Alexander Skarsgard: Filming The Northman in Ireland was ‘months in the mud’
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
The Painted Bird: This film sent patrons running from cinema. I recommend you watch it
Review: Wartime horrors and inhumane acts are present from the very beginning
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Compromised and astonishingly unfinished
Review: 25 years in the making, the hollowness of the female characters is bad timing
Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins big
Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger
Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Chernobyl writer urges Instagram tourists to ‘respect’ nuclear disaster site
Spike in visitors, including someone posing in a g-string, prompts HBO writer to speak out
Chernobyl TV drama will bring new light to 1986 nuclear disaster, says Adi Roche
Campaigner welcomes hard-hitting Sky and HBO TV series that prompted tears at UN
Pierce Brosnan: Our New VBF
If you are having a low day, Brosnan’s Instagram account is a surefire way to lift that dark cloud
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun
Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Here I was, legs wrapped around Tom Cruise’
Rebecca Ferguson on learning stunts on-set, and Michael Fassbender's incessant singing
Return to Montauk review: A cold but classy concoction
Sadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best work
Borg Vs McEnroe: a smashing match made in heaven
This dramatisation cleverly demonstrates that the two weren’t so different after all
The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh
Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film
Galway Film Fleadh will premiere ‘Dunkirk’ and Maze escape feature
The 29th festival will close with a rare original feature project from Colm Toíbín
Alexander Skarsgård: The most popular Swedish export since Abba
Alexander Skarsgård has followed in his father’s acting footsteps, and with ‘Generation Kill’ and ‘True Blood’ behind him, he’s finding new worlds to conquer in film
Colm Tóibín, novice screenwriter
The Irish writer has teamed up with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss and Volker Schlöndorff to make his first film, about ‘rewriting reality’
Laurence Mackin’s 2015: Singular success and collective triumphs
Despite complaints about collaborative art, there have been great examples this year
Television: Cry me a River and pay tribute to the Don – the small-screen year
Year in review: From ‘Red Rock’ to Aidan Turner’s biceps in ‘Poldark’ and Don Draper’s final ad campaign in ‘Mad Men’, TV delivered the goods in 2015
Television: ‘River’ is pitch perfect. But please don’t bring it back
Review: ‘River’, ‘Liveline: Callback’, ‘True North: Will’s Kitchen’
Review: This ‘River’ goes against the flow of hackneyed crime shows
Television: ‘River’, ‘Unforgotten’, ‘Death of a Son: The Killing of Michael Dwyer’, ‘Maia Dunphy’s Truth About Breaking London’
Stellan Skarsgård: Nymphomaniac’s off-centred everyman
Two decades of collaboration with out-there Lars Von Trier has honed Stellan Skarsgård’s Swedish oddball persona to perfection – but deep down he’s really just an ordinary family man with a peculiar sort of career
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 and Volume 2
Lars Von Trier continues on his highly eccentric way with this bold and bonkers epic
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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