Mark Strong as Conor Cruise O’Brien: another screen-Irish accentFake Irish accents can be atrocious, like Tom Cruise’s, or brilliant, like Kate Hudson’s. But why not just give Irish actors the roles?Sat Sept 24 2016 - 07:00
Dare to Be Wild review: Horticultural ho-humThis aggressively ‘heart-warming’ Irish film wants to be ‘Calendar Girls’ in the gardenThu Sept 22 2016 - 17:31
The Magnificent Seven review: Denzel steals the show in unremarkable remakeThis time a more racially diverse seven ride out, and the film does hint at contemporary political concerns, but in the end, it all adds up to not muchThu Sept 22 2016 - 16:00
Dublin Fringe reviews: Gays Against the Free State! BlackCatfishMusketeer, Traitor and TrystThe anarchic clatter of agit-prop has many things to say about the position of LGBT people in Irish society...Thu Sept 22 2016 - 12:30
Mel Gibson and Sean Penn to star in film shot in DublinEight-week shoot in capital for film about dictionary editor and eccentric contributorWed Sept 21 2016 - 01:00
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will be busy splitting $400m fortuneJolie has reportedly requested custody of their six childrenTue Sept 20 2016 - 21:52
Siege of Jadotville review: suave, brave acting by Jamie DornanJamie Dornan is in hero mode, while Mark Strong plays Conor Cruise O'Brien in Richie Smyth's gripping war film set in 1961 CongoMon Sept 19 2016 - 17:36
Dublin Fringe reviews: RIOT is the festival's most exhilarating spectacleRIOT - Can a great night out also count as a political act?Mon Sept 19 2016 - 16:05
The Siege of Jadotville: How Ireland almost had its own AlamoNew film tells the story of an Irish batallion that defended a Congo town from rebel attacks in 1961Mon Sept 19 2016 - 14:01
The British ‘Bake Off’ is off. That’s not great‘The Great British Bake Off’ is a terrible idea for a series. But it’s already an institution. Now it’s off to Channel 4 is the cream set to curdle?Sat Sept 17 2016 - 07:00
Adam Wingard, the man who brought the Blair Witch back from the deadAt 16, Adam Wingard watched The Blair Witch Project six times when it came out. Now, at 33, he is the ideal person to steer the sequelFri Sept 16 2016 - 06:24
Dublin Fringe reviews: ‘Save yourself. Leave Troy. Found Rome’The festival continues with an ebullient take on an epic and unsettling dance theatreFri Sept 16 2016 - 00:00
The Young Offenders review: hugely funny, genuinely sweet Irish comedyChris Walley and Alex Murphy create a magnificent comic partnership as two idiots on the hunt for a missing suitcase of cocaine in Peter Foott’s charming debutThu Sept 15 2016 - 17:25
Dublin Fringe reviews: “A brilliant show I never want to suffer through again”The latest Dublin Fringe festival reviews, featuring Release the Baboons, The Humours of Bandon and To Hell in a HandbagThu Sept 15 2016 - 12:00
New IFI Player: Never seen Bob Geldof’s ‘phone wreckers’ ad? Now you canThe Irish Film Institute has just made 1,200 minutes of Irish cinema, documentary and public information films available onlineWed Sept 14 2016 - 12:30
Dublin Fringe reviews: Penny Arcade leaves us longing for more'Hope Hunt'/'Wrongheaded' double bill dissects effects of patriarchy as 'Megalomaniac' shows vaulting ambitionTue Sept 13 2016 - 14:00
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week review - fresh insights, five decades onRon Howard delivers a straight-up rockumentary that finds new dimensions to the well-told story of the Fab FourTue Sept 13 2016 - 12:39
Bridget Jones's Baby review: still bonking after all these yearsAfter a decade in the emotional wilderness, everyone's favourite neurotic singleton is backMon Sept 12 2016 - 17:27
‘The Siege of Jadotville’ to receive limited cinema releaseRichie Smyth’s film depicts the Irish soldiers who fought in UN’s 1961 Congo interventionMon Sept 12 2016 - 15:42
Who hasn’t looked back on college and wished they’d had less sex?Starting college? Then don’t drink too much and don’t touch prohibited drugs. ReallySat Sept 10 2016 - 07:00
Jamie Dornan: Out of Shades’ shadowThe Irish actor has taken ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, his bonkbuster breakthrough, in his stride. The fundamentals of your life don’t change, he saysSat Sept 10 2016 - 05:30
The Blue Room review: a short but intense burst of atmosphereThe pounding paranoia is well maintained in actor /director Mathieu Amalric fourth feature, but the film feels more like a sketch than the full pictureFri Sept 09 2016 - 11:35
A rape – and race – scandal in HollywoodNate Parker’s film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ was a hot tip for a 2017 Oscar until the story of his trial – and acquittal – on rape charges while he was at Penn State resurfacedFri Sept 09 2016 - 08:00
Don’t Breathe review: See no evil? They wishA blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its headThu Sept 08 2016 - 16:59
The Man Who Fell to Earth review: Bowie and Roeg at the height of their powersIn Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi singularity, David Bowie is perfectly cast as a distant alien, unable to properly connect, who sinks into a moneyed, paranoid abyssThu Sept 08 2016 - 16:05
