Paul Newman and Robert Redford starred in what is still one of the most entertaining westerns

The Downton Abbey actor co-starred with Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke Brad Pitt and Sean Penn

Review: Performances elevate an old familiar tune that gets a little stranded between genres

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

Donald Trump has adopted Nixon’s Watergate strategy, says the veteran Washington reporter

The Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland hailed as a ‘true-life horror movie’

The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood

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

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ beats runaway favourite ‘A Star Is Born’ to best drama film

Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year

Review: David Lowery’s film works its magic by treating its elder characters with respect

America at Large: The screenwriter missed his own Oscar win to watch the New York Knicks

Over 250 feature, documentary and short films to screen over next ten days

Hot tips: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun

The playwright and screenwriter, who has died at 91, redefined American humour

Always take an actor’s retirement announcment with a pinch of salt, writes Donald Clarke

The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto

Review: A new film genre seems to have grown up: the extreme survival movie

Also the Blue Planet team chart the story of life on Earth over the course of a single day

Animated ‘Spiderman’ looks promising. But ‘Suspiria’, and new films from Steve McQueen and Lenny Abrahamson look breathtaking

Movie cats are malicious. Dogs can be savage. But horses are always brave, handsome and stoic

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

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

Kristin Scott Thomas on how French cinema has better roles for women, playing Churchill's wife – and Brexit

The actor, who could pick up an Oscar nomination for his role in Andy Serkis’s ‘Breathe’, on working with Mel Gibson, feeling Jewish, and leaving Spider-Man behind

Robert Redford has been drafted in for the big-screen voiceover. It’s all sorts of wrong

Here’s our autumunal picks for the streaming services

Writer-director thinks there may be a Catholic sensibility underscoring his new film

Focus on communication may carry message Taoiseach is set to step up action in autumn

Francis Ford Coppola recalls that Paramount wanted to make something ‘quick and cheap’

The charming actor established new ground for women in the entertainment industry

Unfounded symphysiotomy claims, Obama and Ellen and fears about The Quiet Man

US President awards Tom Hanks, Springsteen and others with Medal of Freedom

Star of Pete’s Dragon Bryce Dallas Howard talks to Tara Brady about imaginary friends, goat poop and post-partum disorders

Ross Lipman’s doc makes interesting connections and assertions

Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre

‘Rebellion’ could return for second run in 2018 as part of plan to step up production

A crucial Rebellion, a new Fall, another Catastrophe – the most promising new and returning TV shows will push the envelope while offering something for every taste

Mammal, Land of the Enlightened, The Lobster, Viva, Love & Friendship and Sing Street feature

‘The High Hopes Choir’ and ‘Rachel Allen’s Coastal Cooking’ sold to UKTV