Xena is gay: what next, marriage?A reboot of the fantasy series would no longer hide the Warrior Princess’s sexuality. It’s part of a social shift unthinkable a generation agoSat Mar 19 2016 - 07:00
High Rise review: infuriatingly disordered take on the classic JG Ballard textDirector Ben Wheatley knows how to unsettle, and the cast are immaculate, but it’s not enough to sustain this monolith of a filmFri Mar 18 2016 - 10:17
Zootropolis review: now here’s a plot you can really, ahem, sink your teeth intoWith a plot that unfurls with all the sinuousness of a PG-cert Chinatown, Disney’s latest box-office smash is one of their bestFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:57
Risen review: Biblical tale that drifts deep into Sunday School territoryKevin Reynolds’ tolerable Easter entertainment sees Joseph Fiennes’ Roman warrior tasked with finding the missing body of ChristFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:57
Michael Collins review: nowhere near as historically inaccurate as we once supposedTwenty years on, Neil Jordan’s drama looks like a clear attempt to sweeten history with the palatable goo of modern mythologyFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:56
Sing Street director John Carney: ‘I knew that era so well. I didn’t have to research it’From his early films to Bachelor’s Walk and Once, there have always been flashes of autobiography in John Carney’s work. His latest Sing Street, however, edges much closer to full-on memoirFri Mar 18 2016 - 06:22
Rock the Kasbah review: the pathetic last wheeze of the Baby Boomer brigadeHow could a movie directed by Barry Levinson and starring Bill Murray, Kate Hudson and Bruce Willis turn out to be so atrocious? It’s a fair questionThu Mar 17 2016 - 07:38
Let’s ban rugby, and all school sportsThere isn’t much in the modern curriculum that is designed as torture: except sportSat Mar 12 2016 - 06:12
Kate Dickie: ‘I genuinely believe that the witch is there’You may know Dickie from Game of Thrones. The Scottish actor’s new film, The Witch, is a folk horror to savourFri Mar 11 2016 - 07:00
Charlie Kaufman: ‘It’s puppets having sex. They will start to laugh and then stop’The scriptwriter on his new stop-motion film that took six months to shoot just one sex sceneFri Mar 11 2016 - 06:00
The Witch review: masterful old-school dread stalks the New WorldEvery beast and plant takes on threatening form in a slippery, intelligent menace-filled film by first-time director Robert EggersThu Mar 10 2016 - 23:18
Allegiant review: There's so much to dislike, it’s hard to know where to startFeaturing the drippiest couple in popular culture since the Care Bears, the latest Divergent movie could hardly be worse if it triedThu Mar 10 2016 - 13:13
Traders review: Bankers fight to the death in this impressive, blood-soaked debutKillian Scott and John Bradley stand out in this Irish thriller about two down-on-their-luck share dealers who decide to go for brokeWed Mar 09 2016 - 15:17
John Bradley: from Game of Thrones to Dublin death matchThe Manchester-Irish actor is best known as the nicest man in Westeros, Samwell Tarly. So how will he get on as a nasty piece of work in Dublin thriller Traders?Wed Mar 09 2016 - 06:00
Boyzlife: the kind of music even your parents complain isn’t strange enoughBoyzone and Westlife are merging into a supergroup. Pipe down, rock snobsSat Mar 05 2016 - 07:00
Hail, Caesar! review: the Coen brothers let loose in la-la landJoel and Ethan go full Hollywood screwball in a beautifully shot all-star farce that never quite adds up to more than the sum of its partsThu Mar 03 2016 - 16:30
Hitchcock/Truffaut review: essential viewing for fans of the masterMartin Scorsese, David Fincher and Richard Linklater are among the talking heads that pop up in Kent Jones’s exemplary film about the meeting of the two auteursThu Mar 03 2016 - 12:00
Donald Clarke: A cynical European at the Oscars – well, near the OscarsCultural differences transpire when I say that I intend to walk to the ceremony, and when I sigh at the uptight security arrangements. Still, one does one’s best to fit inTue Mar 01 2016 - 17:00
Ahead of Oscars, Room takes two prizes at Spirit awardsWins for one of the Irish films vying for best picture at tonight’s Academy AwardsSun Feb 28 2016 - 09:59
Donald Clarke on the eve of the ‘most Irish’ OscarsSaoirse Ronan, Lenny Abrahamson and Emma Donoghue talk academy fantasiesSat Feb 27 2016 - 12:00
Dear United States. Don’t elect Donald Trump. With love, the planetHaving him in the White House would be like having an orang-utan piloting your planeSat Feb 27 2016 - 05:45
Donald Clarke’s Oscars: Who will win? And who should?‘The Revenant’ or ‘Room’? Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Fassbender? Brie Larson or Saoirse Ronan? It’s the most unpredictable best-picture race in decadesFri Feb 26 2016 - 06:00
Oscars: Saoirse Ronan feels love as hopefuls arriveAhead of 88th Academy Awards, the Irish film industry decamps to HollywoodFri Feb 26 2016 - 01:00
Secret in Their Eyes review: not quite peculiar enough to be interestingChiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Roberts ably deliver in a detective film with a dark twist, but the whiff of compromise (and Nicole Kidman's face) hangs heavy over this remakeThu Feb 25 2016 - 16:00
The Forest review: would be hard-pressed to frighten even the frailest infantEvery cliché of contemporary or vintage horror is ready to leap out and not scare Natalie Dormer in this by-the-numbers ghost flickThu Feb 25 2016 - 14:00
