What Basil Fawlty can teach 'Zero Dark Thirty'Fawlty Towers and Zero Dark Thirty do not have a great deal in commonSat Jan 26 2013 - 00:00
It’s okay for Sly’n’Arnie but Hollywood women can’t ageSCREEN WRITER: An amusing scene in Ivan Reitman’s 1988 Twins – one of the less terrible high-concept Arnold Schwarzenegger comedies…Fri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Zero Dark ThirtyThe deafening hubbub of controversy surrounding Kathryn Bigelow’s knuckle-whitening study of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden makes…Fri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Franco to tackle American TabloidWell, you couldn’t say that James Franco lacks ambitionFri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Screenwriting competition shortlistWe are a bit late on this, but congratulations go out to the shortlisted candidates for the second UNTITLED public screenwriting…Fri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Irish movies go down a storm at SundanceIt’s already been a good year for the Irish at the Sundance Film Festival and there are still three days to goFri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Winner's wayward but winning waysThere is something of a moral in the life story of Michael Winner, who died this week at the age of 77Fri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Film festival programme launchedKelly Campbell and Killian Scott, two of our most gifted actors, were at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield last night to launch…Thu Jan 24 2013 - 00:00
Hypocrisy is always on the menu when carnivores dineAs a roaring hypocrite, I am often asked: “How come you eat meat and still claim to be something of an animal-lover?” My usual…Sat Jan 19 2013 - 00:00
Monsters Inc 3DReceiving a welcome reissue in unwelcome 3D, the fourth film from Pixar – a prequel arrives later this year – stands up well, …Fri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
EverydayMichael Winterbottom has sometimes been accused of hurrying through projectsFri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
'Lincoln' hospice fundraiser courtesy of Spielberg and Day-LewisFresh from his victory at the Golden Globes last Sunday, Wicklow-based actor Daniel Day-Lewis will fly into Dublin for the European…Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
New single by Bowie hits cultural know-it-alls for sixUnless you have spent the last week with your head in an insulated bucket you will be aware that David Bowie has released a new…Sat Jan 12 2013 - 00:00
'Lincoln' leads the way as 'Amour' feels the loveIn a rare display of unpredictability, the nominations for the 2013 Oscars delivered a number of surprises, though ‘…Fri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Man on the TrainReleased a decade ago, Patrice Leconte’s The Man on the Train centred on an effective complementary partnership between Johnny…Fri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Will CIA row derail Zero Dark Thirty's Oscar bid?The controversy surrounding Karthryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty continues to bubbleFri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Richard goes after gong gloryElsewhere in today’s paper, you can read this writer’s thoughts on today’s Oscar nominationsFri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
New year, new Star Wars gossipChristmas is over. The silver balls have been packed away. It’s time to start dragging out more pointless Star Wars gossip.Fri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Silly name, very silly photosWe want to be kind about Kate Winslet’s new husbandFri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Lincoln gets 12 Oscar nominationsFor once, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences actually sprung a few surprises when the nominations for the 2013 Oscars…Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
Favourite 'Lincoln' gets 10 Bafta nominationsOne day ahead of this afternoon’s Oscar nominations, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln confirmed its status as favourite by securing…Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
The real revolution in 'Les Misérables' is ThatcherismNext week, the film version of Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s smash musical, finally opens in commercial…Sat Jan 05 2013 - 00:00
ChinatownIf you are old enough to remember the emergence of Chinatown in 1974, you will recall – amid all the deserved acclaim – some …Fri Jan 04 2013 - 00:00
