Actors used to turn to alcohol to numb nerves before filming explicit shots. Now Tinseltown has ‘intimacy co-ordinators’, writes Ed Power

Toxic masculinity. Nothing has divided public opinion quite like this topic in recent times.

Actor-turned-activist Rose McGowan talks to Prudence Wade about supporting female filmmakers and how she’s been represented in the media

With these novels, Pat Barker and Michael Hughes revive the long and fertile tradition of retelling Homer’s great epic poems. The Silence of The Girls and Country deliver new and original recitations of ‘The Iliad’ — the final weeks of the Trojan War — in two different but very satisfying and successful ways.

Latest: Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women, police in New York have said.

Gary Oldman told his 98-year-old mother to “put the kettle on, I’m bringing Oscar home” as his portrayal of Winston Churchill earned him his first Oscar.

“I asked him to let me go and he did, I remember putting my clothes back on and I left.

Rose McGowan, presented as everything from a difficult woman to an unhinged harpy, has burned through such shaming, shouting her anger from the rooftops, writes Suzanne Harrington

In sports, as in politics, we seem to have reached a tipping point. Now we are righteously angry, writes Eimear Ryan

From Birdman to her latest role in The Death Of Stalin, Andrea Riseborough is fast becoming one to watch, says Esther McCarthy.                       

Actress Lena Dunham claims that she warned Hillary Clinton’s communications director about Harvey Weinstein’s behaviour, according to a New York Times report.

It’s time we stand up for how women are treated in society, writes Richard Hogan

The Weinstein scandal has unleashed a tsunami of allegations about his, and many others, predatory sexual behaviour.

Conflating a man’s character with one episode of poor judgment makes idiots of us all, says Áine Carroll.

Survivors of sexual violence are starting to feel more confident about coming forward, according to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

An award-winning Irish theatre director says that women in the industry “have suffered so much shit”.

As many as 60 people a day have been calling helplines for victims of sexual assault since the sentencing of sex offender Tom Humphries.

IT’S nearly half a century since Billie Jean King — then 29 — humiliated the chauvinist braggart Bobby Riggs — then 55 — by winning all three sets in a $100,000 battle-of-the-sexes showdown in Houston. 

Harvey Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on an aspiring production worker while she was on her period, the alleged victim has claimed in the latest allegation against the disgraced movie mogul.

Today let us look at the recent statement from a squillionaire Hollywood mogul exposed as a long-term sexual predator.

Thinking you’re cool gives you no armoury to cope with a sexual predator like Weinstein, writes Terry Prone.

Hillary Clinton has refused to be drawn on the parallels between the scandal engulfing film producer Harvey Weinstein and that of her husband during his time as US president.

Terry Prone spoke on the Late Late Show about her own experiences of Harvey Weinstein-like behaviour among men in the Irish media.

The allegations of rape and sexual harassment against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein date back to 1984 and have existed as ‘rumours’ until now, writes Joyce Fegan

When we stay silent, we condone behaviour that none of us believe is right and it reinforces the culture that keeps women from speaking out, writes Lena Dunham

Kate Beckinsale has documented an encounter she says she had aged 17 with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and said "saying no to him professionally many times over the years... undoubtedly harmed my career".

Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan has said Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's behaviour towards young actresses was an "open secret".

Calls by police groups to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s latest film are putting pressure on one of next month’s most anticipated releases and plunging one of Hollywood’s top directors into a pitched cultural battle.

She’s been in the news with her famous boyfriend, but Cork actress Sarah Greene deserves her profile very much for her own achievements, writes Ed Power

An American and an Italian held hostage by al Qaeda, as well as two Americans working with the terror group, were inadvertently killed by US drone strikes earlier this year, the White House has said.

Dzokhar Tsarnaev was yesterday found guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer four days later.

Dylan wrote the book to help his friend, Jonah, who suffers from the incurable disease.

Dylan Siegel has done something pretty amazing for someone so young.

Birdman has topped the nominations for the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nods, including best picture in the comedy or musical category.

Ed Power talks to the team behind the new sex and swords romp based on Marco Polo    

The Governor of Missouri ordered the National Guard to a suburb of St Louis today, hours after police used tear gas to clear protesters off the streets following a week of demonstrations against the fatal police shooting of a black teenager.

America’s attorney general has ordered a new post-mortem examination on a black teenager whose shooting by a white police officer sparked protests in Missouri.

ONE only has to go back to 2012 to find a Nicole Kidman vehicle that elicited gasps among the critics at Cannes.

We’ve been waiting a long time for it, but the new — and very

Nelson Mandela’s daughter learnt of her father’s death while watching the royal premiere of a film chronicling his incredible life.

Irish children’s book series Artemis Fowl could become the next Harry Potter as Hollywood giants Harvey Weinstein and Robert De Niro are backing a big-screen version of Eoin Colfer’s novels.

EVERY now and then a movie comes out of nowhere, made on the cheap, and becomes a classic.

Get your dancing shoes on because it seems this is going to be big — and, no doubt, lucrative.