Summer’s sweaty backside remains exposed as leaves begin to fall. Will we never be set free?We’re meant to love the heat. Culture seems implicitly aware that autumn cool is more attractiveSun Sept 13 2026 - 05:15
Venice Golden Lion goes to Woman Unknown, postwar film about ‘female body as battleground’Saoirse Ronan misses out after premiering directorial debut at festivalSat Sept 12 2026 - 21:32
An Irish screen genius, raves for Robert Pattinson and early Oscar tipsDonald Clarke on what has gone down a storm in the opening week of Venice International Film Festival 2026Fri Sept 11 2026 - 11:12
Barry Ward: ‘The fear is, if you’re trying to re-create New York in Skibbereen, it could look a bit hokey’Everybody Digs Bill Evans, the Dublin actor’s new film, is a finely balanced marvel about the jazz pianist. You wouldn’t know it was shot in IrelandFri Sept 11 2026 - 05:14
The Movie Quiz: Which two films did Dolly Parton receive Oscar nominations for?Plus: Sylvester the cat’s catchphrase is associated with which dish?Fri Sept 11 2026 - 04:46
Everybody Digs Bill Evans review: A jazz movie on a par with ’Round Midnight and BirdIn its minor-chord fashion, this sad film immerses viewers in the coolness of jazz in the years before the explosion of rockThu Sept 10 2026 - 05:12
Pressure: Andrew Scott is brilliant in this intense D-Day dramaHe plays James Stagg, who had pivotal role in second World War, with Kerry Condon as Eisenhower’s secretaryWed Sept 09 2026 - 05:10
Irishman Darran Tiernan wins Emmy for best cinematography Highest honour in US television awarded for Tiernan’s work on episode of Spider-Noir seriesMon Sept 07 2026 - 15:36
Do Venetians see depictions of their city in film as we Irish see Micksploitation movies?If fiction is any guide, Venice remains unchanged by the cinematic locusts who descend for its annual film festivalSun Sept 06 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Death of Robin Hood, The Incomer, Super Nature, LeviticusHugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Domhnall Gleeson and Joe Bird feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 4th, 2026Sun Sept 06 2026 - 04:54
The Death of Robin Hood review: From harrowing ultraviolence to medieval reverieWhat is it with Australians and Robin Hood? Errol Flynn, Russell Crowe and now Hugh Jackman Fri Sept 04 2026 - 05:12
The Incomer: Domhnall Gleeson at his amiable best in this tale of oddball isolationLouis Paxton’s fascinating feature debut alternates briny whimsy with something more sinisterFri Sept 04 2026 - 05:10
The Venice Film Festival Movie Quiz: Who is the current holder of the Golden Lion?Plus: Which Irish actor is premiering her first film as director at this year’s event?Fri Sept 04 2026 - 04:56
First Look review: Bucking Fastard, mystery of Irish cinema, unveiled in all its peculiar gloryVenice film festival 2026: Werner Herzog’s imagination is as creatively offbeat as ever in this film starring Kate and Rooney Mara and Domhnall GleesonThu Sept 03 2026 - 17:05
First Look review – Ink: Danny Boyle’s new Murdoch saga is dirty, gripping, enraging stuffVenice Film Festival 2026: This rambunctious pageant chronicles how the British media lost the last strand of its innocenceWed Sept 02 2026 - 20:00
Saoirse Ronan to make her directorial debut at Venice film festivalNew movies from Martin McDonagh, Danny Boyle and Werner Herzog will also take centre stage at Italian eventMon Aug 31 2026 - 05:10
Domhnall Gleeson: ‘My life in Ireland means too much to me. It’s no sacrifice to live here’The actor has carved out a place at the centre of the Hollywood film industry. But it comes second to his sense of homeSun Aug 30 2026 - 05:32
An unreliable history of Robin Hood, from Errol Flynn to Andrew GarfieldThe folk behind new Paul Greengrass film The Uprising cast Andrew Garfield as Robin Hood. But is he?Sun Aug 30 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Bitter Christmas, The Dog Stars, Guggi and ColonyBárbara Lennie, Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Derek Rowen and Jun Ji-hyun feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 28th, 2026Sun Aug 30 2026 - 04:57
Irish-language thriller Aontas selected as Ireland’s 2027 Oscar entryDamian McCann’s heist film starring Carrie Crowley and Bríd Brennan will compete for a place on Academy Awards shortlist Fri Aug 28 2026 - 16:38
The Movie Quiz: Who never directed Philip Seymour Hoffman?Plus: Who is currently taking Acme to court?Fri Aug 28 2026 - 04:59
Bitter Christmas review: even when Almodóvar is coasting, he cannot help but charmCharlie Kaufman would enjoy the sort of puzzle Pedro Almodóvar has created here but too often it feels like a challenge the Spanish director has set for himselfThu Aug 27 2026 - 05:12
Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies aged 80Performance as the delightfully camp Dr Frank-N-Furter was followed with a lucrative line in treacle-voiced screen villains and challenging theatrical rolesWed Aug 26 2026 - 18:30
Ridley Scott’s impending apocalypse: ‘People don’t watch the news. This is happening already’The director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of CanadaWed Aug 26 2026 - 05:25
The Dog Stars review – Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley in an agreeable apocalypse movieJosh Brolin co-stars in Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s bestselling pandemic novelWed Aug 26 2026 - 01:00
I Want Your Sex director Gregg Araki: ‘We’ve had some crazy screenings of this movie’Now an elder statesman of cinema, the film-maker returns with a ‘sex-positive love letter to Gen Z’Sun Aug 23 2026 - 05:19
