The Movie Quiz: Deadpool & Wolverine is the first MCU flick to receive what in the US?
Plus: Who played the grandmother of a candidate for vice-president of the United States?
Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla Barry
Despite the intellectual heft, this is a film that knows when to cut towards playful diversion
Deadpool & Wolverine review: One star for this awful, awful pile of puerile, snarky parody
The first R-rated MCU movie is in fact the most relentlessly juvenile entry in a sequence rarely confused with Bergman’s Faith trilogy
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up
Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition
I am partly responsible for JD Vance’s rise to be Donald Trump’s running mate. Sorry
When I reviewed Hillbilly Elegy, the film based on JD Vance’s memoir, I didn’t anticipate its potential to become one of the few movies to change history
Four new films to see this week
Sleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary Skywalkers
Emma Corrin: ‘I’m striving to find a sense of challenge. There is real excitement in delving into unknown waters’
The Crown star has a blast in Deadpool & Wolverine. It’s quite a change from roller-skating about the palace as Princess Diana
The Movie Quiz: How many Alien movies are there?
Plus: What was the first film made by a streamer to get a Best Picture nomination?
Dancing at Lughnasa review: Gate’s triumphant, breathtakingly beautiful revival deserves groaning houses
Theatre: Caroline Byrne’s production, featuring Zara Devlin, Peter Gowen and Ruth McGill, makes both dream and reverie of Brian Friel’s indestructible play
Skywalkers: A Love Story – Steel yourself for the queasy highs of this rooftopping documentary
Russian daredevils Vanya Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, romantic and professional partners, travel to Paris and Bangkok as they plot ‘one last job’
Twisters review: This big fat summer movie isn’t half bad. Yeehaw!
Sequel feels perfectly serviceable in era of lore-addicted trash such as Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap scoops three main prizes
Belfast hip-hop posse’s rambunctious farce is first film in event’s history to take audience award, best Irish-language feature and best Irish film
Mark O’Rowe: ‘The plays were violent and sexual. But I can’t go back there. Everything has to be new to me’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Tallaght playwright on new play Reunion, his changing preoccupations, and the stress of TV work
There’s a reason why we’ve become blasé about Paul Mescal’s lead role in Gladiator II
As the 25th year of the century approaches, never before has there been a period of comparable international visibility of Irish culture