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
IMPORT/EXPORTDirected by Ulrich Seidl. Starring Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstatter Club, IFI, Dublin, 135 minFri Oct 03 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
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
BEN XTHERE IS - on paper, at least - plenty to applaud in this low- budget Belgian dramaFri Sept 12 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
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
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
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
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
DEATH DEFYING ACTSARRIVING with no significant promotion, this curious little film from Gillian Armstrong, the distinguished director of My Brilliant…Fri Aug 08 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
ELITE SQUAD/TROPA DE ELITEWHEN news emerged that something called Elite Squad had won the top prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival, more than a few…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
KILLER OF SHEEPJONATHAN Rosenbaum, the great American critic, has argued that "Charles Burnett is the most gifted and important black film-maker…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
THE FOX AND THE CHILD/LE RENARD ET L'ENFANTEVERYONE loved the nature photography in Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins , his smash documentary from 2005, but many viewers…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
Phantom du nacht haunts WaterfordThere are few events more entrancing to the serious film fan than the presentation of a classic silent movie with live musical…Fri Aug 01 2008 - 01:00
CASSDIRECTED by the producer of Green Street , this workmanlike British drama constitutes one more unwelcome addition to the perplexing…Fri Aug 01 2008 - 01:00
Noir, sub-noir and sheer magicFOLLOWING (1998) A sinuously hypnotic combination of art movie and film noir, Nolan's debut studies a strange young man who …Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Wholesome, well meaning and utterly dullJOINING BABY MAMA in the anti-Batman counter-programming slot, we find the latest film from nice old Gurinder ChadhaFri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Out of puffWHAT IS the worst film ever made by a director of genius? Francis Ford Coppola's Jack certainly takes some beating (or, rather…Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Mama mia!TINA FEY, instigator of Mean Girls and the television series 30 Rock, is rumoured to be a woman of some intelligenceFri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Music in MaliA musical road trip with a difference at Mali's Festival au Desert.Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Narcissism that leads to murderHis movies make you feel uneasy, with his treatment of sex and violence, but then that's exactly what Tom Kalin wants to do, …Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
HANCOCKWILL SMITH, everyone's favourite coil of optimism, in a biopic of the superhumanly grumpy comic Tony Hancock? Now, that would…Fri Jul 04 2008 - 01:00
FEMALE AGENTS/LES FEMMES DES OMBREJEAN-PAUL Salomé has offered us a film about women fighting the Nazis in occupied Europe. Good for himFri Jun 27 2008 - 01:00
SUPERHERO MOVIEUNLEASHED in the interregnum between the age of Iron Man and the supposed advance of The Incredible Hulk , the latest mirthless…Fri Jun 06 2008 - 01:00
PROM NIGHTTHE assorted numbskulls behind this bloodless (in every sense) remake of an obscurely remembered Canadian slasher picture would…Fri Jun 06 2008 - 01:00
WELCOME TO THE STICKS/ BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH'TISAPPARENTLY 18 million people have seen this broad French comedy on release in its home territoriesFri May 30 2008 - 01:00
