Mélanie Laurent: ‘My brain always, always goes to directing first’Tarantino thrust her into the limelight and now she is making her own feminist thrillersTue Sept 14 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAretha Franklin biopic Respect, Herself and Copilot in cinemas, Sweet Thing streamingSun Sept 12 2021 - 06:00
Sweet Thing: An underappreciated director returns with styleAlexandre Rockwell has made a lively coming-of-age fableFri Sept 10 2021 - 05:00
Copilot: Portrait of a relationship destroyed by fanaticismStory of young love becomes tale of the humanity underlying extremismFri Sept 10 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekAnnette, Wildfire, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Here TodaySun Sept 05 2021 - 06:00
Annette: Big, bold and wildly originalAdam Driver is monstrously good in Leos Carax’s gorgeous musicalFri Sept 03 2021 - 05:00
Here Today: It’s a funny old worldReview: Billy Crystal plays a veteran comedy writer in ths non-romantic rom-comFri Sept 03 2021 - 05:00
Director Cathy Brady: ‘With Wildfire I was interested in the internal violence of women in the North’Newry-born film-maker depicts a Border family drama starring Nora-Jane Noone and the late Nika McGuiganWed Sept 01 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week, including 5 stars for Jude LawThe Nest, Candyman and Redemption of a Rogue in cinemas, Demonic streamingSun Aug 29 2021 - 06:00
Simon Helberg: ‘I became a French citizen just to get a part in Annette’The actor on starring in Leos Carax’s raucous rock opera with Adam Driver and SparksSat Aug 28 2021 - 05:00
Demonic: A new way of looking at thingsReview: Intriguing camera technology adds to sense of eerinessFri Aug 27 2021 - 05:00
The Nest: Jude Law is unnerving in this arrestingly chilly five-star filmA superficially happy family is transformed in Sean Durkin’s impressive psychological dramaFri Aug 27 2021 - 05:00
Hidden horrors: Remaking Candyman for the Black Lives Matter eraFilmmaker Nia DaCosta looks at modern issues affecting the black community in the USWed Aug 25 2021 - 05:00
Sweet Girl: Jason Mamoa is impressive. The rest of this Netflix film is notReview: This new revenge thriller depends too heavily on its unexpected plot twistFri Aug 20 2021 - 05:00
Pig: Five stars for Nicolas Cage’s expectation-upending new movieReview: This is the actor's most contemplative performance in yearsThu Aug 19 2021 - 05:00
Gemma-Leah Devereux: ‘Whatever you think I can’t do, that’s what I want to do’The Irish actor leaves the comfort zone behind in Smother, Judy and The Bright SideSat Aug 14 2021 - 05:00
Wendy: A fresh new take on tired old Peter PanBeasts of the Southern Wild director defies odds with successful reimaginingFri Aug 13 2021 - 05:00
New Order: When class warfare goes badControversial Mexican drama about elites versus the mobFri Aug 13 2021 - 05:00
Dan Stevens: ‘You learn a lot watching Will Ferrell improvise’Downton Abbey star and Booker Prize judge on his love of Newgrange and becoming a German androidWed Aug 11 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekZola, Boys from County Hell, Last Letter to Your Lover in cinemas, Antebellum streamingSun Aug 08 2021 - 06:00
The Last Letter from Your Lover: Fantastical romancesFabulous costumes, charming characters ... what’s missing?Fri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00
Antebellum: Caught in the trap of historyNightmarish science fiction set on a southern plantationFri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00
An Irish vampire makes his big-screen debutChris Baugh’s film The Boys from County Hell revives the myth of AbhartachWed Aug 04 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekLimbo, The Suicide Squad, The Sparks Brothers, Jungle CruiseSun Aug 01 2021 - 06:00
Niamh Algar: From sparring with Ridley Scott to lockdown in MullingarThe Westmeath actor on working with the Alien director, her new C4 series Deceit and starring in horror flick CensorSat Jul 31 2021 - 06:00
