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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

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 19

"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

Lights, cameras, timber

How hurling conquered Hollywood

Gaelic Games / 15 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

Emily in Late Afternoon

How Irish Oscar nominee Late Afternoon bucks many trends

Film / 30 Jan 19

"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 / 08 Nov 19

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

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