Woody Allen's compromised, though diverting, debut novel is a queasy disappointmentAllen’s flat prose serves as a mechanism to take us from one lengthy dialogue sequence to the nextSat Oct 18 2025 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which is not a rule of Fight Club?Plus: What was the first James Bond theme to win the Oscar for best song?Fri Oct 17 2025 - 04:47
After the Hunt review: This campus drama makes ill use of some very fine actorsLuca Guadagnino’s latest film involves an accusation of rape against a gay student of colourThu Oct 16 2025 - 05:09
Colin Farrell happily embraces his inner loser like no other leading man everBallad of a Small Player review: The Irish actor plays the most doomed addict since Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las VegasWed Oct 15 2025 - 05:11
Dr No Gun: Is this what they mean by woke gone mad?Prime Video took James Bond’s pistol out of the hands of Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan and Sean ConnerySun Oct 12 2025 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: I Swear, Good Boy, A Want in Her and Tron: AresRobert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Jared Leto and Greta Lee feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 10th, 2025Sun Oct 12 2025 - 05:03
Charming, eccentric and likeable, no star had energy quite like Diane KeatonLaid-back Californian built a 60-year career unlike any other, from Annie Hall to The GodfatherSat Oct 11 2025 - 22:30
Rebecca Miller: ‘Daniel’s heart is in Ireland, so we go as much as possible’The director behind documentary Mr Scorsese on her relationship with the giant of cinema, his early sense of being an outsider, and life with the Day-LewisesSat Oct 11 2025 - 05:17
The Movie Quiz: Who never directed Marlene Dietrich?Plus: Which of these Disney songs is sang by a human?Fri Oct 10 2025 - 04:59
Good Boy: Meet Indy, the adorable canine star of this creepy horror filmSuperb debut from Ben Leonberg tells a scary haunted-house story from the perspective of the occupier’s dogThu Oct 09 2025 - 05:09
I Swear review: Robert Aramayo’s new film had hardened critics sobbing like infantsEnglish actor best known for Game of Thrones displays deep empathy and understanding of Tourette syndrome in his latest roleWed Oct 08 2025 - 05:12
Bán, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a brave, brilliantly acted ensemble pieceDublin Theatre Festival 2025: The gifted Carys D Coburn reworks The House of Bernarda Alba in grim 1980s IrelandTue Oct 07 2025 - 10:03
Tilly Norwood, the AI actor with a hint of Meghan Markle Reaction from industry professionals demonstrates how enormously jumpy everyone is about the threatSun Oct 05 2025 - 05:10
Four new films to see this week: A House of Dynamite, Re-Creation, The Smashing Machine and UrchinIdris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Vicky Krieps, Aidan Gillen and Emily Blunt feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 3rd, 2025Sun Oct 05 2025 - 04:54
Poor, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a show destined to keep returning and keep selling outDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Katriona O’Sullivan’s memoir becomes a crowd-pleasing play starring Aisling O’Mara and Hollie LawlorFri Oct 03 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: From which horror classic did the Ramones borrow a famous chant?Plus: Test your knowledge of obscure tracks from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrackFri Oct 03 2025 - 04:37
A House of Dynamite review: Kathryn Bigelow’s stressful film brings home perils of nuclear strikePeople will shiver at realisation that when a response to nuclear attack is needed, it is too lateThu Oct 02 2025 - 05:14
Re-Creation review: An odd, uneasy engagement with the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murderThere is forever a sense of a thumb being placed on the scales in this interesting oddityWed Oct 01 2025 - 05:10
We all have more Alan Partridge in us than we would care to admit Triumph of Steve Coogan’s great comedy character rests on his slow evolution, moments of pathos and the canny avoidance of low-hanging fruit (Brexit)Sun Sept 28 2025 - 05:05
Four new films to see this week: One Battle After Another, Sunphlowers, The Lost Bus and Brides Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 26th, 2025Sun Sept 28 2025 - 04:53
Ruff justice: is Shakespeare being cancelled?Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving CertSat Sept 27 2025 - 06:00
This Hamlet, the opening show of Dublin Theatre Festival 2025, is both deeply serious and a riot of funDublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Teatro La Plaza’s questioning production is performed by a cast with Down syndromeFri Sept 26 2025 - 09:39
The Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Quiz: Who is not on the Boogie Nights soundtrack?Plus: Which is the longest Paul Thomas Anderson film?Fri Sept 26 2025 - 04:36
One Battle After Another review: Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn face off in Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrilling epicMovie hailed as one of Anderson’s finest works excels in its unapologetic grandeurWed Sept 24 2025 - 05:16
The Lost Bus review: Matthew McConaughey drives classic 1970s-style disaster movieDirector Paul Greengrass, action maestro behind the Bourne films, shoots with kinetic fervourTue Sept 23 2025 - 14:38
