Ewan in for a ghost of a chanceRoman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer (aka The Ghost) was the big winner at the European Film Awards in Talinn last weekendFri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
On Tour/TournéeMATHIEU AMALRIC, that infuriatingly charismatic French actor, makes his directorial debut with a drama about a declining impresario…Fri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
Irish contenders for SundanceThe first falls of snow remind us that the Sundance Film Festival is nearly upon usFri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
Film Board escapes huge cutThe Irish film industry held its collective breath on Tuesday when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse turned up to deliver the…Fri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader‘NARNIA MAY still have need of youFri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
The most overlooked films of the yearSMALL PRINT: ON FRIDAY, you will all be up bright and early to grab The Ticket and – having set the day aside – begin perusing…Wed Dec 08 2010 - 00:00
He will be missed by us all - including ShirleyFarewell then, Leslie Nielsen. The great man died earlier this week at the age of 84. It was, surely, a most peculiar lifeFri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
The PipeWOULD YOU really want to watch a film that – setting one talking head against a dozen more – attempts a measured, comprehensive…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
MiralFOLLOWING the spectacular critical (and, for a foreign-language film, commercial) success of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Directions back to GalwayBe aware that the third Different Directions Experimental Film Festival will take place at Nun’s Island Theatre, Galway from …Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Meryl set for Tory storyIs the UK Film Council using its last moments to take a dig at the Tories? It has been reported that one of the body’s last grants…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Ruffalo ruffles feathersYou may have read Mark Ruffalo giving out about political stuff in these pages recentlyFri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
MegamindIF ANY ONE area of popular culture has been subverted to the point of extinction (not to say tedium), it is the arena of the …Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Daniel Radcliffe gets a text from J K Rowling“She felt I’d been very good in this Harry Potter film and as a reward for that she wasn’t going to make any more Harry Potter…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Oldies off the OscarsWho saw this coming? After employing a couple of veterans last year – Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin – the Academy of Motion Picture…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Almost by accident, he was making a documentaryNews cameraman Risteárd Ó Domhnaill, troubled by coverage of the Corrib gas story, began shooting what would become an extraordinary…Sat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00
Holiday cheer with Santa flickThe Cartoon Saloon, the Kilkenny-based creators of The Secret of Kells , have flogged Santa’s Apprentice , a seasonal feature…Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Original writer gets chuffy on Buffy remakeA diverting kerfuffle has blown up around a plan to make a new film version of Buffy the Vampire SlayerFri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Casting for Wuthering rebootIntriguing news arrives from Andrea Arnold’s upcoming production of Wuthering HeightsFri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Shortest of the short contestThe international Jameson Done in 60 Seconds competition is inviting budding film-makers to remake their favourite film as a …Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
London BoulevardWE’VE SEEN a few misleading trailers recently, but the TV promo for this (faint praise alert) interesting thriller really takes…Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Cash for shorts as GaeilgeThe Dingle Film Festival has unveiled a competition for makers of short films in the Irish languageFri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Harry vs Woody at the wicketsCan H arry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 pass out Toy Story 3 and become the most lucrative film of 2010? The film’s…Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Day-Lewis to play Honest AbeAfter years of speculation that Liam Neeson would play Abraham Lincoln in a biopic for Steven Spielberg, it has emerged that …Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Movies for a rainy nightIt’s been a while coming – more than 50 years – but Ireland’s first permanent drive-in cinema opens tonight in Fota Retail Park…Fri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Can Luhrmann deliver a truly great Gatsby?After 85 years we are still waiting for a decent film of F Scott Fitzgerald’s peerless The Great GatsbyFri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Rewarding an anti-Semite?Are we alone in finding something shabby in the Oscar bosses’ decision to award honorary gongs at a separate ceremony? You probably…Fri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Mining for a Hollywood hitYes, it’s begun. The 33 Chilean miners are barely above ground and already speculation is rife about a movie based on their experiences…Fri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1THE WEAKEST film released this week is something to do with a young man on a camping holidayFri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Chico & RitaYOU’D THINK the movies would love jazz. The art forms are, after all, about the same ageFri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Big gongs for small filmsThe Corona Cork Film Festival ended on Sunday with the announcement of a host of prizes for talented makers of short films.Fri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Death of Riordan matriarchMoira Hoey (née Deady), who played Mrs Riordan in The Riordans , RTÉ’s spectacularly popular soap opera from the 1960s and 1970s…Fri Nov 19 2010 - 00:00
Involuntary/De OfrivilligaENCOUNTERING something as odd as Ruben Östlund’s comic Swedish mosaic, the viewer, eager for a road map, is bound to consider…Fri Nov 12 2010 - 00:00
Southern spotlight on home moviesThe 55th Corona Cork Film Festival offers a warm refuge from a cold economic climate, but it also illuminates the wealth of filmmaking…Fri Nov 12 2010 - 00:00
Forbes names stars who get money for nothingWe know how much you enjoy Forbes magazine’s various lists of which Hollywood stars get the most money and how much revenue they…Fri Nov 12 2010 - 00:00
Cork film festival hits 55 with an eclectic line-upThe Corona Cork Film Festival, the oldest such jamboree in the nation, kicks into busy action on SundayFri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
Due DateAN UPTIGHT neurotic, desperate to get home to his beloved wife, is forced to journey cross-country with a coarse, overweight, …Fri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
Leo the Lion could be muzzledIt looks as if the long-running financial catastrophe engulfing MGM has finally reached a critical stageFri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
We saw it coming in 3DYeah, yeah, yeah. Reports of 3D’s demise might (by this column, for starters) have been greatly exaggeratedFri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
Burren given Access to filmsIf the lovely scenery isn’t enough to keep them entertained, visitors to and residents of the Burren now have a new film club…Fri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
Jumping through Hobbit’s hoopsIt seems the New Zealand government actually had to pass formal legislation to keep Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit within its shores…Fri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
Burke and HareIt’s directed by John Landis and it stars Simon Pegg. You can tell what they’re going for hereFri Oct 29 2010 - 01:00