of the Dog: Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst in a gripping psycho-western
Film review: Jane Campion teases an impressive cast towards their best work yet
Kirsten Dunst: ‘I haven’t slept through the night in months. I have an eye twitch, too’
She has just given one of her best performances – no mean feat with two young children
Venice Film Festival: Who will triumph as all eyes turn to the Golden Lion?
Reviews: Paul Mescal and Kristen Stewart among stars featuring in this year’s festival
Oscars 2022: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how next year’s category may look as the industry creaks back into action
Jesse Plemons: ‘I must get some kind of sick enjoyment out of the pressure’
Hollywood’s favourite new character actor on acting, adrenaline and his fiancee, Kirsten Dunst
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Marion Davies was as big as Valentino. Then she had a scandalous affair
Mank, David Fincher’s new film, goes some way to rehabilitating the film star's reputation
20 great travel movies to take you around the world while you’re stuck at home
From city breaks to train trips, Rome to the Amazon, these are all on streaming services
The 25 best films of the 2010s. None of them won best-picture Oscar
The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’
The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home
Lars Von Trier: ‘I am disappointed only 100 people vomited’
The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk
Orla Kiely retail empire collapsed with debts of more than €8m
Unsecured creditors owed £5 million likely to be left empty-handed, administrators say
Amy Adams: ‘I have this internal voice that is just not a cheerleader for myself’
In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist
Penalty pantomime time with ‘The Hand of Cod’ and Aladdin
Messi and Cueva the villains of the day as Argentina and Peru rue spotkick misses
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
Sofia Coppola: ‘Colin Farrell is the thinking woman's hunk’
Coppola's latest film ‘The Beguiled’ sees Dublin actor Colin Farrell stirring passions in an all-girls school during the US Civil War
Cannes review: The Beguiled - straining at the seams with suppressed sexual passion
Colin Farrell squirms with delight under the female gaze in Sofia Coppola’s slice of feminist Southern Gothic
Cannes Film Festival begins amid heavy security
Show goes on as Michael Haneke tipped for third Palme D’Or, for ‘Happy End’
Frockwatch: Golden Globes
The drama has migrated from the red carpet, but that might not be such a bad thing
Retired company director makes €13.5m tax settlement
Latest quarterly list of tax settlements shows that 117 such cases netted a total of €31.85 million
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