Richard Linklater

John Butler’s ‘Papi Chulo’, with stars Alejandro Patiño and Bomer, opened the Dublin International Film Festival in style

Alita: Battle Angel director on his guerilla approach to making the long-awaited anime film

Actor discusses crafting screenplay for ‘Wildlife’ alongside partner Zoe Kazan

To shoot ‘Tehran Taboo’, a story of sex and corruption in a theocratic society, the director chose rotoscope animation. ‘A city cannot be faked. It always has its own look,’ he says

Twelve ways to spend 90 minutes this evening if you have no interest in watching the World Cup

The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for children

Bryan Cranston had a solid career as a jobbing actor for three decades, then ‘Breaking Bad’ happened

Bryan Cranston channels Jack Nicholson in a spiritual sequel to Hal Ashby’s Last Flag Flying

New Netflix original sees Jack Black star in the real-life story of a Polish-American polka band leader jailed in 2004 for running a Ponzi scheme

Hollywood has a habit of capturing the political mood before it has emerged

Hawke was a posterboy for generation X actors. But after seeing first hand where his precocious talent could lead, he's become a thoughtful veteran of the Hollywood machine

The languid actor discusses putting rom-coms behind him and putting on 20kg for ‘Gold’

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Comedian Marc Maron was an embittered recovering alcoholic before he found his way as a podcast interviewer of brutal honesty. Not even Obama refused the call

In ‘Top Five’, his new film, the comedian plays a stand-up comic trying to cut it as a ‘serious’ actor – but he’s not giving up on comedy’s artistic merits yet

He toured with Pearl Jam, and fired up Friday Night Lights, but cinematographer Shane Kelly’s best work is probably found in Boyhood

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s satire and Grand Budapest Hotel both receive four awards

Eddie Redmayne scoops best actor award while Julianne Moore duly wins best actress

Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ is odds-on favourite for best picture

Surprise as Irish nomination comes at expense of The Lego Movie

Richard Linklater takes top prize for coming of age film at Beverly Hills awards ceremony

Complete list of winners announced at the 72nd Golden Globes in Beverly Hills

The Irish films of 2014 were ’Out of Here’ and ’Frank’

Guardians of the Galaxy made me laugh, starring, as it did, a wise-cracking racoon.

Kerryman Gerard Barrett’s work among 12 films for World Cinema Dramatic Competition

The latest member of the Coppola clan to get behind a camera delivers a debut that feels very much in the family tradition.

Watching Boyhood in the cinema, a visceral nostalgia for the not-too-distant past hit me hard

Boyhood is like no other film you’ve seen. Shot over 12 years, it chronicles the life of one Texan boy from six to18. ‘We were making a period film in the present tense,’ says Austin-based director Richard Linklater

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

He was once known primarily as a mahogany beefcake, but a series of thrilling performances has seen Matthew McConaughey’s critical star rise to the very top. The Oscar nominee talks reinvention, rom-coms and running the gauntlet of awards season

Brian Boyd and Emma Somers root through a bumper crop of TV, film and music to find gift ideas for the loved one who thinks they’ve seen it all

The festival, in its 25th year, continued to showcase new home-grown features, from mainstream-friendly recession comedy ‘Life’s a Breeze’ to the off-centre ‘Out of Here’

Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine team up in this scarcely released and criminally overlooked demi-mockumentary

Donald Clarke looks ahead to next year’s nominees