The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it

Air force specialist served in Iraq before converting to Islam in a televised ceremony

Life lessons from a man who’s lived a lot of life – without ever dipping into psychobabble

From the archive: ‘The most important film made in or about Ireland in the first century of film’

Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years

With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?

CIA and FBI demand some documents in Kennedy records should be held back

This five-course feast takes us from his debut in Tigerland to the darkly comic The Lobster

Lawyers are attempting to bring refugee families over amid concerns of grave reprisals

There’s lots of flattery but little scepticism in the film-maker’s Vladimir Putin interviews

Irish insurer begins major advertising campaign after years of restructuring and downsizing

Newspaper that published leaks by former NSA contractor dismisses calls by rights bodies

whistleblower says Moscow’s online monitoring of citizens is corrosive of rights

In recent years the San Diego Comic-Con has exploded into the mainstream with A-list stars, first-run footage, and the world’s most dedicated fans. Liam Burke on the highlights from this year’s pop culture behemoth

“I don’t care how rare the Pokemon is, it’s not worth your life!”

Obama’s Hiroshima visit is one aspect of a complex history being considered

Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack tells the extraordinary story of a family raised in complete isolation in Manhattan

Oscars be damned: JC Chandor has taken a minor business transaction and turned it into one of the first great films of 2015. And the director has plenty more he wants to talk about

Dramatic distortions always risk being mistaken for historical truths, writes Donald Clarke

The actor and director has been in fiery form of late. His latest film, a feminist take on the high plains yarn, stars Hilary Swank as a brave frontierswoman. But don’t dare call it a western

Director tells Beijing Film Festival that controversial historical issues such as the Cultural Revolution should be depicted

Still the curmudgeon after all these years, Richard Dreyfuss - who's in Dublin this week for the JDIFF - hasn’t lost any of his appetite for bashing Hollywood and colleagues who irritate him.

A new documentary makes startling claims about what is and is not healthy for us, challenging received wisdom

Inequality probably played an important role in creating our economic mess, and has played a crucial role in our failure to clean it up

Half a century later, unanswered questions and conspiracy theories still lure visitors to the site of US president John F Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas

Reinventing Kennedy to suit books, TV and film has blurred his significance

He’s older, wiser and still sober but Colin Farrell hasn’t lost any of his wicked streak – and he’s definitely in touch with his feminine side. The Saving Mr Banks star on film, family, fame and femininity

Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy come together to forge one of the year’s worst films, writes Donald Clarke

There are some masculine attributes most men have that I don’t have

North reacts angrily to increased American military presence in south

Tomihisa Taue says Japan’s failure to sign international accord rejecting use of nuclear weapons ‘betrayed the expectations of global society’

Singer Jim Morrison and then-UCLA film student Manzarek formed rock group in 1965

With his new series, Oliver Stone wants to revise the accepted version of American history. It’s controversial, unapologetic and, says the director, the culmination of a lifetime’s work