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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood: Sweating out the pain in a safe, feminine space

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood: Sweating out the pain in a safe, feminine space

Shot over five years, Anna Hint’s film is an intangible marvel, punctuated by rituals

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 05:00
BlackBerry: A tech tale heading from 50m units a year via betrayal to zero market share

BlackBerry: A tech tale heading from 50m units a year via betrayal to zero market share

Cult director Matt Johnson recreates the Crackberry days with this compelling tale of tech hubris

Fri Oct 06 2023 - 12:03
Fair Play: Slinky corporate thriller is brimming with toxic masculinity

Fair Play: Slinky corporate thriller is brimming with toxic masculinity

Chloe Domont’s debut feature stars Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor

Fri Oct 06 2023 - 05:00
BlackBerry director Matt Johnson: ‘We had to shoot secretly as we were making the film without the company’s participation’

BlackBerry director Matt Johnson: ‘We had to shoot secretly as we were making the film without the company’s participation’

Canadian filmmaker’s new movie is a brilliant tech saga about the smartphone that fuelled the CrackBerry craze

Thu Oct 05 2023 - 05:00
Warrior review: A heartfelt, poignant Star Trek-tinted cancer-survivor musical

Warrior review: A heartfelt, poignant Star Trek-tinted cancer-survivor musical

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen Egan’s experiences, which form the spine of the show, are relayed to poignant effect

Wed Oct 04 2023 - 10:04
Shoshana first-look review: Michael Winterbottom’s new film offers a warning from history as it evokes a frenzied era

Shoshana first-look review: Michael Winterbottom’s new film offers a warning from history as it evokes a frenzied era

Dinard Film Festival 2023: David Holmes’s score is emblematic of a film that is trying to do too much

Sun Oct 01 2023 - 13:57
The Old Oak: Ken Loach’s last orders deliver a generous round

The Old Oak: Ken Loach’s last orders deliver a generous round

A little solidarity goes a long way in the great film-maker’s final offering

Fri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00
Other People’s Children: A very French marriage of realism and erotica

Other People’s Children: A very French marriage of realism and erotica

Rebecca Zlotowski’s heartfelt drama is powered by Virginie Efira’s performance

Fri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00
Rothar review: A playful show that transcends language and nationality

Rothar review: A playful show that transcends language and nationality

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Both actors are equally impressive in this all-ages offering from Galway’s Branar

Thu Sept 28 2023 - 13:52
Film-maker Carol Morley: ‘Manchester was terrible for women... it was a working-class, white, boys’ town’

Film-maker Carol Morley: ‘Manchester was terrible for women... it was a working-class, white, boys’ town’

The director on her native city, ‘invisible women’, and her fifth feature, Typist Artist Pirate King, about the late outsider artist Audrey Amiss

Wed Sept 27 2023 - 05:00
The Dan Daw Show review: A miraculous piece of theatre

The Dan Daw Show review: A miraculous piece of theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much more

Sat Sept 23 2023 - 12:45
Wes Anderson on his new Roald Dahl film: ‘No one who is not the author should be modifying somebody else’s book’

Wes Anderson on his new Roald Dahl film: ‘No one who is not the author should be modifying somebody else’s book’

Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel star in the director’s faithfully scripted new film of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Sat Sept 23 2023 - 05:30
Ballywalter review: Painfully honest drama sees Patrick Kielty perform the worst stand-up routines

Ballywalter review: Painfully honest drama sees Patrick Kielty perform the worst stand-up routines

Seána Kerslake brings an edge and unpredictability that animates a carefully shaded story

Fri Sept 22 2023 - 05:30
RMN: Urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama from a modern master

RMN: Urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama from a modern master

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu dissects European hypocrisies and contradictions in this film based on a real-life xenophobic event

Fri Sept 22 2023 - 05:15
RMN: Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu on his powerful Transylvanian tale of migrants and bears

RMN: Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu on his powerful Transylvanian tale of migrants and bears

‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’

Thu Sept 21 2023 - 05:00
Ken Loach: ‘Ireland has always been wonderful... even though the police in the North chased us out’

Ken Loach: ‘Ireland has always been wonderful... even though the police in the North chased us out’

The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87

Sun Sept 17 2023 - 05:15
Cassandro: An impressive cast leaves the impression of being part of a celebration

Cassandro: An impressive cast leaves the impression of being part of a celebration

The flamboyant Mexican luchador gets the fabulous biopic he deserves

Fri Sept 15 2023 - 05:00
‘I don’t think the role of movies is to punish people. A movie isn’t a court’

‘I don’t think the role of movies is to punish people. A movie isn’t a court’

Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it is

Wed Sept 13 2023 - 05:00
El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horror

