FILM TIPS: The Young Offenders is in cinemas today and you’d imagine the Cork comedy will do flying business in its home city over the weekend, as well as drawing plenty punters in foreign counties. 

Just like the protagonist of his latest film, Pedro Almodovar admits that the weight of years gone by have had an effect on him, writes Helen Barlow

Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning film I, Daniel Blake has been chosen for the New York Film Festival. The British director’s movie about a struggling unemployed man was one of 25 announced for the festival’s main line-up.