The Swell Season: the documentary that’s stranger than fictionA documentary about the duo The Swell Season as they embarked on a post-Oscar tour plays a little like the Oscar-winning drama ‘Once’ in reverse. “It was an interesting endeavour to embark on,” says director Carlo Mirabella-DavisFri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00
Film review: Saving Mr BanksDisney’s Triumph of the Walt is supercalifragilistic propaganda wites Donald ClarkeFri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00
Interest in JFK conspiracies dwindling as other fantasies get online attentionA majority in a recent poll still do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. But the figure is lower than at any point since John F Kennedy’s assassination. What’s going on?Sat Nov 23 2013 - 07:06
Death on K2: inching towards answersIn ‘The Summit’, the film-maker Nick Ryan tries to work out what happened on the day when 11 mountaineers, the Irishman Ger McDonnell among them, died trying to scale the world’s most challenging mountainSat Nov 23 2013 - 01:00
Blue proves the warmest colour as 10-minute lesbian sex scenes pull in the plauditsAs his three-hour love story arrives in Irish cinemas weighed down with awards – and ongoing allegations of exploitation – director Abdellatif Kechiche ponders the dynamics of love and betrayal with Donald ClarkeFri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00
Film review - The Hunger Games: Catching FireThis incendiary sequel to The Hunger Games actually betters the already exciting original, writes Donald ClarkeFri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00
Prudery seems to reign more securely in America than on this side of the pondOpinion: ‘Wardrobe malfunction’ had a nation transfixed by one stray areolaSun Nov 17 2013 - 00:01
John Pilger on breaking the Great Silence of Australia’s pastIn his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native AustraliaFri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00
Film review: The CounsellorRidley Scott and Cormac McCarthy come together to forge one of the year’s worst films, writes Donald ClarkeFri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00
Sweden puts the Bechdel test to the testSandra Bullock in Gravity is an anomaly as far as Bechdel’s rules are concernedFri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00
Toronto’s crack-smoking, hard-drinking mayor seems so, well, unCanadianOpinion: Rob Ford has a history of indiscretions while in a festive conditionSat Nov 09 2013 - 00:01
GravitySandra Bullock is compelling as a novice astronaut under pressure in this visually staggering epicFri Nov 08 2013 - 17:17
Yo! Northside raps – Broken Song’s tale of hip-hop redemptionUrban rhymes, beats and truth are not just a US west coast vs east coast thing – hip-hop is changing lives in north Dublin too, say the stars of a new documentary, Broken Song, about the sceneFri Nov 08 2013 - 00:00
Why would anyone think that blacking up is a suitable way to mark Christmas?Opinion: The important question is not are you allowed to do this but why would you want to do this?Sat Nov 02 2013 - 00:01
Gravity’s pull: the making of a rocket-fuelled space smashMexican film-maker Alfonso Cuarón is delighted about the warm reception for his gripping space yarn. And what about the criticism of its supposed scientific inaccuracies? ‘It’s not a documentary,’ he shrugsFri Nov 01 2013 - 15:54
Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddieFri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Review: PhilomenaJudi Dench and Steve Coogan excell in a true-life tale that combines drama and comedy to surprisingly winning effectFri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Russell Brand is dispensing childlike simplicities in a convoluted languageOpinion: If the British didn’t revolt during the Thatcher era they won’t do it nowSat Oct 26 2013 - 00:01
Film review: Ender’s GameThis big budget adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s popular space opera is a bracing, if dubious, orgy of youthful militarism, writes Donald ClarkeFri Oct 25 2013 - 12:46
Oscar overload: Can we please stop banging the gong?Why can't the media discuss the season’s best releases without bringing up the Academy Awards?Fri Oct 25 2013 - 12:44
Clio Barnard – “The idea that film can deliver reality is nonsense”Cinema needs clear thinkers like Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard. Trained as a visual artist, she brings a critical eye and a seriousness of purpose to her film-making. She talks to Donald ClarkeFri Oct 25 2013 - 00:00
Heaven knows Morrissey’s oddballs would be miserable nowOpinion: It is better to be properly alone than exposed to a million bullies on the latest social networkSat Oct 19 2013 - 00:01
Film review: Captain PhillipsPaul Greengrass's latest is a thrilling take on the reality of modern-day piracy, writes Donald ClarkeFri Oct 18 2013 - 00:00
Shock horror! It’s Kim NewmanFor four decades, Kim Newman has provided a peerless commentary to the lesser known gems of horror cinema – and is a dab hand himself at the monster mythsFri Oct 18 2013 - 00:00
The week’s most disturbing scene on TV was not the cat business in ‘Love/Hate’Opinion: We have come to accept that sex is natural, wholesome, beautiful and all that baloneySat Oct 12 2013 - 00:01
Highs and lows: David Gordon Green walks a fine lineThe award-winning director is best known for stoner hits Pineapple Express and Your Highness, but he also does a fine line in quality – and is always eager to sort out the stoner farce from the high artFri Oct 11 2013 - 00:00
Le Week-EndThis provocative but smug dramedy – about a couple on a dirty old weekend – is not your mum’s usual geezer pleaserFri Oct 11 2013 - 00:00
