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Cork French Film Festival marks 30 years with diverse range of offerings
- Film
- February 17, 2019, 12:38
A veritable pot-pourri – that might well be the best way to describe this year’s Cork French Film Festival which, to mark its 30th anniversary, is ser(...)

Darren Smith: ‘The ratings will decide if you’re coming back’
- Media & Marketing
- December 21, 2018, 05:30
Darren Smith apologises for checking his phone. He is waiting for last night’s television ratings to come through: when we meet, Ireland’s Fittest Fam(...)

Eight is enough episodes, thank you, in business of ‘peak TV’
- Media & Marketing
- November 27, 2018, 05:10
Eight is the magic number. Eight is enough. At a push, 10 is still acceptable. But 13 is already passé. Eight is preferable. Six is cool now, too. The(...)

Death and Nightingales: will State miss out on future Irish TV success?
- Media & Marketing
- November 23, 2018, 19:45
Add it to the list of television programmes you really should watch. Period drama Death and Nightingales, a three-part adaptation of the Eugene McCabe(...)

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
- Film
- November 23, 2018, 06:00
SHOPLIFTERS ★★★★★ Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Starring Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki, Kiki Kirin, Mayu Matsuoka, Kengo Kora, Chi(...)

Event of the Week: The IFI French Film Festival
- Film
- November 10, 2018, 05:00
For all the wealth of cinema in Europe, no nation has managed to catch up with French for breadth of output or rep. The annual French Film Festival at(...)

The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
- Film
- October 31, 2018, 06:42
Over the last few years, BBC Culture has been asking the world’s critics – including this writer and my colleague Tara Brady – to vote for their 100 f(...)

Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump
- Film
- October 20, 2018, 06:15
It’s the middle of the London Film Festival and Michael Moore is a little dampened. I mean that literally. It’s been lashing for a few days and he’s h(...)

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’
- Film
- September 15, 2018, 05:00
Lenny Abrahamson clatters into the conference room of Element Pictures’ canal-side Dublin offices. The window is open on early autumnal sun. He has bi(...)

Advertising industry worth €1bn to Irish economy – survey
- Retail & Services
- September 9, 2018, 17:28
Advertising is worth more than €1 billion a year to the Republic’s economy, according to a leading industry body. The Institute of Advertising Practi(...)