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Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s film

Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowrote

Baftas 2024: Cillian Murphy scoops best actor award for Oppenheimer

Cillian Murphy remains on track to become the first person born in Ireland to win best actor at the Oscars

Harlots? It’s all pumping buttocks from the men. Which is fair enough

TV review: The BBC’s 18th-century brothel drama isn’t as gratuitous as you might think

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?

Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years

Television: Nigella’s living well. It’s the best revenge

Review: ‘Designing Ireland’, ‘The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds’, ‘Simply Nigella’

Miss Julie review: an appropriately draining exercise in lusty social discomfort | JDiff 2015

10 of the best: Scottish fiction

As Scots go to the polls to vote on independence, we select our favourite Scottish novels

Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”

Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...

Cate Blanchett: 'My maternal guilt is of the high-class and expensive variety'

Cate Blanchett's latest performance in Woody Allen’s ’Blue Jasmine’ – as a vodka-and-Xanax-swilling woman on the brink of breaking point – must have been quite a stretch for the immaculately casual mother-of-three