El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horror

A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

Tue Sept 12 2023 - 21:03
A Symbiotic Symphonic Movement review: A triptych of experimental compositions casts a spell

A Symbiotic Symphonic Movement review: A triptych of experimental compositions casts a spell

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Inside Teak House, some attendees bow their heads in a liminal trance. Others lie down and absorb the noise

Sun Sept 10 2023 - 10:17
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3: The mounting Hellenic horrors include a flabby story, damp jokes and an occasional goat

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3: The mounting Hellenic horrors include a flabby story, damp jokes and an occasional goat

The Vardalos family are back for a messy, pointless second sequel to the cheery original

Fri Sept 08 2023 - 00:01
Angelheaded Hipster: This Marc Bolan documentary is at its best when it lets the T Rex frontman do the talking

Angelheaded Hipster: This Marc Bolan documentary is at its best when it lets the T Rex frontman do the talking

Despite pedestrian contributions by the likes of U2, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett and others, Bolan’s electric warrior spirit shines through

Thu Sept 07 2023 - 05:00
A Life on the Farm: ‘Getting Koo Stark in the film was the weirdest conversation ever’

A Life on the Farm: ‘Getting Koo Stark in the film was the weirdest conversation ever’

Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend is an unexpected contributor to Oscar Harding’s quirky film about outsider artist Charles Carson

Tue Sept 05 2023 - 05:00
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Uganda’s charismatic ‘president of the ghetto’ under pressure

Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Uganda’s charismatic ‘president of the ghetto’ under pressure

The former pop star’s professional swerve into politics has come at great personal cost

Fri Sept 01 2023 - 05:00
Sound of Freedom: Ignore the huffing and puffing about this film. It’s not such a holy show after all

Sound of Freedom: Ignore the huffing and puffing about this film. It’s not such a holy show after all

Jim Caziezel puts in his fiercest turn since The Passion of the Christ

Wed Aug 30 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The charming, hilarious send-up Theater Camp, the entertaining The Blackening, Christian Petzold’s singular Afire, and the knockabout Scrapper

Sun Aug 27 2023 - 05:00
‘We didn’t have an intimacy co-ordinator. We decided to build this thing together and trust one another’

‘We didn’t have an intimacy co-ordinator. We decided to build this thing together and trust one another’

Passages actor Franz Rogowski on charming psychopathy and creating convincing relationships with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben Whishaw

Sat Aug 26 2023 - 05:00
Scrapper: Charlotte Regan’s surefooted debut is as plucky as its title suggests

Scrapper: Charlotte Regan’s surefooted debut is as plucky as its title suggests

The tricky father-daughter relationship at this film’s heart makes it a poppier, knockabout cousin of Aftersun

Fri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Afire: This entertaining, masterly, genre-defying comedy rightly took home Berlin’s Silver Bear

Afire: This entertaining, masterly, genre-defying comedy rightly took home Berlin’s Silver Bear

German master Christian Petzold deftly weaves ecological catastrophe, sexual capering and a portrait of beta masculinity into something extraordinary

Fri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Afire: Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker didn’t realise how funny – and revealing – his new movie is

Afire: Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker didn’t realise how funny – and revealing – his new movie is

Christian Petzold, Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker, didn’t realise how funny – and possibly revealing – his new movie is

Tue Aug 22 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Latino culture celebrated in enjoyable DC yarn Blue Beetle, plus chilly AI drama T.I.M., unfunny adult doggy tale Strays, and Desperate Optimists in thoughtful The Future Tense

Sun Aug 20 2023 - 05:00
The Future Tense: Desperate Optimists take a pleasingly meandering look at relations between Ireland and its nearest neighbour

The Future Tense: Desperate Optimists take a pleasingly meandering look at relations between Ireland and its nearest neighbour

Although not everything in their documentary comes off, artists Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor make for great company

Thu Aug 17 2023 - 05:00
Victor Belmondo: ‘At the end of the movie my grandfather is shot. I was a kid and I was crying’

Victor Belmondo: ‘At the end of the movie my grandfather is shot. I was a kid and I was crying’

It’s hard to follow in the footsteps of an icon, but Jean-Paul Belmondo’s grandson is quietly becoming a screen star in his own right

Wed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Tim: What happens when a creepy robot assistant takes over your home? Here’s a cautionary tale

Tim: What happens when a creepy robot assistant takes over your home? Here’s a cautionary tale

A couple move into a high-tech home with a machine manservant, and you don’t need AI to tell you how that all works out

Wed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

A fun cast can’t save Disney’s limp Haunted Mansion. Plus sensitive Trouble documentary Face Down, true-life video game tale Gran Turismo, and Penélope Cruz in Italian transgender drama L’immensità

Sun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
Craig Revel Horwood: ‘My life was better before Strictly Come Dancing’

