It’s all working out nicely for Ian McShaneAn actor since the early 1960s, Cuban Fury star Ian McShane has been a familiar presence on our screens big and small (Lovejoy anyone?) for decades – and now he’s a Hollywood star. Not a bad for the unassuming son of a Man Utd footballerFri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Building a blockbuster brick by brickIn a cluttered few weeks at the multiplexes, the kids came out on topFri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...Fri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
Lone Survivor Peter Berg talks grunts and gunfightsHe is best known for the overblown ‘Battleship’, but Peter Berg’s latest movie , ‘Lone Survivor’, is a far rarer Hollywood beast – a politically nuanced war movie. And it also contains what may be the greatest gunfight ever filmedFri Jan 31 2014 - 00:00
Inside Llewyn DavisThe laughs are tinged with barbs and pathos in the Coens’ evocative, stylised depiction of a struggling NYC folkie circa 1961Fri Jan 24 2014 - 13:36
Imogen Poots -“You’re going to be judged whatever you do. So you might as well do things your way, right?”Aged 24, Imogen Poots is already an industry veteran with credits alongside Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, to name just a few. Yet she manages to keep it refreshingly real at the top of the acting pileFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
Aidan Gillen's life in movies"I wouldn’t consider myself a film buff, really,” says the Irish star of Game of Thrones as he talks about his hand-picked selection of classic 1970s flicks screening in CorkFri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
Mandela: Long Walk to FreedomTwo towering performances enhance this serviceable, poignantly timed biopic, writes Tara BradyThu Jan 16 2014 - 15:36
Chiwetel Ejiofor’s chain reactionAfter an early stint with Spielberg, the star of 12 Years a Slave turned his back on Hollywood, but now he’s tipped for an OscarFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
All eyes on film: the Big Movie Preview 2014Donald Clarke and Tara Brady cast eyes towards the coming year’s cinematic treatsFri Jan 03 2014 - 02:00
Who were the big money winners of 2013? The studios, of courseTara Brady runs through the year’s most bankable box-office trendsFri Jan 03 2014 - 00:00
Idris Elba: In Mandela’s footstepsIdris Elba was keenly aware of the responsibilities required in playing the role of Nelson Mandela. “It’s like: what? You’re going to play God now. It’s not so easy to turn around and say: ‘Okay. I’m God now’,” he tells Tara BradyFri Dec 27 2013 - 18:30
Steve Carell: cool with bright spotsBest known for playing the boss in the US version of The Office, Steve Carell is reprising his turn as the crazy weatherman in Anchorman 2. And yes, he’s just as nice as he seems, writes Tara BradyFri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
The search is on for the box-office hero of 2014With few heavy-hitters due out next year, it looks like the movie industry is saving it all up for 2015, writes Tara BradyFri Dec 13 2013 - 10:46
How Tomi Ungerer won over the worldThe children’s author and eroticist was vilified in the US and received death threats from French fringe groups before moving to Cork and gaining acceptanceThu Dec 12 2013 - 01:00
