Ridley Scott

Director Ridley Scott

Donald Clarke: Oscars turn to Twitter in attempt to reverse plummeting TV ratings

Hashtag horror: US viewers to vote for #OscarsFanFavourite and #OscarsCheerMoment

Gucci powers forecast-beating revenue growth at Kering

Revenue at the French luxury goods group rose 32 % to €5.41 bn in fourth quarter

Death on the Nile: Harmlessly enjoyable entertainment

Kenneth Branagh’s long-delayed whodunnit overcomes most of its problems

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

Matt Damon’s The Last Duel big winner in tax relief for films

Disney’s Disenchanted only other film to recieve betweem €10m and €30m in support

Noomi Rapace: ‘I’ve always revolted against cuteness and the need to be likable’

Actor on the ‘trauma’ of making Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and her unsettling new film Lamb

Yours for €13.25m: Ireland’s 10 top property sales of 2021, inside and outside Dublin

More than 800 sales of €1m or more were recorded this year, most notably of Lissadell

Art&Antiques: Diamonds and sapphires good enough for Lady Gaga

Adam’s fine jewellery and watch sale includes picks by Irish designer Paula Rowan

The Last Duel: Yes, it brought Matt Damon to Dublin, but there’s far more to it than that

Review: Ridley Scott’s historical epic gives a man and a woman’s differing accounts of a rape

Ireland has the weather, the landscape and the spotty extras that medieval movies need

Donald Clarke: The country easily delivers the desired sense of mildewed desolation

Matt Damon: ‘Ben came over for dinner, then called me at 7am the next day and said, Let’s do this’

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Nicole Holofcener on making their film The Last Duel with Ridley Scott

Free Guy: When the game starts fighting back

Ryan Reynolds plays a video game character who’s not going to take it any more

‘Perhaps if I was 20 I would think, Oh my God, maybe I’m going to have an Oscar’

The Call My Agent! and Stillwater star Camille Cottin doesn’t take success for granted

Will we still want to buy cars in the future?

There are some startling predictions for the future of the car market, but which will come to pass?

Thelma & Louise: Why the glorious, groundbreaking movie still strikes a nerve after 30 years

This is about the only film I still have on DVD. I’d hate not to be able to watch it whenever I want

Kevin Spacey set for return to movies with paedophilia drama

Actor seen very little since numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in 2017

‘It’s a sort of family business’: Danny Huston on being part of a Hollywood dynasty

American actor reflects on growing up with famous dinner guests in Ireland and Rome

Christopher Plummer never hid his dislike of The Sound of Music

Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor

Saving cinemas from the abyss may mean helping multiplexes too

Fate of moviegoing after Covid-19 depends upon survival of large, indebted operators

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

Patrick Freyne’s TV moments of 2020: I've replaced my college memories with Normal People

In a year when TV had a lot of heavy lifting to do, let's celebrate some small screen highlights

‘You guys are amazing’: Matt Damon’s message of support to Temple Street children, families and staff

‘These last months have been brutal, but you are incredibly brave to keep going,’ says movie star

50 scary films to watch at Halloween

Scare yourself silly with this list of everything from classic films to modern hits

Donald Clarke: Is Stallone’s Sico knockout just a publicity stunt?

The disappearance of Rocky’s robotic butler has the conspiracy censors twitching

Cosmo Jarvis: ‘I think Ireland tends to produce good actors’

Musician, actor and filmmaker believes it is a good time to be in the acting game

Steve Wall on his family’s tragedy: ‘It was a year from hell’

The 2017 car crash that devastated the actor-musician’s family came back into focus recently

Promises, promises: What is 2020 not delivering?

Flying cars, accident-free cars, and electric everything. Just some of the 2020 motoring promises that aren’t going to be fulfilled

Alan Parker helped kickstart a cultural renaissance in Dublin

The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career

The dream-home designer of Matt Damon’s Dalkey lockdown escape

Architect Joe Kennedy says his design approach prioritises sites and clients’ wishes over preconceived styles

Lights out, cameras off, action stopped as film and TV projects halt

Top 1000: Until the crisis hit, studios in Ireland were not only thriving, but expanding. What next?

Matt Damon in Dalkey: The New York Times came looking for the actor. This is what it found

‘None of you care’ the actor is in Ireland, ‘yet there is constant chatter of people seeing him’

Screen industry calls for help as pandemic pause takes its toll

Irish production companies are struggling to survive despite huge demand for content

Connie Nielsen on Sea Fever: ‘Right now the film has taken on a whole new depth’

The actor on her salty turn in Neasa Hardiman’s contagion-themed debut feature

Who turned up to the Dublin casting call seeking ‘bone thin, amputees, crooked teeth’?

Hundreds queued up to be in the Ridley Scott movie starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Ben Affleck: ‘It took me a long time to admit I am an alcoholic’

The Oscar-winning writer and Hollywood actor tried to drink away the pain. Now he’s trying honesty

Greed film review: Greed is quite good. But it could be better

Winterbottom’s latest is not completely without merit but we deserve more creative satire

Brad Pitt and the god-bod prob: Stop drooling and give him another Oscar

The star’s looks make us dismiss his talent. After his Bafta, he deserves the Academy Award

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now

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

Irish actor named as one of Britain’s rising stars

Niamh Algar, who will star in Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi, joins Bafta’s emerging talent list

James Gray: 'I went back to the US and got told I was nothing'

The director’s on working with Brad Pitt on Ad Astra, being ignored in America and making movies in Northern Ireland

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