Out of Character by Alison Steadman: A lively and undemanding memoir by an actor only a monster could fail to love
Though there is grist and insight here, for the most part this is a saunter through a largely happy life
Mike Leigh
Film-maker
‘People assume I was having play dates with Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof. We didn’t know anyone in show business’
Leo Leigh grew up in the film world. In Sweet Sue, his first feature, his approach to movie-making has produced one of the year’s most complex female characters
Godzilla used to be a metaphor for nuclear horror. Nowadays the monsters are metaphors for the lumbering franchises they appear in
Patrick Freyne: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is zippy, characterful and fun, but I could do better
Mike Leigh: ‘I’m not a jobbing director. I’ve only ever done my own thing’
The acclaimed British director’s first feature film, Bleak Moments, is 50 years old
Film-maker Mike Leigh: ‘I’m predictably irritated by box-ticking on political correctness’
The director on his determination to portray ‘real people’ and being accused of pretension
Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
23 Walks: Top-class acting from Alison Steadman, Dave Johns and the dogs
Film review: The lead actors just about make this canine-themed movie sit up and beg for attention
They should have called it Dylan McDermott’s Sex Garage
Netflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpy
Ken Loach: What’s Britain doing owning part of Ireland?
The director who has spent 50 years poking the establishment on Brexit, right-wing broadcasters and the gig economy
Thousands to re-enact Peterloo massacre in Manchester
Event marks 200th anniversary of defining moment in British political history
What’s that, Skippy? The dog from Brooklyn Nine-Nine has died? Awww
It’s a dog’s life being an animal actor, but they’re the real stars of my fave telly shows
Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘The arts are something you have to do’
In Fabric star has carved out a varied career in media but has not forgotten her roots
‘Covering the Cannes Festival is the hardest job in the world. Pity Us’
Donald Clarke: The #sordidtruth about covering Cannes in the age of Twitter
Madonna to perform two songs at Eurovision 2019 in Israel
Madonna will sing as a special guest at next month’s Eurovision in Tel Aviv
Claire Foy: ‘Pain plays a big part in all the characters I play’
‘I have an aversion to be being told I have to look a certain way to be an actress’
Mike Leigh: ‘Brexit was a terrible manipulation of people and their needs’
The director on why he's telling the story of a very British massacre, disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn and avoiding 'thick actors'
TCD hit by Brexit, Whitey Bulger, Student ‘wage theft’ in Australia
News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers
Peterloo review: a beautiful history lesson but where’s the Mike Leigh grit?
Who thought we’d end up praising the facets of a Leigh film that feel most like the work of David Lean?
Calling Natalie Portman a ‘supporting actor’ is like saying Thumper is the star of ‘Bambi’
Why is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a musical? Because it wants to be an Oscar contender
Patrick Freyne: My day with Steven Seagal, Putin’s new envoy
I didn’t know he was accused of sexual assault and was an apologist for a KGB-trained autocrat
Irish films in the mix at Venice and Toronto festivals
The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto
‘It shouldn’t be political to show what it takes for people to survive’
Director Debra Granik on her new film ‘Leave No Trace’ and her biggest movie-making influences
Pressure builds on Russia to release hunger-striking Ukrainian prisoner
Oleg Sentsov is serving a 20-year sentence on terrorism charges thought to have been fabricated
Gaz Coombes: On My Culture Radar
Singer on how David Hockney inspired his album artwork, and the energy of New York
Cannes 2018: line-up features Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and fresh faces
Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors
‘Michael Inside’ – how prison affects a teenaged first-timer
‘A lot of the former prisoners said the story of the film is very much their story’
Imelda Staunton: The Irish dancing teacher slapped me. I thought ‘I’m never coming back’
Oscar-nominated actor on breaking through age barriers, Harry Potter and why she hates Irish dancing
Men in pieces: Raw displays of vulnerability
After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health
Ethan Hawke: ‘It’s a dance with fire. I saw that with River’s death'
Hawke was a posterboy for generation X actors. But after seeing first hand where his precocious talent could lead, he's become a thoughtful veteran of the Hollywood machine
Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence
‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor
Broken relentlessly maps the landscape of everyday suffering
Anna Friel is brilliant as the lead in Jimmy McGovern’s bleak drama about faith and desperation
Royle Family star remembered by fellow actors
Co-stars and directors pay tribute to Liz Smith who died aged 95 on Christmas Eve
Let’s build a Dublin that we would like to see on screen
Development plan ignores how cameras see the city and distribute its image worldwide
Stephen Frears: ‘I’m a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else, I'd hate me'
The director greets questions with a sigh, suffers no fools - and is entirely fascinating
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