The Nightmare before Christmas 3-DTIM Burton's 1993 stop-motion fantasy gets a third dimension in what seems to be becoming a holiday perennial.Fri Nov 28 2008 - 00:00
Max PayneFILM CRITICS tend to be a tad stuffy about adaptations of video gamesFri Nov 14 2008 - 00:00
THE WARLORDSOver the last decade, we have been offered a bevy of outrageously luscious Asian period dramas ( House of Flying Daggers, Hero…Fri Nov 07 2008 - 00:00
EASY VIRTUENoël Coward is given a hopelessly musty disinterment, writes Donald ClarkeFri Nov 07 2008 - 00:00
SCARWHAT AN outrage! Here we have a zero-budget horror film of the lowest imaginable quality (a Saw compote drizzled with Friday …Fri Nov 07 2008 - 00:00
Getting back in the frameFILM: Have you seen? By David Thompson, Allen lane, 1007pp, 22Sat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
'It's just a film. . . that's all it is'STEVE McQUEEN doesn't look like a man cycling into controversySat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
FUNNY BUNNYINTERVIEW: Anna Faris has made a name for herself as Hollywood's queen of raucous comedySat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00
Weird volume depicts Hollywood through eyes of a chimpanzeeBOOK OF THE DAY: Donald Clarke reviews Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by CheetaMon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
THE FALLDirected by Tarsem. Starring Lee Pace, Justine Waddell, Catinca Untaru, Daniel Caltagirone. Club, IFI, Dublin, 117 minFri Oct 17 2008 - 01:00
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame/Buda as sharm foru rikhtDirected by Hana Makhmalbaf. Starring Nikbakht Noruz 12A cert, Light House, Dublin, 81 minFri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00
Nights in RodantheDirected by George C Wolfe. Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, James Franco PG cert, gen release, 97 minFri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00
Journey to the Far Side of the SunDirected by Robert Parrish. Starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom PG certFri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00
Emma's bliss/Emmad GlückDirected by Sven Taddicken. Starring Jordis Triebel, Juergen Vogel 15A cert, Light House, Dublin, 99 minFri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00
Just how horrible is Toby Young?Despite the film of his memoir, 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People', showing us the supposed wretchedness of his persona…Sat Oct 04 2008 - 01:00
ALEXANDRA/ALEKSANDRADirected by Alexander Sokurov. Starring Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva Club, IFI, Dublin, 95 minFri Oct 03 2008 - 01:00
IMPORT/EXPORTDirected by Ulrich Seidl. Starring Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstatter Club, IFI, Dublin, 135 minFri Oct 03 2008 - 01:00
THE CHASER/CHUGYEOGJAONLY IN Korea do film-makers scramble their genres in such bewildering fashionFri Sept 19 2008 - 01:00
THE POPE'S TOILET/EL BAÑA DEL PAPASURELY the Pope would prefer the title to be translated as "lavatory" rather than the unlovely "toilet"Fri Sept 19 2008 - 01:00
UNRELATEDCAN YOU get away with a drama entirely peopled by ghastly people? The question will swim into many viewers' heads while watching…Fri Sept 19 2008 - 01:00
Missives of a misspelling starEver, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters Edited by John Coldstream Weidenfeld Nicolson, 512ppSat Sept 13 2008 - 01:00
JAR CITYREADERS of contemporary British and Irish crime fiction - and viewers of all the resulting television adaptations - will feel…Fri Sept 12 2008 - 01:00
BEN XTHERE IS - on paper, at least - plenty to applaud in this low- budget Belgian dramaFri Sept 12 2008 - 01:00
THE STRANGERSFOR TOO long the only sounds heard in the American horror film have been screams, death-metal chords and the noise a blade makes…Fri Aug 29 2008 - 01:00
BABYLON ADYOU KNOW a film is in trouble when, halfway through, the characters sit down and offer each other (and, therefore, us) a helpful…Fri Aug 29 2008 - 01:00
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDUREEVEN THE most politically alert reader could be forgiven for greeting yet another film on the quagmire in Iraq with a weary sigh…Fri Aug 29 2008 - 01:00
SOMERS TOWNSOMERS Town is only 70 minutes long, it's almost entirely in black and white, and it's a kind of upscale promo for EurostarFri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00
COLLEGE ROAD TRIPTHIS routinely dismal family comedy finds Raven-Symoné, once that horrible little child on The Cosby Show, arguing with dad Martin…Fri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00
Welcome to hell hotelTV REVIEW: Fáilte Towers RTÉ1, all week, Little White Lie RTÉ1, Monday, The Genius of Charles Darwin Channel 4, Monday and Comedy…Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
BEFORE THE RAINS'ONE must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it," Chekhov famously wrote to a friendFri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
MAKE IT HAPPENYEAH, MAN, make it happen. Make me fall asleep. Make me look at my watch every 30 secondsFri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
ELEGYTHERE is something terribly adolescent about this problematic film's conception of what being grown-up is all about.Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
