David Lean
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Rex Ingram, the forgotten Irish director who helped shape Hollywood
- Abroad
- March 13, 2018, 12:05
David Lean called him his idol, while Michael Powell insisted he was “the greatest stylist of our time”. Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock (Rex Ing(...)

Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakes
- Film
- February 16, 2018, 06:00
Top archaeologists have just released an analysis of pictograms accompanying Paleolithic cave paintings. They read as follows: “Another remake! Men th(...)

Ciarán Murphy: Mayo club championship reduced to farce
- Gaelic Games
- October 18, 2017, 22:00
Last night, Castlebar Mitchels played Garrymore in the Mayo senior football championship semi-final. In three days’ time, the winners of that game wil(...)

3DT2: James Cameron on tinkering with the Terminator
- Film
- August 18, 2017
“Ah, you’re from Dublin,” says James Cameron. “I had a honeymoon there many years ago.” I momentarily freeze. What is the correct etiquette here? Sho(...)

Some 15 years have elapsed since the biotech advances of Rise of the Planet of the Apes accelerated primate evolution while simultaneously wiping out (...)

There’s a photograph of Warren Beatty that I’ve often wondered about. In it, Nancy Reagan is beaming like a star-struck teenager. Warren Beatty is bes(...)

Brave young pianist Nathalia Milstein is a work in progress
- Music
- February 24, 2016, 01:00
If there is one thing Nathalia Milstein, winner of last year’s Dublin International Piano Competition, is not lacking, it is guts. For the competitio(...)

Last of the ‘exotic’ Hollywood heart-throbs
- People
- July 18, 2015, 01:00
Omar Sharif, who has died aged 83, was introduced to the international screen in one of the most dramatic entrances of film history. This was the sce(...)

Omar Sharif, one of the last matinee idols
- Film
- July 11, 2015, 09:50
Omar Sharif, who has died at the age of 83, will be best remembered for a film sequence in which, for much of its duration, he is barely visible on sc(...)

Omar Sharif suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
- World
- May 26, 2015, 15:10
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ star Omar Sharif has Alzheimer’s disease, his agent has said. Steve Kenis gave no further details about the 83-year-old or his c(...)