Donald Clarke: Hey Francis, leave our pets aloneThe Pope has launched a crusade against Squeaky the canary and Bowie the goldfishSat Jan 15 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Sidney Poitier was the 1st black man to win an acting Oscar; who was the 2nd?Plus: Which ski resort is about to not-quite-host one of the year’s big film festivals?Fri Jan 14 2022 - 06:00
Killing Field: No, Bruce Willis hasn’t retired. He’s just been making bad films like thisReview: The Pulp Fiction star fails to add any value to this sub-Tarantino stinkerFri Jan 14 2022 - 05:00
Cow: Affecting but unsentimental portrait of animal lifeAndrea Arnold’s film shows how we have stripped the character away from animal livesFri Jan 14 2022 - 05:00
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations: The list in fullSome of Hollywood’s biggest names are among the nominees for the 28th SAG awardsWed Jan 12 2022 - 17:30
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2022: Belfast and Ruth Negga prominent in nominationsNegga and Caitríona Balfe have consolidated their positions in the run-up to the OscarsWed Jan 12 2022 - 17:20
Golden Globes 2022: Full list of winners in film and televisionThe Power of the Dog, West Side Story and Succession each scored three awardsMon Jan 10 2022 - 06:05
Golden Globes 2022: Belfast wins best screenplay in discredited awardsJane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the IrishMon Jan 10 2022 - 05:55
How about a little break from Harry Potter controversies?Not even the Marvel Cinematic Universe attracts this degree of debateSun Jan 09 2022 - 22:55
Four new films to see this weekBoiling Point, A Hero, Munich: The Edge of War, The 355Sun Jan 09 2022 - 06:00
Drop the needle, it’s the 1970s on screen – againDecade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro moviesSat Jan 08 2022 - 05:00
Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giantsDonald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie starsFri Jan 07 2022 - 17:40
The Movie Quiz: Peter Bogdanovich owed the title of one of his hits to whom?Plus: If Rachel was once Natalie and Ansel was once Richard, then who was Rita?Fri Jan 07 2022 - 06:00
The 355: All-female action romp fails to rise above second-rate materialDiane Kruger is the one bright light in a movie that’s weighed down by clichésFri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00
Boiling Point: Claustrophobia in the kitchenOne-shot drama pants grim picture of restaurant lifeFri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: China’s financial success at the cinema is not a pandemic storyPeople’s Republic released two highest-grossing films of 2021 after decade of growthSat Jan 01 2022 - 05:00
50 films to see in 2022: Belfast, Avatar 2 and Top Gun: MaverickAfter the pandemic nudged back blockbusters, this year should see a wide range of releasesSat Jan 01 2022 - 05:00
Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s sonReview: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocativeFri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Starry but misfiring biopicBenedict Cumberbatch plays yet another eccentric in this portrait of a Victorian artistFri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00
Live or let die? How James Bond can survive beyond the Daniel Craig eraThe future for the 007 brand is uncertain, but a full reboot is looking increasingly likelyWed Dec 29 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Tragedy of Macbeth, Lola and the Sea, The King’s Man, Being the RicardosMon Dec 27 2021 - 06:00
The Matrix Resurrections review: Another clunky sequel, trapped in the last centuryLana Wachowski fails to dream up any new moves for this tired and dated sequelTue Dec 21 2021 - 16:00
Best films of 2021: Irish critics name their favouritesJane Campion’s The Power of the Dog dominated, scooping several awardsTue Dec 21 2021 - 10:25
The 12 Days of Christmas Bumper Movie QuizFrom a certain gabby partridge to a four hens on the batter to one genuine piperTue Dec 21 2021 - 10:00
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish PlayJoel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed dramaTue Dec 21 2021 - 05:00
The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchisePush the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdityTue Dec 21 2021 - 00:00
Four new films to see this weekSpider-Man: No Way Home, Swan Song, The Lost Daughter, The Story of Film: A New GenerationSun Dec 19 2021 - 06:00
The 50 best films of 2021 – in reverse orderAmid sequels and superhero flicks, there were films worth going back into theatres forSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: It’s a Wonderful Life has been dogging my nightmares since my youthAlternative reality is so wretched it’s a wonder anyone hangs around for the happy endingSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who is the last person born in Ireland to win an acting Oscar?Plus: What was the supposed inspiration for Bazmark ‘Baz’ Luhrmann’s forename?Fri Dec 17 2021 - 06:00
The Story of Film: A New Generation – there’s hope for cinema yetMark Cousins offers an optimistic view of the contemporary cinema landscapeFri Dec 17 2021 - 05:00
Spider-Man No Way Home film review: Oh no, it’s for the fansThe latest outing is still lighter on its feet than most of the Marvel Comic UniverseWed Dec 15 2021 - 10:00
Golden Globes 2022: Belfast leads the nominations for controversial awardsKenneth Branagh’s Belfast gets seven nods. Ruth Negga is also nominated for PassingMon Dec 13 2021 - 15:30
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWest Side Story, Don’t Look Up, Lamb, Clifford the Big Red DogSun Dec 12 2021 - 06:00
West Side Story's Ariana DeBose: ‘I was enamoured with Rita Moreno’The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remakeSat Dec 11 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Cash is dying, and who will mourn the euro banknote?Think the current notes are bland? The new ones will be the work of an ‘advisory group’Sat Dec 11 2021 - 05:00
Top cultural spots to visit and gifts for the festive season‘For all the joys of the virtual world ... there is still a special pleasure in opening up a big box full of goodies’Sat Dec 11 2021 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: The lyrics of which early 007 theme do not begin with its title?Plus: Whose eventful life did not generate an Oscar-winning performance?Fri Dec 10 2021 - 06:00
Don’t Look Up: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence’s new film misses its targetThere are decent jokes but Adam McKay’s comedy feels overstuffedThu Dec 09 2021 - 05:00
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movieReview: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screenWed Dec 08 2021 - 05:00
Will by Will Smith: Extraordinary story of Hollywood’s Fresh PrinceBook review: Actor’s self-help memoir could make Napoleon feel unmotivatedTue Dec 07 2021 - 06:00
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
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
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
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
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
Blue Bayou: Too much melo in this dramaA worthwhile subject is undermined by everyone involved trying too hardFri 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
