A few years ago a GAA club official was complaining to me about another sport, and its insidious hold on his players - its pernicious influence, its seductive siren song, tempting them away from righteousness.
Mon, 29 Oct, 2018
The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.
Wed, 17 Oct, 2018
In the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are pursued by a posse of lawmen, among whom is a Native American tracker, writes Richard Collins.
Mon, 23 Oct, 2017
Well, we know what we're doing for the new few weekends.
Fri, 29 Sep, 2017
Catch up on the morning's headlines...
Thu, 21 Sep, 2017
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford have reunited for a new Netflix film, writes Helen
Wed, 20 Sep, 2017
Riley Keough is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis and Priscilla. Now the actress is a celebrity in her own right, says Taffy Brodesser Akner.
Sat, 08 Apr, 2017
Trump’s election has continued a trend in the US of dumbing down political life that has pushed the country down a perilous path, writes Nina Khrushcheva.
Thu, 17 Nov, 2016
Tue, 20 Sep, 2016
Irish Examiner staff writers and columnists on how they’d excel in their chosen sports at the Olympics - under certain favourable terms and conditions of course...
Tue, 23 Aug, 2016
A little boy has been living in the woods for years, but he wasn’t alone.
Thu, 11 Aug, 2016
Sun, 07 Aug, 2016
The big summer silly season of movies has pretty much come and gone but that doesn’t mean that it’s a quiet time in the cinemas as there’s plenty of family fare still on the way in August.
Tue, 02 Aug, 2016
What the world would look like under President Donald Trump? By Matthew Cooper
Sat, 26 Mar, 2016
Hail, Caesar! 4/5
Sat, 05 Mar, 2016
Mon, 11 Jan, 2016
Sat, 21 Nov, 2015
If, like your correspondent, you suffer even a little from vertigo, then Everest (12A) should either be avoided entirely or watched from the front row.
Sat, 19 Sep, 2015
To celebrate the release of A Walk in the Woods in cinemas now, we’re giving you the chance to one of five ’Full Moon Walks’ in Glendalough with Hilltop Treks!
Fri, 18 Sep, 2015
MUSIC NEWS: Netflix subscribers now have access to two worthwhile music documentaries: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, in which the Rolling Stones guitarist talks about his new solo album and the sounds that have inspired him over the years; and Time Is Illmatic, the film that tells of Nas’s classic 1994 album, and his background in New York that gave rise to it.
Bill Bryson isn’t too put out that Robert Redford took a few liberties in the film version of his travelogue, writes Ed Power
Thu, 17 Sep, 2015
Everest is a big budget story of survival with a great cast and some stupendous images and there's also comedy and drama in the mix.
Sun, 13 Sep, 2015
Thu, 11 Jun, 2015
Thu, 05 Mar, 2015
LIAM CLANCY first decided on Ring, Co Waterford, in 1963. It was over the Comeragh Mountains from Carrick-on-Suir, where he had grown up.
Tue, 23 Dec, 2014
With the release this week of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last film ‘A Most Wanted Man’, Declan Burke takes a look at the most influential spy films ever made
Fri, 12 Sep, 2014
LIVERPOOL: Time for character as dream turns to nightmare
Mon, 05 May, 2014
Muppets: Most Wanted ****
Sun, 30 Mar, 2014
The Marvel Cinematic Universe isn't going anywhere, here are just a few of the movies promised in 2016 and beyond
Mon, 17 Feb, 2014
12 Years a Slave, Cate Blanchett, and Matthew McConaughey were among big winners at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, taking honours for best picture, actress, and actor.
Sat, 18 Jan, 2014
Started in 1978 by Sundance himself Robert Redford, the Sundance Film Festival is a yearly gathering of movie folks in the snowy climes of Park City, Utah where deals are done and the indie (and not so indie) releases for the year are teased.
Fri, 17 Jan, 2014
The force of Gravity may be about to exert itself on Hollywood’s awards season when Academy Award nominations are announced today.
Thu, 16 Jan, 2014
A film about the eventful life of Irish humanitarian Christina Noble will have its world premiere at a film festival in the US later this month.
The major honours at the Golden Globes ended up with the favourites as American Hustle won three awards, but 12 Years A Slave concluded the night as best film drama.
Tue, 14 Jan, 2014
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ****
Sun, 29 Dec, 2013
'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' lead the Golden Globes 2014 nominations with seven nods each.
Thu, 12 Dec, 2013
We'd all gotten over the whole Mia Farrow / Woody Allen / Soon Yi Previn thing.
Tue, 08 Oct, 2013
Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of “old media” – the Washington Post.
Tue, 06 Aug, 2013
Steven Spielberg is planning a remake of 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
Wed, 03 Jul, 2013
Shia LaBeouf is in talks to star in 'Fury'.
Wed, 24 Apr, 2013
A French court has ruled to allow an auction of dozens of Native American tribal masks opposed by the Hopi tribe and its supporters including actor Robert Redford, and despite the US government’s plea for the sale to be delayed.
Fri, 12 Apr, 2013
Robert Redford has confirmed he is to star in Captain America: The Winter Soldier' and he will play the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Wed, 03 Apr, 2013
President Barack Obama was counting on former president Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen, top surrogates for his campaign, to carry his message.
Tue, 06 Nov, 2012
Scarlett Johansson worries no one will want to hire her as an actress.
Fri, 26 Oct, 2012
Shia LaBeouf is set to star in 'Nymphomaniac'.
Thu, 09 Aug, 2012
Robert Redford has slammed the use of 3-D technology in movies.
Mon, 30 Apr, 2012
Robert Redford says Hollywood wasn't "risky" enough for him.
Fri, 27 Apr, 2012
The Cabin in the Woods (16s) begins in an entirely conventional fashion, as five college kids take off in a camper van for a weekend at, you guessed it, a remote cabin in the woods.
Sat, 14 Apr, 2012
I’m writing this as my old friend Bill O’Herlihy reads a laundry list of names to Eamon, John and, yes even, Ronnie Whelan.
Fri, 17 Feb, 2012
'Moneyball' is a movie about baseball...but it's not a sports movie.
Mon, 14 Nov, 2011
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