Tipping point of idiocy as anti-wokery edges into the Tory leadership campaign Donald Clarke: Preposterous phenomenon could well have grim repercussions for some minoritiesSat Jul 16 2022 - 06:00
Persuasion: An honourable effort for all the bellyachingFilm review: A spirited adaptation of Jane Austen’s most intricate novelFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Railway Children Return: A plodding affair that seems to annoy the right peopleReview: A film more characterised more by fastidious set dressing than by narrative tension and clunky plottingFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which 007 film ends rather than begins with ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’?Plus: Who has shared roles with both Rex Harrison and Jerry Lewis?Fri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Michael Flatley’s spy film Blackbird finally comes to Irish cinemas after four-year waitLord of the Dance legend stars as 007-style agent in self-financed thriller which was made in 2018 and has since achieved semi-mythical statusThu Jul 14 2022 - 19:26
Natalie Portman: From child star to mother of two — ‘I keep pinching myself’Oscar winner talks about the changes in film, being cast as a superhero and the rise of streamers and TV seriesTue Jul 12 2022 - 05:00
Sinéad O’Connor’s viral SNL moment generates cheers and applause at 34th Galway Film FleadhNew documentary confirms singer dismissed in Ireland for speaking uncomfortable truths — most conspicuously those concerning the Catholic Church — that are now little disputedMon Jul 11 2022 - 13:53
Four new films to see this weekThe Sea Beast streaming, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles and Futura on cinema releaseSun Jul 10 2022 - 06:00
Jenny Agutter: ‘I have Irish ancestry on my mother’s side’ As The Railway Children Return rolls into a station near you, the former child star and Call the Midwife actor embodies clear-headed EnglishnessSat Jul 09 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Let’s hear it for the GentleminionsMinion lovers in suits? Screaming at Spider-Man? These are vital signs of a vibrant artformSat Jul 09 2022 - 05:51
The Movie Quiz: The opening of Easy Rider suggests which German writer?Plus: Which are not among Maria’s favourite things?Fri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
The Sea Beast: Netflix comes good with a lavish, funny, playful adventureFilm review: Streaming giant undercuts the studios with an epic whose worthwhile lessons are tainted only slightly by preachinessFri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
James Caan: The butcher’s sensitive son with a gift for explosive violence Caan, who has died aged 82, had his breakout role as Sonny Corleone in The GodfatherThu Jul 07 2022 - 20:44
Joyride: Olivia Colman and her slightly undisciplined Irish accent open Galway Film FleadhThe 34th Galway Film Fleadh features the world premiere of Emer Reynolds’s road movieTue Jul 05 2022 - 23:00
Thor: Love and Thunder is a strange, strange film. And not always in a good wayFilm review: The movie makes no effort to take the Marvel Cinematic Universe seriouslyTue Jul 05 2022 - 14:00
From Communard to clergyman: ‘I was consumed with envy of Jimmy Somerville’ The retired Church of England clergyman and former member of The Communards on his new crime novel, Murder Before EvensongMon Jul 04 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNitram, The Princess, Pompo: The Cinephile, Minions: The Rise of GruSun Jul 03 2022 - 06:00
Ah, Wimbledon ... lawn tennis, strawberries, women having to wear white during their periodsDonald Clarke: We can safely assume the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club did not discuss periodsSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
Nitram: A chilling study of solipsism at its most destructiveFilm review: Psychologically nuanced film based on the man responsible for a 1996 massacre in TasmaniaFri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
The Princess: Diana documentary that makes an all-too-familiar story feel fresh With no voiceover, captions or contemporary talking heads, Ed Perkins seamlessly weaves archive footage to tell the tragic taleFri Jul 01 2022 - 00:00
The 10 best films of 2022 so far — in reverse orderThe standard is as high as ever, but the best films now play almost exclusively to specialist audiencesWed Jun 29 2022 - 10:51
Fighting Words marks centenaries on stageShifting priorities, gentle political subtext, identity loss, avant-garde gothic and properly funny stuffWed Jun 29 2022 - 08:10
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekendElvis, The Black Phone, Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, The Big HitSun Jun 26 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Acting is tied up with transformation, so there are no easy answers to the fat-suit questionEmma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull revives dilemma of whether an actor has to be overweight to play an overweight character, or gay to play gaySat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Who directed the famous inspiration for one of Kate Bush’s best LPs?Which film opens with: ‘This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987′?Fri Jun 24 2022 - 06:00
Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest: This extreme gaming documentary is the best sports film of the yearReview: A grandfather aims to play an obscure 1980s arcade game for 100 straight hours on a single coinFri Jun 24 2022 - 00:00
Elvis review: Tasteful restraint has left the buildingFilm review: Baz Luhrmann’s biopic doesn’t so much win you over as hammer you into submissionThu Jun 23 2022 - 00:00
Olivia Colman, Sinéad O’Connor and Mike Newell: Galway Film Fleadh announces its 2022 line-up The 34th festival, with the event’s first fully in-person programme since 2019, features 20 world premieres and 33 Irish premieresTue Jun 21 2022 - 18:30
Donald Clarke: Showing John Wick safely lock up his pistol won’t change a thingDonald Clarke: Hollywood petition on gun violence plays straight into the hands of right-wing lobbyistsSat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: How many times did Pierce Brosnan play James Bond?Plus: Who, amazingly, didn’t appear in John Boorman’s Excalibur?Fri Jun 17 2022 - 06:00
Cha Cha Real Smooth: Utterly charming but not this year’s CodaDramatic comedy toys with teary romance while sitting back from hackneyed tropesFri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: It’s not everything you wanted to know about sexEmma Thompson and Nenagh’s own Daryl McCormack make a connection but deserve stronger materialFri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Life in the arcades: ‘They gathered round this Roger Federer of alien annihilation’ A documentary on arcade culture sparks memories of haunting Dublin’s arcades playing Hyper Olympics, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong in the mid-1980sWed Jun 15 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSwan Song, All My Friends Hate Me, Earwig, Jurassic World DominionSun Jun 12 2022 - 06:00
Kate Bush: top of the world as rock gatekeepers are over the hillDonald Clarke: that it has taken the Strangers Things soundtrack for Bush to break the US says more about its music scene than herSat Jun 11 2022 - 05:55
The Movie Quiz: Who is a corpse at the start of The Big Chill?Plus: The Jurassic Park franchise reaches which episode this weekend?Fri Jun 10 2022 - 06:00
Earwig: A weird and wonderful film that approaches transendenceDirector Lucile Hadžihalilović's debut English-language film turns obliqueness into an art formFri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
Jurassic World Dominion: The Spielbergian wonder of 1993 has completely vanishedThe supermarket sweep approach to blockbuster filmmaking reaches its horrible apotheosisWed Jun 08 2022 - 20:00
Jurassic World Dominion: Return (again) of the dinosaursDirector Colin Trevorrow on learning his filmic trade quickly and being at franchise’s helmTue Jun 07 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekMen, I Am Zlatan, Olga, Bergman’s IslandSun Jun 05 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Never mind the platty joobs, here’s the Sex Pistols (again)God save the old geezers from the relentless grip of jubilee nostalgiaSat Jun 04 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which future star did not make an early appearance on Neighbours?Plus: Who’s missing from the gang: Will Wheaton, Jerry O’Connell, Corey Feldman?Fri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Men: they really are all the same in this folk horror tale Jessie Buckley is terrific in Alex garland’s ambitious but unsatisfactory horrorFri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Olga: Seeking a better life through sportSwitzerland’s Oscar entry follows a young Ukrainian gymnast determined to succeedFri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Are Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s film careers effectively over?His career was slumping long before he and Heard got engaged m’ learned friends, writes Donald ClarkeThu Jun 02 2022 - 14:47
Cannes returns to normality with big movies and contentious debateDonald Clarke's last report from Cannes film festivalMon May 30 2022 - 10:44
Divisive Swedish satire on super-rich wins top prize at Cannes film festival Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or in closing ceremony reflecting a return to normality for world cinemaSun May 29 2022 - 14:38
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTop Gun: Maverick, The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s), Between Two WorldsSun May 29 2022 - 06:00
Summer movies 2022: Thor, Lightyear, Jurassic Park, Elvis and moreThe big screen is set to conjure up memories of the noughties, the 90s, and even the 80sSat May 28 2022 - 05:00
