Brendan Gleeson: ‘I won’t do something for the sake of it any more, but I’m still curious’ – The Irish Times
At the age of 71, when many actors have retired or their agents aren’t calling offering work, Brendan…
Of course Hollywood is dying. It’s been dying for nearly 80 years – The Irish Times
“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” When Norma Desmond delivered that line in Billy Wilder’s…
New twist in Aer Lingus redundancy plan, and Hollywood and AI – The Irish Times
A trade union body representing workers across Aer Lingus’ owner, International Airlines Group (IAG), could intervene in plans…
Sex, gods and executions: What Christopher Nolan left out of The Odyssey – The Irish Times
Medievalists must be jealous. Classicists are having a moment on social media, happily discussing whether Odysseus was “polytropos,”…
Los Angeles, the city created by an Irish vagabond visionary, licks its wounds in 2026 – The Irish Times
It’s high summer in Hollywood and tourists traipsing along the terrazzo boulevard could this week gawp, if they…
Marilyn Monroe at 100: What her films reveal about the woman behind the myth – The Irish Times
If a time capsule devoted to Marilyn Monroe contained only her films – floating free of the celluloid-adjacent…
Chuck Norris was unique among movie stars for being tough as characters he played – The Irish Times
“Chuck Norris actually died 20 years ago, but Death hasn’t built up the courage to tell him yet.”…
How Ireland is luring Hollywood film-makers across the Atlantic – The Irish Times
Raining. An alley near Broadway. We see the shadowy figure of the 48-year-old Lorenz Hart, wearing his topcoat…
Biopic of American jazz pianist with strong Irish input hits groove for awards season – The Irish Times
On Saturday evening, the creative team behind Everybody Digs Bill Evans will learn if the Berlin Film Festival…
‘We’re all very concerned about the state of Hollywood’ – The Irish Times
Liam Neeson has expressed concerns about the future of cinema, citing the growing number of films bypassing theatrical…
Robert Duvall blended grit and humility in a rough‑hewn archetype that is now Hollywood history – The Irish Times
Robert Duvall was a screen icon hewn from Old Hollywood granite – a quietly forbidding force of nature…
The reluctant cinema icon who embodied France’s sexual revolution – The Irish Times
There was, in the grim postwar years, no more potent symbol of imminent sexual revolution and potential emotional…