The Six Triple Eight: Stirring tribute to the only black women’s unit to serve in Europe during the second World War
The script is seldom subtle but impressive war tableaux act as a salve for dialogue
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Thelma & Louise: Why the glorious, groundbreaking movie still strikes a nerve after 30 years
This is about the only film I still have on DVD. I’d hate not to be able to watch it whenever I want
Thandie Newton names names. Will Hollywood punish her?
Many are women tidied away by an industry that prefers its boats to remain unrocked
Joel Schumacher: the director who made Colin Farrell a star and helped invent the 1980s
The late film-maker defined an age, made movies whole generations hugged to their bosoms
Patrick Schwarzenegger: ‘Dad didn’t tell me how to act’
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son might be a chip off the old blockbuster, but he’s not wooden
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’
The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home
How a prison pen pal project is helping New York teenagers
New York Letter: Writing to prisoners has had a positive impact at a ‘last chance high school’
Susan Sarandon arrested at rally against Trump’s immigration policy
Actor is among 575 women detained in Washington during sit-in at Senate office
My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-Ra
The Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feminists
“I said ‘I’m in the movie,’ and the guy on the gate said 'Yeah sure, me too' ”
Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins (70), who shared the screen with Newman and Pacino, is finally ready for the limelight
Steven Spielberg: ‘I didn’t think anybody would go to see ET’
His new film ‘The Post’ neatly captures the Trumpian zeitgeist. But the director worries that ‘four-quadrant superhero franchises’ will drive these old-school films out of cinemas
Saoirse Ronan wins best actress at Golden Globes
Martin McDonagh wins best screenplay; attendees dress in black
Tunnel vision: Sky’s Scandi series heads for its last series
Can we trace the current fracture in international relations right back to a single television show?
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Sean Millar, Irish Opera Artists and The Grimm Tale of Cinderella come to Dublin
Susan Sarandon: ‘If Hillary Clinton had won, we’d be at war’
The actor talks Clinton, Trump, sexism, female empowerment and Bette Davis
Harvey Weinstein is no longer getting away with it. That’s good
The film business isn’t as bad as it once was for sexual misconduct. But it’s still pretty awful
Susan Sarandon: ‘Hollywood is more upset about people getting fat and old than about politics’
Since being kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in 1993, for her politics, the Hollywood star has become one of the most influential activists in the US
Is this generation of women redefining middle age?
In 150 years the life expectancy of women has doubled and they are grabbing new opportunities
Negga’s ‘Loving’ performance already generating Oscar buzz
Limerick actor who was cut out of ‘12 Years a Slave’ is having a dizzying career surge
Little sisterly love for Hillary among Bernie fans in City of Brotherly Love
Clinton faces uphill climb to rally Sanders’s youthful support if she wins Democratic race
Bernie Sanders woos young female voters in presidential race
Hillary Clinton’s Democratic rival won youth vote in Iowa by a stunning six-to-one margin
Susan Sarandon wins the crowd at Sanders rally
Vermont senator and Hillary Clinton running neck and neck in days before Iowa caucus
US death row prisoner granted last minute stay of execution
Richard Glossip given 37 more days over lethal drug query, maintains his innocence
Age-gap relationships: why all the bad press?
Stephen Fry recently married a man 30 years his junior. What factors determine the chances of success of such relationships?
Screen by screenwest
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
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