Black Bag review: Soderbergh’s spy flick starring Blanchett and Fassbender beats streaming rivals hands down
Those going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequel
Michael Fassbender
Oscar nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez breaks record with 13 nods as Kneecap loses out
Disappointment as Kneecap misses out and no Irish actors are nominated for an award
Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original song
Two Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, land spots in the shortlist for best live-action short
Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’
Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940
Dr Brian Pennie: ‘I lost 15 years to heroin addiction but I wouldn’t take them back if I’d lose the happiness I have today’
Dr Brian Pennie is a neuroscientist, author, resilience specialist and former heroin addict
Kneecap movie is Irish submission for best international film at Oscars
Fictionalised biopic of Belfast rap trio Kneecap hopes to follow An Cailín Ciúin to Academy Awards
There’s a reason why we’ve become blasé about Paul Mescal’s lead role in Gladiator II
As the 25th year of the century approaches, never before has there been a period of comparable international visibility of Irish culture
Two fingers to the lot of ye. And that includes Michael Fassbender
Donald Clarke: As with other Americanisms, the single-digit salute has taken over from the good old V – even in west Belfast. Is nothing sacred?
Sundance: Kneecap film wins audience award at US festival
Fictionalised autobiography of eponymous Belfast rap outfit, directed by Rich Peppiatt, is first Irish fiction feature win at festival since Once in 2007
First Look: Kneecap the movie – Sundance has never seen anything like this immersion in acidic Northern humour
Major coup for Belfast punk-rap trio’s film with Michael Fassbender as Sony Pictures buys distribution rights
Next Goal Wins: What’s Michael Fassbender doing in this film? You may as well ask Natalie Portman to play Churchill
The ramshackle, borderline offensive farrago that Next Goal Wins has become seems unlikely to refurbish the New Zealander’s reputation
The Killer: Michael Fassbender elevates David Fincher’s sleek, hollow entertainment
The director leans into his chilly gifts for genre without too much exertion
The Movie Quiz: What Irish film was briefly the highest grossing ever at the domestic box office?
Plus: Which Irish actor competes in the Le Mans motor racing series?
David Fincher on Michael Fassbender: ‘His face can be very, very elegant. He’s so watchable’
The Irish star is attractive, suave and, in The Killer, the director’s new film, a sociopath. It could be the best we’ve ever seen Michael Fassbender
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