Craig Revel Horwood: ‘My life was better before Strictly Come Dancing’

The director, choreographer and Strictly star returns to Dublin with an electrifying turn as Miss Hannigan in Annie

Sun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
A charismatic Penélope Cruz anchors this charming transgender coming-of-age drama in L’Immensità

A charismatic Penélope Cruz anchors this charming transgender coming-of-age drama in L’Immensità

Immensity of film’s title refers to the complications of growing up, compounded by gender identity, precarious mental health and the disintegration of a marriage

Fri Aug 11 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo: The real-life story of Jann Mardenborough has heart and speed

Gran Turismo: The real-life story of Jann Mardenborough has heart and speed

Archie Madekwe is hugely likable as the Cardiff bedroom gamer who makes it big on the racetrack

Wed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo’s Jann Mardenborough: ‘It was the darkest moment of my personal and professional life’

Gran Turismo’s Jann Mardenborough: ‘It was the darkest moment of my personal and professional life’

The racing driver was keen for the tragedy of a crash that killed a spectator to be included in the exhilarating new film based on his career

Wed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Inclusive new TMNT animation is excellent family fun. Plus vital transgender doc Kokomo City, French Bataclan drama Paris Memories, and weakly whimsical murder mystery Maggie Moore(s)

Sun Aug 06 2023 - 05:00
Paris Memories: Delicate, affecting drama explores life after a terrorist attack

Paris Memories: Delicate, affecting drama explores life after a terrorist attack

Drawing from her brother’s experiences at the Bataclan in 2015, director Alice Winocour brings nuanced performances from her stars Virginie Efira and Benoît Magimel

Fri Aug 04 2023 - 05:00
Maggie Moore(s): What are Jon Hamm and Tina Fey doing in this ill-advised murder comedy?

Maggie Moore(s): What are Jon Hamm and Tina Fey doing in this ill-advised murder comedy?

Director John Slattery cannot reconcile the cacophony of incongruous tones in this tale of two namesake murder victims

Thu Aug 03 2023 - 05:00
Kokomo City is a landmark in trans representation on screen

Kokomo City is a landmark in trans representation on screen

Kokomo City, the former music producer’s Sundance-winning film, is a landmark in trans representation on screen

Mon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Everybody Loves Jeanne: Tart romcom with a revelatory turn from stand-up comic Blanche Gardin

Everybody Loves Jeanne: Tart romcom with a revelatory turn from stand-up comic Blanche Gardin

This charming film is a great debut for film-maker Céline Devaux

Fri Jul 28 2023 - 05:00
The Beanie Bubble review: Creepy-cute Zach Galifianakis is brilliant as the elusive Beanie Babies billionaire

The Beanie Bubble review: Creepy-cute Zach Galifianakis is brilliant as the elusive Beanie Babies billionaire

The cuddliest critique of capitalist greed and workplace sexism of the year

Thu Jul 27 2023 - 04:00
A secret gay history of UK espionage: ‘The skill-set of homosexuals and spies overlapped’

A secret gay history of UK espionage: ‘The skill-set of homosexuals and spies overlapped’

Huw Lemmey, a novelist and host of the Bad Gays podcast, has made the intriguing spy film Ungentle

Mon Jul 24 2023 - 06:05
Nicole Holofcener: ‘It’s shocking the way money is thrown around on a big-budget movie’

Nicole Holofcener: ‘It’s shocking the way money is thrown around on a big-budget movie’

Director will continue making films about shrinks, television producers and theatre practitioners who remain poignantly and amusingly human, even when they do awful things

Sat Jul 22 2023 - 06:15
They Cloned Tyrone: Squint and this sci-fi comedy satire could be a blaxploitation classic

They Cloned Tyrone: Squint and this sci-fi comedy satire could be a blaxploitation classic

Director Juel Taylor channels 1974′s Foxy Brown and 2017 horror hit Get Out in this race-conscious story of a two-bit drug dealer who is shot dead and brought back to life

Fri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
Oppenheimer review: Cillian Murphy gives a commanding turn. But why is Florence Pugh reduced to Crazy Naked Chick?

Oppenheimer review: Cillian Murphy gives a commanding turn. But why is Florence Pugh reduced to Crazy Naked Chick?

Not unlike its subject, the father of the atomic bomb, Christopher Nolan’s 12th feature is deeply flawed but brilliant

Wed Jul 19 2023 - 18:23
How exactly did Barbie get her groove back?: ‘Anything and everything you wanted her to be’

How exactly did Barbie get her groove back?: ‘Anything and everything you wanted her to be’

Inspired by a German ‘exhibitionist and floozy’ and reviled by generations of feminists, Barbie now synonymises more than a child’s doll

Sat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
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