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
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
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
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
Our planeload of furious citizens sniffed and tutted as the music blared. We’re on a highway to hellWe used to complain about people talking too loudly on their mobile phones. Now loudcasting has crossed the generationsSun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos LanthimosIf you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of KindnessSat Jun 22 2024 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: If Titanic is the highest grossing winner of the Best Picture Oscar, what comes second?Plus: An adaptation of which John McGahern novel just won best film at the Iftas?Fri Jun 21 2024 - 05:00
Donald Sutherland was a fearless actor who brought frightening energy to many rolesThe actor, who was born in Canada, never received an Oscar nomination despite starring in groundbreaking filmsThu Jun 20 2024 - 21:00
Something in the Water review: A mercifully short attempt at Bridget Jones with sharksHuge sections are taken up with the characters gossiping in viscera-thick water as they might while queuing for the bathroom at the pubThu Jun 20 2024 - 05:00
The Sugar Wife review: Siobhán Cullen and Chris Walley star in elegant revival of drama loaded with moral quandariesAnnabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitorsWed Jun 19 2024 - 09:07
The Bikeriders review: Jodie Comer ensures you pay attention to this violent, sometimes tragic biker-gang sagaThis flawed, fascinating film, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, resists the hollow allure of cheap tribalismWed Jun 19 2024 - 05:00
The last of the Dunnes: ‘Someone in a bar said, You are like the Kennedys. That really offended me’Actor Griffin Dunne on his Irish-American family, including his father Dominick Dunne and sister Dominique, who was murdered as a young womanMon Jun 17 2024 - 05:00
In film, depictions of death by robot are everywhere. The perils of midlife redundancy by AI, not so muchIt’s too dull for Hollywood to portray, but we can already identify with being put out of a job by a characterless sliver of softwareSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe onset of puberty sends Riley around the bend in excellent sequel Inside Out 2, plus offbeat Bigfoot dramedy Sasquatch Sunset, Ama Gloria from France and Hounds from MoroccoSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Those Bad Boys are back again. But back where? Plus: Those Bad Boys are back again. But back where?Fri Jun 14 2024 - 05:00
Hounds review: Ingenious thriller with a streak of anthracite-black humourA father and son must dispose of a corpse before morning in lean thriller set in contemporary CasablancaThu Jun 13 2024 - 05:00
Inside Out 2 review: Will Pixar’s new movie trigger a diplomatic incident? Either way, it deserves to be seenAdèle Exarchopoulos as the dark, heavily fringed, polo-necked embodiment of Ennui is borderline geniusWed Jun 12 2024 - 20:00
Sade Malone: ‘We had lots of conversations about the characters’ black Irishness. That’s something really relevant now, to be black and Irish’The unstoppable young actor on her flourishing career, leading John B Keane’s Sive and being cast in Twig, a new film set in a dystopian, gang-run DublinSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekProto-feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, plus witty true-life Hit Man, period French drama Rosalie, and another big-boom Bad Boys sequelSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
Hollywood is at death’s door again. Twitchy movie-industry analysts have found a fall guy Less than a year since Barbenheimer, The Fall Guy and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga have been box-office dudsSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which film has made the most money so far in 2024?Plus: Where do the fadas go in the title of the all-conquering Irish film An Cailin Ciuin?Fri Jun 07 2024 - 05:00
Rosalie review: attractive period drama about ‘the original bearded lady’Clémentine Delait strives to shake off rural prejudice in early-19th-century FranceThu Jun 06 2024 - 05:00
