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Jennifer Lopez stars as a 1950s Hollywood star in Kiss the Spider Woman

Jennifer Lopez earns standing ovation at film festival

Jennifer Lopez's latest film, Kiss of the Spider Woman, received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday.

Movies • 27 Jan

John Lithgow and Olivia Colman star in Jimpa

Sundance begins as film world reels from LA fires

The US film industry's first major gathering since wildfires devastated Los Angeles began on Thursday at Sundance, where Olivia Colman and John Lithgow kicked off the indie movie festival under sombre circumstances.

Movies • 24 Jan

Kneecap perform on Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. Photo by: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images

Kneecap make debut on Jimmy Fallon show in US

Fast-rising Belfast rap trio Kneecap made their debut US TV appearance with an appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night.

Music • 11 Mar 24

Margaret Thatcher features on cover art of Kneecap song

Belfast rap trio Kneecap have announced details of their debut album, Fine Art, and shared the video for new track, Sick in The Head.

Music • 21 Feb 24

The film is set in west Belfast in 2019 and tells the story of how Kneecap formed and went on to "change the sound of Irish music forever"

Irish-language film in world-premiere first at Sundance

The new Irish-language film Kneecap, "the origin story of the riotous and ground-breaking" Belfast rap trio of the same name, is to receive its world premiere at the iconic Sundance Film Festival in Utah next month.

Movies • 07 Dec 23

Sinead O'Connor documentary Nothing Compares to have world premiere at Sundance 2022

Sinead O'Connor documentary to premiere at Sundance

The Sinead O'Connor documentary Nothing Compares from Irish filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson has been selected to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2022.

Movies • 10 Dec 21

Coda wins top prize at the Sundance Film Festival

The coming-of-age drama Coda has won the top prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Movie • 03 Feb 21

Irish film Herself out to cheer us up in October

The new Irish film Herself, which tells the story of a single mother trying to build her own home, is hoping to give people a lift when it is released in Irish cinemas on October 30.

Movies • 05 Aug 20

Swift reveals her struggle with body image

Singer Taylor Swift has revealed her struggle with her body image, which she says was caused by seeing herself in "pictures every day".

Music • 24 Jan 20

Irish homebuilding film gets world premiere at Sundance

Clare Dunne, the writer and star of the new Irish film Herself, has told RTÉ Entertainment that she hopes its story of a single mother trying to build her own home makes Ireland realise "how quick we can turn things around and possibly build again".

Movies • 22 Jan 20

Keira and Zack (in background) in Minding the Gap

Come on feel the Illinois: Minding the Gap

Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Minding the Gap begins as though it were about to be some blissful film about skateboarding, but it cuts to a darker chase.

Movie Review • 21 Mar 19

A great screen partnership - Hole in the Ground stars James Quinn Markey and Seána Kerslake

Seána Kerslake still scared by The Hole in the Ground

The Hole in the Ground star Seána Kerslake has told the Ray D'Arcy Show that she still gets the chills when she watches the acclaimed Irish horror, which opens in cinemas next month.

Movies • 17 Feb 19

Zac Efron plays serial killer Ted Bundy in new trailer

The first trailer for Zac Efron's highly-anticipated movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, in which he plays notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, has been released.

Television • 25 Jan 19

Police on high alert for Michael Jackson doc screening

Police in the US are on high alert ahead of a screening of a documentary about Michael Jackson at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Michael Jackson • 25 Jan 19

What's on? TV highlights for Thursday

Tim Roth's back with the second season of Tin Star, there's a Sundance Film Festival special on Sky, while there are more twists and turns on the excellent US drama This is Us . . .

Television • 24 Jan 19

Seána Kerslake in The Hole in the Ground

Can't Cope, Won't Cope star's horror is Sundance-bound

The Hole in the Ground, the new horror starring Can't Cope, Won't Cope's Seána Kerslake, is one of five Irish films set to receive its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the US in the New Year.

Movies • 29 Nov 18

Call Me By Your Name hits cinemas on October 27

Watch an exclusive clip from Call Me By Your Name

The coming-of-age drama Call Me By Your Name hits cinemas this month and we've got an exclusive clip to show your from the movie.

Call Me By Your Name • 17 Oct 17

Award-winning director Simon Fitzmaurice is the subject of one of the films selected for Sundance

Two Irish documentaries are selected for Sundance

Two Irish films are among twelve which have been selected for competition in the World Documentary category at the Sundance film festival.

Entertainment • 01 Dec 16

Say Swiss cheese: Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man.

Swiss Army Man isn't all just hot air

Daniel Radcliffe’s idiot savant is not an original creation and Paul Dano’s wide-eyed Hank may get a tad wearing in his histrionics in Swiss Army Man, yet this existential parable for our times should not be dismissed.

Movie Reviews • 29 Sep 16