Pete’s Dragon review: Disney has added another classic to its canonClever, heartwarming, sincere and pumped full of comforting weirdness, this is the most welcome surprise of the cinematic year so farThu Aug 11 2016 - 17:51
Nerve review: truth or dare techno-thrills for the smartphone generationEmma Roberts and Dave Franco spiral downwards into ther mobile screens in a movie that just about keeps its fingernails lodged in the speeding zeitgeistThu Aug 11 2016 - 15:01
Valley of Love review: The flesh is willing but the spirit weakGerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert are brilliant, but can’t save a movie intent on serving up hokumThu Aug 11 2016 - 14:07
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates review: almost there, but not quiteAnna Kendrick and Zac Efron leave no cliché unexplored in a futile search for laughsThu Aug 11 2016 - 11:02
Donald Clarke: Has Donald Trump changed US politics forever?His rudeness, dishonesty and inconsistency would have ended other politicians’ careersSat Aug 06 2016 - 07:00
Todd Solondz: A rare breed of film-maker and his Weiner DogSolondz is back with another grimly original funny drama. ‘Lassie Come Home’ it’s notFri Aug 05 2016 - 06:00
Bobby Sands: 66 Days review: A gripping tale of terrible timesStructured around Sands’s decline, 66 Days powers us through a socio-political maelstromThu Aug 04 2016 - 17:00
Suicide Squad review: Dark, derivative and desperateEven Margot Robbie’s charming psychopath cannot rescue this poor team effort from the DC universeTue Aug 02 2016 - 20:21
Donald Clarke: Free us from myth of US Irish slaveryEvery time news arises concerning the antebellum African-American experience, the same halfwits emerge to argue the Irish had it a great deal worseSat Jul 30 2016 - 07:00
2016: The 50 best films on NetflixWhile some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’Fri Jul 29 2016 - 12:30
Jason Bourne review: the best marquee movie of the summer so farThe plot is as ridiculous as ever, but returning champions Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass deliver a mini-masterpiece of organised chaosFri Jul 29 2016 - 09:18
‘Here is the next phase in the Bobby Sands story’Brendan J Byrne’s documentary ‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’ attempts to balance republican voices with nuanced historical analysis 35 years after the hunger strikesThu Jul 28 2016 - 16:30
Reissue of the Week: Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon - terribly beautiful, relentlessly authenticDescribed by many critics as “glacial”, Barry Lyndon is among Kubrick’s more emotionally engaged filmsWed Jul 27 2016 - 15:48
Author: The JT LeRoy Story review: when fiction is preferred to the truthLaura Albert once again is the unreliable narrator in this extraordinary documentary about the unmasking of a literary sensationWed Jul 27 2016 - 08:00
Twitter is playing directly into hands of Milo YiannopoulosTwitter’s former top creeperati makes it clear he’s not for gaggingFri Jul 22 2016 - 18:50
Mark Rylance, star of The BFG: 'I get sensual pleasure from work'Interviews of the Year: Mark Rylance reckons the Oscars are ‘like a horse fair’, he uses the I Ching to make life decisions and he’s always dreamt of a united IrelandFri Jul 22 2016 - 06:11
The BFG review: Spielberg stands on the shoulders of Roald DahlThere is much to love in Spielberg’s well-crafted adaptation of Dahl's classic kids' book, but grown-ups expecting a guilty tear will be disappointedThu Jul 21 2016 - 15:58
Brooklyn director John Crowley to adapt ‘The Goldfinch’The adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was one of the most sought-after projects in HollywoodThu Jul 21 2016 - 12:34
Star Trek Beyond review: Boldly going through the motionsThe rebooted Enterprise gang are on a tricky peace mission in a fast-paced, utterly empty-headed slice of summer funWed Jul 20 2016 - 10:11
A lost New York rescued from the bunker of William BurroughsAaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous BurroughsTue Jul 19 2016 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Pokémon Go has been and goneNintendo’s new app is already due a revival, so let’s get nostalgic for last weekSat Jul 16 2016 - 01:00
The most manly men crumble when mother raises her voiceMom & Me review: Ken Wardrop sets himself out as the laureate of motherhood in this touching follow-up to his acclaimed His & HersThu Jul 14 2016 - 17:03
Ghostbusters review: the haters are silencedWith nods to the original (and fanboy outrage) this fun-filled reboot wastes none of the actors’ giftsMon Jul 11 2016 - 10:59
Mad Mary and Young Offenders take Galway Film Fleadh by stormThe two films are the pick of a crop that reveals the breadth of talent in Irish filmMon Jul 11 2016 - 10:41
Further evidence of Irish cinema’s ‘golden period’ seen in Galway‘Siege of Jadotville’, ‘A Date for Mad Mary’ and ‘Staid’ among Film Fleadh screeningsSun Jul 10 2016 - 14:00
Thank God Hiddleswift is here to distract us from the apocalypseThe image of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston entwined on a photogenic rock had all the earthy veracity of an Andre Rieu album coverSat Jul 09 2016 - 06:00
