Tom Vaughn-Lawlor in 'Maze' drama

Video: Chris O'Dowd in latest 'Get Shorty'

Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano are set to star in the 10-episode reimagining of Elmore Leonard's thriller comedy novel Get Shorty, and Epix has just released the official trailer.

Irish film 'Sacred Deer' is big hit in Cannes

Revenge movie The Killing of a Sacred Deer has been a big hit with the critics at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the Irish production from Element Pictures has already been tipped as a Palme d’Or contender.

John Connolly on his latest Charlie Parker

Bestselling author John Connolly drops by Easons HQ to chat to Dave O'Callaghan about his fifteenth Charlie Parker crime novel, A Game of Ghosts.

'Cardboard Gangsters' trailer

Cardboard Gangsters, Mark O'Connor's gritty new Dublin drama starring and co-written with John Connors, is out in Irish cinemas on 16 June. It follows a group of wannabe "cardboard gangsters" trying to gain control of the drugs trade in Darndale.

Ben Wheatley and Cillian Murphy on 'Free Fire'

Scannain recently interviewed director Ben Wheatley and actor Cillian Murphy at the Dublin International Film Festival about their new black comedy thriller Free Fire.

Lars Mikkelsen in major Eurocrime series

Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing) returns to our screens in six-part pan-European crime drama The Team on More 4 and Walter Presents from 17 February.

Catherine Ryan Howard on 'Distress Signals'

Distress Signals author Catherine Ryan Howard answers readers' questions about this week's publication of the US edition of the book, and talks about her follow-up novel and what she's reading at the moment.

Adrian McKinty on Duffy and locked room mysteries

A recent video interview with Adrian McKinty, shot in a 1980s BMW while driving around Berlin.

'T2: Trainspotting' official trailer

T2: Trainspotting is set 20 years after the original Trainspotting film, with the same main characters and cast (Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kelly MacDonald), and director Danny Boyle.

Trailer: Cillian Murphy in 'Free Fire'

Cillian Murphy is among a very starry cast in the crime caper Free Fire, currently doing the festival circuit and due for general release next March.

John Le Carré readings

The Guardian newspaper is celebrating the publication of John le Carré’s first memoir The Pigeon Tunnel by running extracts from the book, as well as short videos of actors reading from his novels. In many cases the actors were also in the film adaptations of the books.

Paddy Slattery crowdfunds new crime thriller

Irish writer/director Paddy Slattery has begun crowdfunding via Indiegogo for his new crime thriller The Broken Law of Attraction.

Trailer for the BBC's 'One of Us' thriller

The BBC says it will begin showing One of Us, its new four-part crime thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, from 23 August at 9 pm on BBC 1.

Curtis Brown signs 'Farr' director Aidan Largey

Writer/director Aidan Largey has been signed by talent agency Curtis Brown. The pilot for his 2015 TV crime drama Farr was filmed in Belfast as part of the RTÉ Player's "Storyland" platform, in four six-minute episodes.

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan in 'Anthropoid'

Irish actors Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan head the cast in Anthropoid, based on the true story of a pair of Czech and Slovak-born soldiers in exile who were parachuted into their homeland to assassinate leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in World War II.

Toby Jones in Conrad's 'The Secret Agent'

The first episode of BBC 1's lavish new adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent goes out on 9 p.m. on Sunday, 17 July 2016.

'I Am Not a Serial Killer' trailer

Irish/US co-production I Am Not a Serial Killer features Max Records and Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd. Directed by Billy O’Brien, the supernatural thriller is an adaptation of Dan Wells's novel of the same name and was shot in Minnesota.

More drama from Iceland: season 2 of 'Fortitude'

Iceland is increasingly the setting of psychological thrillers and crime dramas on the small screen, and more are in the pipeline.

Frankie Gaffney live in the Gingerman pub

Frankie Gaffney reading from his debut novel Dublin Seven in Dublin earlier this month, filmed by Dave Lordan of Bog TV.