‘An illusion of safety’: Kathryn Bigelow and Idris Elba on nuclear-attack thriller House of Dynamite
Dialogue about nuclear weapons has been nonexistent for years, says Oscar-winning director
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A House of Dynamite review: Kathryn Bigelow’s stressful film brings home perils of nuclear strike
People will shiver at realisation that when a response to nuclear attack is needed, it is too late
First Look: A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s rattling nuclear potboiler, feels agonisingly real
Venice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight years
James Cameron: ‘I didn’t understand what impossible meant’
The physics student turned blockbuster director is releasing four Avatar sequels
Daft, exhilarating, iconic - Point Break still riding the wave of time at 30
Patrick Swayze’s defining feature never enters the ‘great sports film’ conversation
Record number of big Hollywood films had female directors in 2020
Women directed over 15% of top 100 grossing movies but ‘stunning imbalance’ off-camera remains
The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears
Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape
Women Make Film: A history of women directors, directed by a man – but in a good way
Review: Mark Cousins’s epic documentary is a lengthy journey worth making more than once
10 great films directed by women
International Women's Day: Why is the film industry still resistant to female directors?
Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade
The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19
Willem Dafoe: I look for chances to surprise myself. But I am not that much in control
The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it
Oscars 2019: Everything you need to know about the Academy Awards
Where can you watch the ceremony? When does it start and end? Who are the favourites?
Male critics are harsher than women on female-led films, study says
Study shows female writers give higher rating to films starring women than males do
John Boyega: I don’t see myself as a celebrity
Fame and online haters don’t affect him but the Force remains strong with the Star Wars star
“I said ‘I’m in the movie,’ and the guy on the gate said 'Yeah sure, me too' ”
Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins (70), who shared the screen with Newman and Pacino, is finally ready for the limelight
Bigelow on Detroit: ‘Racism hurts everyone. It’s a human story’
Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project
Detroit review: The victims get lost in the roar of the riot
The riot is as virtuoso as any recent action sequence but this film’s problems run deep
3DT2: James Cameron on tinkering with the Terminator
The ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’ director seeks to make epic but intimate movies – so why does one of sci fi's finest really need a 3D reboot?
The best films to see in the cinema in August
Kathryn Bigelow gets controversial in ‘Detroit’. Domhnall Gleeson looks cool in ‘American Made’
Blockbusters bombed while Irish film soared
Culture review 2016: The surge in Irish cinema continued with cracking diverse domestic films, and getting to see the Oscars in the flesh was a treat
Broadside: Dressing down for the big awards is no rebellion
Tanya Sweeney: Why waste the opportunity to bask in the famed glamour of Oscars night with total abandon?
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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