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Why so serious? Joaquin Phoenix in Joker

What Joker tells us about victimisation, crime and discontent

Convicted rapist and serial killer Rodney Alcala is featured in Murder Made Me Famous. He was dubbed the "Dating Game Killer" because of his 1978 appearance on US TV show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree.

How healthy is our obsession with true crime?

True crime / 09 Aug

"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

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

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

Lights, cameras, timber

How hurling conquered Hollywood

Gaelic Games / 15 May

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

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

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

Oscar winner Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in The Favourite

The art of acting naturally

Acting / 28 Feb

Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare in All Is True

As you like it: Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare and Irishness

Shakespeare / 13 Feb

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

Emily in Late Afternoon

How Irish Oscar nominee Late Afternoon bucks many trends

"Online, it is not just celebrities who are expected to behave like celebrities" Photo: Getty Images

We're all celebrities now

Celebrity culture / 07 Dec 18

Anne-Marie Duff and Pat Shortt in Lenny Abrahamson's Garage, one of the "the most memorable and enduring Irish films of the Irish Film Board"

Goodbye Irish Film Board, hello Screen Ireland

Film / 23 Nov 18

Mural on a Mumbai wall of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan from his classic film Deewar. Photo: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/ Getty Images

Why Ireland should catch up with Bollywood

Bollywood / 09 Nov 18

The moment when you realise you've ran out of shower gel

The science of horror movies

Horror Movies / 05 Nov 18

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Candy in a scene from The Deuce. Photo: HBO

Beyond The Deuce: the roots of feminist porn

Culture / 18 Oct 18

American Animals: "one part Oceans 11, one part Harold & Kumar"

Why do people steal rare books?

Film / 17 Sep 18

James Frecheville as Martin Feeney in Lance Daly's Black '47

Black '47: the cowboys of the western world

Film / 14 Sep 18

K fuels up in Blade Runner 2049. Photo: Alcon Entertainment

What science fiction tells us about the future of food

Science Fiction / 04 Sep 18

The sequel will be bigly

Make America scream again

Horror / 08 May 18

"How can we tell a story if we don't know if the viewer is even looking at the action, or indeed even in the same room? One answer is sound, or more specifically the spatial aspect of sound". Photo: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images

What's that sound?

Virtual Reality / 21 Feb 18

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

Why It's A Wonderful Life still resonates today

Film / 19 Dec 17

Actor Tom Hickey who features in Feats Of Modest Valour

Living with Parkinson's disease

Film / 17 Nov 17

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