‘Woke’ now belongs to the right. It will need to be prised from their cold, dead handsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez invited re-evaluation of the movement’s first iteration – there is no suggestion the entire project is being trashedSun Aug 23 2026 - 05:15
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Coyote vs Acme, Spa Weekend and Stop! That! Train!: Four new films to see this weekHannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Isla Fisher, RuPaul and Ginger Minj feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 21st, 2026Sun Aug 23 2026 - 05:00
Spa Weekend review: Bridesmaids has a lot to answer forSorry project may remind Hollywood that Isla Fisher’s talents have yet to be made the most ofFri Aug 21 2026 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What substance was used to portray the blood in Psycho?Plus: What was the first film Woody Allen directed in which he did not appear?Fri Aug 21 2026 - 05:00
Coyote vs Acme review: Warner Bros tried to shelve this film. It’s far too good for thatThis zesty film makes the best use yet of Looney Tunes’ immortal characters on the big screenWed Aug 19 2026 - 05:07
‘It’s obvious why Gen Z isn’t having sex’In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Schoenbrun brings Gillian Anderson, cinematic references and their own relationship to sex to the tableTue Aug 18 2026 - 05:15
Welcome to silly season, starring Dobby, James Bond, Count Binface and Brian MayOne can hardly imagine a better example of a mid-August story than this week’s report poking fun at Harry Potter fansSun Aug 16 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The End of Oak Street, Lady, The Mahabharata and TonyAnne Hathaway, Sian Clifford, Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Dominic Sessa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 14th, 2026Sun Aug 16 2026 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many films in the Rambo franchise?Plus: How well do you know the Ocean’s Eleven cast?Fri Aug 14 2026 - 05:00
Lady review: Oddball mockumentary that cannot fail to pick up a cult followingSian Clifford does not hold back grandness of her gestures in satire of the eccentric gentryThu Aug 13 2026 - 05:10
The End of Oak Street review: Ripping sci-fi entertainment as Anne Hathaway fights dinosaursIt might be a stretch to describe the film as a pastiche of Steven Spielberg, but the echoes are unmistakableWed Aug 12 2026 - 16:01
Four new films to see this week: The Summer Book, Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller?, Nimrods: A Green Day Comedy and Queens of the DeadGlenn Close, Emily Matthews, Mason Thames and Katy O’Brian feature in quartet of movies released in the week of August 7th, 2026Sun Aug 09 2026 - 04:53
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have broken a chart record with Rein Me In. You know the one. Don’t you?The song has surpassed a 73-year-old record for longest stay at number one. Blame the death of the monoculture for the fact people haven’t heard (of) itSat Aug 08 2026 - 05:15
The Summer Book review: Lovely moments in unhurried adaptation of treasured Tove Jansson novelEnglish-language film directed by Charlie McDowell is old-fashioned in both good and bad waysFri Aug 07 2026 - 05:12
The Movie Quiz: How many films are there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Plus: To whom did Chris Rock eventually present an Oscar after being smacked by Will Smith?Fri Aug 07 2026 - 04:56
Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller? review: An Irish showman with ties to Johnny Cash, a famed Dublin venue, the Mafia and gold digging Charismatic talking heads help tell the story of an epic life in David Burke’s filmThu Aug 06 2026 - 14:10
Horror director Eli Roth: ‘All you can do is prepare your child. You can’t protect them’As his latest film, Ice Cream Man, is released, the film-maker explains why horror can’t be just ‘gross and repellent’. It has to be clever tooMon Aug 03 2026 - 05:12
Your kids are probably using the newish insult ‘chud’. But what does it mean?The term appears to have evolved from ‘cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller’ to loser, via some other definitionsSun Aug 02 2026 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Quentin Tarantino’s fictional cigarette brand?Plus: Which movie does not feature a credit for a member of The Beatles?Fri Jul 31 2026 - 05:55
The Sacrifice review: No mistaking the quiet despair in reissue of Tarkovsky’s last filmRestoration of cinematic great’s final finished feature demands to be seen on the big screenFri Jul 31 2026 - 05:10
‘I saw a parallel with the colonial narratives I was looking at, between South Asian and Irish history’After the BBC approached Ish director Imran Perretta about finding a co-writer, Dublin-born Enda Walsh jumped at the opportunityThu Jul 30 2026 - 05:15
Glen Hansard the film star was at the centre of two key moments in Irish cinemaHis best-song Oscar win with Markéta Irglová in 2008 alerted the world that the country’s screen industry was on the marchWed Jul 29 2026 - 15:00
Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Summery fun but it might as well have a barcode on screenChemistry between Tom Holland and Zendaya is a reminder of old-fashioned cinematic values, but tolerance of Marvel is requiredTue Jul 28 2026 - 15:43
Lesbian Lines director Cara Holmes: Growing up, the word ‘lesbian’ was not really being said out loudGaze International LGBTQIA Film Festival: In pre-internet Ireland, telephone lines sprang up around the country to let isolated gay women feel heardMon Jul 27 2026 - 05:02
