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

Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 lands on Sky Cinema, there's the First Night of the Proms, Irish film Aisha has a star turn from Letitia Wright, Shark Fest celebrates ne of nature's most feared predators, and there's a Shania Twain night on the Beeb . . .

Television • 21 Jul

David Corenswet at the Superman event in London - "I wish I could just give the great performances that have come before, but I couldn't help but do my own thing"

Superman star hopes to bring hero to a new generation

David Corenswet, the actor playing Superman in the latest iteration, has said he is hoping to bring the character "to a new generation".

Movies • 03 Jul

Lily Rose-Depp has a star-making turn in Nosferatu

Director Robert Eggers has brought his exacting attention to detail, faithfulness to historical accuracy and sumptuous, all-enveloping sets and costumes to another level on Nosferatu, an intense, bleakly beautiful gothic horror.

Movie Review • 31 Dec 24

We talk to Nosferatu stars Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp

Nosferatu star Hoult says Depp would 'escape her body'

Nosferatu actor Nicholas Hoult has praised his co-star Lily-Rose Depp for her "physical transformation" in the film, saying she would "completely escape her body", while Depp said the physically demanding scenes would "shake up emotions".

Movies • 28 Dec 24

The Order is one of the best thrillers of recent years

If you want to close out 2024 or start 2025 with a thriller that's as troubling as it is tense, then The Order is for you.

Movie Review • 26 Dec 24

The Order opens in cinemas on Friday 27 December

True-crime thriller The Order comes to Irish cinemas

Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult star in The Order, an acclaimed true-crime thriller that opens in cinemas next week - watch a clip above.

Movies • 21 Dec 24

Sigourney Weaver: "I hate watching scary films. I don't mind acting in them, but I don't want to see them."

Sigourney Weaver 'hates watching scary films'

Alien star Sigourney Weaver has said she "hates watching scary films" and tries to avoid seeing them.

Movies • 06 Dec 24

Nicholas Hoult: "I remember a week before we did the Batman test, I was driving in my car and I had the radio on and they were... talking on the radio about how Rob was going to be the new Batman"

Hoult recalls moment he lost Batman role to Pattinson

Nicholas Hoult has revealed that he found out on the radio that fellow British actor Robert Pattinson would be playing Batman before he could have his own audition for the part.

Movies • 08 Nov 24

With his trademark economical directing style, Clint Eastwood nimbly gets around this Nicholas Hoult-starring legal thriller

Clint Eastwood rolls back the years with Juror #2

If it's an old-school watch you're after, have your day/night in court.

Movie Review • 01 Nov 24

Nicholas Hoult and Clint Eastwood on the set of Juror #2 Photo: Claire Folger/Warner Bros

Clint Eastwood unveils Juror #2 trailer

The trailer for director Clint Eastwood's new legal thriller, the Nicholas Hoult-starring Juror #2, has been released ahead of the film's arrival in Irish cinemas on Friday 1 November.

Movies • 03 Oct 24

Jude Law at the Venice International Film Festival - "It's always interesting looking back, but it's always interesting finding a piece from the past that has some relative relationship to the present day"

Jude Law says film on white supremacists sadly relevant

Jude Law has said his new film that chronicles the terrorist actions of a white supremacist group in the 1980s still has "relevance" today.

Movies • 01 Sep 24

Nosferatu opens in cinemas on 1 January 2025

Nosferatu out to put the frighteners on film fans

The first trailer for Nosferatu has been released ahead of the chiller's arrival in cinemas on New Year's Day.

Movies • 24 Jun 24

The Great cancelled after three seasons

TV series The Great which dubiously depicted the life of Catherine The Great from 1762 to 1796, starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, has been cancelled after three seasons.

Elle Fanning • 31 Aug 23

The USP of Renfield is casting Nicolas Cage as a down-at-heel/cape Dracula. A mystery, then, as to why it's basically a supporting role - and why he doesn't look taller!

Nicolas Cage deserved more bite in Renfield

A could-have-been-so-much-more comedy-horror that finds Nicolas Cage in his dream-come-true role as Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Movie Review • 16 Apr 23

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Wednesday

Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult are back in The Great, Helen Mirren is the focus of The South Bank Show, Germany take on France in the Euros, and seafood's on the menu in Paul Flynn's Food Truck Favourites . . .

Television • 27 Jul 22

True History of the Kelly Gang

George MacKay is riveting in this savage symphony about the legend of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly

Movie Review • 06 Mar 20

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen steal the show this weekend in Long Shot

Movie Review Round-Up: The New Releases

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen steal the show this weekend in the wicked comedy Long Shot; Zac Efron curdles the blood as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and Nicholas Hoult portrays JRR Tolkien in a new biopic.

Movies • 03 May 19

Lily Collins and Nicholas Hoult attend the Tolkien UK premiere at The Curzon Mayfair

Tolkien stars defend biopic after family criticism

The director and stars of Tolkien have backed the biopic after the author's family voiced their disapproval of the film.

Movie • 29 Apr 19

Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins in Tolkien

Win! Tickets to the Tolkien premiere in London

We have teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox Film for a VERY special competition - the chance to win two tickets to the Tolkien premiere in London on April 29.

Movies • 23 Apr 19

Who shot JRR? First trailer for Tolkien film released

The first trailer for new biopic about the life of The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien has been released.

Movies • 12 Feb 19

Colm Meaney - Working again with his Tolkien co-star Nicholas Hoult

Colm Meaney joins banking thriller

Colm Meaney is to star opposite Samuel L Jackson and Anthony Mackie in a new fact-based thriller, The Banker.

Movies • 08 Nov 18

Colm Meaney - Will play the role of Tolkien's guardian, Father Francis

Colm Meaney joins cast of Irish writer's Tolkien film

Colm Meaney has joined Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins in the new biopic of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.

Colm Meaney • 12 Oct 17

Nicholas Hoult to play Catcher in the Rye auther J.D. Salinger

Nicholas Hoult to play J.D. Salinger in drama

X-Men star Nicholas Hoult is set to play author J.D. Salinger in an upcoming drama about the birth of the writer's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Entertainment • 01 Sep 15

Hoult - "I told it as if I was there. I lied"

Hoult borrowed Cunningham's Irish wedding story

Nicholas Hoult has revealed that he borrowed his friend Liam Cunningham's story about a disastrous incident at a wedding in Ireland in order to bag his role in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Entertainment • 08 May 15

Nicholas Hoult 'dating' Glee's Dianna Argon

Nicholas Hoult has reportedly moved on from his ex Jennifer Lawrence with Glee star Dianna Argon.

Entertainment • 09 Apr 15