Childhood best-friends Ciaran McCann and Shaun Doogan made a splash with their music videos for local hero Daniel O’Donnell – now they’re branching into movies with their debut film, a comedy-horror short entitled The White Lobster – watch the trailer above, while Shaun tells the story to date below. Before we founded Re-Act Productions we… Read more: Meet The White Lobster – a Donegal comedy-horror movie with claws

I genuinely feared the cinema year had peaked in January when it kicked off with Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold’s The Brutalist, the 216 minute soon-to-be-multi-Oscar-winning fictional biography of visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) and his wife Erzsébet. The couple flee Europe, try to rebuild their legacy a world away and in the process… Read more: The best films of 2025 – laughs, tears and a few small beers

Twelve years ago (gulp), myself and my husband Sean Smith began making the film that is now known as Heathen. It’s a 16-minute-long horror film about a house with a dark history, a man with links to its past and a documentary crew doggedly pursuing the sinister story. When a young family living in the… Read more: Behind the screams – what I learned making a horror short film

On the first anniversary of David Lynch’s death, acclaimed cinematographer Ron García ASC reflects on working with the filmmaker, in conversation with Irish production designer Jill Beecher. Garcia worked with Lynch across four projects, including Twin Peaks (1990) and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) – a creative partnership shaped by trust, communication and… Read more: ‘It is what it is’ – David Lynch remembered, one year on

Spoiler alert: this article features the endings of several movies you may not have seen, but should. At a time when social media is doomier and gloomier than ever, on the darkest of January days, a little light came from the unlikliest of sources. It transpires that the cast and crew of hot Oscar ticket… Read more: As Hamnet shows, all movies should end with a dance sequence