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.

The festival, which runs from November 9-18, will showcase Irish and international films with a focus on current global issues.

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. 

Well, we know what we're doing for the new few weekends.

Catch up on the morning's headlines...

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford have reunited for a new Netflix film, writes Helen

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.

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.

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...

A little boy has been living in the woods for years, but he wasn’t alone.

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.

What the world would look like under President Donald Trump? By Matthew Cooper

Hail, Caesar! 4/5

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

LIVERPOOL: Time for character as dream turns to nightmare

Muppets: Most Wanted ****

The Marvel Cinematic Universe isn't going anywhere, here are just a few of the movies promised in 2016 and beyond

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.

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.

The force of Gravity may be about to exert itself on Hollywood’s awards season when Academy Award nominations are announced today.

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.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ****

'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' lead the Golden Globes 2014 nominations with seven nods each.

We'd all gotten over the whole Mia Farrow / Woody Allen / Soon Yi Previn thing.

Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of “old media” – the Washington Post.

Steven Spielberg is planning a remake of 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

Shia LaBeouf is in talks to star in 'Fury'.

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.

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.

President Barack Obama was counting on former president Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen, top surrogates for his campaign, to carry his message.

Scarlett Johansson worries no one will want to hire her as an actress.

Shia LaBeouf is set to star in 'Nymphomaniac'.

Robert Redford has slammed the use of 3-D technology in movies.

Robert Redford says Hollywood wasn't "risky" enough for him.

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.

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.

'Moneyball' is a movie about baseball...but it's not a sports movie.