Dublin International Film Festival 2025: 10 films you should catch
The festival runs until March 2nd, with a huge variety of features on offer – we’ve whittled them down
What next for James Bond under Amazon? Marvel-style TV spinoffs on Prime or Miss Moneypenny specials?
Jeff Bezos-controlled Amazon has taken creative control of the James Bond franchise under a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?
How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?
The Monkey review: Good old-fashioned disgusting fun. You’ll have a blast
Based on the Stephen King story, Osgood Perkins’s new film delivers spectacularly gruesome beheadings, eviscerations and disembowelment
I’m Still Here: This tale of survival is doing Barbie business in Irish cinemas
Walter Salles’ Oscar-nominated film chronicles the abduction of Rubens Paiva and its aftermath during Brazil’s dictatorship
What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and more
As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards
Four new films to see this week
Latest Bridget Jones is both properly funny and unexpectedly poignant. Plus: drama of rootless Palestinians in Greece, eccentric adults-only Aussie animation, and Fugazi crowd-sourced concert doc
The Irish Sea is to be renamed the British Sea – and from now on underwear will be worn on the outside
A few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America
Twiggy looks back: ‘You’ve got to remember I was 16. It was bloomin’ exciting. I was travelling the world. I was getting paid’
Twiggy arrived like a pocket cyclone in 1966. A charming new documentary by Sadie Frost charts the rise, success and fears that came with such attention
Iftas: Small Things Like These beats Kneecap to win best film award
Cillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongs
The Movie Quiz: Which is the only Bridget Jones film not based on a Helen Fielding novel?
Plus: From Which romcom is Get Him to the Greek a spinoff?
To a Land Unknown review: This uncomfortable film about Palestinian refugees adrift in Athens sweeps you along in its momentum
The two leads invite great empathy for characters too often forced into desperate decisions
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – Lifestyle porn? Check. Cackling friends? Check. Easily the best film in the series? Check
The latest episode is connected to the greater sadnesses of life, not to mention properly funny
More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane Austen
Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor
Four new films to see this week
Engrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopic