Kneecap review: Ingenious blend of self-mythology and self-deprecation really does recall A Hard Day’s NightFictionalised biopic of the Belfast rap trio adroitly manages to balance provocation and reconciliation, with all three proving flexible, charismatic actorsWed Aug 07 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+From Arrival to The Zone of Interest, our picks also take in everything from Halloween and Lost in Translation to Lawrence of Arabia and PinocchioMon Aug 05 2024 - 06:00
‘I didn’t know anything about noir’: director Wei Shujun on Only the River Flows, his highly regarded thrillerChinese director Wei Shujun was surprised to hear that his critical hit at last year’s Cannes film festival was being viewed as an American-style murder mysteryMon Aug 05 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBeautifully animated and told adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, plus excellent indie dramas Janet Planet and Shayda, and blandly unimaginative Harold and the Purple CrayonSun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
‘Weird’ is the new word of the US presidential campaign. Here’s why it’s ruffling feathersRepublicans pride themselves on sticking to the American normal. That’s why the Democrats’ strategy is hitting them exactly where it hurtsSun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
Kneecap movie is Irish submission for best international film at OscarsFictionalised biopic of Belfast rap trio Kneecap hopes to follow An Cailín Ciúin to Academy AwardsFri Aug 02 2024 - 08:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan biopic?Plus: What is Timothée Chalamet’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic called?Fri Aug 02 2024 - 05:00
Janet Planet: Annie Baker’s captivating feature debut is a fine-grained study of an admirable parent and her singular daughterJulianne Nicholson confirms her rising status with a turn that hints at unseen torments, but the film belongs to young Zoe ZieglerThu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Harold and the Purple Crayon: Staple of US children’s fiction gets a nondescript, inoffensive big-screen translationThis generic entertainment struggles to find a reason to exist beyond the need for more ‘content’Wed Jul 31 2024 - 14:00
Saipan: Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan to star as Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in film about infamous falling outControversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World CupMon Jul 29 2024 - 14:31
Harold and the Purple Crayon: ‘I always question: why purple? But that became the colour and then I embraced it’Harold and the Purple Crayon, a longtime children’s favourite in the US and by a writer with a radical edge, has finally been adapted for screen by Carlos SaldanhaMon Jul 29 2024 - 05:00
Book culture thrives. Just not where you used to find itBooks are a cult phenomenon as they have never been before, it started with Harry Potter and continues with BookTokSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekDeadpool & Wolverine, I Saw the TV Glow, About Dry Grasses, Notes from SheeplandSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Deadpool & Wolverine is the first MCU flick to receive what in the US?Plus: Who played the grandmother of a candidate for vice-president of the United States?Fri Jul 26 2024 - 05:00
Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla BarryDespite the intellectual heft, this is a film that knows when to cut towards playful diversionThu Jul 25 2024 - 05:00
Deadpool & Wolverine review: One star for this awful, awful pile of puerile, snarky parodyThe first R-rated MCU movie is in fact the most relentlessly juvenile entry in a sequence rarely confused with Bergman’s Faith trilogyTue Jul 23 2024 - 23:00
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-upTodd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competitionTue Jul 23 2024 - 18:38
Four new films to see this weekSleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary SkywalkersSun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
I am partly responsible for JD Vance’s rise to be Donald Trump’s running mate. SorryWhen I reviewed Hillbilly Elegy, the film based on JD Vance’s memoir, I didn’t anticipate its potential to become one of the few movies to change historySun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
Emma Corrin: ‘I’m striving to find a sense of challenge. There is real excitement in delving into unknown waters’The Crown star has a blast in Deadpool & Wolverine. It’s quite a change from roller-skating about the palace as Princess DianaSat Jul 20 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many Alien movies are there? Plus: What was the first film made by a streamer to get a Best Picture nomination?Fri Jul 19 2024 - 08:26
Dancing at Lughnasa review: Gate’s triumphant, breathtakingly beautiful revival deserves groaning housesTheatre: Caroline Byrne’s production, featuring Zara Devlin, Peter Gowen and Ruth McGill, makes both dream and reverie of Brian Friel’s indestructible playThu Jul 18 2024 - 08:37
Skywalkers: A Love Story – Steel yourself for the queasy highs of this rooftopping documentaryRussian daredevils Vanya Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, romantic and professional partners, travel to Paris and Bangkok as they plot ‘one last job’Thu Jul 18 2024 - 05:00
Twisters review: This big fat summer movie isn’t half bad. Yeehaw!Sequel feels perfectly serviceable in era of lore-addicted trash such as Ghostbusters: Frozen EmpireWed Jul 17 2024 - 17:00
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedyGalway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco HoganWed Jul 17 2024 - 08:54
Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap scoops three main prizesBelfast hip-hop posse’s rambunctious farce is first film in event’s history to take audience award, best Irish-language feature and best Irish filmMon Jul 15 2024 - 10:05
Mark O’Rowe: ‘The plays were violent and sexual. But I can’t go back there. Everything has to be new to me’ Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Tallaght playwright on new play Reunion, his changing preoccupations, and the stress of TV workSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:15
There’s a reason why we’ve become blasé about Paul Mescal’s lead role in Gladiator IIAs the 25th year of the century approaches, never before has there been a period of comparable international visibility of Irish cultureSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekEerie serial killer thriller Longlegs, plus Auschwitz documentary The Commandant’s Shadow, spooky Korean drama Sleep, and low star wattage in romcom Fly Me to the MoonSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:00
Oz Perkins: ‘It’s still not safe to be gay and a movie star’Film director talks about his Psycho star father’s concealed homosexuality, his mother’s 9/11 death, glam rock, Nicolas Cage and his new horror film LonglegsSat Jul 13 2024 - 05:15
Sleep review: A Korean Rosemary’s Baby? Not quite but this is a small masterpiece of toneIs there something supernatural behind ominous unidentified noises in an apartment building?Fri Jul 12 2024 - 05:20
The Movie Quiz: What is the relationship between Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Cage?Plus: Who doesn’t make it to the end of Jaws?Fri Jul 12 2024 - 05:00
Film classification moves with the times as we’re cool with sex, careful with mental healthIt is hard to deny that Ireland’s unhappy addiction to pinch-mouthed censorship is largely a thing of the pastFri Jul 12 2024 - 05:00
Shelley Duvall: A beloved avatar for creative individuality who defined 1970s New HollywoodActor, dead at 75, endured an entertainment media that still enjoyed making blood sport of supposedly unconventional womenThu Jul 11 2024 - 20:02
Longlegs review: Nicolas Cage’s bloated serial killer has fun in horror hokum elevated to a fine art Nicolas Cage is the eponymous killer in this 1990s-set chiller with echoes of Silence of the LambsThu Jul 11 2024 - 13:00
Gladiator II trailer: Paul Mescal muscles his way in with biff, bang and ouchIrish actor Paul Mescal is all muscle amid the sieges, riots and killer rhinos as he channels Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s epic sequelTue Jul 09 2024 - 19:18
Four new films to see this weekGripping Irish drama The Sparrow, plus 1980s retread Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, 1980s-set slasher MaXXXine, and strange Japanese anime Blue Lock the Movie: Episode NagiSun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
Axel F is a ‘legacy sequel’, apparently. Is this mangling of language to be our legacy?Movie insiders use the term neutrally, but surely few outside the business can say the words with a straight face?Sun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is Donald Trump’s big line in Home Alone 2?Plus: Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins was only nominated for which two Oscars?Fri Jul 05 2024 - 05:00
Blue Lock The Movie: Episode Nagi review – Football reimagined as a heightened form of futuristic warfareStrange deconstruction of beautiful game believes ego is the defining characteristic of a special striker. You don’t get that in Escape to VictoryThu Jul 04 2024 - 05:00
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s comic gifts still in place but this looks to have staggered in from another centuryMurphy reminds us what caused so many heads to laugh themselves off shoulders during his pompWed Jul 03 2024 - 00:01
Cork actor Éanna Hardwicke: ‘There is a shift. Young men are more open’In his new film, The Sparrow, the Bafta nominee plays a character constricted by old-fashioned masculinity. His own generation is less confined, he saysSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekA Quiet Place: Day One, A Greyhound of a Girl, Kinds of Kindness, Eternal YouSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:00
Sean Penn and the gay roles debate: We are still negotiating a huge shift in identity politicsAcknowledging once-ignored sensitivities is progress but nuance is preferable to black-and-white binariesSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who appeared in all three of the Godfathers?Plus: Add Amigos to Samurai and divide by Da Bloods. What do you get?Fri Jun 28 2024 - 05:00
A Quiet Place: Day One – Gnarly prequel is even more sombre than its predecessorsThis film stands out most for its commitment to fleshy humanity, and a memorable sci-fi felineThu Jun 27 2024 - 14:00
Kinds of Kindness review: A pounding headache might be the only reward for your patienceYorgos Lanthimos’s new triptych film features the talented Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and others, but it dissolves into a mess of half-decent ideasWed Jun 26 2024 - 05:00
Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap, Succession star Brian Cox and Mary Robinson documentary top billThe Fleadh forms the summer fulcrum around which the domestic cinematic year swivelsTue Jun 25 2024 - 18:00
Amnesiac: A Memoir by Neil Jordan - zippy, valuable and suitably odd Meandering recollections and thoughts from the film-maker who, along with Jim Sheridan, became a John the Baptist for the cultural revolution that was to overtake Ireland from the mid-1990sMon Jun 24 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Bikeriders, The Exorcism, Green Border, Something in the WaterSun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
