NightwatchingYOU COULD be forgiven for assuming that Peter Greenaway had fled film-making for a life making cheese or designing cathedrals…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
RevanchePERHAPS THOSE Austrian film-makers whose work fails to play abroad tend towards light romcoms and kids’ films about talking rabbits…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
The Disappearance of Alice CreedWHEN film-makers place any sort of artificial restriction on themselves – no dialogue, just the one set, a single take – one …Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
Life During WartimeWE ARE all older now. It has been 12 years since Todd Solondz confounded viewers with the hugely influential HappinessFri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
CherrybombHAS THE peace dividend been sufficiently generous to allow for a hip Belfast youth comedy? Is the North ready for its own Trainspotting…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
La Danse: The Paris Opera BalletIN 1967, film-maker Frederick Wiseman set out his stall with Titicut Follies , a searing documentary account of the regime at…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Dogtooth/KynodontasHERE IS an odd, troubling, original film that creeps up on you slowly, before slipping something slimy down the back of your …Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Date NightSTOP ME if you’ve read this here before (and you have), but the current status of the romantic comedy is so dire – a steady tone…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Cemetary JunctionIF YOU were searching for a cheap, lazy phrase to sum up the appeal of The Office , you might happen upon something like “sitcom…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
The Daisy ChainBARELY A month goes by without a scary child movie opening in Irish cinemasFri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Dear JohnIF THIS insipid blubfest secures just one place in the history books, it will be as the film that finally deposed Avatar from…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
City of life and death/Nanjing! Nanjing!AN EARLY episode of the legendary documentary series The World at War touched on the notorious massacre of (figures are still…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Brosnan on being Bond - and BlairSmooth and sonorous, distant yet endearing, Irish in his imagination and in his soul, Pierce Brosnan refuses to be drawn on his…Sat Apr 10 2010 - 01:00
FoxesWHATEVER ELSE you might say about new Irish cinema, you can’t claim it has ignored the immigrant experienceFri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
The IFI keeps it real with doc festivalREMEMBER THE mainstream documentary boom? A few short years ago, following the success of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 , it…Fri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
Remember MeWATCHING this disappointing attempt to propel Robert Pattinson into the land of the living is a little like attending a particularly…Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Samson & DelilahIT’S NOT too often that cinema provides us with something entirely unexpectedFri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Double takeJOHAN GRIMONPREZ has come up with a wonderful idea. Scratch that. Johan Grimonprez has come up with a dozen wonderful ideas.Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Clash of the TitansWHAT EXACTLY is the point of this exercise? The original Clash of the Titans is now best remembered as an exercise in rollicking…Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
How to train your dragonSIX YEARS after the nadir that was Shark Tale , DreamWorks Animation finally secures a place at the top table with this funny…Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
LourdesTHIS SLOW, ritualistic, but undeniably fascinating French drama concerning pilgrims to the shrine at Lourdes is, ultimately, …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
Lion's Den/LeoneraRECEIVING ITS Cannes premiere a full 12 months before A Prophet , this skull-judderingly well acted, incongruously good-looking…Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
StormIF YOU were feeling mean, you could point out that this fascinating courtroom thriller – a rare cinematic attempt to address …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
No One Knows About Persian Cats/Kasi Az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar NadarehWHEN BAHMAN Ghobadi, director of such recent Iranian gems as A Time for Drunken Horses and Turtles Can Fly , set out to make…Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
The Bounty HunterTHERE COMES a point in almost everyone’s career when the novelty of the job wears out and work becomes an appallingly tedious…Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00
The Scouting Book for BoysHEARING THAT this English coming-of-age drama involves the writer of the lubricious TV show Skins , the frail reader could be…Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00
Occupational hazardsYOU COULD see Paul Greengrass’s latest film (very, very loosely inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s book Imperial Life in the …Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
Knocking At death's doorIVAN KAVANAGH’S story is one of the odder ones in Irish filmFri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
The year of the dragonFANS OF the late Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful Millennium trilogy will be adept at dissembling misinformation and, …Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
Few surprises on Bigelow's big night‘ The Hurt Locker ’ – and Irishman Richie Baneham – were winners in an Oscar night of mostly agreeably dignified speeches and…Tue Mar 09 2010 - 00:00
OndineGLANCE AT most directors’ oeuvres and you will spot a few films that, rather than standing as major opuses, comes across as casual…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Exit through the gift shopYOU COULD be forgiven for approaching the first film by Banksy with a can of petrol and a blowtorchFri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Father of My ChildrenHERE’S ONE of those films that is almost impossible to review without revealing a significant, distinctly surprising plot development…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
LegionIF THE US really is as uniformly Christian as editorials in liberal newspapers argue, then Legion would surely have been driven…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Case 39THERE’S NO mystery about the fact that this ropey scary-stary child horror has remained in unreleased limbo for the past two-…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Ireland's art films, fag ash and allThe Irish films at this year's JDIFF show that works of variety and originality can get to the screen without Hollywood-scale…Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
Leap YearAS IT’S awards season, we really should invent some sort of gong for the makers of this cosmically atrocious romcomFri Feb 26 2010 - 00:00
Everybody's fineHAVE YOU noticed how Robert De Niro and his old pal Al Pacino appear to be travelling in opposite directions along the creative…Fri Feb 26 2010 - 00:00
How cinema got its groove backJAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: THE MUSICAL never quite diesWed Feb 24 2010 - 00:00
What's wrong with Irish film?JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: THE CURRENT Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has, of course, been dedicated…Tue Feb 23 2010 - 00:00
From mainstream to cutting edgeJAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL : Opening weekend at JDIFF had directors, actors and crew all lining up to hear audience…Mon Feb 22 2010 - 00:00
