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Four new films to see this week: The Summer Book, Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller?, Nimrods: A Green Day Comedy and Queens of the Dead
Glenn Close, Emily Matthews, Mason Thames and Katy O’Brian feature in quartet of movies released in the week of August 7th, 2026
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have broken a chart record with Rein Me In. You know the one. Don’t you?
The song has surpassed a 73-year-old record for longest stay at number one. Blame the death of the monoculture for the fact people haven’t heard (of) it
The Summer Book review: Lovely moments in unhurried adaptation of treasured Tove Jansson novel
English-language film directed by Charlie McDowell is old-fashioned in both good and bad ways
The Movie Quiz: How many films are there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Plus: To whom did Chris Rock eventually present an Oscar after being smacked by Will Smith?
Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller? review: An Irish showman with ties to Johnny Cash, a famed Dublin venue, the Mafia and gold digging
Charismatic talking heads help tell the story of an epic life in David Burke’s film
Horror director Eli Roth: ‘All you can do is prepare your child. You can’t protect them’
As his latest film, Ice Cream Man, is released, the film-maker explains why horror can’t be just ‘gross and repellent’. It has to be clever too
Your kids are probably using the newish insult ‘chud’. But what does it mean?
The term appears to have evolved from ‘cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller’ to loser, via some other definitions
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Quentin Tarantino’s fictional cigarette brand?
Plus: Which movie does not feature a credit for a member of The Beatles?
The Sacrifice review: No mistaking the quiet despair in reissue of Tarkovsky’s last film
Restoration of cinematic great’s final finished feature demands to be seen on the big screen
‘I saw a parallel with the colonial narratives I was looking at, between South Asian and Irish history’
After the BBC approached Ish director Imran Perretta about finding a co-writer, Dublin-born Enda Walsh jumped at the opportunity
Glen Hansard the film star was at the centre of two key moments in Irish cinema
His best-song Oscar win with Markéta Irglová in 2008 alerted the world that the country’s screen industry was on the march
Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Summery fun but it might as well have a barcode on screen
Chemistry between Tom Holland and Zendaya is a reminder of old-fashioned cinematic values, but tolerance of Marvel is required
Lesbian Lines director Cara Holmes: Growing up, the word ‘lesbian’ was not really being said out loud
Gaze International LGBTQIA Film Festival: In pre-internet Ireland, telephone lines sprang up around the country to let isolated gay women feel heard
Elon Musk’s Wokebusters and the failing campaign against The Odyssey
Let’s not pretend right-wing blowhards criticising Christopher Nolan’s film really care about infelicities in shipbuilding
Pure filth! Ireland’s banned films – and why the censor didn’t want you to see them
The Irish Film Censor’s Office cut some of the greatest lines in cinema, to the dismay of the last censor, John Kelleher
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