Visits to BookTok and Bookstagram reveal readers remain as eccentric as ever

Matt Damon, Zendaya, Seth Rogen and Kieran Culkin feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 17th, 2026

In person and on screen the late actor radiated an earthy integrity that cannot be faked

Dublin born and raised, Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar in 1990 for her role in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot

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This take on Homer’s classic – with a celebrity cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya – should win over even the most passionate sceptics

The animation has the animals of Manor Farm revolt against Farmer Jones in the opening five minutes and set up something like a collective

The breadth of the Omagh native’s work was extraordinary. Any festival celebrating his work would last for weeks

The Lost Children of Tuam, featuring Monica Dolan as the mother and baby home historian, gets an emotional response at Galway Film Fleadh

We’ll enjoy their new material. Then we’ll put it back on the shelf

Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Laga’aia and Souheila Yacoub feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 10th, 2026

Christopher Nolan on big-budget pressure, finally conquering Ulysses and why The Odyssey, his highly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s epic, deserves to be seen on the big screen

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A decade since the animation, nothing of value is added in this lifeless, half-hearted picture

The audience is forced to endure a great deal of performative weirdness from an extraordinary array of talent