Middle-aged kicksRichard Dormer, star of new film Good Vibrations, talks Northern punk, his passion for acting and the day he met Hurricane HigginsFri Mar 22 2013 - 00:00
Carlos Reygadas’ ‘Post Tenebras Lux’: decapitations, bad sex and mysterious demonsCarlos Reygadas, stubbornly avant garde Mexican director, discusses his challenging new filmThu Mar 21 2013 - 06:00
St Patrick’s Day stimulates the nation’s need to be twinkly, drunk and sentimentalAnnual feast day underlines the cheapening, reductive nature of the patriotic aestheticSat Mar 16 2013 - 06:00
Red DawnLudicrous invention of John Milius’s paranoid 1980s action movie. Now we hate the North KoreansFri Mar 15 2013 - 06:00
Would you believe?Palme d’Or-winning director Cristian Mungiu discusses his latest film, Beyond the Hills, a notorious true story of religion and mental disorder from Ceausescu's RomaniaFri Mar 15 2013 - 00:00
Ken Loach’s spirit and direction has lost none of its revolutionary sparkThe veteran director’s latest work is a paean to the 1945 UK Labour government, and rumours that this film will be his last have been greatly exaggeratedThu Mar 14 2013 - 06:00
The wonderful wizard of all tradesJames Franco, star of the new Wizard of Oz prequel, discusses his many, varied projectsSat Mar 09 2013 - 06:00
The wonderful wizard of all tradesPoet, university man, star, James Franco on his many varied projectsSat Mar 09 2013 - 06:00
Hollywood reveals its true colours in use of yellow perilLife was so much simpler when everybody knew whom he or she was supposed to hate. The Irish hated the EnglishSat Mar 09 2013 - 00:00
Side EffectsHere’s a tricky, playfully daft thriller from an always subversive directorFri Mar 08 2013 - 20:28
Screenwriter attempts to predict what will figure at the 2014 OscarsDonald Clarke looks ahead to next year’s nomineesFri Mar 08 2013 - 15:09
OZ the Great and the PowerfulSam Raimi’s reimagining of a classic is a surprisingly magical treatFri Mar 08 2013 - 00:00
The witches of OzRachel Weisz, star of Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, talks feminism, witches and Elizabeth TaylorFri Mar 08 2013 - 00:00
Please, please give me a break, I'm so sick of the '60sThe 1960s have barely started and I am already sick to death of the bloody thingsSat Mar 02 2013 - 00:00
Safe HavenThe world is, it seems, full of people who find the adaptations of Nicholas Sparks’s North Carolina melodramas comforting, moving…Fri Mar 01 2013 - 00:00
Take that, all other performers in the history of the mediumThe 85th Academy Awards will be remembered as the ceremony that propelled Daniel Day-Lewis towards a notable Oscar superlative…Tue Feb 26 2013 - 00:00
Day-Lewis makes history with Oscar winBen Affleck completed a spectacular comeback when his film Argo won best picture at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night…Mon Feb 25 2013 - 00:00
Believers in homeopathy live in their own magic universeGood news. Health authorities in Scotland have announced they will no longer be providing funds for the dunking of witchesSat Feb 23 2013 - 00:00
Hooray for HollywoodFinally, we have an unpredictable Oscar night. This is the year to stay up to see who winsSat Feb 23 2013 - 00:00
Donald Clarke's weekly movie quizDonald Clarke's weekly teasers for movie buffs.Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
Song For MarionOh Lord. It’s another one of those twee British films that finds decent actors doing something creative – think The Full Monty…Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
MiloDirected by Berend and Roel Boorsma. Starring Stuart Graham, Lorcan Bonner, Charlotte Bradley, Jer O’Leary, Laura VasiliuFri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
MamaNow look here. Before any horror director takes off their training wheels, he or she should have a few firm rules drummed into…Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionDirected by Elio Petri. Starring Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio , Orazio Orlando. Cineworld, 5Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
LoreIt’s taken eight years for Cate Shortland, one of Australia’s most promising directors, to follow-up her spooky, bewitching debut…Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
Fire In The BloodThis angry documentary about the pharmaceutical industry’s slowness in making affordable retroviral drugs available to poorer…Fri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
BernieDirected by Richard Linklater. Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey. Cineworld, 8.50pm ****Thu Feb 21 2013 - 00:00
A documentary on the pathology of power in the Catholic ChurchAlex Gibney's latest film, on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, alleges a direct link between the outgoing pope and the abuse…Tue Feb 19 2013 - 00:00
Vox pops predictable? Tell me something I don't knowThere’s a lady on my television talking about horsegate. Apparently, she likes to eat processed lasagne now and thenSat Feb 16 2013 - 00:00
Well-received 'Broken' opens Dublin film festivalThe 11th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival kicked off last night at the Savoy Cinema with a screening of Rufus Norris…Fri Feb 15 2013 - 00:00
Oz is hotter than hell but people still see it as heaven on EarthAnd they say there’s no exciting news in FebruarySat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00
First get Michael Fassbender for your film. Then give him a giant comedy headLenny Abrahamson, the director of ‘Adam Paul’, has cast the Irish star to play the much-mourned Frank Sidebottom…Sat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00
AntiviralIf the director of this creepy, somewhat disordered body horror were named Boris O’Houlihan, he would still find his film compared…Fri Feb 08 2013 - 00:00
I Give It a YearWhat are the current rules on (oh Lord, that word) “spoilers“? We are, surely, permitted to reveal information put about by the…Fri Feb 08 2013 - 00:00
Think twice about worshipping athletes with feet of clayIn times of distress, the poets offer us some solaceSat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
'Don't make any mistakes. They will never let you forget'The dangerous looks are the same, but the reputation has changed. Christian Slater talks fame, Stallone, and Gangnam StyleThu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00