Could rejoining the UK be any worse than this?This being a largely frivolous column, we won’t dwell on the awful story that is eating up the airwaves, but, suffice to say, …Sat Nov 17 2012 - 00:00
Say hello to KK’s SubtitleIn further encouraging festival news, the first Subtitle European Film Festival will kick off in Kilkenny on MondayFri Nov 16 2012 - 00:00
MentalFOR ABOUT 30 seconds, the latest film from PJ Hogan – working in Australia for the first time since Muriel’s Wedding – looks …Fri Nov 16 2012 - 00:00
D’Ambrosio’s Fury tour trundles onBe aware that Antonino D’Ambrosio’s Let Fury Have the Hour, the wild, offbeat documentary reviewed warmly in these pages on its…Fri Nov 16 2012 - 00:00
Michael Arndt to pen new Star WarsLet’s just have one more what’s-up-with-Star-Wars story and leave the blasted things aside for a few weeks. Shall we?Fri Nov 16 2012 - 00:00
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2HERE’S SOME BAD news for the angry teenage boys who boss the internetFri Nov 16 2012 - 00:00
Shorts, features, guests galore at 25th Foyle festHave the good people at Derry’s Foyle Film Festival treated their 25th anniversary with blasé carelessness? They most certainly…Fri Nov 16 2012 - 00:00
'The pessimists are those who treat the audience as stupid'It’s well known that Michael Haneke refuses to answer interpretative questions on his work, and in person the director…Wed Nov 14 2012 - 00:00
Tourism initiative a debate Gathering momentumRight on, Gabriel Byrne! Last week, speaking on Today FM, the veteran actor said what a lot of sensible people are just beginning…Sat Nov 10 2012 - 00:00
Dalle to rekindle a million old flamesThis year’s French Film Festival at the Irish Film Institute features a more than usually starry list of attendeesFri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
Cork Film festival gets set for a week of cine-blissNow nicely positioned in an international festival lull,the Corona Cork Film Festival is gently easing into its 57th editionFri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
One more Solo run for HarrisonNo, no, no, no! We are – because we can’t help ourselves – going to be filling this space with gossip about Star Wars for the…Fri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
GrassrootsCOULD THERE BE a more bizarre time to release a film about US politics? With the presidential election just ended, this is rather…Fri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
People like UsTHERE IS A particular type of bad movie that could only be made in AmericaFri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
Fifty more shades of grey poundConfirmation that the grey pound wields real power comes with the news that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a surprise hit on…Fri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
Here Comes The BoomKEVIN JAMES is back. Over the past few years the portly actor has emerged as the acceptable face of bad comedyFri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
Eccentricities from the European foldThe nominations for the European Film Awards, which take place in Malta on December 1st, have been announced and – as ever – …Fri Nov 09 2012 - 00:00
Obama may be no messiah but second coming is still desirableThe Obama cult is a mass delusion but the Republicans offer only a menacing alternativeSat Nov 03 2012 - 00:00
ElenaIs it too soon to name Andrei Zvyagintsev as a Russian master to rank alongside Elem Klimov, Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Tarkovksy…Fri Nov 02 2012 - 00:00
For a good time call...Yuck! If there’s one thing more annoying than the dumb mainstream sex comedy, it’s the dumb mainstream sex comedy that has aspirations…Fri Nov 02 2012 - 00:00
Disney brings bank balance to the forceThere’s no question what the big business news was this weekFri Nov 02 2012 - 00:00
The Disney empire strikes backDisney reviving the ‘Star Wars’ franchise is as inevitable as a Death Star theme park – but there is still one man who can bring…Thu Nov 01 2012 - 00:00
Creepy horror of commercial HalloweenScream as the zombies totter towards you! Thrill at being scared! Race to protect your kids from seasonal fear!Sat Oct 27 2012 - 01:00
Tony Scott cancer rumour scotchedThe coroner’s report on Tony Scott’s death has put one rumour to bed.Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Room 237IF YOU HOLD this newspaper to the light, a faint image of the Masonic compasses can be glimpsed in the upper right-hand corner…Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Weaving and Bay clash Colts over TransformersWith all this grim news in the papers, it’s nice to have something to laugh aboutFri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
The Great Flood kicks off CorkThe 57th Corona Cork Film Festival is open for bookingFri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
StitchesTHE LATEST horror from Irish blood-fiend Conor McMahon features a scary clownFri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Halloween horror old and newIt’s Halloween. Time to close the curtains, turn off the lights and refuse entry to children lest they attempt to eat your Maltesers…Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Queens of the big screamIt’s a role as old as storytelling itself and one that cinema has taken to spine-chilling lengthsSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
Misogyny in Australia no longer what it used to beThere is something irritating about semantic shifts in the meaning of wordsSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
Ginger and RosaMIGHT THE PRESENCE of Christina Hendricks in this superficially gorgeous period piece be intended as a joke? The top- heavy star…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Dustin gets the gang together for one last warbleTO THE BFI London Film Festival for an orgy of culture and cheap celebrity spottingFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Gervais out of Golden GlobesRicky Gervais’s reign as cheeky ringmaster at the Golden Globes has endedFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
BarakaIF YOU WERE determined to dislike the whole Ron Fricke experience, you could try arguing that his films form one continuous mass…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Oh, the horror, the horrorAs mentioned elsewhere in these pages, the annual Horrorthon festival is on at the Irish Film Institute next weekendFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Time to take off to ClonesIt’s time to hit the north (more specifically the southern bit of the north)Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Dreamtime, RevisitedJulius Ziz and Dónal Ó Céilleachair have made a transcendentally beautiful film of their appropriately eccentric musing on the…Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Stars in Dublin for premieresTwo tantalising films will be premiering at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema over the next week.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Mobile film fest crosses KerryThe Kerry Film Festival has begun its race across that KingdomFri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
No shades of grey in Ellis rant over film directorApparently, to increase readership, all we need to do is print the words “fifty shades of grey” over and over again.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Hit & RunOH, LOOK. IT’S one of those genres they just don’t bother with any moreFri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
He’s got some Force with himWhat better way to spend the evening that to watch one man act out all the parts in the original Star Wars trilogy?Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Gaff over China’s Looper takeawayA bizarre error triggered much confusion in the trade papers last week.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Public image no longer hides private actionsCynicism about priests, politicians, pop stars and the rest of the establishment has set us free from destructive obsequiousness…Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
How did that nice Liam Neeson become a psychopathic killing machine?YOU WILL BE familiar with the stock scene, more often parodied than it is staged sincerely, that finds the plain secretary pulling…Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
Dame Judi tries out Irish accentStephen Frears, director of two Roddy Doyle adaptations, savours any opportunity to work in IrelandFri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Oscars choose the GuyBy now you will have heard that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and the recent smash Ted, is to host next year’s Oscars…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
