Paul Thomas Anderson

Oscars 2026: Will Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley get a best picture nomination?

It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next year

Tue Mar 04 2025 - 05:33

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has architects up in arms – but they’re missing the point

Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury

Sun Feb 02 2025 - 05:45

Amy Adams: ‘There is so much women normalise in relation to pain and sacrifice’

In Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s new film, the star plays a woman crushed by childrearing. It’s not the only pressure women are under, she says

Sat Nov 23 2024 - 05:15

Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’

The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in

Sun Oct 27 2024 - 05:25

The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention – Album of the year contender

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner cast a wide net

Fri May 13 2022 - 05:00

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

Sat Mar 26 2022 - 05:00

Belfast’s waning Oscar prospects: The film could go home with not a single award

In ‘the curse of the early favourite’, Kenneth Branagh’s film has lots of nominations but few wins

Fri Mar 18 2022 - 05:45

Baftas 2022: Belfast edged out by The Power of the Dog

Kenneth Branagh’s film takes just one prize as Joanna Scanlan is ‘surprise’ best actress

Sun Mar 13 2022 - 21:00

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

Tue Feb 08 2022 - 17:45

Golden Globes 2022: Belfast wins best screenplay in discredited awards

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish

Mon Jan 10 2022 - 05:55

Drop the needle, it’s the 1970s on screen – again

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

Sat Jan 08 2022 - 05:00

Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s son

Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative

Fri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00

The Hand of God: Paolo Sorrentino’s love letter to Naples

Movie has tragedy at its heart but more than anything else it is one of the great ‘city films’

Fri Dec 03 2021 - 05:00

Aimee Mann: ‘Any woman my age is traumatised by growing up in the 60s and 70s’

US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing

Mon Nov 08 2021 - 06:00

Nicole Ari Parker joins Sex and the City reboot in place of Kim Cattrall

Actor known for starring in Empire and Boogie Nights to become part of main quartet

Mon Aug 23 2021 - 09:49

Vicky Krieps: ‘I lit a candle every day to not be nominated for an Oscar’

The Luxembourger did not share Daniel Day-Lewis’s ire over Phantom Thread snub

Wed Jul 14 2021 - 05:00

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

Tue Apr 27 2021 - 11:00

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

Sat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00

Broken Law: An atmospheric but flawed Irish gangster film

Review: Digestible slice of Dublin life will open doors for debut director Paddy Slattery

Fri Jul 31 2020 - 05:00

Uncut Gems review: Adam Sandler ends up naked in the boot of a car

Adam Sandler plays his stock comic weirdo, but Idina Menzel owns the screen

Thu Jan 09 2020 - 05:00

Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

Sat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00

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?

Mon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00

Brad Pitt on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: ‘There’s no set like a Tarantino set’

Director Quentin Tarantino as enthusiastic as ever but can’t avoid criticism of his past

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00

‘The first day I was a ball of nerves’: Paul Dano’s directorial debut

Actor discusses crafting screenplay for ‘Wildlife’ alongside partner Zoe Kazan

Fri Nov 09 2018 - 06:00

‘In Freddie Mercury I saw a very shy and at times lonely figure’

Actor Rami Malek on portraying the late Queen frontman in the new biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Tue Oct 23 2018 - 05:45

Burt Reynolds, once the most popular star on planet, has died aged 82

Deliverance star earned an Academy Award nomination for Boogie Nights

Thu Sept 06 2018 - 21:14

Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?

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

Wed Jul 25 2018 - 06:00

The Endless: striking and puzzling UFO death cult horror

‘If five per cent say I’m lost, five per cent say It was too obvious’, that’s about right,' say directors Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead

Fri Jun 29 2018 - 06:00

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

Joaquin Phoenix: The man who wasn’t really here? He’s still here

He plays Jesus Christ in ‘Mary Magdalene’, in an echo of his own childhood as part of a cult religion. But the eccentric actor says his unconventional family kept him grounded

Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00