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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Movie Quiz: Pick out an official sequel to John Carpenter’s HalloweenPlus: Add up all the Batman films with ‘Batman’ in the title since the 1989 smashFri Oct 15 2021 - 06:00
Arracht: A powerful Irish film claims its place in a great traditionReview: Its delayed release cannot dull the power of Tom Sullivan’s excellent Famine dramaThu Oct 14 2021 - 05:00
The Last Duel: Yes, it brought Matt Damon to Dublin, but there’s far more to it than thatReview: Ridley Scott’s historical epic gives a man and a woman’s differing accounts of a rapeWed Oct 13 2021 - 09:00
Directing Halloween Kills: ‘It’s not just a fan-service type of movie’David Gordon Green on taking up the blood-soaked baton of the slasher film franchiseWed Oct 13 2021 - 05:00
Belfast review: Already an Oscars favourite, Kenneth Branagh’s film is irresistibleThe gorgeous movie features Jamie Dornan, Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench and Ciarán HindsTue Oct 12 2021 - 12:00
Ireland has the weather, the landscape and the spotty extras that medieval movies needDonald Clarke: The country easily delivers the desired sense of mildewed desolationSun Oct 10 2021 - 08:44
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSweetheart, Deadly Cuts, My Little Sister, The Addams Family 2Sun Oct 10 2021 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which 1980s hit hangs around a product from suburban Belfast?Plus: If Beatrice Straight’s performance is the shortest, whose is the longest?Fri Oct 08 2021 - 06:00
Sweetheart: Teenage confusion in the last resortFilm review: Impressive debut breathes new life into a tired genreFri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00
Deadly Cuts: A blast from Irish cinema’s pastFilm review: Don’t expect subtlety from this broad Dublin comedyFri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00
James Cameron: ‘I didn’t understand what impossible meant’The physics student turned blockbuster director is releasing four Avatar sequelsThu Oct 07 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekNo Time to Die, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Anne at 13,000 Ft, GagarineSun Oct 03 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Thanksgiving? Thanks but no thanksCan we please not give the public another opportunity to ape American traditions?Sat Oct 02 2021 - 05:00
Root: Undeniable good will prevails over occasional awkwardnessDublin Theatre Festival: Four talented actors provide good company throughoutFri Oct 01 2021 - 14:30
The Movie Quiz: How many James Bond films have ‘die’ or ‘dies’ in the title?With No Time to Die out, a martini-fuelled headscratcher devoted to all things 007Fri Oct 01 2021 - 06:00
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – A remarkable documentaryFilm review: It may not be innovative, but this biography is still extraordinaryFri Oct 01 2021 - 05:00
It’s no time to die for Daniel Craig the actor. How to have a post-Bond careerThere has long been a myth that the role of James Bond swallows careers wholeThu Sept 30 2021 - 06:00
No Time to Die film review: The opening sequence is the best thing about itThe new Bond film starts brilliantly, goes off the boil, then rallies in a stirring finaleWed Sept 29 2021 - 01:01
Four new movies to see this weekThe Many Saints of Newark, The Alpinist, The Green Knight and The StarlingSun Sept 26 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Forget movie stars, it’s all about the IP now‘We are about to visit the most marvellous places,’ says Netflix after Roald Dahl aquisition – yeah, rightSat Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
James Bond: Can 007 and No Time to Die save cinema?Latest Bond film No Time to Die arrives in the hope rescuing the entire mediumSat Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which is the one Fast & Furious smash-up without Vin Diesel?Plus: Who might belong with Fay Weldon, Walter Tevis, Roald Dahl and Lucy Irvine?Fri Sept 24 2021 - 06:00
The Starling: Please avoid this sentimental claptrapReview: If you like grief porn and self-help gibberish, this one’s for youFri Sept 24 2021 - 05:00
The Alpinist: Don’t look downDizzying climbing documentary best viewed on the largest possible screenFri Sept 24 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRose Plays Julie and The Story of Looking in cinemas, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie and The Mad Women’s Ball streamingSun Sept 19 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: How do we know autumn is here? The Great British Bake Off is backAnna Beattie pitched for four years before the BBC took a punt in 2009Sat Sept 18 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which hit film was the name of a classic Seinfeld episode?Plus: Which pair shares the record for most best acting Oscar noms without a win?Fri Sept 17 2021 - 06:00
Rose Plays Julie: Highbrow quasi-thriller frustrates and rewardsA more fibrous, chewier piece of work than Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s previousFri Sept 17 2021 - 05:00
The Story of Looking: Mark Cousins takes us on an eye-opening journeyIdiosyncratic documentary explores the meaning of sight and imageryFri Sept 17 2021 - 05:00
