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The Movie Quiz: Who has not been played by Tom Hanks?
Plus: Who is about to follow in the footsteps of Christopher Lee, Peter Boyle and Robert De Niro?
Séamas O’Reilly: Apple TV+ has Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and God, but is anybody watching?
Foundation is genre storytelling at its richest, while Murderbot is smart-as-a-tack pulp sci-fi
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow
Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productions
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
Cannes film festival 2025: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland
Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound
Amy Adams: ‘There is so much women normalise in relation to pain and sacrifice’
In Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s new film, the star plays a woman crushed by childrearing. It’s not the only pressure women are under, she says
How coastal erosion is changing beach made famous in Saving Private Ryan
Curracloe is one of many beaches in the southeast being altered dramatically by climate change
RTÉ's poor brand rating, income taxes over the past decade, and Tom Hanks and AI
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Tom Hanks discovers a new form of dental trauma
Oscar-winning actor warns his Instagram followers that an AI-generated deepfake is being used to promote a dental health plan
Asteroid City: Wes Anderson hands his detractors a wealth of ammunition
It is difficult to locate the narrative or emotional core in a film that has difficulty settling upon what story it wants to tell
Tom Hanks entertains Dalkey with accents, anecdotes and the Irish director who gave him a chance
US actor was speaking at the Dalkey Book Festival and discussed his debut novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City: ‘Every scene and every sentence will have three or four hidden things’
The Wes Anderson ensemble on how they made the Amerindie’s 11th feature.
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks: It’s hard to get the actor’s voice out of your head
His writing, like his acting career, abounds with the homespun decency of ordinary folk and an obsession with the details of Americana
Tom Hanks to speak at Dalkey Book Festival about release of debut novel
Dalkey Book Festival: Oscar-winning actor will discuss his path from film to fiction writing on June 16th
Four new films to see this week
A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks, Till starring Danielle Deadwyler, Catalan-language film Alcarràs, and avenger thriller The Enforcer
Cannes 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick to be shown at film festival
Up to 35,000 accredited to attend the festival this year, the biggest showing since 2019
Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s son
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative
Patrick Freyne: The honey or the money? Dating is so complicated these days
The hunks in Ready to Mingle clearly have delicate skin: they keep ripping their clothes off
25 years after interviewing Donald Trump, Ruby Wax is still getting over it
‘Trump scared the s*** out of me,’ says Wax of her interview with the then future US president
Inside Tom Hanks’s movie-set ‘home away from home’: Actor puts Airstream up for auction
1992 Airstream Model 34 Limited, used on films around US, comes with furniture and accessories
Malachy Clerkin: Sport is all about fun - like hitting a golf ball on the moon
The rain might have poured at times over the weekend but there were moments to savour
Small battery, big load – Opel’s Vivaro-e gives ‘van-man’ a plug
With only a 200km range, can Opel’s new electric van cross the country with ease?
Elizabeth Perkins: ‘In 1980s Hollywood, there were no safety nets, no HR’
The Brat Pack actor on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene – ‘It would not be acceptable today’
Eve Hewson: ‘I’m really lucky I grew up in Ireland, not LA’
The Irish actor on shyness, nightmares and getting to know her native country again
News of the World: Tom Hanks is good. But he’s not the best actor in this Netflix western
Film review: Helena Zengel is brilliant as the traumatised orphan Tom Hanks rescues
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in February
Including Tom Hanks in News of the World and Eve Hewson in Behind Her Eyes
Kavanagh death mask and miniature Ming bowl to headline upcoming sales
Poet Patrick Kavanagh's death mask and portrait of campaigner Vicky Phelan are among auction highlights
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Tanya Sweeney: The most dispiriting celebrity interviews I have conducted
Leta Powell Drake’s 1970s access-all-areas savage chats with the stars have gone viral
Normal People’s Paul Mescal named as actor to watch by Variety
The Emmy-nominated Kildare actor appears in 10 to watch list with Borat’s Maria Bakalova
Dog DNA: Research finds they behave, age and mellow like we do
While the fast aging of dogs is a benefit for science it is a great sadness for dog lovers
Kim Kardashian West at 40: How the queen of social media changed the world
Why is Kardashian West, who exchanged privacy for wealth, so famous?
‘Challenging and difficult’: Dwayne Johnson and family test positive for Covid-19
The actor known as ‘The Rock’ is urging people to wear a mask to stop coronavirus spreading
Perfumes: Something a little like a romantic comedy
Review: Nobody will be enormously surprised by how the story plays itself out
Mel Gibson hospitalised after contracting coronavirus in April
The actor spent a week in hospital after contracting Covid-19
Coronavirus is a great leveller? Tell that to Amazon workers
US is exiting the lockdown a more unequal country than it was at the outbreak of the pandemic
‘Corona, you got a friend in me’: Tom Hanks writes to bullied eight-year-old
Actor gives Corona typewriter to boy who sent good wishes to recovered actor and his wife
Houston, we have a problem: the myths of Apollo 13
There was one thing Hollywood got right about the mission: the necessity of experts
Coronavirus: Rita Wilson warns of chloroquine’s ‘extreme’ side effects
The actor and her husband, Tom Hanks, tested positive for Covid-19 in Australia
What is a multicooker and could it change your life?
Chef Gaz Smith puts the Instant Pot, Tom Hanks’s top kitchen gadget, through its paces
Coronavirus: Tom Hanks has the ‘blahs’ as he and Rita Wilson recover in isolation
Oscar-winner says he is doing chores and getting beaten at cards by his wife
Maureen Dowd: With self-serving spin, Trump washes his hands of responsibility
Coronavirus badly exposing president’s lack of empathy and blame-shifting
‘Just to hear the language Bob Hope was using – it was so offensive’
Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s role in Misbehaviour, about the 1970 Miss World pageant, plays to her strengths
Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’
The veteran comedians on Irish roots, timeless humour and touring with a partner
George MacKay: ‘My influences? Conor McGregor and wallabies’
After his turn in 1917, the actor is tackling the role of iconic Australian outlaw Ned Kelly
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: A tremendous film, a great young director
Review: Tom Hanks stars as the family entertainer Mr Rogers in Marielle Heller’s film
Baftas 2020: The full list of nominations
Saoirse Ronan earns nod for Little Women as Joker leads with 11 nominations
Baftas 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress award for Little Women
Joker leads with 11 nods, while The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood earn 10
Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins big
Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress
Irish actor picks up fifth nod, for Little Women. Andrew Scott named for Fleabag
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