Sometimes, a film feels like a miracle. A true testament to everything just coming together right. A script perfectly synced to the themes of its story. Actors perfectly synced to their characters. A ...

English teachers Clodagh Havel and Liam Dingle from the Institute of Education review the Leaving Cert Higher Level English exams. View the exam papers here too! In the video above, Study Hub 2026 ...

There is something inescapably peculiar about a “West Side Story” in which Riff cannot snap very well. The oddness of this detail encapsulates the serviceable version of this American classic now ...

There’s a reason why audiences are flocking to see Paper Mill Playhouse’s West Side Story. This stunning American musical classic has everything going for it. The production is superbly directed by ...

Scientists aren’t usually thrilled when reviewers of their research papers ask for extensive revisions ahead of publication. But the stress that authors experience might pay off in the long run. An ...

Things fall apart so skillfully in James Gray’s new film that it becomes an experience in marinating with dread. Photo: DR Gary, meanwhile, is a creature of the city in slick suits and a Mercedes, a ...

The director serves up another hardscrabble outer-borough Jewish family, but the get-rich scheme doesn't play out convincingly. “Armageddon Time” was beautifully directed around the edges, but too ...

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Cannes: Like all of James Gray's best films, "Paper Tiger" is both sweepingly mythic and hauntingly personal all at once. It’s the final weekend of summer in 1986, upwardly aspirant Jewish families ...

James Gray knows how to mess with genre. His last film, 2022’s “Armageddon Time,” was a coming-of-age memoir, but a notably unsentimental entry is what is usually a sentimental genre. And his new one, ...

James Gray‘s new film, Paper Tiger, opens with the following quote from father of ancient Greek tragedy, Aeschylus (Agamemnon): “Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask ...

The writer-director follows ‘Armageddon Time’ with a semi-fictionalized return to his family life in mid-1980s Queens, New York, this time recounting a terrifying brush with the Russian mob. By David ...