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The star of Carrie, Badlands and Coal Miner’s Daughter on her decades-long career
Mother’s Day: Ten of the best and worst moms in cinema
The fanatical mother of Carrie, the self-sacrificing Mildred Pierce, the baddass Sarah Connor
Al Pacino: ‘The Godfather gave me a new identity that was hard to cope with’
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Donald Clarke: China’s financial success at the cinema is not a pandemic story
People’s Republic released two highest-grossing films of 2021 after decade of growth
Donald Clarke: Video games spawned two film genres. Only one of them is awful
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Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before wins best Irish film
From best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to know
Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives on
He was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinity
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Sean Connery turns 90: An avatar of old-fashioned masculinity
The Scottish actor, voted ‘sexiest man alive’ for decades, started as a milkman and became ‘the greatest’ James Bond
De Niro and Pacino: ‘We are very close... We have known each other a long time’
The Hollywood veterans are back on screen together for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Knife+Heart: Unapologetically trashy gay porn thriller goes the full De Palma
Review: Strap yourselves in, because this is unbridled, fever-pitch cinema
Event of the Week: The IFI French Film Festival
Lineup includes Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl’, Christophe Honoré’s ‘Sorry Angel’ and a documentary about John McEnroe that includes shouting
Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?
Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years
The World Cup is keeping the big movies out of cinemas in June
Movie scheduling is a voodoo science - nobody knows why certain releases work in certain slots
Donald Trump believes he’s Luke Skywalker: How Star Wars works for everyone
With the release of The Last Jedi imminent, a look back at how the ‘Star Wars’ juggernaut started in a ‘galaxy far, far away’
Carrie on screaming: the 20 best Stephen King movies
His works have been adapted by Rob Reiner, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg. And we’re soon to see more adaptations on screen
Ireland finally falls for modernism a century on
Modernist houses have long been favoured backdrops for Hollywood baddies
Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone and the elusive Oscar
Ennio Morricone revolutionised cinema music but has never won an Oscar for one of his scores. He’s up again, for ‘The Hateful Eight’. Does he care? Just a little
From Boba to Yoda: The A-Z of Star Wars
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is out on December 17th. Here’s your Star Wars guide
Saoirse Ronan: bold before her time
At the age of 9 she made her screen debut in RTÉ’s ‘The Clinic’. At 13 she was Oscar-nominated for ‘Atonement’. The Bronx-born, Carlow-raised star truly has been there/done that, which suits her role as an Irish immigrant in ‘Brooklyn’
Noomi Rapace: “I think acting saved my life”
Noomi Rapace certainly knows how to make an entrance – and how to talk. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Prometheus star discusses her love of Iceland, life as a 15-year-old wild child in Stockholm, and how acting saved her life
Cork Film Festival to open with Australian film Charlie’s Country
Irish romantic comedy ‘Standby’ also to feature in extensive festival programme
Review: The Captive
Atom Egoyan’s latest is uneven and sometimes tasteless – his return to form remains on ice
Viggo Mortensen: “I run into a lot of actors who seem to have had itinerant childhoods”
The Lord of the Rings star talks fame and fortune, film and football, and explains why he’ll be supporting Argentina in the World Cup
Cultural gifts: stocking fillers and fantasy fare for arty types
From the realistic (books, video games, DVDs) to the less so (Rothko Painting No 1, Bond’s Aston Martin), ‘Irish Times’ writers reveal what’s on their Santa lists
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