Angelina Jolie

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has architects up in arms – but they’re missing the point

Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury

Sun Feb 02 2025 - 05:45

Oscars 2025 nominations today: What are the chances for Kneecap, Saoirse Ronan and Cillian Murphy?

Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 06:30

Maria review: Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera star

Pablo Larraín’s film attempts to grasp the real human while wallowing in the gorgeousness of it all

Thu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00

Golden Globes 2025: full list of winners

The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and Shōgun triumph at the Golden Globes as Colin Farrell wins third award

Mon Jan 06 2025 - 05:22

Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’

To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she says

Sat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement after eight-year bitter dispute

Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 after she alleged Pitt was abusive to their children

Tue Dec 31 2024 - 08:42

Golden Globes 2025: full list of nominations

Musical thriller Emilia Pérez and historical epic The Brutalist led the pack of films nominated, with Emilia Pérez earning 10 nods and The Brutalist gaining seven

Mon Dec 09 2024 - 16:07

Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?

Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly lose

Thu Sept 05 2024 - 16:14

Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett are all at the Venice film festival. What’s odd is why some of them are here

They’re not in the main competition. None is opening the Italian festival. Why? Because they’re all here with television series

Sun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00

First Look: As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie finally has the starring role she deserves

Venice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo Larraín

Thu Aug 29 2024 - 18:45

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

Tue Jul 23 2024 - 18:38

Tony Awards 2024: Daniel Radcliffe and Irish lighting designer Jane Cox among the winners

Cox, who is based in the United States, won the award for her work on Appropriate

Mon Jun 17 2024 - 11:48

Mr & Mrs Smith review: Sharon Horgan makes a cameo in this joyless clunker

Television: Donald Glover’s dour thriller is blunt reminder that some things are best left in the past

Fri Feb 02 2024 - 05:45

Angelina Jolie to step down as UN refugee ambassador after more than 20 years

Oscar-winning actor admires refugees ‘most in the world’ and will work with 'people directly affected by conflict’

Sat Dec 17 2022 - 14:37

Angelina Jolie alleges Brad Pitt physically and emotionally abused her and their children

Pitt sued Jolie in February alleging she violated his ‘contractual expectations’ when selling stake in winery

Wed Oct 05 2022 - 10:04

The Hollywood stars who cosied up to Vladimir Putin

Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio were once happy to hang with the Russian leader

Mon Mar 07 2022 - 15:50

Brad Pitt sues ex-wife Angelina Jolie for selling stake in French winery

Russian businessman purchases stake in winery where couple were married in 2014

Fri Feb 18 2022 - 20:37

Tilda Swinton: ‘I lived through my 20s in a whole queer environment’

The actor talks about her years with Derek Jarman and reveals plans for a career change

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 13:36

How do you say 'soft day, thank God' in ancient Babylonian?

Trinity academic Dr Martin Worthington translated dead language for Marvel film Eternals

Tue Nov 09 2021 - 07:00

Eternals: Po-faced superhero entertainment

Review: The sluggishness and drabness of Marvel’s latest is unforgivable

Fri Nov 05 2021 - 05:00

Angelina Jolie: ‘It took a lot for me to separate from the father of my children’

The actor speaks about her divorce from Brad Pitt, activism and escaping Weinstein

Mon Sept 06 2021 - 12:30

Divorces of the rich and famous: A 1% solution or the start of a trend?

As recent high-profile splits end ‘amicably’, the less well-known may follow in their footsteps

Tue Jun 01 2021 - 06:00

From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year

Sat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00

Scientist and inventor (15) named Time magazine’s Kid of the Year

Gitanjali Rao invented Chrome-extension that uses AI to detect cyberbullying

Fri Dec 04 2020 - 10:35

Kony’s children: The former child soldiers of Uganda

Dominic Ongwen faces a war-crimes verdict in January. For some Ugandans his story isn’t simple

Sat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00

Five takeaways from this week’s Republican National Convention

TV flair and production were to fore as Trump drew on family and voter-group testimony

Fri Aug 28 2020 - 18:00

Melania Trump: ‘A sphinx with a rubber eraser in place of a tail’

A new book, The Art of Her Deal, tries to shed light on the enigmatic US first lady

Mon Jun 15 2020 - 16:59

Dublin International Film Festival 2020: Memorable matriarchal themes

Writer, actor and activist John Connors has two directorial efforts in the festival

Mon Mar 02 2020 - 00:00

Johnnie Fox’s sees ‘a few cancellations’ over coronavirus fears

Well-known Dublin pub and tourist attraction had profits of almost €400,000 last year

Wed Feb 26 2020 - 17:34

Le Mans ’66: ‘If the sponsors are staying away, we’ve done something right’

Le Mans ’66 director James Mangold on Scorsese, the Marvel controversy and the state of film

Wed Nov 13 2019 - 05:00

Legal group that aids child immigrants to set up Irish pilot

Kind, founded by Angelina Jolie and Microsoft, has provided support to 22,000 children in US

Mon Nov 04 2019 - 02:11

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Angelina Jolie isn’t cruel enough

Review: A dreary, woke subplot sends Maleficent to a hidden kingdom to express herself

Tue Oct 15 2019 - 14:00

Boris Johnson: George Clooney film was 'probably my idea'

British prime minister reveals he pitched an Indiana Jones-style adventure to ‘a very distinguished director’

Tue Oct 08 2019 - 14:07

Brad Pitt: ‘I just bonged myself into oblivion’

The actor talks frankly about his future onscreen, masculinity and getting sober

Thu Sept 05 2019 - 09:50