Worthy candidate for most irritating phenomenon of yearAfter 12 months of griping and scowling, the season of renewal beckons and we settle down to celebrate the year’s more joyous…Sat Dec 29 2012 - 00:00
Parental GuidanceAbout halfway through this surprisingly atrocious family comedy – be honest, Bette Midler and Billy Crystal sound like a fun …Fri Dec 28 2012 - 00:00
False Trail/Jagarna 2What else can we say about the Scandinavian crime thriller? There are a lot of them aboutFri Dec 28 2012 - 00:00
TV films recreate an old-fashioned ChristmasMOVIE CHOICE: If only we could get back to Christmas as it was. You rememberMon Dec 24 2012 - 00:00
Continental divide still stands between Americans and usMost of the time we can, without much effort, view ourselves as the 51st state of the USSat Dec 22 2012 - 00:00
Pitch PerfectThis entertaining musical finds time to pay copious tribute to John Hughes’s faux-subversive 1980s drama The Breakfast Club. …Fri Dec 21 2012 - 00:00
Love Crime/Crime D'AmourA little less than a decade ago, Alain Corneau, who sadly died in 2010, directed a very astute film about women in the workplace…Fri Dec 21 2012 - 00:00
SmashedClocking in at a convenient 80 minutes, this examination of a young alcoholic’s route to recovery doesn’t waste much time on …Fri Dec 21 2012 - 00:00
A melting pot big enough to take the world and all it's gotAt some point in the 1990s, a supposedly alarming headline appeared in the often-illiberal London Evening StandardSat Dec 15 2012 - 00:00
GirlfriendThe main selling point of Justin Lerner’s route-one American indie is the fine performance from young Evan SneiderFri Dec 14 2012 - 00:00
Babette’s Feast/Babettes GæstebudOn its release in 1987, Gabriel Axel’s adaptation of a little-known Isak Dinesen story became the film you needed to have seen…Fri Dec 14 2012 - 00:00
Secularists don't need to wish you a happy WintervalWho knew Waterford would turn out to be a world centre for aggressive secularism? It’s trueSat Dec 08 2012 - 00:00
Death of Irish Film Institute programmerThe death of Pete Walsh, programmer of the Irish Film Institute, has been announced.Sat Dec 08 2012 - 00:00
IFI programmer Pete Walsh diesThe death of Pete Walsh, programmer of the Irish Film Institute, has been announced.Fri Dec 07 2012 - 00:00
The Man with the Iron FistsThanks to Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and various camp followers, we now live in a world where violent kitsch has taken…Fri Dec 07 2012 - 00:00
The OrangesThis unfortunate comedy appears to take place in the indie film fan’s version of suburban heavenFri Dec 07 2012 - 00:00
Celeste and Jesse ForeverIt is, unfortunately, impossible to discuss this diverting romantic comedy without giving away the best joke in the film.Fri Dec 07 2012 - 00:00
DollhouseKirsten Sheridan’s third feature begins with a group of (apparently) working-class teenagers breaking into a house in the view…Fri Dec 07 2012 - 00:00
Savile scandal puts BBC in spin over old 'Top of the Pops'The BBC can never have imagined what it was getting into when it embarked on a scheme to repeat Top of the Pops episodes from…Sat Dec 01 2012 - 00:00
Death Of A SuperheroYOU MIGHT reasonably expect a film about a dying teenager to be something of a downerFri Nov 30 2012 - 00:00
Rise Of The GuardiansAT THE RISK of encouraging Hollywood’s baser instincts, one is forced to wonder whether the makers of this endurable family animation…Fri Nov 30 2012 - 00:00
The Hunt/JagtenTHOMAS VINTERBERG’S thrilling melodrama, a hit at Cannes, arrives in cinemas at a particularly appropriate momentFri Nov 30 2012 - 00:00
Head-spinning weirdness awaits G8 in Northern IrelandThis week’s news threw up two stories that neatly accommodate the mindsets of those who analyse world affairs in binary terms…Sat Nov 24 2012 - 00:00
GambitFEW PROJECTS emerge from development hell without some singeing of the earlobes or blistering of the toesFri Nov 23 2012 - 00:00
Silver Linings PlaybookIT MUST BE November. Each autumn, as Oscar voters peruse their ballots, we are presented with a semi-serious, cautiously adventurous…Fri Nov 23 2012 - 00:00
Lawrence of ArabiaTO USE Philip Larkin’s famous formulation, David Lean’s much-lauded semi-clever epic – now celebrating its half-century – emerged…Fri Nov 23 2012 - 00:00
Could rejoining the UK be any worse than this?This being a largely frivolous column, we won’t dwell on the awful story that is eating up the airwaves, but, suffice to say, …Sat Nov 17 2012 - 00:00
