It’s hard not to do a double take when someone complains about the portrayal of 1920s Ireland in Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated film 'The Banshees of Inisherin'

Oscar-nominated film also criticised for its 'offensive' depiction of the Civil War and accuracy of accents

From playing Liza Minnelli opposite Renée Zellweger, to her return to RTÉ’s Smother, it’s a fairy tale career for Gemma-Leah Devereux. By Esther McCarthy 

Mary Cate Smith meets the married couple who turned their love of movies into a hugely successful cinema podcast

The Screen Ireland launch follows a hugely successful week for the Irish film industry, with a record 14 nominations for the Oscars in March

Premieres showcasing stars including Kelly Macdonald, Paul Mescal and Emily Watson will feature at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.

Catherine Martin last year urged the then finance minister to raise the €70m cap on Section 481 tax relief for film productions

Tax credit scheme for Irish movie and TV production sector aims to promote investment in film

The two stars of Romeo And Juliet have sued Paramount Pictures for more than 500 million dollars (£414m) over a nude scene in the 1968 film shot when they were teenagers.

An Irish language film has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the best international film category. An Cailin Ciuin (The Quiet Girl) is one of 15 movies that were shortlisted in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

'...a powerful account of the liberating experience of sloughing off the stigma and refusing to be ‘silenced by society’ any longer...'

Proposed law to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles is the biggest abuse of human rights in UK history, a victims’ group has said.

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After success with Get Out and Us, the modern master of genre is chilling audiences again with Nope 

Heche was charismatic and cool, with a terrific camera presence, an intriguing and sexually charged opaqueness, on the verge of disillusionment or hostility

Irish exile Sam O’Shea (Gabriel Byrne) is a hard-drinking serial philanderer who is shocked to discover that his latest wife is cheating on him

Set on the back roads and boreens of the West of Ireland, there’s plenty of Irish talent on hand to lend support too

A laboratory guinea pig bent on world domination provides most of the humour along with some very effective running jokes

Aim to attract large-scale blockbuster movies as well as TV and content productions from around the world to the facility in Westmeath

Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Lashana Lynch, who starred as Nomi in the latest 007 film, have helped celebrate the work of young film-makers at the Into Film Awards.

Star of much-praised Irish film An Cailín Ciúin, Carrie Crowley reaches out and rescues people without crowing about it on social media

The Academy will meet later this week to determine if action will be taken against the Oscar-winner over the incident

Even 50 years after the release of the iconic mafia film, what it has to say about heritage, family, competition, and capitalism remain relevant to this day.

Hurt won the best actor Oscar in 1985 for Kiss of the Spider Woman, in which he had played a gay man who shares a cell with a with a political prisoner in Brazil

Makers of a documentary about the life and career of US actress Betty White have said a screening of the film on what would have been her 100th birthday will go ahead as planned.

Our writers reveal their top picks for the season ahead

In these paranoid times, the fourth Matrix film reminds us how prophetic the original was

The film is reminiscent of Cinema Paradiso in its nostalgic tone and cinematically inspired narrative

Targeted for deportation because of his cultural heritage, Antonio's life gets minced up by the bureaucratic machinery in engrossing Blue Bayou

Limerick ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to drawing major projects, writes Esther McCarthy

It's good to see big business bounce back, but don't forget small folks too who are just happy to see you

Organisers persevere to get 66th event up and running

Hutchins was working on a western called Rust with Alec Balwin when his prop gun misfired

He’s been accused of antisemitism, domestic violence and sexism – but somehow this guy always gets another chance, writes Marina Hyde

When you're kind to yourself it sends a way better energy out to the world. There's no point banging your head off the wall

Culture That Made Me: The Irish-Ethiopian star selects some of her touchstones and influences 

A documentary about Dr Phil Kennedy, the Limerick-born neurologist who pioneered technology allowing human brains be connected to machines

Over the four decades it has operated, the Quay Co-op has been part of radical social change and has become a vital part of the community. Now a new film charts those changes in Ireland and the co-op's part in those changes

Plus, Jude Law is superb as a dazzling, shallow husband in The Nest; and Our Ladies is like Derry Girls on a booze-fuelled bender

We’re over halfway through 2021 in what is emerging as a strong year for movies. Here are some of the best you may have missed

From Billie Eilish to Baste BBQ - we've got your guide to what's happening as society reopens in earnest

Dave Bautista shows he’s leading man material in Army Of The Dead. Georgia Humphreys hears more from the star, plus creatives Zack and Deborah Snyder

— plus a documentary about the most influential Hollywood producer you’ve probably never heard of; and The Oak Room is a hardboiled psychological thriller

The controversial film will be released in the UK some months before it debuts in Ireland