Interview He who Dares: Marvel star Charlie Cox on moving to Dublin, gangland crime, and perfecting the accentThe Kin and Daredevil star has played alongside greats such as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, but he says as an actor you never presume you’ve ‘arrived’
Film Ben Affleck and Matt Damon back screen adaptation of Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’ The film is produced by and stars Cillian Murphy along with Ciarán Hinds and Emily Watson
Profile The Everywhere pair: how the Daniels captured Hollywood with their kung-fu sci-fi comedy-dramaFilmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who created the Oscar-sweeping Everything Everywhere All At Once, are proof – in today’s creatively stalled Hollywood – that there is still room in cinema for something truly new
Essay Horror stories: how the myth of media’s harmful effects took hold on our imaginationsScary films and video games can put a name to fears and allow children to safely explore themes such as trauma, death and mental health – yet some campaigners continue to claim they are a source of harm
Tastemaker ‘My dream is to work with Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion and Charlotte Wells’ – actor Kate Nic ChonaonaighThe Quiet Girl actor Kate Nic Chonaonaigh on being bitten by the performance bug at an early age and being influenced by director Colm Bairéad
Feature Inside the music and acting colleges training the stars of tomorrowThe BIMM institute and the Lir Academy were set up just 12 years ago and are now playing a huge part in Ireland’s cultural output, with Oscar-nominated actor Paul Mescal and chart-topping bands such as Fontaines DC and the Murder Capital taking the world by storm
Interview ‘Irish is a living, active language and we’re part of that’– An Cailín Ciúin director Colm BairéadThe writer and director of The Quiet Girl, the first Irish-language film ever to receive an Oscar nod, may have been rubbing shoulders with Hollywood’s elite but his feet are firmly on the ground in Ireland
Film & Television John Maguire: Little to marvel over in latest wannabe blockbusterThe third film in the Ant-Man trilogy from director Peyton Reed demands nothing from the accomplished cast other than size mutability and a talent for staring at green screens
Film & Television John Maguire: Exhausting, over-the-top Hollywood blowout bedazzles and bores by turnsDamien Chazelle’s Babylon mash up follows imagined and real-life figures of the 1920s as they try to negotiate the film industry’s transition from silent films to sound
The Guide Sara Keating: Looking anew at the Civil War through the fresh lens of modern performances Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin is a little glib in its approach to interpreting Civil War violence; far more interesting is RTÉ’s recent three-part documentary on the subject and the theatrical production Staging the Treaty
Culture Succession, Oppenheimer, and Barbie: Looking forward to the cultural highlights of 2023The highlights of the year to come as chosen by writers Ben Haugh, John Walshe, Andrea Cleary, Tony Clayton-Lea, Sara Keating and Jordan Mooney
Film The fable master: Spielberg goes back to the source to reveal the inspiration behind the moviesThe most successful movie director of all time, Steven Spielberg’s latest movie The Fabelmans is a biopic of sorts which details the pain of his parents’ divorce and how it informed a lot of his work
Film OTT action, grá and grief: 2022’s most memorable moviesWhile lasting pandemic habits have many punters choosing home streaming over physical cinemas, movie theatres still served as a welcome escape
Interview ‘Meeting Barbra Streisand is as golden a moment as I ever could have wished for’ – Richard E GrantSince his wife’s death last year, veteran actor Richard E Grant has done his best to live by her advice of finding ‘a pocketful of happiness’ in each day – as related in his recently published memoir of the same name
What to Watch Christmas on the box: 13 films and TV shows you need to watch this festive periodThis season’s television schedule is jam-packed with classic films, Christmas specials and intriguing once-off programming. Read our expert’s pick of the ones that are worth your time
Film & Television Family favourites, entertainment galore and festive frightsThe season’s television schedule is jam-packed with classic films, Christmas specials and intriguing once-off programmes. Here are Ben Haugh’s picks of the best things to curl up to over the holidays
Film & Television Beautiful but bloated Avatar sequel drowning in empty mythologyIt’s been 13 years since Avatar broke box office records, and with cinema audiences down and Marvel movies dominating the landscape, director James Cameron has his work cut out if The Way of Water is to recoup its huge production budget
Film & Television John Maguire: A sinister ‘Mary Poppins’ comes visiting in disturbing folk horror taleA wealthy woman who seemingly has it all collapses with a mysterious illness in an intriguing, metaphoric story of the first world’s exploitation of developing nations
Tastemaker ‘My favourite day of the week? Thursday – the day of Thunder. It’s quite dramatic’ – Lorcan Finnegan
Film & Television John Maguire on film: Glass Onion is funnier but not as satifying to unpeel as the original whodunitBond star Daniel Craig is back as the 'world’s greatest detective’ in a follow-up to 2019’s surprise murder mystery hit, Knives Out