Grimsby review: Sacha Baron Cohen makes the switch from sharp wit to halfwitThe laughs are few and far between as once-unassailable Baron Cohen hits a new low in this mean-spirited and very unfunny spy caperThu Feb 25 2016 - 12:51
Natalie Dormer: ‘I'm the one carrying King’s Crisps and Lyons leaving Dublin’Between ‘The Tudors’ and ‘Game of Thrones’, Dormer has become the go-to star for cool, unflappable TV royaltyThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
Oscars 2016: Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominationsMainstream entertainments such as Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant jostle with independents including Brooklyn and RoomThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
Benjamin Cleary: ‘I keep thinking I’ll wake up and discover this isn’t real’In any other year, Oscar nominee Benjamin Cleary would be the name on everyone’s lips – but he’s delighted to be in the race with Room and BrooklynThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literatureLenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand traditionWed Feb 24 2016 - 06:00
ADiff review: The Misplaced World plays like a chewy soap operaWhat was director Margarethe Von Trotta striving for?Mon Feb 22 2016 - 18:08
ADiff review: Drag acts and dusty glamour in Paddy Breathnach’s VivaA beautiful, funny drama filmed in Havana that surges with rough humanityMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:48
ADiff review: Victoria is a breathlessly exciting German dramaThe ‘continuous shot’ gimmick fits seamlessly into a hurtling storyMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:33
Where did it all go right? The secret of Irish cinema’s successGlobal acclaim and a fistful of Oscar nominations: we ask four industry heavy hitters what is going onMon Feb 22 2016 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Wittering recreational outrage is bad for the digestion‘In 2016, a vast mob of the easily annoyed prowls the digital outlands in search of bile generators. You need a hobby, I suppose’Sat Feb 20 2016 - 07:00
Chiwetel Ejiofor: ‘Weapons and tactics are a way of entering a guy psychologically’The actor has done plenty of serious roles. Will anyone begrudge him a crime caper?Sat Feb 20 2016 - 05:45
Chronic review: unfolds like the most elegant of jigsaw puzzlesMichel Franco’s latest is problematic, but features the finest performance in many years from Tim Roth, an actor who's often tempted to nibble at the sceneryThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:31
How To Be Single review: a film that dearly needs a good, stern talking toThe lewd Wilson and the faltering Johnson form a gorgeous complementary partnership that causes one to long for them to be cast in a better movieThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:27
Triple 9 review: bursting at the seams with criminal intentDirector John Hillcoat is a master of macho posture, and with the help of Kate Winslet, he lays it on thick in this indecently thrilling, star-studded heist movieThu Feb 18 2016 - 22:39
ADiff review: Portrait of a charismatic eccentric in We Are MovingClaire Dix’s study of Joan Denise Moriarty, founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, is a touching, lucid workThu Feb 18 2016 - 18:20
ADiff review: John Carney brings the musical magic in Sing StreetThe director even manages to sell an absurdly romantic endingWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:37
ADiff review: ‘Brothers’ is the home movie to end them allThis Norwegian documentary presents a tender portrayal of boyhoodWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26
ADiff review: Further Beyond explores the life of Ambrose O’HigginsA discursive meditation on the Sligo man who became captain general of Chile in the 18th centuryWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:25
Brooklyn celebrates Bafta win but Saoirse loses out to BrieBest film goes to The Revenant – tale of survival from 19th century US frontierSun Feb 14 2016 - 23:03
Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone and the elusive OscarEnnio Morricone revolutionised cinema music but has never won an Oscar for one of his scores. He’s up again, for ‘The Hateful Eight’. Does he care? Just a littleSat Feb 13 2016 - 05:00
Jeremy Corbyn is Margaret Thatcher’s successor. In a wayThe Iron Lady was the closest the UK will ever get to its own Lenin or Atatürk. The new Labour leader is similarly at home to ideologySat Feb 13 2016 - 05:00
Concussion review: often drab and occasionally useless true-life dramaBrain-damage whistleblower Will Smith comes across as a naive, holy fool, while the overall vibe is less The Insider and more Quincy METhu Feb 11 2016 - 17:17
Martin McCann “You learn how to look for trespassers, how to start a fire”Martin McCann survived The Pacific, Ripper Street and ‘71 and Shadow Dancer, and has really been put through the ringer for his latest The SurvivalistThu Feb 11 2016 - 14:00
Deadpool review: cheap, exploitative, unreconstructed rubbishThe endless ironic nods and winks do little to soften the squalor and misogyny of this latest contribution to the sweary, 16-cert po-mo superhero genreThu Feb 11 2016 - 13:06
A Bigger Splash review: hugely attractive, frustratingly evasiveDeriLuca Guadagnino’s four-hander is awash with cultural recycling - but unhinged enthusiasm from Ralph Fiennes outdoes almost everything else on displayWed Feb 10 2016 - 18:00
