Dubliner’s Cause has an effectCongratulation to budding Dublin scribe Shane McCabeFri Sept 10 2010 - 01:00
Godard not tempted by Oscar's 'bit of metal'Jean-Luc Godard, now 79, will not be travelling to accept his honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…Fri Sept 10 2010 - 01:00
Swansong: Story of Occi ByrneTHIS CAUTIOUSLY budgeted Irish film began life as a one-man show by the experienced actor (now film director) Conor McDermottroe…Fri Sept 10 2010 - 01:00
The bearable scariness of BinocheShe’s quaint and philosophical, but despite being the walking archetype of French insouciance, Juliette Binoche seems to have…Sat Sept 04 2010 - 01:00
Irish five named for TorontoOnce again the Irish Film Board is able to announce a healthy presence at the upcoming Toronto film festivalFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Because they’re worth itIt’s time for another of those Forbes magazine money listsFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Bonded by bloodOI, DANNY Boy! Where do you think you’re going, you muppet? The only surprising thing about this industry-standard British gangster…Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Indie Chile celebratedDid you know that this year marks (by one reckoning, anyway) the 200th anniversary of Chile’s independence from Spain? Well, …Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Swansong set for northwest debutIn further regional distribution news, we learn that Swansong: The Story of Occi Byrne , the debut feature from Sligo’s Conor…Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
SoulboyTHE NORTHERN soul scene has (unless you’re a 52-year-old from Wigan) remained a somewhat unexplored footnote in British pop-cultural…Fri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Oscar gongs for the greatsThe Academy has announced who is to receive the next batch of honorary OscarsFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Certified conformity/copie conformeABBAS KIAROSTAMI has spent four decades making oblique, fascinating films in his native IranFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Cherry Tree LaneTHE CAREER of Paul Andrew Williams has been a strange and puzzling businessFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Women of the midlands prove their pulling powerHis & Hers continues to break recordsFri Sept 03 2010 - 01:00
Tinseltown wakes up to spin yarns of the webIt’s taken a while, but Hollywood finally seems to have woken up to this internet thingFri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
Grown UpsOF ALL the witless, puerile, offensive exercises in garbage dispersal that Adam Sandler has brought us – and he’s brought us …Fri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
ShortSpace screeningsFilmbase, the admirable facility in Dublin’s Temple Bar, is launching a new event at which the makers of short films can get …Fri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
Silly Sorcerer’s Apprentice gaffeApologies to the good people from The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeFri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
Toy Story 3 triumphsThere’s no doubt about the identity of the summer’s box-office sensationFri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
Harry Popper and the prophylacticsA Swiss condom manufacturer is in trouble for marketing a prophylactic featuring a bespectacled wizard named Harry Popper on …Fri Aug 27 2010 - 01:00
The spy who made ConneryErstwhile milkman, truck driver, model, body builder and coffin polisher – it was as James Bond that Sean Connery found his fame…Wed Aug 25 2010 - 01:00
The show will go on after surgeryMichael Douglas has issued a statement confirming that he will be undergoing treatment for a tumour in the area of his throat…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Malick sees woods from the treesJust two weeks ago, we were pondering the whereabouts of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Film debut for Bono’s girlOn Monday, shooting began in Dublin on This Must Be the Place.Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
More films from Pyjama makersIf you are lucky enough to see – and, no doubt, enjoy – Maya Derrington’s Pyjama Girls (reviewed on page 13), then be aware that…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Pyjama girlsYOU WILL, no doubt, have encountered the odd feature article bemoaning (or celebrating) the current tendency for working-class…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Mother/MadeoRAPIDLY EMERGING as a young titan, Bong Joon-ho, director of Memories of Murder and The Host , has a unique talent for meshing…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
MarmadukeIF YOU ARE planning on adapting unlikely bits of the newspaper for the movies, then consider the death notices or the situations…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
SaltSOMEWHERE IN the fussy middle of this juiced-up thriller – halfway between a cross and a double-cross – Angelina Jolie’s CIA …Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Pros and cons of dumping UK film councilIt’s none of our business really, but the British government’s decision to abolish the UK Film Council is kicking up a few delicious…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
So, what are pyjama girls really like?They have been caricatured much in the media in the recent past, but a new documentary film looks sympathetically at the lives…Sat Aug 14 2010 - 01:00
Promise of Eastern sequelWe tend to be a bit snitty about sequels, but now and then a film cries out for a second chapter.Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Celebs don’t exactly glitterSo what this about Mia Farrow and that Charles Taylor trial?Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
The Last AirbenderDURING THE early, gold rush years for the fantasy franchise – from 2000 to 2006 or so – it seemed as if a fortune awaited any…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Le RefugeA DECADE AGO, following successes such as Sitcom and Under the Sand , François Ozon became the latest film-maker to be identified…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Jordan eyes Skippy filmA few days after Paul Murray’s novel Skippy Dies was included on the long- list for the Man Booker Prize, it was announced that…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy RescueTHE TINKER Bell industry is such a particular thing it even boasts its very own boutique labelFri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
London calling for Knightly filmThe opening film of October’s 54th London Film Festival will be Mark Romanek’s adaptation of the tricky Kazuo Ishiguro novel …Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeIF, AFTER enduring Jerry Bruckheimer’s latest galumphing summer entertainment, you wish to get a handle on the film’s deficiencies…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Brothers miss MiramaxThe tale of the Weinsteins’ efforts to buy back Miramax has – for them at least – ended sadly.Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Undertow/ContracorrienteThis Peruvian ghost story brings washes of welcome maritime sunlight to a somewhat grey domestic summerFri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
