‘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
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
