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Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’

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

Mon Sep 17 2018 - 12:03

‘Rosie’ may be an ‘issue film’, but it is charged with raw emotion

Film tackling homelessness crisis premieres at Toronto International Film Festival

Sat Sep 8 2018 - 03:00

Black ’47: it’s not a spaghetti western it’s a potato western

Irish director Lance Daly has made his Famine film as a revenge tale in the vein of ‘Unforgiven’

Fri Sep 7 2018 - 04:00

Black ’47: Brain-twitching Great Irish Famine revenge thriller

Review: Lance Daly’s movie rattles along at the pace of a hungry dog pursuing a healthy rabbit

Wed Sep 5 2018 - 05:00

Barry Keoghan: ‘My mother would be pretty proud. And surprised’

Actor on making Famine film Black 47, becoming American and Dublin's sweet smell

Sat Sep 1 2018 - 05:00

Roddy Doyle is back – and has homeless crisis in his sights

New film ‘Rosie’ focuses on ‘ordinary’ family staying in hotel accommodation

Sat Aug 4 2018 - 05:00

The 10 best films of the first half of 2018

Donald Clarke: Only two Oscar nominees for best picture make our six-month review list

Wed Jun 27 2018 - 06:05

Michael Inside: An Irish prison drama par excellence

Review: Frank Berry’s heart-breaking tale is shot through with generous humanism

Thu Apr 5 2018 - 13:53

‘Michael Inside’ – how prison affects a teenaged first-timer

‘A lot of the former prisoners said the story of the film is very much their story’

Tue Apr 3 2018 - 05:00

The Lodgers: A horror set in Ireland’s ‘most haunted house’

Review: Terrific story of a haunted big house has a baffling denouement

Wed Mar 7 2018 - 10:00

Black 47: The Famine on film – it’s only taken 170 years

‘Black 47’, Lance Daly’s film that addresses one of the most traumatic periods in Irish history, is a story that has barely registered on the big screen before

Tue Feb 20 2018 - 06:00

Black 47: First clips of Famine movie revealed

Film premieres tonight at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival

Fri Feb 16 2018 - 13:46

The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh

Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film

Mon Jul 17 2017 - 09:59

Handsome Devil: Blackrock boy meets Blackrock boy – the movie

With contemporary fashions scored to 1980s musical references – John Butler's Handsome Devil is proudly traditional in its storytelling

Thu Apr 20 2017 - 06:40

Story of Easter 1916 flag turned into modern fictional caper

Grandson of man who raised ‘Irish Republic’ flag over GPO inspired to make comic film

Mon Apr 11 2016 - 11:29

Iftas 2016: Full list of winners

Room sweeps the board with seven awards while Brooklyn takes two

Sun Apr 10 2016 - 07:04

Saoirse Ronan stars in Hozier's new anti-domestic violence video

Cherry Wine promo depicting abusive relationship is to be released on Valentine’s Day

Thu Feb 11 2016 - 18:00

IFTA: Frank, Patrick’s Day and Love/Hate the big winners

Tomm Moore’s animation called ‘Song of the Sea’ is the surprise Best Film winner

Mon May 25 2015 - 10:24

Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced

‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations

Wed Apr 29 2015 - 16:02

The not so steamy secrets of sex on set

Movies are becoming increasingly graphic in their depiction of sex. For actors, it means some very awkward days at the office

Sat Feb 21 2015 - 06:00

‘Patrick’s Day’ and schizophrenia: The troubled terrain of human relations

The film has potential to become an outstanding educational and therapeutic tool for experiential learning about schizophrenia and how it ravages families and communities

Fri Feb 6 2015 - 08:00

The glory and the gloom of the Galway Film Fleadh

There are at least half a dozen Irish films worthy of hearty praise this year, so why are Irish film-makers so dark of mood?

Tue Jul 15 2014 - 01:00

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