Matthew McConaughey

Web Log: Softly-spoken, laid-back painter now available to lull you to sleep

The MMA fighter’s whiskey is on sale now, so what can you expect?

Risky move comes as streaming TV services chase the holy grail of original content

If you want to stay somewhere different – but with all the comforts of home – try ‘glamorous camping’

The format has been on the wane for years. Home Again could be its nadir

The Stephen King inspired film looks like a cluttered 95-minute trailer

From The Flintstones to He-Man and Top Cat, kids’ animation has a lot to teach us

If television is going to plunder our 1980s childhoods for inspiration, it should at least go for the weird gold

The languid actor discusses putting rom-coms behind him and putting on 20kg for ‘Gold’

Listeners have ebbed away from the Communicorp radio station. So, what next?

By identifying neighbourhoods we validate them rather than implying they and their residents are of so little importance they can be brushed over and lumped in with neighbourhoods miles away

The actor has done plenty of serious roles. Will anyone begrudge him a crime caper?

The Pixels movie will open, so will the US embassy in Cuba and, weatherwise, the heavens might just do the same

The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes

The market for men’s skincare products in Ireland is tiny, but hopefully that will change

People with orthorexia – an unhealthy fixation on what they think is healthy eating – can end up with serious physical and mental problems

Film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competition

'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' was great comedy - and journalism

Angry exchanges between major Hollywood figures revealed in Sony Pictures hack

Comedian Billy Crystal delivers touching tribute to Robin Williams

The Maverick/Rockford fave helped bridge the divide between film and TV

After all these years, the two mediums are finally getting it on

‘You can’t unspoil children, just like you can’t unspoil milk. It’s too late if it’s already bad’

Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey take acting Academy Awards; No joy for U2 in best song

12 Years a Slave and Gravity among favourites to take top award

Putting his reputation on the line. Donald Clarke predicts the big prizes at the Academy Awards tomorrow night - and who deserves to win in each category

In a cluttered few weeks at the multiplexes, the kids came out on top

An obnoxious homophobe becomes a most unlikely hero in the fight against Aids in this stirring true-life drama

He was once known primarily as a mahogany beefcake, but a series of thrilling performances has seen Matthew McConaughey’s critical star rise to the very top. The Oscar nominee talks reinvention, rom-coms and running the gauntlet of awards season

He is best known for the overblown ‘Battleship’, but Peter Berg’s latest movie , ‘Lone Survivor’, is a far rarer Hollywood beast – a politically nuanced war movie. And it also contains what may be the greatest gunfight ever filmed

Martin Scorsese’s study of Wall Street excess is beautifully made but madly over the top

Cate Blanchette and Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith receive best actress gongs

Michael Fassbender and U2 make Oscar nominations

Before today’s announcement, we make a stab at predicting who is going to figure

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady cast eyes towards the coming year’s cinematic treats

There were many contenders, but Jennifer Lawrence is the undisputed boss of 2013

The strong showing of 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' suggests erudite Ticket readers just can’t get enough Franco-Tunisian neo-realism, writes Donald Clarke