Maggie’s plan review: old-school New-York comedy with a hip twistWith a sly nod to Woody Allen, Rebecca Miller’s hipster-love-triangle tale is a treatThu Jul 07 2016 - 22:01
Rebecca Miller: an Irish home, a New York state of mindShe’s lived with husband Daniel Day-Lewis in Wicklow for the past two decades but filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s heart still belongs to the Big AppleThu Jul 07 2016 - 22:00
The Neon Demon review: Ban this slick filth!The message is simple, but Nicolas Winding Refn’s method offers many revolting delightsThu Jul 07 2016 - 16:00
Inside the David Bowie time capsuleA new film looks into the late star’s Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition that drew in 312,000 visitorsWed Jul 06 2016 - 15:57
Michael Cimino: the man who once ruled HollywoodThe director of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate was an unrepentant risk-takerSun Jul 03 2016 - 14:07
Heterosexual Pride Day: resentment at its most childishWhy do some people feel the need to celebrate being part of an overpowering majority?Sat Jul 02 2016 - 07:00
How will Brexit affect Irish film?‘Game of Thrones’ is safe, says HBO, but some question whether another ‘Brooklyn’ could get made once the UK leaves the European UnionSat Jul 02 2016 - 01:00
Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘He kept asking my wife to have sex with him”Nicolas Winding Refn’s feud with fellow Danish director Lars Von Trier shows no sign of letting up. “It is natural for youth to destroy the old”, he saysFri Jul 01 2016 - 06:00
Five star review: Queen of Earth is incandescently brilliantDirector Alex Ross Perry’s weaves in sly references to Polanski, but this is a psychological drama like no otherThu Jun 30 2016 - 11:29
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review - Wearing its years well, darlingThe plotting is lazy, but this big-screen reboot of the much-loved sitcom gets by thanks to its stars and to the endless goodwill cameosThu Jun 30 2016 - 10:42
Central Intelligence review: Hart and Johnson are far from dumb and dumberThe central pairing of tightly wound Kevin Hart and wide-open Dwyane Johnson raise this buddy-buddy spy comedy to happy heightsTue Jun 28 2016 - 17:12
Did you hear the one about the woman in the niqab?Forget what Mulder said in ‘The X Files’. If a story sounds too good to be true . . .Sat Jun 25 2016 - 07:00
Susan Sarandon: ‘Hollywood is more upset about people getting fat and old than about politics’Since being kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in 1993, for her politics, the Hollywood star has become one of the most influential activists in the USSat Jun 25 2016 - 05:45
The Meddler review: a funny and sincere slice of old-fashioned entertainmentSusan Sarandon is in top form as a recently widowed woman who can’t help meddling in her daughter’s lifeThu Jun 23 2016 - 17:00
Elvis & Nixon review: When the King met Tricky DickyThis curious film – based on an iconic photograph – could do with a little less exposition and a little more NixonThu Jun 23 2016 - 08:00
Remainder review: odd and interesting thriller with baffling levels of nuanceTom Sturridge gets hit in the head, loses his memory, receives millions in compensation – and then things get obtuseWed Jun 22 2016 - 16:30
Independence Day 2 review: A cynical love song to ChinaRoland Emmerich’s reliably cynical, psychotically CGI’d sequel to his own 20-year-old hit gives new meaning to the word ‘moronic’Wed Jun 22 2016 - 12:55
Jamie Dornan and ‘Siege of Jadotville’ on Galway Film Fleadh schedule28th festival, which begins on July 5th, to involve 90 films screened at three venuesWed Jun 22 2016 - 09:08
Why the Brexit poll is the dumbest mistake a UK PM has ever madeDespite the threat of mutiny from his own crew and the sight of Ukip pirates on the port side, nobody forced Capt Cameron to chart a course towards Referendum BaySat Jun 18 2016 - 07:00
Tale of Tales review: Old stories given an unsettlingly delicious horror twistDorector Matteo Garrone’s first English-language feature is a fabulous (in all senses of the word) and fantastic treatment of three gory Italian fairy talesThu Jun 16 2016 - 16:00
Cemetery of Splendour review: a film of subtlety, wit and quiet bloody-mindednessPalme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with an unconventional tale of a narcolepsy outbreak among Thai soldiersThu Jun 16 2016 - 13:00
The Conjuring 2 review: a hokum-filled retro horror full of atmosphereChairs fling themselves across rooms and nuns materialise in corridors in James Wan’s entertaining investigation of horrible happenings in 1970s LondonTue Jun 14 2016 - 13:15
Michael Moore on Orlando: ‘chickens coming home to roost’Speaking in Dublin, director says America has become a more violent societyMon Jun 13 2016 - 19:37
The real rules of air travel: Get out of the aisle, get out of my seat!Take a flight from any busy airport and watch fellow passengers turn into childrenSat Jun 11 2016 - 07:00