‘I want young people to see this film – and anyone who’s got a care to whether the world is burning’Paul Greengrass, who reinvented the action flick with The Bourne Supremacy, on his latest movie, The Lost BusTue Sept 23 2025 - 05:13
Why do the Irish still think it’s charming to be late for everything?Elsewhere in the world, people arrive in good time. Here, many regard the advertised kick-off as loosely advisorySun Sept 21 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Swallow, Steve, Girls & Boys, A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyBrenda Fricker, Cillian Murphy, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 19th, 2025Sun Sept 21 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who has Anthony Hopkins not played?Plus: How many best actress Oscar nominations have Irish nationals accrued in total?Fri Sept 19 2025 - 04:59
The Swallow review: Brenda Fricker holds the screen as few others couldThis is still recognisably the Tadhg O’Sullivan adventurous filmgoers encountered in To the MoonThu Sept 18 2025 - 05:10
Steve review: Cillian Murphy’s performance feels well-worked but unsatisfactoryFilm’s attention is so divided we get little chance to connect with charactersWed Sept 17 2025 - 05:12
The night Robert Redford met Dickie Rock, and other moments from a Hollywood giant’s lifeRedford, the actor, Oscar-winning director and godfather of the indie movement, died as one of the true supernovaeTue Sept 16 2025 - 16:40
The outrage over Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is boiling over. She must be delightedA marketing masterclass has managed to rectify a problem with the Saltburn releaseSun Sept 14 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Spinal Tap II – The End Continues, Downton Abbey – The Grand Finale, The Long Walk, and From Ground ZeroChristopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 12th, 2025Sun Sept 14 2025 - 05:01
Slow Horses returns: ‘Readers know by now I’m capable of killing off whoever is in danger,’ says creator Mick HerronMick Herron knows every character he jettisons spells the end for an actor too. That’s life, he says, as the Apple TV+ series returns and a new Slough House novel arrivesSat Sept 13 2025 - 05:13
In Chop, at Dublin Fringe, Cian Kinsella stages a nervous breakdown in the most anarchic way possibleDublin Fringe Festival 2025: What audience would dare not to be a little amused by the Lord of Strut?Fri Sept 12 2025 - 09:24
The Movie Quiz: Who has not been played by Tom Hanks?Plus: Who is about to follow in the footsteps of Christopher Lee, Peter Boyle and Robert De Niro?Fri Sept 12 2025 - 04:59
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - A reunion with gags, geriatric rock and an oily manager called SimonRob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer return four decades after This Is Spinal TapThu Sept 11 2025 - 02:15
The Long Walk review: This is the best Stephen King film in yearsCompeting cast bust every tendon in creating gripping ambulatory drama that is more relevant than everWed Sept 10 2025 - 05:10
Can becoming a ‘Karen’ be liberating, I Want to Speak to Your Manager asks, at Dublin FringeDublin Fringe Festival 2025: Sparky and engaging, Holly Hughes attempts to tie a complex knotMon Sept 08 2025 - 13:02
I dare you to walk through Dublin city centre of an evening. You won’t believe what you seeIrish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emergeSun Sept 07 2025 - 05:09
Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025Sun Sept 07 2025 - 05:01
Cate Blanchett film set in Dublin wins top prize at Venice film festivalFather Mother Sister Brother, with Cate Blanchett and Charlotte Rampling, takes one of cinema’s most prestigious awardsSat Sept 06 2025 - 21:31
I’ve just seen Saipan, The Movie. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end wellRoy Keane’s clash with Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup is living history in Ireland. Audiences elsewhere might not know what to make of their square-offFri Sept 05 2025 - 06:00
Highest 2 Lowest review: Spike Lee’s film about an old-school music mogul is never boring but lacks cohesionGetting on board with the later stages of this film requires an almighty leap of faithFri Sept 05 2025 - 05:08
The Movie Quiz: On which streaming service will you see the next Bond film?Plus: Who has not been the title character in a Stephen King adaptation? Fri Sept 05 2025 - 04:59
The Cut review: A boxing film with more vomiting, weeing and, umm, self-pleasuring than actual fightingThis weight-loss picture, simultaneously weird and hackneyed, stars Orlando Bloom as an ageing sluggerThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:09
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movieJay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherentThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:03
First Look: Amanda Seyfried is electrifying in Mona Fastvold’s masterly Testament of Ann LeeThe feature has premiered at Venice International Film Festival without a distributor. That deserves to be rectifiedTue Sept 02 2025 - 15:25
The Movie Quiz: Which Irishman has not won an acting prize at Venice?Test your knowledge on all thing Venice International Film Festival with these 10 questionsMon Sept 01 2025 - 09:44
