The Movie Quiz: Identify the Grammy-nominated movie starPlus: Peter Parker’s alter-ego, best picture biopics, Harry Potter titles, Pixar’s speciesFri Dec 04 2020 - 06:00
A Girl from Mogadishu: Ifrah Ahmed is very impressive. This film about her life is notReview: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallidFri Dec 04 2020 - 05:00
Wolfwalkers: Cartoon Saloon has made its best film yetReview: A family entertainment set among the Cromwellian atrocities? Sounds riskyThu Dec 03 2020 - 05:00
Viggo Mortensen: It ‘felt awkward’ replacing Stuart Townsend in Lord of the RingsBut the film made a star of the Danish American actor. Now he’s a director tooSat Nov 28 2020 - 05:00
Is the book always better than the film? Spoiler: it’s notThe French Connection won best picture but the non-fiction novel is largely forgottenSat Nov 28 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How much does John Travolta and Uma Thurman’s Pulp Fiction milkshake cost?Plus: Withnail’s finest wine, Jack Nicholson’s iconic order, The Godfather's spaghetti recipeFri Nov 27 2020 - 06:10
Four new films to stream this weekendFinding Jack Charlton, Possessor, Black Beauty, Train to Busan 2: PeninsulaFri Nov 27 2020 - 06:00
Black Beauty: True-blue fans should approach with cautionReview: Kate Winslet voices the horse in Disney+ adaptationFri Nov 27 2020 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ listBut hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?Thu Nov 26 2020 - 14:30
Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in DublinHe was a fascist who walked out on the family. No wonder the star had father issuesThu Nov 26 2020 - 05:00
Modern Ireland is unimaginable without Jack CharltonFinding Jack Charlton lays bare his remarkable connection with the Irish psycheMon Nov 23 2020 - 06:30
Why are all these useless films now being declared classics?I cannot pretend that Hocus Pocus is any more deserving of affection now than it was in 1993Sat Nov 21 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Wild Mountain Thyme is based on what Irish play?Plus: Colin Farrell credits, soundtracking The Graduate, Who Killed Bambi’s bandFri Nov 20 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendDolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, Hillbilly Elegy, Patrick, CollectiveFri Nov 20 2020 - 06:00
Patrick: Excellent absurdist comedy set in a nudist colonyReview: This is an absolute original that should launch a starry careerFri Nov 20 2020 - 05:30
Hillbilly Elegy: The Black and White Minstrel Show was subtler in its stereotypingReview: One’s brain aches pondering why anyone thought this would be a good ideaThu Nov 19 2020 - 07:49
Cork Film Festival: Castro’s Spies and Border drama among the virtual highlightsThe 65th outing had Pixar’s Soul, great Irish premieres and a film about cycling cheatsMon Nov 16 2020 - 06:00
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challengeShe is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowelsSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new IrelandSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which Irish landmark appears in The Princess Bride?Plus: Which monster links Jack Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr and Benicio Del Toro?Fri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendThe Life Ahead, Martin Eden, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Two of UsFri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
The Life Ahead: It’s time to give Sofia Loren that Oscar nominationThe indomitable star’s stoic performance is the main reason to watch this Italian dramaFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey – Chaotic, exhausting and merryReview: A combination of high Disney gloop with Hamilton hip-hopFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat?Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising PaddywhackeryWed Nov 11 2020 - 06:00
Sean Connery often said it was okay to hit a woman. The obits barely mentioned itWe are never too far from a story about a celebrity with a history of domestic violenceSat Nov 07 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many official Bond films starred Sean Connery?Plus: What film won most Oscars this year, who give the Golden Globes, name a Cohen Bros sequelFri Nov 06 2020 - 06:00
Jonathan Coe: ‘All my influences were pushing me towards film and television’The novelist on his new book, being an unromantic outsider and Billy WilderThu Nov 05 2020 - 06:00
Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives onHe was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinitySat Oct 31 2020 - 15:17
US pop culture has struggled to come to terms with TrumpismThe angry pop culture of the Nixon years is better than that of the Trump eraSat Oct 31 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Maureen O’Hara was raised in which leafy Dublin suburb?Plus: playing Cleopatra, a Hitchcock no-show, Meryl and her many nominationsFri Oct 30 2020 - 06:00
There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist artSat Oct 24 2020 - 14:02
Four new films to stream this weekendOn the Rocks, Rebecca, Summer of 85, The Secret GardenFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?Plus: singing Oscarless, editing Martin Scorsese, a co-director goes uncreditedFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:00
On the Rocks: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones are perfect in Sofia Coppola’s latest filmExasperated, bewildered Jones is at least the equal of her older costar in this exquisite filmThu Oct 22 2020 - 05:00
Netflix’s Rebecca: The new Mrs de Winter isn’t a patch on the first oneReview: The film is so lathered in superficial gloss the subtexts struggle to breatheWed Oct 21 2020 - 05:00
Iftas 2020: ‘My daughter’s hitting the keys, sorry.’ Tom Vaughan-Lawlor accepts best actor awardCharming domestic moments made up for the lack of red-carpet pizzazz at the virtual eventSun Oct 18 2020 - 23:46
Walking sort of like an Egyptian may not be enough any moreThe news had barely landed before social media blew its collective topSat Oct 17 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendUnsettling Wicklow-shot The Other Lamb, Sundance winner Time, harrowing Body of Water, saccharine Disney biopic CloudsFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
Iftas 2020: Martin Scorsese, Daisy Ridley, Michael D Higgins to appear at virtual ceremonyThe Irish Film and Television Academy’s awards will be broadcast on Sunday nightFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first filmmaker to win three Oscars for a film?Plus: In what year is the new Wonder Woman film mostly set?Fri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
The Other Lamb: This is not a film designed to shake off late-Covid uneaseReview: Film is at the more austere end of the cult-movie spectrumFri Oct 16 2020 - 05:00
Body of Water: Powerful study of an eating disorderReview: Stark and unyielding throughout for those adventurous enough to dive inThu Oct 15 2020 - 05:00
Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanisticDublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuanceTue Oct 13 2020 - 05:00
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right nowThere’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you canSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic AmericanA limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravadoSat Oct 10 2020 - 05:00
The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packagesDublin Theatre Festival review: Summoning the despair of an urban space in the time of CovidFri Oct 09 2020 - 13:00
Four new films to see this weekendKajillionaire in cinemas, David Attenborough, 40-Year-Old Version, My Zoe at homeFri Oct 09 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: What is Sean Connery’s last feature role?Plus: SNL spin-offs, Marvel alter egos, the American Pie crew, Carry On castingFri Oct 09 2020 - 06:00
Kajillionaire: Miranda July’s best film to dateReview: The film is more aware of its own oddness than the director’s first two featuresThu Oct 08 2020 - 08:17
David Attenborough: ‘To continue, humans require more than intelligence. We require wisdom’Review: This ‘witness statement’ for Netflix is filled with truths worth hammering homeThu Oct 08 2020 - 05:00
