McQueen brought to earth as ‘Gravity’ wins six BaftasIt was a night of surprises – not least when Tinie Tempah high-fived Prince WilliamMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:01
We’ve been sheltered from the weather, but now it’s all changeOpinion: How strange it is that global warming has become an issue that divides right and leftSun Feb 16 2014 - 00:01
The Morgan formula: how to put famous lives on filmScreenwriter Peter Morgan developed a neat way of portraying personalities, from Tony Blair and David Frost to the queen: focus on one incident. Now everyone’s at itFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
HerSpike Jonze’s new film is a deeply humane fable about love in the nth degreeFri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Richard Dreyfuss on Spielberg and Stone, Hollywood and the almighty dollarStill the curmudgeon after all these years, Richard Dreyfuss - who's in Dublin this week for the JDIFF - hasn’t lost any of his appetite for bashing Hollywood and colleagues who irritate him.Fri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Former child star Shirley Temple dies aged 85Juvenile star began acting aged three and became the most famous child actor of all timeTue Feb 11 2014 - 18:43
A Fiennes romanceRalph Fiennes talks about his childhood in Ireland, the great Bond conundrum, and dipping into the complicated private life of a fellow English celebrity – Charles DickensSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
The ancient art of rhetoric can still thrive in a hostile climateOpinion: The public oration was at its most powerful before the arrival of mass literacySat Feb 08 2014 - 00:01
Robocop's other half Abbie Cornish keeps it countryThe Australian has come a long way, from lauded turns in arthouse hits to the new Robocop. Donald Clarke talks to the star – if only he can get a word in over the puppies and parakeetsFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
Homophobia in focus: Dallas Buyers Club reviewAn obnoxious homophobe becomes a most unlikely hero in the fight against Aids in this stirring true-life dramaFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
Philip Seymour Hoffman: a strange kind of movie starRather than being bullied into adoration by tub-thumping promotion, filmgoers felt they had discovered Hoffman all on their ownMon Feb 03 2014 - 17:43
Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in New YorkOscar-winning actor (46) dies from an apparent drug overdose in his apartmentMon Feb 03 2014 - 10:26
The appeal of Garth Brooks is destined to remain a mystery to people like usOpinion: The tapenade-eaters are always going to remain immune to the charms of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’Sat Feb 01 2014 - 00:01
Lone SurvivorGet past the dubious, gung-ho imperialism and this is a gripping, gruelling thrillerFri Jan 31 2014 - 13:33
Matthew McConaughey's hunk evolutionHe was once known primarily as a mahogany beefcake, but a series of thrilling performances has seen Matthew McConaughey’s critical star rise to the very top. The Oscar nominee talks reinvention, rom-coms and running the gauntlet of awards seasonFri Jan 31 2014 - 00:00
Why is it that spoilers seem to make so many people lose the plot?Opinion: If Dr Johnson could get by without issuing spoiler warnings surely the rest of us canSun Jan 26 2014 - 00:01
JDIFF 2014: A fest for the sensesFrom the flicks to the deliberations, Donald Clarke’s 10 must-sees, must-hears for this year’s Dublin film festivalFri Jan 24 2014 - 12:20
Hugh O’Conor: the long road from Young Poisoner to reluctant stagHugh O’Conor’s brilliant childhood performances are seared into our collective memory – and as his grown-up self gets a big-screen outing in new Irish comedy The Stag, he sits down with Donald Clarke to talk early success, turning 40 and everything in betweenFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
The Wolf of Wall StreetMartin Scorsese’s study of Wall Street excess is beautifully made but madly over the topThu Jan 23 2014 - 16:11
Programme for 12th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival revealedThis year’s guests include actors Richard Dreyfuss, Terry Gilliam, John Hurt and Jason PriestleyTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:01
A contrast in press cultures as Hollande affair leaves French press unmovedOpinion: There is something unsettling about the apparent Gallic belief that deceit in marriage is a sign of sophisticationSat Jan 18 2014 - 00:01
‘Gravity’ and ‘American Hustle’ lead field in nominations for three-horse Oscar raceFassbender in the running for best supporting actorFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:01
12 Years a Slave causes cranky critical contrarianismUS film critic Armond White lobs opinionated dynamiteFri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac on folk, film and working with catsAn anti-hero like only the Coens could create, downtrodden folk singer Llewyn Davis has been described as one of the biggest a**holes ever put on film. Oscar Isaac sees it differently, however. "He’s not all that selfish. He spends almost the whole movie trying to take care of this f**king cat”Fri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
American Hustle and Gravity get 10 Oscar nodsMichael Fassbender and U2 make Oscar nominationsThu Jan 16 2014 - 17:07
American HustleThere are pleasures to be had in this brash, '70s-set comic thriller, even if it's all one big bogus boogie nightThu Jan 16 2014 - 15:37
12 Years a SlaveSteve McQueen’s scorching drama exposes the evil behind that ‘peculiar institution’Thu Jan 16 2014 - 15:36
Your annual epic Oscar-nomination napBefore today’s announcement, we make a stab at predicting who is going to figureThu Jan 16 2014 - 09:45
American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave win big at Golden GlobesU2’s ‘Ordinary Love’ recorded for Nelson Mandela biopic wins best original song awardMon Jan 13 2014 - 14:12
Richard Dreyfuss set for Dublin film festivalOscar-winning star of Jaws to attend Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in FebruarySun Jan 12 2014 - 21:00
Just because we can’t stand it doesn’t mean we have to make it illegalOpinion: The female midriff remained an indecent zone until someone invented the bikiniSat Jan 11 2014 - 00:01
War babyBritish actor Jeremy Irvine got his break early in Spielberg’s War Horse and stars in the moving second-World War drama The Railway Man. He talks to Donald Clarke about trauma, forgiveness – and fameFri Jan 10 2014 - 00:00
All eyes on film: the Big Movie Preview 2014Donald Clarke and Tara Brady cast eyes towards the coming year’s cinematic treatsFri Jan 03 2014 - 02:00
