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Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating epic Megalopolis

Is Megalopolis an ambitious epic or an incoherent mess?

Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating passion project, is finally on screens after over four decades in the making. Is it a bold, ambitious epic or an incoherent mess?

Movie Review • 27 Sep 24

What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Friday

There's a Queen night on the Beeb, Adam Driver stars in Ferrari, Graham Norton meets Olly Alexander, and Noel Fielding stars in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin . . .

Television • 04 Mar 24

Jennifer Zamparelli and Doireann Garrihy

What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

There's the first elimination on Dancing With the Stars, Wilderness with Simon Reeve visits Earth's remote outposts, Dermot Bannon's in Dublin's Knocklyon, while it's 'horror ahoy' on The Queen Mary . . .

Television • 21 Jan 24

If you want to see an actor who isn't in every scene make an entire film their own, Penélope Cruz gives a masterclass here

Penélope Cruz drives off with Ferrari biopic

Michael Mann's biopic of motor legend Enzo Ferrari is watchable, but it will be best remembered not for Adam Driver's performance in the lead role, but for Penélope Cruz as Ferrari's wife Laura.

Movie Review • 28 Dec 23

Adam Driver enjoying parenthood the second time around

Hollywood star Adam Driver has said he is "trying to enjoy" the early stages of parenthood more the second time round as he revealed he welcomed a baby girl earlier this year.

Movie • 21 Dec 23

Patrick Dempsey: "Working with Michael Mann was a dream job, he's very demanding but wonderful."

Dempsey: Ferrari was 'best experience making a movie'

Patrick Dempsey has described filming Ferrari in Italy opposite actor Adam Driver with "demanding but wonderful" director Michael Mann as his "dream job".

Movies • 05 Dec 23

The view from the other side of the red carpet - Venice is the world's longest-running film festival

Strikes take some shine off Venice Film Festival

Historic Hollywood strikes have robbed the Venice Film Festival of some of its usual glitz as it launched its 80th edition, but a raft of big-name - and controversial - directors are keeping the film world buzzing.

Movies • 30 Aug 23

Festive Five TV and streaming tips for Friday

Baz Ashmawy is back with a DIY SOS: The Bigger Build Ireland special, Mairead Ronan presents Ireland's Fittest Family: Ten Years of Tears and Triumph, and Adam Driver leads a great cast in White Noise . . .

Television • 03 Jan 23

Timothee Chalamet attends the Bones And Allred carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Timothee Chalamet dons red backless jumpsuit

Timothee Chalamet lived up to his reputation for bold fashion choices on the carpet at the Venice International Film Festival, donning a bright red backless jumpsuit.

Movies • 03 Sep 22

Gucci family slam "insulting and painful" new movie

The heirs of Italian fashion house Gucci have criticised Ridley Scott's new film House of Gucci for allegedly depicting family members as "hooligans".

Movies • 01 Dec 21

Ridley Scott blames millennials for Last Duel flop

Director Ridley Scott has blamed millennials and their mobile phone use on the poor box office performance of his historical drama The Last Duel.

Movies • 23 Nov 21

Lady Gaga hip swings and chain smokes her way through the haut monde of New York and Milan like a debutante from some Rimini starlet finishing school in 1956

Gaga gives it maximum va-va-voom in House of Gucci

Lady Gaga vamps and hip swings her way through the madness with style and a smirk in this operatically bonkers Commedia dell'arte from Ridley Scott

Movies • 30 Nov 21

Adam Driver found Comic Con scary

Adam Driver has revealed he found comic book convention Comic Con to be scary and said he is "not anxious to go again".

Movies • 12 Nov 21

Lady Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci

Lady Gaga 'would stop at nothing' for House of Gucci

House Of Gucci star Lady Gaga has said she spent nine months living with an Italian accent because she wanted to speak from a place that was "visceral" and "true".

Movies • 09 Nov 21

Adam Driver and Lady Gaga in House Of Gucci

House Of Gucci star Lady Gaga spent a year in character

House Of Gucci star Lady Gaga said she spent a year-and-a-half in character for the film and spoke with an Italian accent for nine months.

Movies • 02 Nov 21

The Last Duel is a Medieval Me Too epic

Jodie Comer, Matt Damon and Adam Driver all deliver in this Ridley Scott-directed true story about the repercussions of a rape in 14th Century France.

Reviews • 14 Oct 21

First look at Lady Gaga, Adam Driver's House of Gucci

The first trailer for House of Gucci, Ridley Scott's highly-anticipated glitzy crime drama about the Italian fashion dynasty, has been released.

Audio Video • 30 Jul 21

Dramatic first trailer for House of Gucci is unveiled

The dramatic first trailer for House of Gucci, Ridley Scott's highly-anticipated glitzy crime drama about the Italian fashion dynasty, has been released.

Movies • 30 Jul 21

Matt Damon during filming of The Last Duel in Ireland in 2020

Trailer released for movie Matt Damon made in Ireland

The first trailer for Matt Damon's new movie, The Last Duel, which was partially shot in Dublin and Kilkenny, has been released.

Movies • 21 Jul 21

Matt Damon - Bearded and booted for The Last Duel

Matt's entertainment. Meath locals hoping to see Damon

Locals around Bective, Co Meath are hoping to catch a glimpse of Matt Damon as he continues filming on The Last Duel.

Movies • 06 Oct 20

Matt Damon pictured on the set of The Last Duel in Cahir, Co.Tipperary on September 29. (Photo by Debbie Hickey/GC Images)

The beard ultimatum - Damon debuts féasóg on Last Duel

Honorary Irishman Matt Damon is back in Ireland to restart filming new historical drama The Last Duel after the shoot was abandoned due to the pandemic earlier this year and we've had the first glimpse of his impressive new beard.

Movies • 30 Sep 20

John Boyega (pictured promoting Star Wars: The Last Jedi in London in December 2017) - "Do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side"

John Boyega says Star Wars' Finn 'pushed to the side'

John Boyega has accused Disney of pushing his Star Wars character Finn "to the side" in the recent trilogy of films in the sci-fi franchise.

Movies • 02 Sep 20

Damon pictured with two of his temporary neighbours,
Jessica Berry (9) and Ashleigh Berry (11), earlier this year / Image: @mummycooks

Matt Damon to resume filming in Ireland

Matt Damon is set to return to Ireland to complete filming of The Last Duel, which had to be abandoned during lockdown, leaving the Hollywood A-lister marooned for an extended stay in the coastal village of Dalkey in Dublin.

Movies • 25 Aug 20

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck - Making The Last Duel with Ridley Scott

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon drama 'to film in Meath'

It is reported that The Last Duel, the new historical drama from Ridley Scott starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer, will film scenes in Co Meath next month.

Movies • 12 Feb 20

Marriage Story star Laura Dern at the Gotham Awards with writer-director Noah Baumbach (centre) and co-star Adam Driver

Marriage Story big winner at the Gotham Awards

Relationship comedy-drama Marriage Story was the big winner at the Gotham Awards in New York on Monday night, winning four awards as the countdown to the Oscars continues.

Movies • 03 Dec 19