Four new films to see in cinemas this weekJoaquin Phoenix in C’mon C’mon, The Hand of God, Final Account, Blue BayouSun Dec 05 2021 - 06:00
Adam McKay: ‘An Oscar? How the f**k did that happen?’Oscar-winning filmaker Adam McKay has a new film about the end of the worldSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
Please stop going on about ‘problematic’ Christmas songsDonald Clarke: Another season of Fairytale argy-bargy would be too much to bearSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: For which film did Stephen Sondheim win his only Oscar?Plus: What year comes next: 1999, 2002, 2005, 1977, 1980, 1983?Fri Dec 03 2021 - 06:00
Blue Bayou: Too much melo in this dramaA worthwhile subject is undermined by everyone involved trying too hardFri Dec 03 2021 - 05:00
The Hand of God: Paolo Sorrentino’s love letter to NaplesMovie has tragedy at its heart but more than anything else it is one of the great ‘city films’Fri Dec 03 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHouse of Gucci, Encanto and JFK Revisited in cinemas, Bruised on NetflixSun Nov 28 2021 - 06:00
Aidan Gillen: ‘I am trying my best to be as unhealthy as I can’The actor on filling Donal McCann's shoes in Faith Healer and staying off social mediaSat Nov 27 2021 - 05:00
Film-makers remain innovative but something has gone wrong in the engine roomDonald Clarke: Audiences have got out of the habit of seeing grown-up films in auditoriumsSat Nov 27 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Spot the character who has not been recast in the MCUPlus: Translate a popular movie that was not directed by the great François TruffautFri Nov 26 2021 - 06:00
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass – Fatiguing and pernicketyOliver Stone’s documentary unsurprisingly holds tight to conspiracy orthodoxyFri Nov 26 2021 - 05:00
Bruised film review: Halle Berry directs a sputum-flecked fight flickThe epic closing fight scene makes this Netflix film worth sticking withThu Nov 25 2021 - 05:00
Five new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Power of the Dog, King Richard, Petite Maman, Drive My Car, Ghostbusters: AfterlifeSun Nov 21 2021 - 06:00
Subtitles are in vogue. Let us all embrace the new lucidityDonald Clarke: Four out of five young people say they regularly watch subtitled contentSat Nov 20 2021 - 05:00
Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘I do know what it is like to be a struggling songwriter’The Hamilton creator reflects on his career and his debut film, Tick, Tick… Boom!Sat Nov 20 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many of John Ford’s four Oscars were for westerns?Plus: What was the notorious 2nd line in the ‘opening crawl’ of The Phantom Menace?Fri Nov 19 2021 - 06:00
The Power of the Dog: Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst in a gripping psycho-westernFilm review: Jane Campion teases an impressive cast towards their best work yetFri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00
King Richard: Will Smith is suave and arrogant as Venus and Serena Williams’s fatherFilm review: Will Smith works hard for the Oscar he will almost certainly winFri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00
Alan Cumming on abuse: ‘I am better, but it is like a wound that is never going to go away’The actor’s second memoir is neither tell-all nor reckoning. But it contains multitudes nonethelessTue Nov 16 2021 - 05:00
Three new films to see this weekClint Eastwood in Cry Macho, plus Tick, Tick...Boom! and Natural LightSun Nov 14 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Never mind Ted Cruz, Big Bird is all that is best about the USA larg yellow bird's vaccination has been caught up in the culture wars – it’s mad, TedSat Nov 13 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What toppled The Sound of Music as biggest moneymaker ever?Plus: Who might belong with Charlie Parker, J Edgar Hoover and Frankie Valli?Fri Nov 12 2021 - 06:00
Tick, Tick... Boom! Asks a lot of even the most indulgent audienceLin-Manuel Miranda’s first film as director requires certain leaps of faithFri Nov 12 2021 - 05:33
Cry Macho: Clint the old cowboy sings one more swansongThe 91-year-old's gift for expressing everything by doing almost nothing gets better with ageFri Nov 12 2021 - 05:00
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish manPeople Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthedThu Nov 11 2021 - 13:12
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSpencer, The Card Counter, Love Yourself Today, EternalsSun Nov 07 2021 - 06:00
Damien Dempsey: I was slagged off for singing in a Dublin accent – in the media, in the streetThe artist on stubbornness, living in a changed Ireland and his new Abbey showSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: The non-fungible token is beyond my understandingResearching this new cultural phenomenon causes only headachesSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:00
Spencer: Kristen Stewart’s casting as a brittle Princess Diana is inspiredShe balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasiaFri Nov 05 2021 - 05:00
Eternals: Po-faced superhero entertainmentReview: The sluggishness and drabness of Marvel’s latest is unforgivableFri Nov 05 2021 - 05:00
Chloé Zhao: ‘As a woman film-maker, I don’t want people to think I’m there to check a box’The Nomadland director on becoming Marvel’s latest prodigy, with its superhero film EternalsThu Nov 04 2021 - 05:00
Jessica Chastain, Alicia Vikander, Anthony Bourdain: Highlights of this week’s Cork film festivalCork International Film Festival remains the best way of winding down the Irish cinematic yearTue Nov 02 2021 - 11:32
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPassing, Last Night in Soho, Azor, AntlersSun Oct 31 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Beware the wisdom of the crowdPaid critics may be pompous blowhards, but at least we’ve seen the bleeding filmSat Oct 30 2021 - 05:00
Ruth Negga: ‘I found London quite limiting to be honest’The actor on her journey from Limerick to LA and her performance in Rebecca Hall’s PassingSat Oct 30 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the highest grossing Stephen King adaptation?Just in time for Halloween, a chilling inquisition on all manner of cinematic horrorFri Oct 29 2021 - 06:00
Last Night in Soho: New horror ends in uncertain, muddy territoryReview: Edgar Wright’s time-travel diversion explores the seedier side of the 1960sFri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00
Passing review: Ruth Negga may well get another Oscar nominationThis delicately observed portrait of racial dynamics is worth seeing in the cinemaFri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal to play married couple in FoeThe era’s buzziest young Irish actors have been confirmed as co-stars of Amazon’s sci-fi filmWed Oct 27 2021 - 12:25
Doctor in Venice: Matt Smith from Tardis to 60s SohoSet in London in the 60s, Edgar Wright’s film captures the seediness and grim glamourTue Oct 26 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekDune, The French Dispatch, Dear Evan Hansen, Boss Baby 2Sun Oct 24 2021 - 06:00
Brian Cox on Succession’s success: ‘I’ve lost the anonymity I had for more than 50 years’His frank new memoir describes a difficult childhood and names Hollywood ‘a***holes’Sat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: When is a new take on a movie not a remake?A complex formula involving several variables dictates whether the word is appropriateSat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Pick out the film that missed winning a worst picture RazziePlus: What, in Ireland, does the same job as the MPAA in the United States?Fri Oct 22 2021 - 06:00
Dear Evan Hansen: Failure to translateFilm review: Baffling emoto-musical becomes exhausting all too quicklyFri Oct 22 2021 - 05:00
The French Dispatch: Something for le weekendWes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantialFri Oct 22 2021 - 05:00
Tuning out: The strange case of the apparent death of the film musicalDear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genreThu Oct 21 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekendThe Last Duel, Arracht, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Venom: Let There Be CarnageSun Oct 17 2021 - 06:00
Léa Seydoux: ‘I am very shy. But shy people can be very daring’Bond actor on shyness, Bond, and Truffaut and Godard’s influence on The French DispatchSat Oct 16 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin storyTimothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go awaySat Oct 16 2021 - 05:00
