Foxcatcher review: Carell makes a passive aggressive Nero of John Du PontBennett Miller’s murky tale of the corrupting power of wealth is his best true-life story yetFri Jan 09 2015 - 11:00
A Tale of Samurai Cooking review: martial arts munchiesShort-order shogun trains her husband to be a kitchen Kurosawa in this tasty Japanese dramaFri Jan 09 2015 - 08:00
James Corden: out of the woods and well down the garden pathThe charismatic character actor from High Wycombe has recently hit the jackpot: acting with Meryl Streep in Into the Woods and taking over as host of American telly talker The Late Late ShowFri Jan 09 2015 - 06:00
Into the Woods review: Meryl Streep cackles, James Corden bustles, Emily Blunt saves the dayAll’s well that ends pretty well in Disney’s enjoyable film of Stephen Sondheim’s popular fairy-tale mash-upThu Jan 08 2015 - 14:08
Nigel Farage the Briton of the Year? They might just be rightVirtually no political commentator imagined that Ukip would advance quite so farSat Jan 03 2015 - 01:02
The silver screen in 2015: fasten your seatbeltsWe're about to witness the "Biggest ever year for cinema". Tara Brady takes a look at what's aheadFri Jan 02 2015 - 13:00
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) review: Keaton in flight againCinematically dazzling and brimming with drama, ’Birdman’ walks a fine line between pretentious and brilliantFri Jan 02 2015 - 12:00
Exodus: Gods and Kings review: Swords, sandals and snoozesRidley Scott’s heart-stoppingly sober take on the Book of Exodus badly needs an injection of campFri Jan 02 2015 - 11:00
‘Foxcatcher’: Steve Carrell as you’ve never seen himDirector Bennett Miller on his latest film, in which the likeable actor gets malevolent as doomed chemical heir John Du PontFri Jan 02 2015 - 00:00
Boredom: a force for good in the worldOpinion: too much entertainment could be more dangerous than the Black DeathSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Donald Clarke’s cultural highs and lows of 2014The Irish films of 2014 were ’Out of Here’ and ’Frank’Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Forget the real news, what about the top trivia of 2014?There is now so much pop-cultural balderdash about the place that the conscious uncoupling sort of non-story can pass through the complete cycle – in the time it used to take for one journalist to file one diaphanous reportThu Dec 25 2014 - 06:01
Unbroken review: Bravery in search of a personalityAngelina Jolie’s wartime epic has everything going for it – except character and plotWed Dec 24 2014 - 12:00
Donald Clarke's Christmas moviesOur movie reviewer's selection of films not to miss on the small screen this ChristmasWed Dec 24 2014 - 08:00
Donald Clarke: My great expectations for ChristmasThe Brontës were a force and Jane Austen mattered, but . . . Dickens still leads the waySat Dec 20 2014 - 12:01
Netflix’s top 50 seriesWhether it's a Netflix original like Orange Is The New Black, a British comedy like Peep Show or just completely addictive like Breaking Bad; we've listed and categorised the very best Netflix boxsets for you to enjoy.Fri Dec 19 2014 - 12:00
Secret of the Tomb review: London gallingThe ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise limps into Bloomsbury: it should go no furtherFri Dec 19 2014 - 11:00
The Ticket Awards results: your favourite films of 2014Hollywood may not think so, but you Ticket readers have good memories and great tasteFri Dec 19 2014 - 06:00
The Interview: rarely has such a film created such noiseDonald Clarke analysis: If film never goes on wide release it will be key text in Hollywood’s historyThu Dec 18 2014 - 06:59
Angelina Jolie, North Korea and Sony Pictures: the story that keeps on givingWelcome to the leaky, insecure world of 21st century communicationSat Dec 13 2014 - 11:00
The Green Prince review: Israel’s man in HamasThis fascinating but frustrating documentary tells only part of the true story of a Palestinian with Hamas in the blood who spied for the IsraelisFri Dec 12 2014 - 11:00
