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Eleanor the Great star June Squibb walks the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025

Eleanor the Great star June Squibb: an A-lister at 96

Nonagenarian June Squibb delivers one of the year's best performances - and Scarlett Johansson makes her feature directorial debut - in Eleanor the Great, a comedy-drama about a misunderstanding that becomes a lie and gets very, very out of hand.

Photo shows actor Paul Mescal and actress Jessie Buckley at the irish premiere of the film Hamnet at the Light House Cinema

Mescal and Buckley attend Dublin premiere of Hamnet

Dick Van Dyke, winner, poses at the 51st annual Daytime Emmys Awards at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles on 7 June, 2024 in Los Angeles

Dick Van Dyke plans to exceed milestone as he turns 100

Timothée Chalamet attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Marty Supreme

Timothée Chalamet hopes film is antidote to dark times

Hollywood star Brendan Fraser on The Late Late Show

Brendan Fraser on Irish ancestry and Oscar win on LLS

Eleanor (June Squibb) meets Nina (Erin Kellyman)

June Squibb is in the best of form as Eleanor the Great

Writer-director Rian Johnson on the set of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Photo: John Wilson/Netflix

Director Rian Johnson brings new Knives Out to Netflix

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley attend the premiere of Hamnet during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on 7 September, 2025 in Toronto

Mescal and Buckley set for Dublin premiere of Hamnet

Domhnall Gleeson

Domhnall Gleeson to be honoured with Oscar Wilde Award

Judi Dench introduces a screening of Iris at BFI Southbank on 8 December, 2024 in London

Judi Dench says sight loss 'a crusher'

Daniel Craig pictured on the red carpet

Daniel Craig working 'harder than ever' post James Bond

David Freyne

Director David Freyne delivers Irish rom com Eternity

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 21: (L-R) Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal attend the "Hamnet" New York Screening at Whitby Hotel on November 21, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Buckley and Mescal nominated for Golden Globe awards

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Watch: 2026 Golden Globe nominations

Golden Globe Awards

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Eleanor (June Squibb) meets Nina (Erin Kellyman)

June Squibb is in the best of form as Eleanor the Great

Eternity: Irish director's celestial love triangle

The camera loves George Clooney more than ever, and he uses his natural charm to the max as Jay Kelly tries to get his own way

George Clooney arrives on Netflix as Jay Kelly

A still image from the film Christy starring Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney boxes clever in sports biopic Christy

Still of a new movie

It's hoppin': Zootropolis 2 makes a fox-tastic comeback

Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier and Kerry Condon as Claire Thompson in Train Dreams

Train Dreams: a beautiful film arrives on Netflix

The politically charged tale dives into the dark machinery of propaganda and the winding path to personal redemption

Still popular: Wicked sequel defies gravity (mostly)

Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring in the dock in Nuremberg

Nuremberg is powered by a terrifying Russell Crowe

Billy Porter, Boy George and Eva Longoria in Christmas Karma

Christmas Karma - exuberant but patchily executed

Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in The Chorals

Ralph Fiennes and pals hit the high notes in The Choral

Jennifer Lawrence as Grace in Die My Love Photo: Kimberley French

New mum Jennifer Lawrence loses her mind in Die My Love

Rose Henderson and Liam O Mochain in the film Abode

Home is a feeling in new Irish film Abode