Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Film-makers criticise author for saying he ‘would never consider diversity in matters of art’

As Episode IX arrives, how does it stack up against the other 10 films in the saga?

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Game of Thrones put Northern Ireland on the global TV map. Now a Belfast studio is making a Superman prequel series, and, for local producers, the sky’s the limit

The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical

Review: She enters under a hazy summer sun – as minor, but beloved, pop royalty

Actor had publicly contradicted musician’s account of their relationship in new memoir

Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories

Musician says pair dated, but actor ‘recalls a much older man being creepy with me’

Review: Portman is the pop star from hell in this unrestrained fun ride

Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project

The choreographer’s Swan Lake has been upending convention, and thrilling audiences, for 25 years

Why is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a musical? Because it wants to be an Oscar contender

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

The actor’s new films show the devastating effects of fame on young stars. She explains how she escaped a similar fate

Toronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinema

The Boyle star on his tough-guy role in ‘Get Shorty’ and his county’s referendum journey

The Scottish film-maker on her taut new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, watching movies with her mum, and the awkward fallout from that Natalie Portman flick

Dumped by its distributor and going straight to Netflix, it’s getting rave reviews in the US

‘Jessica Jones’, ‘Love’ and ‘UnReal’ return, ‘The Looming Tower’ debuts

Netflix, now a film-maker, has released a series of weak science-fiction movies

Opinion: Dylan Farrow seems sincere, but accusations aren’t facts, writes Bret Stephens

Each week allegations of sexual exploitation grow as the industry converts them to branding exercises

Analysis: The Golden Globes over, thoughts turn to the most open Oscar race in decades

Time’s Up programme backed by 300 women aims to break ‘impenetrable monopoly’

Dunkirk blows away the competition

`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence

This incoherent muddle of falling leaves, cameos and tracking shots has nowhere to go

We’re halfway through the year – it’s time to take cinematic stock

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

Can sunny favourite ‘La La Land’, with 14 nods, hope to match the 11 gongs of ‘Titanic’?

Winners will be announced on February 26th

It’s the time of year when we accurately pick around 83 percent of the main nominations

The quiet Irish actor may be on the cusp of mega-stardom but she hasn’t lost sight of her craft

Something will have gone terribly wrong if the Oscars fail to honour a film that fits comfortably into the Trump conversation

Actor criticises US president-elect over mocking of disabled reporter

When giving a talk, your own performance is only half of it

Aged 24, Imogen Poots is already an industry veteran with credits alongside Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, to name just a few. Yet she manages to keep it refreshingly real at the top of the acting pile