Russell Crowe

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

Think about Things, Iceland’s 2020 entry, is a synth-pop earworm that’s going viral

Review: This tale of colonial abuse in 1880s Australia is no neat origin story for Ned Kelly

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

Firefighters attempt strategic burns before temperatures climb higher

Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger

No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie star in true story of how Roger Ailes was brought down by sexual harassment allegations

Some movie magic has added sparkle to an overhauled home and a new bookshop in Co Mayo

From The Dublin Murders to The Crown, Red Rock to Ru Paul, here are this season’s best comedy, drama and reality series

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie aim for Oscars in portrayal of Roger Ailes debacle

The actor on #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and why Sinéad O’Connor was ‘100% right’

Donald Clarke: This week’s Oscars news reflects the common, idiotic view that cinema is little more than a type of flat theatre that you can now watch on your telephone

Joel Edgerton on his new movie, with Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe

Who the hell is this Azealia Banks – and what exactly is her gripe with Ireland?

Son of Irish immigrants with ‘more brawn than brains’ won 51 victories in 82 fights

There are up to nine projects on the boil about the outlaw nobody cares about any more

Oscar-nominated actor to play ‘charismatic socialite’ in prequel which takes place thousands of years before the hit series

House of Cards, new Coen Brothers movie, and a double bill of Orson Welles

The actors are reportedly in talks to join film about the sex harassment scandal at the US TV network

Patrick Freyne: As Leo Varadkar was siding with Trump on the media, I thought: How did I get here?

Garrad Conley was pushed into gay conversion therapy by his Baptist parents

His ‘Gladiator’ sword goes for almost €80K, his ‘Romper Stomper’ Docs for more than €6K

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

Restaurateurs Marco Pierre White and Geraldine Fitzpatrick in conversation

This week's rock/pop highlights: The actor's band Indoor Garden Party are at the Olympia. Plus: Grizzly Bear, Shellac, Lady Antebellum and The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble

`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

Blockbuster season is almost over, and while it wasn’t as bad as last year, there were still some real stinkers

A terrible fug of desperation hangs over the first instalment of Universal’s Dark Universe sequence

Lissadell co-owner says 2010 concerts made up ‘one of most incredible weekends in my life’

World’s largest number of bonded labourers, sex workers and child soldiers

20 years after ‘Shine’, the self-effacing Aussie is the youngest actor to have won the elite acting treble of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony

Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or

Woody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’Or

Legion of entertainers express their sorrow and pay tribute to late singer

The capital, celebrating its 450th anniversary this week, is a Mediterranean jewel. So why is the city so empty?

Black Caps batsman who played 77 Test matches loses battle with cancer

Celebrities, musicians and fans pay tribute as ‘pop genius’ dies following 18-month illness

Club need to offload more players before signing Burgess in order to meet salary cap