Steven Soderbergh

Review: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling down

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Peter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent Hollywood

The actor on Los Angeles, being authentic and returning to ‘huge’ Galway

The sudden interest in Meet Joe Black brings back an overlooked oddity from 1998

Stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter announce details of Bill & Ted Face the Music, which will hit screens next year

The former film mogul, facing a landmark trial, has recruited a tough new legal team

Nightflyers, Russian Doll, Dirty John, ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke

The Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland hailed as a ‘true-life horror movie’

Review: There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality

Cinema-goers are flocking to the art-horror film ... then giving out about it afterwards

Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage

Too much fame, too young, that has been a problem for young actors too – but the articulate, polite Charlie Plummer is unlikely to spin off the rail

Review: Shot on an iPhone, Steven Soderbergh's movie starts well but ends badly

Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel

The ‘Star Wars’ actor on leaving the marines, filming nude and getting to know his dark side

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

There are scares aplenty in store next month

The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

And what is the mystery behind “Rebecca Blunt”, the unknown talent who has written his latest film?

It doesn’t all work, but the unique film-maker’s return is a qualified triumph

And when he's finished as 007? Clondalkin man Aidan Turner looks nicely positioned

Golden Globe winner tipped for an Oscar for ‘Fences’ is, at 51, taking success in her stride

In Netflix hit ‘The Crown’, the very American star takes on Britain’s iconic wartime leader

The Irish siblings whose schuccess we can’t get enough of

Woody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’Or

Every now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movement

While it lacks plot and critical acclaim, it has a simple message: women are queens, so give them what they want, writes Sarah Waldron

The original film showed a dark underbelly – all the sequel has is spray-tanned abs

Are female strippers only okay if – by attaching frills and bows – they redefine themselves as ‘burlesque’

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

Amazon has secured deal for Allen to write and direct series of half-hour episodes

I Am Belfast, a film by Cousins with a score by David Holmes, tells the story of the city as embodied by a 10,000-year-old woman. It feels, fittingly, like a long, strange dream

U2 singer cancels all appearances for half of 2015 as he recovers from bike accident

Review: The long-awaited return of two of RTÉ’s most popular dramas makes comparisons inevitable

Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...

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

U2’s ‘Ordinary Love’ recorded for Nelson Mandela biopic wins best original song award

As his three-hour love story arrives in Irish cinemas weighed down with awards – and ongoing allegations of exploitation – director Abdellatif Kechiche ponders the dynamics of love and betrayal with Donald Clarke