The Irish Times

A Malarkey in Clear Air – Frank McNally on an American war hero with a funny name

An Irishman’s Diary

Sat Jul 31 2021 - 00:01

Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine

Gremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film market

Tue Oct 20 2020 - 05:00

Conor Pope’s 10k training: Tell me why... I don’t like rundays

There will be no movie made about my life. But there’s already a playlist with 327 songs

Tue Feb 11 2020 - 06:01

‘Powerful’ Ted talk from Irish spinal cord activists Simone George and Mark Pollock

In their Ted talk George and Pollock explore how "climbing into the raging river of grief when tragedy strikes can be the way to get to the next place”;

Fri Sept 07 2018 - 16:00

Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children

Review: Sadness pervades this adaptation. What’s going on? Is there honey still for tea?

Wed Aug 15 2018 - 11:15

Stranger Things’ Sheriff Hopper goes viral

Winning Twitter account is devoted to clips of the sheriff doing adorable dad dancing

Thu Nov 09 2017 - 06:35

Colin Farrell on film: The five career highs of a home-grown hero

This five-course feast takes us from his debut in Tigerland to the darkly comic The Lobster

Sat Oct 21 2017 - 05:05

‘Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope’: the making of RTÉ’s dark new comedy drama

2016 Revisited: Too much TV glamorises ‘going out for the night, having sex with people, then dissecting it the next day over avocados’. Stefanie Preissner set out to be more realistic

Sat Sept 17 2016 - 04:00

Roald Dahl tours – trips to the unexpected

Trace the Welsh roots of the beloved author and stay at his boyhood holiday home

Sat Sept 03 2016 - 04:00

The original Jaws resurfaces in Sligo

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

Sat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00

Robin Williams: So plentiful were his gifts he rarely reached for ‘off’ switch

He always said he was most liberated when doing stand-up – protected by the force field of genius the way he was not when he was ‘Robin Williams’ walking down the street

Wed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00