The Sparks Brothers: Oddly shaped tribute to oddly shaped bandEdgar Wright’s documentary includes Sparks fans Beck, Björk and New OrderFri Jul 30 2021 - 05:00
Jungle Cruise: This ride is short on thrillsReview: Another theme park spin-off fails to igniteFri Jul 30 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekM Night Shyamalan’s Old, plus I Never Cry, The World to Come, Air ConditionerSun Jul 25 2021 - 06:00
King Shark Sylvester Stallone: ‘I’m looking for love. It’s the loneliest apex predator’The affable star does not phone it in even when playing a CGI fish in The Suicide SquadSat Jul 24 2021 - 05:00
The World to Come: Tale of forbidden love in frontier America that subverts expectationsAward-winning drama features powerful performances and gorgeous cinematographyFri Jul 23 2021 - 05:00
Air Conditioner: Vibrant Angolan debut that is like nothing you have seen beforeThis surreal odyssey is pitched somewhere between science fiction and magic realismFri Jul 23 2021 - 05:00
Director Mona Fastvold: ‘It’s like people don’t associate female filmmakers with auteurs’Norwegian film-maker on her long-awaited second feature dubbed a period, lesbian Brokeback MountainThu Jul 22 2021 - 05:00
James Gunn: ‘If superhero movies don’t change, it’s gonna get really boring’Director on being cancelled, visual effects and reworking The Suicide SquadWed Jul 21 2021 - 05:00
Cannes Film Festival railed against the Zoom and gloom with swagger and styleAwards offered a spectacular anomaly in a year of virtual, scaled-back ceremoniesTue Jul 20 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekUnsettling Deerskin, Fear Street trilogy, sequels to The Croods and Space JamSun Jul 18 2021 - 06:00
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soonFrench director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honourSat Jul 17 2021 - 05:00
Space Jam: A New Legacy – That’s not all, folksLeBron James succeeds Michael Jordan in Warner Bros merch-festFri Jul 16 2021 - 05:00
The Croods: A New Age – Prehistoric family gets a second outingReview: With a good cast and reasonable jokes, this sequel passes the timeFri Jul 16 2021 - 05:00
Kelly Marie Tran on Star Wars hate speech: ‘Through the stuff, I always had my friends’The actor on toxic fanbases, being on ‘an improv team of all-Asian women’ and Croods 2Thu Jul 15 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBlockbuster Black Widow, US indie First Cow, and Euro dramas Jumbo and ToveSun Jul 11 2021 - 06:00
Fairground attraction: object sexuality delicately depicted by Zoé WittockJumbo is an award-winning coming-of-age romance featuring Noémie MerlantSat Jul 10 2021 - 05:00
First Cow: Trapped by the bonds of historyReview: Fine ensemble gives added weight to story of American frontierFri Jul 09 2021 - 05:00
Tove: Moomins creator’s postwar bohemia lovingly recreatedConventional biopic of Tove Jansson is frustrating at times but there are things to admireFri Jul 09 2021 - 05:00
RL Stine has sold 400 million books: ‘And people say kids don’t read’The Goosebumps author on his rules for writing and the new Fear Street films on NetflixThu Jul 08 2021 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekOscar winner Another Round, Irish horror Son, docs Last Man Standing, Lady BossSun Jul 04 2021 - 06:00
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story – An entertaining romp that goes beyond the shoulderpadsAdmiring documentary works best when it finds parallels between writer and charactersFri Jul 02 2021 - 05:00
Last Man Standing: Revisiting the Biggie & Tupac crime sceneNick Broomfield delves deeper into the gang links with Suge Knight’s Death Row RecordsFri Jul 02 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFast & Furious 9, Supernova, Fatima, The Hitman’s Wife’s BodyguardSun Jun 27 2021 - 06:00
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard: A film so bad it tests your faith in humanityNow that cinemas are finally open, it’s hard to think of a worse way to mark the occasionFri Jun 25 2021 - 05:00
