‘An Inconvenient Truth’ might have made for depressing viewing, but Al Gore’s sequel sounds a note of optimism in the fight against climate change and those who are trying to scupper recovery, writes Helen Barlow

The Cork-born director of the prestigious event helps Esther McCarthy select some highlights

Actress Lily Collins owns the snowy Sundance film festival with weather-worthy wardrobe heroes. 

Irish filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice is in front of the camera at Sundance this weekend for a documentary on how his life has been affected by motor neurone disease, writes Esther McCarthy.

As 2017 gets under way, the Irish film industry is looking forward to another stellar year of new productions and international awards.

Kirsten Johnson tells Richard Fitzpatrick about working with the likes of Edward Snowden on some of the most important documentaries of our time

Manchester by the Sea made an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival, and instantly staked a claim for an Oscar. Its first trailer has just been released, so you can see what all the fuss is about.

Ride hailing company Uber has begun a helicopter service in Brazil's biggest city.

Musically inclined comedy/drama Sing Street arrived earlier in 2016 to great fanfare, kicking things off with a rapturous reception at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation scored huge prizes at the Sundance Film Festival and is finally set to be seen around the world.

Before his death from Aids at the age of 42, Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the stigma of being gay, and left a rich body of artistic photography, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Kate Bosworth walked the pink carpet at the Elsa Schiaparelli Couture show in clothes by the brand and Roger Vivier pumps. This should be a tough look to pull off, uniting beads, sequins and satin jacquard. Kate makes it look effortless.

Maureen Dowd on why Tinseltown’s toxic brew of fear and sexism is keeping women out of the top jobs

Irish movie Room is beginning to generate some Oscar buzz after scooping a major award at the Toronto Film Festival.

Actor Emile Hirsch will serve 15 days in jail after the Into the Wild star pleaded guilty on Monday to a misdemeanor assault charge for putting a female movie executive in a headlock during a film festival, a court official said.

Actor Emile Hirsch has pleaded guilty to misdemeanour assault after being accused of putting a female studio executive in a chokehold at a Utah nightclub during the Sundance Film Festival.

A period romantic drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson, Brooklyn will be coming to Irish cinemas in November 2015

Scathing criticism of his directorial debut hasn’t stopped Ryan Gosling from being proud of his efforts, writes Susan Griffin.

Actor Emile Hirsch put a studio executive in a chokehold and dragged her across a nightclub table during the Sundance Film Festival, police have said.

Irish actor Jack Reynor has won the prestigious special jury prize for acting at the Sundance Film Festival for his role in Gerard Barrett’s Glassland.

Record year for Irish production as five movies are being showcased at prestigious Sundance festival

Irish film Glassland is one of just 12 films chosen for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the US state of Utah.

You can take the man out of the landscape, but you can’t take the landscape out of the man. That’s true of writer and film director Maurice O’Callaghan, who was born near Béal Na Bláth, West Cork, and has reflected its hauntingly beautiful countryside in his writings and films.

Best supporting actress Oscar nominee Lupita Nyong’o has admitted that when she was young she wished her black skin would become lighter.

The Inquiry is one of the gems from this year’s documentary strand at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival; although, technically, it’s a drama written from documentary evidence, as its screenplay is threaded with newspaper cuttings and British parliamentary reports.

Army loses its pep after Viagra tablets stolen

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.

Joanne O’Riordan has already addressed the UN, and the world once again seemed hers for the taking as a documentary into her life premiered in Cork City.

A film about an inspirational Cork teenager who was born with no limbs premieres tomorrow and will be screened across Ireland and possibly abroad as early as next month.

An Irish documentary has scooped one of the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival in the US, known as the Oscars for independent film-makers.

Ashton Kutcher's latest starring role took a toll on his health.

The documentary on the expedition up the world’s second highest mountain, which claimed the life of Limerick’s Ger McDonnell has won a major distribution deal in the US.

Naomi Watts wants to spend more time with her children.

Daniel Radcliffe has really left Harry Potter behind with a startling and explicit Sundance Film Festival role as poet Allen Ginsberg.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is rumoured to star in a 'Sin City' follow-up.

Dave Grohl will debut a new supergroup later this month.

The Kanturk native behind the hugely popular Sminky Shorts cartoons has been named as Cork Person of the Month for December.

For the first time after her much-publicised break-up with Brad Pitt, US actress Jennifer Aniston is engaged to be married again — this time to a much less known actor-screenwriter, Justin Theroux.