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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Normal People’s Paul Mescal named as actor to watch by Variety
The Emmy-nominated Kildare actor appears in 10 to watch list with Borat’s Maria Bakalova
The 20 best Netflix and Amazon Prime shows to watch over Christmas
Wild, Wild Country, The Deuce and Beat, plus the best from All4 and Sky Atlantic
The lives of sex workers, with all the boring bits left in
The Deuce review: Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco return in the 1970s-set porn drama
Golden Globes: Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh and Caitriona Balfe up for awards
‘The Breadwinner’, by Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, nominated for best animated feature
The Deuce: a riveting peep show into the psychology of American capitalism
David Simon’s brilliantly made new drama about the rise of the US porn industry is not on a mission to titillate
What happens to falsely imprisoned people after they are released?
Freedom sometimes comes without liberation in new documentary ‘Fallout’
Seven small-screen reasons to welcome 2017
There are many things we could resolve to do this year – join a gym, fight fascism – but if the TV screen wins out instead, there are some promising shows to while away the hours
‘Boyhood’ wins Best Drama at Golden Globes
Richard Linklater takes top prize for coming of age film at Beverly Hills awards ceremony
Television: ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, and other scrub-your-eyes TV moments
Review: ‘Happy Valley’, ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘The Fall’ topped 2014’s list of unmissable, set-the-recorder-for series. Brendan O’Carroll’s comedy didn’t make it
Calvary receives four nominations at British Independent Film Awards
John Michael McDonagh nominated for best director, Brendan Gleeson in running for best actor
Television: Strong women? Tick. Baby stuff? Tick. Great television? Er . . .
A great cast can’t save ‘In the Club’ from its obvious plots, which lack the ingenuity of ‘The Honourable Woman’
Television: Gyllenhaal dips her toe in television; Norah Casey puts a foot in the grave
Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific in ‘The Honourable Woman’ while ‘Way to Go’ looks at death in a roundabout way
Simon Delaney’s the king of the castles, but Enda Kenny’s got God on his side
The Taoiseach keeps it all very serious while chatting to Gaybo about religion – until the last five minutes, when he lights up. In his new series about Irish castles, Simon Delaney keeps it all jokey and blokey
Film review: Frank
Lenny Abrahamson’s superby eccentric movie about a group of supremely eccentric musicians reveals some powerful truths about art and the disordered mind
A serious man: the intensity of Jake Gyllenhaal
Gyllenhaal brings such a heft to his roles – a trend maintained in ‘Prisoners’ – it’s a surprise to learn he has only just decided that acting is the trade for him
Stardust
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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