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'Border crime writing often questions the role of the state in regulating big business and preventing crime and finds it wanting'

Why borders are perfect locations for crime fiction and drama

Crime Fiction • 06 Aug

Planet of the Humans: "we end up with a piece where you could well come away thinking wind turbines are worse than coal power plants." Photo: Rumble Media

Why you can't rely on some documentaries for the full picture

Documentaries • 09 Jul

Lights, cameras, timber

How hurling conquered Hollywood

Gaelic Games • 02 Jul

"Fresh and modern": Maxine Peake plays Titania in Russell T Davies' 2016 adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the BBC

Stay home and watch Shakespeare

Culture • 16 Apr

Billie Eilish: "a fresh new perspective whose vocals will echo for generations to come"

Will Billie Eilish disrupt James Bond's macho world?

Billie Eilish • 12 Feb

"The publication of statistics is crucial in making gender issues in the film industry visible so the extent of women's absence cannot be shrugged off." Photo: Getty Images

Putting a brighter spotlight on women in film

Film • 10 Feb

Saoirse Ronan on the red carpet at the BAFTA awards last weekend. Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

"The luck of the Irish": Irish Oscar wins and American culture

Academy Awards 2020 • 05 Feb

The Kim family in Parasite

What Parasite tells us about life in modern Korea

Parasite • 10 Feb

Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfeld

How David Copperfield tells the story of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens • 27 Jan

Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) with cat in The Godfather. The cat was a stray Francis Ford Coppola found on the lot at Paramount Studios.

A short history of cats on screen

Cats • 19 Dec 19

Members of the 501st Garrison Ireland Legion on patrol in Portmagee, Co Kerry during the May the Fourth Star Wars festival. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

How John Williams created Star Wars' iconic sound

Star Wars • 17 Dec 19

Home for the Christmas with James Stewart, Donna Reed) and Karolyn Grimes

Why It's A Wonderful Life is still a winner today

Film • 12 Dec 19

Lights, cameras, tax relief

Time for a close-up on Section 481's impact on Irish film culture

Film • 07 Nov 19

Daniela Vega as Marina in A Fantastic Woman

How an Academy Award helped secure transgender rights in Chile

Chile • 23 Oct 19

Why so serious? Joaquin Phoenix in Joker

What Joker tells us about victimisation, crime and discontent

Film • 07 Oct 19

Kieran Patrick Kelly, the subject of new RTÉ podcast series The Nobody Zone

How healthy is our obsession with true crime?

True crime • 31 Mar

"The originality of Black Spot lies in its extensive use of imagery from the popular repository of Celtic mythology, cleverly reworked for the 21st century"

How Celtic history is ripe for use in modern TV and film

Folklore • 07 Aug 19

Did these lads go to the moon or a film studio in Los Angeles?

Why the moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake

Moon landing • 19 Jul 19

A night at the cinema in the 1950s. Photo: Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images

How cinema brought the world to rural Ireland in the 1950s

Cinemas • 23 May 19

Spike Lee and some of the cast of Do the Right Thing. Photo: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing at 30

Spike Lee • 25 Apr 19

The Disney poster for 1953's Peter Pan. Photo: LMPC via Getty Images

The Disney effect: how film adaptations reinforce social norms

Disney • 03 May 19

Michael Jackson: in the Leaving Neverland documentary, In the documentary, James Safechuck and Wade Robson allege that they were sexually abused by Jackson

Why we should turn off the music and film made by alleged abusers

Culture • 11 Apr 19

Oscar winner Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in The Favourite

The art of acting naturally

Acting • 28 Feb 19

Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare in All Is True

As you like it: Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare and Irishness

Shakespeare • 13 Feb 19

Janelle Monae: "her "Dirty Computer" album celebrates queerness and non-monosexuality throughout"

How pop culture enables bisexual people to tell their own stories

Pop Culture • 01 Feb 19

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