The Great Museum review: fly-on-the-wall in Hapsburg heartlandThis study of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum is as sober and formal as the city’s architectureFri Dec 12 2014 - 08:00
Dumb and Dumber To: the Farrellys return to their gross-out grassrootsJim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back as cinema’s most lovable idiots. But why a sequel 20 years later? ‘It makes sense because these guys are always the same. They’re too stupid to have character arcs’Fri Dec 12 2014 - 06:00
Tinker Bell review: Tinky winky stinkyThese cheapo Disney animations aren’t the worst of their kind, but Tink’s evolution from jealous menace to mindless chatterbox isn’t much funThu Dec 11 2014 - 17:35
Golden Globe nominations: Birdman leads with seven nodsBoyhood and Imitation Game come second while Brendan Gleeson ’s Calvary loses outThu Dec 11 2014 - 16:05
Gleeson and Scott win at British Independent Film AwardsRespective performances in ‘Calvary’ and ‘Pride’ recognised with male acting prizesMon Dec 08 2014 - 00:10
More than a feminist furore over Hozier’s appearance at Victoria’s Secret fashion show‘Both feminists and conservatives railed at the naked commercialism and naked, well, nakedness’Sat Dec 06 2014 - 01:00
Black Sea review: Jude Law under pressureMan on board and overboard in a cracking submarine thriller that’s the best boy’s adventure Alastair Maclean never wroteFri Dec 05 2014 - 10:00
Men, Women and Children review: the Twitterati made me do itAnsel Elgort, Adam Sandler and a big-name cast play it oh-so-serious in Jason Reitman’s latestFri Dec 05 2014 - 09:00
Ticket Awards 2014 - The best screen shotsIrish film had a standout year, franchises asserted their dominance, and some of the year’s best films came in documentary form. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady name-check the best - and a few of the worst - of 2014Fri Dec 05 2014 - 06:00
Penguins of Madagascar review: cracking jokes keep these birdbrains flying highBirds of little brain still manage to fly fairly high in funny sequelFri Dec 05 2014 - 05:00
Concerning Violence review: people powerColonialism and its violently radicalising effect is the subject of this chilling documentaryFri Dec 05 2014 - 04:00
Glassland listed for Sundance Film Festival competitionKerryman Gerard Barrett’s work among 12 films for World Cinema Dramatic CompetitionWed Dec 03 2014 - 23:34
Gregory Campbell should sharpen his cutting witDUP politician’s pathetic dig at Irish Language Act sullys the name of political insultSat Nov 29 2014 - 01:00
The Possibilities are Endless review: grace after tragedyThe story of Edwyn Collin's return and recovery after stroke is one of the unexpected surprises of the seasonFri Nov 28 2014 - 06:00
Ansel Elgort: there’s no fault with this starAnsel who? Elgort what? The suddenly red-hot 20 year old hearthrob from Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars talks Twitter and truthfulnessFri Nov 28 2014 - 00:00
Gifts: the best films and box setsMake Nidge and Ed Sheeran the perfect gifts this Christmas with music, TV, films and games for all the family to savourWed Nov 26 2014 - 08:00
Did International Men’s Day pass you by?Opinion: ‘The dominant order doesn’t need to celebrate its identity with annual festivals’Sat Nov 22 2014 - 01:00
Two Northern Irish films on Oscar live-action longlistA pornographer’s obsession in ‘SLR’ and facts of life in ‘Boogaloo and Graham’ make the cutFri Nov 21 2014 - 14:23
Chadwick Boseman: Standing up for James BrownChadwick Boseman, who plays 1960s pop star James Brown in a new biopic Get on Up, talks to Donald ClarkeFri Nov 21 2014 - 10:10
What we do in the Shadows review: a comedy about four vampires squabbling over the washing-upFri Nov 21 2014 - 06:15
The Homesman review: All kinds of grit to be savoured hereTommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank spark off each other like flinty knives in this elegantly elegiac and magnificently mean westernFri Nov 21 2014 - 06:00