Hell or High Water review: Chris Pine ups the neo-western anteDavid Mackenzie evokes the spirit of Peckinpah in a thriller about hard men from the old schoolThu Sept 08 2016 - 14:07
Hello! Is it me you’re looking for?Dan Bacon has advice if you want to chat up a woman who’s wearing headphones – but nothing on what to do if she kicks you in your tiny, useless testicles in responseSat Sept 03 2016 - 07:00
No golden ticket to movie successThough well-liked, Steven Spielberg’s ‘The BFG’ struggled at the box office – just the latest in the chequered history of Roald Dahl film adaptationsSat Sept 03 2016 - 04:00
Things to come/L’Avenir review: a rich, beautiful, oblique dramaNobody is better than Huppert at directing disdainful humour towards deserving targetsThu Sept 01 2016 - 21:00
A Date for Mad Mary review: the wedding zinger you’ve been waiting forSeána Kerslake brings more to the top table than a cute speech in Darren Thornton’s triumphant first featureThu Sept 01 2016 - 16:30
Café Society review: Woody Allen in old HollywoodWoody’s nostalgia-bathed romdram is set in Tinseltown before all the nasty tinselThu Sept 01 2016 - 16:30
Equity review: lame financial thriller offers low-yield returnsWall Street not given a run for its money in this is uneven and woefully cliched filmThu Sept 01 2016 - 14:50
Morgan review: letting the gene genie out of the bottleLuke Scott, son of Ridley, has assembled a stellar cast for his taut sci-fi directorial debut about the perils of genetically engineered humansThu Sept 01 2016 - 11:17
Isabelle Huppert: the best in the business?In Things to Come, she again presses her case for being the best actress aliveThu Sept 01 2016 - 06:00
Hollywood comic actor Gene Wilder dies aged 83Solid political liberal who worked hard for charities dies after Alzheimer’s complicationTue Aug 30 2016 - 08:59
I hate emojis and Instagram breakfasts but not millennialsTake a position, old bores. How do you feel about people between 18 and 35?Sat Aug 27 2016 - 07:00
Kristen Stewart: ‘I have thoughtlessly traversed my creative desires'After getting ‘exceedingly famous at 17’, Kristen Stewart had her work cut out clawing back her life from the Twilight seriesFri Aug 26 2016 - 06:00
The Purge, Election Year review: Brutal satire takes on US electoral processIn this US presidential election, a megalomaniac battles his female opponent with violence in the airThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:21
Julieta review: Brilliant tension in everyday emotionsPedro Almodóvar’s interpretation of three Alice Munro stories is almost a masterpieceThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:21
Popstar: Spinal Tap stylings are a cover too farCopyright infringement lawyers might have a field day at this diverting pop music spoofThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:20
Save us from pop-culture politiciansGive me Jeremy Corbyn, who can’t tell Ant from Dec, over air-guitaring Enda Kenny or rock-star-greeting Tony BlairSat Aug 20 2016 - 07:00
Ricky Gervais: My offensive jokes are misunderstoodCaitlyn Jenner, David Brent and why life is only getting worseSat Aug 20 2016 - 05:30
Lights Out review: move over Chucky, there’s a new kid on the blockDavid Sandberg's box-office hit delivers the scares with style and economyThu Aug 18 2016 - 15:26
Swallows and Amazons review: Oh golly-gosh! We’re in the wrong centuryArthur Ransome was an interesting guy and a good writer. But nobody still capable of walking upright will be interested in these creaky adventures. Right?Thu Aug 18 2016 - 12:00
Viva review: Life lessons for a Havana drag queenLess boy-meets-boy than boy-meets-himself, Paddy Breathnach’s drama - the first Irish film to be shortlisted for best foreign-language Oscar - is a triumphThu Aug 18 2016 - 10:39
Childhood of a Leader review: a stunning high-art debutBrady Corbet’s ambitious directorial debut features great performances, arresting visuals and a fantastic score by Scott WalkerThu Aug 18 2016 - 07:37
The business of belief: an intriguing vision of Knock shrine‘Whether you believe in the apparition or not, the story itself is fascinating,’ says film-maker Aoife Kelleher, who has a keen eye for local stories that resonateThu Aug 18 2016 - 06:00
Behemoth review: a chilling study of China’s current environmental malaiseDespite some unnecessary poetic flourishes, Zhao Liang film is a striking study of a country caught between tradidion and industrial modernityWed Aug 17 2016 - 17:28
Cupping: it’s as silly as homeopathyWhen Michael Phelps, Jennifer Aniston and Victoria Beckham took up the practice our intellectual centre of gravity shifted a few clicks back towards the Stone AgeSat Aug 13 2016 - 07:00
Wiener-Dog review: Joyful and grim in equal measureMaster of misanthropy Todd Solondz is in typical ruthless form in his latest tale about a dachshund and its oddball ownersThu Aug 11 2016 - 22:31
