Taylor Swift’s Showgirl encore: Three superb new songs and a Colin Farrell cameo
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore feels like a highlight reel of the stadium-filling star’s past decade
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore feels like a highlight reel of the stadium-filling star’s past decade
Television: American Office spin-off is caught between the urge to be sincere and the obligation to be uproarious
September 6th-11th highlights: including Mo Thír Mo Thuairim, At Your Service and The Paper series two
Louis Paxton’s fascinating feature debut alternates briny whimsy with something more sinister
Venice film festival 2026: Werner Herzog’s imagination is as creatively offbeat as ever in this film starring Kate and Rooney Mara and Domhnall Gleeson
New movies from Martin McDonagh, Danny Boyle and Werner Herzog will also take centre stage at Italian event
The actor has carved out a place at the centre of the Hollywood film industry. But it comes second to his sense of home
The Venice event is, after Cannes, comfortably the second most important film festival on the calendar
The festival opened with a very French, very odd ceremony featuring Jane Fonda, Peter Jackson and bad impersonations of Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts
Butterfly Jam and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning to screen in Directors’ Fortnight. Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle announced for Critics’ Week
Creator, director and co-writer John Kelly and producer Andrew Freedman fly to Los Angeles for awards ceremony
In Ireland it’s not six degrees of separation, it’s more like one. Or a half of one
Video for Swift’s song Opalite was released on streaming platforms on Friday afternoon
John Kelly’s Retirement Plan has been nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short
Irish talent ranked high in this year’s Oscar nominations, but Hamnet film-makers will be disappointed Paul Mescal didn’t make the final list
Television: US local news may be on its uppers, but American cringe comedy is on the mend
August 31st-September 5th highlights: including The Traitors Ireland, Dev: Rise and Rule, and The Paper
The ‘documentary’ crew turns focus on a struggling midwestern newspaper called the Toledo Truth Teller
With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a people
The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending him
A new production of the award-winning drama, directed by its writer, opens in Dublin in August before a West End transfer
Presenter of the Tonight Show on Virgin Media and Hard Shoulder on Newstalk on Denis O’Brien, work-life balance and embarrassing career low-lights
The writer on finding the confidence to trace the journey of his character Eilis in follow-up novel Long Island
Funeral for legendary actors’ agent; CRH chief’s home renovations troubles; Phil Hogan joins Irish lobbying register; a financial blow for the IRFU, and a tough job at RTÉ
The intensely private star likes to stay out of the limelight, despite being the most successful Irish actress at the global box office
National Shared Services Office’s wellness focus; Sherry FitzGerald founder’s planning woes; spicy Limerick mayoral race; and Domhnall Gleeson’s Ranelagh home
February 24th-Mar 1st: CMAT wows Dingle in Other Voices, and Channel 4 puts juries on trial
From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way
Television review: With Domhnall Gleeson, Aisling Bea and 2023 Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough in lead roles, the Channel 4 series has much going for it, but it is simply not likeable
Actor and trade unionist who played role in Pirates of the Caribbean says he earned less than €10,000 from acting last year and has no pension of his own
While the Irish scenes in the novel are set in Enniscorthy, it is extremely rare that the movie of a novel will be filmed in the actual streets and buildings depicted in the original story, as happened with Brooklyn
Television: The Irish star plays a conflicted serial killer, with Carell as his therapist, in this absorbing psychological drama
She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors
Now starring in The Eyes of Tammy Faye the former web-slinger is tipped for an Oscar
Review: Enda Walsh invites the audience into his star’s manic, unnerving world
The actor on his return to theatre and why he chose his hometown over a life in Los Angeles
Irish actresses are missing out on commercial opportunities, writes Anna Doyle
TV: The Gleesons are a lively double-act, and the scatological jokes arrive at an impressive clip
Property with two-bed unit, and filled with vintage finds, featured in When Harvey Met Bob
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Automatic tools monitor and learn the behaviour of back-office staff
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
The actor on Run, his famous father, and spending cooped-up days in his pyjamas
Analysis: The youth vote and anti-Netflix bias were as important as the film’s brilliance
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
This isn’t a proper film – just a nondescript, boring component in the Star Wars machine
Review: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak ending
Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works
Skunk Anansie singer on her admiration of Domhnall Gleeson, Colin Murray and Arinzé Kene
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival includes Alexandra McGuinness thriller
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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