Steven Soderbergh

This year’s Oscar contenders are less about escapism and more about our sad reality

Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan

This year’s festival attracts 200 entries from 25 countries with 82 film screenings

Restoration of 1964 Corman adaptation confirms continuing relevance of film and source

The actor-director on his new film, Covid-19 and why he’s not allowed to ride a motorcycle

The actor on drugs, his fiery marriage, and being reviewed by Groucho Marx and Muhammad Ali

It’s hard, in 100 minutes, to convey the slow terror of a virus that kills in low percentages

Review: Adam Driver intense as investigator who uncovered CIA’s torture methods

The streaming giant’s most popular films and TV series show where it might go next

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Living With Yourself, The Laundromat and Big Mouth season 3

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’