Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley lead the Irish interest in the 2020 Bafta Awards, with both in the running for Leading Actress at the ceremony.

As the film awards season heats up with the Golden Globes on Sunday, Esther McCarthy assesses this year’s runners and riders.

Child actor Roman Griffin Davis is already up for awards for his role in Nazi-era satire JoJo Rabbit, writes Esther McCarthy

2019 has been a big year for warm colour and sequins on the red carpet.

I REMEMBER when we were small, whenever we’d ask my mother what she wanted for Christmas, she’d reply that she wanted “a bit of peace”.

Marjorie Brennan talks us through her highlights for 2019.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

Ray Liotta never planned to be an actor. He only signed up for drama classes in college in a bid to dodge the more academic subjects, and didn’t make his first film until he was 30.

Ronan is shortlisted for Best Actress in a Film Drama for her role in Little Women.

The Marquee in Cork dominated the gig news this week, with a string of announcements for what is expected to be the final year at the Monahan Road venue before the site is developed

Diana Ross will be 76 by the time she crosses the Atlantic for pre-Glastonbury gigs at the Marquee in Cork

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has defended Woody Allen amidst sexual abuse allegations against him from his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.

Getting cast as the God Of Thunder turned Chris Hemsworth into a global megastar.

After the conspicuous lack of success on Day One I’m twitchy.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their cultural picks for the year ahead

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages

Wes Anderson has enlisted such longterm chums as Bill Murray and Frances McDormand to provide the voices for

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their picks for the year ahead.

Russian election influence, the sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic have helped elevate "complicit" as Dictionary.com's word of the year.

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

She even offered to cover all her “hidden costs”.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

A new exhibition in Dublin underlines how important manga has been in bringing Japanese culture to the wider world, writes Don O’Mahony.

 

Tens of thousands of women have amassed in Washington DC and other cities around the globe for marches aimed at showing US president Donald Trump they will not be silent over the next four years.

As the popcorn goes stale on another cinema-going year, film critic Damon Smith looks forward to the action-packed blockbusters, heartbreaking dramas, uproarious comedies and potential Oscar winners that will be lighting up the big screen over the next 12 months

Luc Besson has had plenty of hits including Leon and The Fifth Element but the 21st century had marked a pretty dry spell for the filmmaker, apart from those naff Arthur and the Invisibles animated flicks.

An international opera company has one role left to fill in their production of La Boheme at the Helix in Dublin - a dog.

Ghost in the Shell is one of the defining animes of the last two decades, mostly because it achieved a rare popularity in the west for its combination of action and pretty weird plotting.

It's all thanks to the Dublin accent.

Jennifer Lawrence is the world’s highest-paid actress, according to Forbes’ latest rich list.

Liam Neeson has become the highest-grossing Irish actor of all time raking in almost $3bn (€2.69bn) in ticket sales at the US box office.

An American man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the email and online accounts of several female celebrities and stealing private information, including nude photos and videos, federal prosecutors have said.

Hail, Caesar! 4/5

A studio fixer in the 1950s tries to keep production rolling when a star is kidnapped.

The Jungle Book is back in 2016, with a mostly CG film that's being directed by Jon Favreau and bringing together an amazing voice cast including Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley and Scarlett Johansson.

The Coen Brothers are back in full on comedy mode for their new movie Hail, Caesar and this new trailer shows off one hilarious scenes.