Our Brand is Crisis review: Just about makes a drama out of a crisisA constellation of likeable actors is on the case - including Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton - but the dramedy just doesn’t quite come together as it shouldThu Jan 21 2016 - 16:04
Ryan Coogler: ‘Apollo Creed meant everything to African-Americans’In the Rocky offshoot Creed, Ryan Coogler has made a rare boxing film with a black actor as star. The director talks about how he won over Sly, and the cultural importance of Apollo CreedSun Jan 17 2016 - 06:00
Adam McKay: ‘I just wanted people to understand that nothing has changed'The man behind such comedies as Anchorman and Step Brothers has toned down the farce for his latest film, the star-studded multi-Oscar-nominated The Big ShortFri Jan 15 2016 - 09:00
Creed review: a fresh glint in the eye of the tigerCreed firmly overthrows any notions that the Rocky films are trading on an elaborate Great White Hope mythologyThu Jan 14 2016 - 14:00
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I couldn’t bear the idea that I wasn’t the smartest’The brain-box Irish film-maker suddenly finds himself a hot Oscar prospect with his acclaimed fifth feature, which is tearing up the awards trailFri Jan 08 2016 - 06:00
Last Hijack review: A Somali pirate’s tale that gets a little bit lost at seaTommy Pallotta’s documentary is nicely presented but lacks a coherent narrativeThu Jan 07 2016 - 11:00
Bolshoi Babylon Review: A visceral look inside the famous ballet company“The world of theatre is cruel . . . It looks beautiful from the outside, but inside it's boiling”Wed Jan 06 2016 - 17:02
Alejandro González Iñárritu: survival of the fittest - on set and in HollywoodThere ain’t no mountain tough enough for the Oscar-winning director of wilderness epic The Revenant. ‘I’m just somebody whose vision is clear and I work my ass off to realise it’Fri Jan 01 2016 - 10:10
The Danish Girl review: a marriage in transformationEddie Redmayne plays the pioneering transgender painter Einar ‘Lili’ Wegener in this interesting if overly tame biopic from the director of ‘The King’s Speech’Thu Dec 31 2015 - 07:00
Reissue of the week: Le Mépris - Godard’s grand allusionsHere’s one ‘Contempt’ that has stood the test of time: sex bomb Brigitte Bardot and Hollywood hard man Jack Palance star in this 1963 Italian drama about marriage, the movies and selling outWed Dec 30 2015 - 11:00
In the Heart of the Sea review: they messed with the wrong whaleAmid all the swashbuckling, derring-do and mild ecological messages, Ron Howard delivers a delightfully old-fashioned high-seas adventureThu Dec 24 2015 - 07:00
The Danish Girl: ‘It’s only now that the world has embraced the trans cause’Tom Hooper’s film about a transgender woman born in 1882 has hit the zeitgeistMon Dec 21 2015 - 06:00
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Move review: Gets the flavour just rightWe’re delighted to report that: you’re a good movie, Charlie BrownFri Dec 18 2015 - 14:09
Cillian Murphy: ‘I like going to extremes’Cillian Murphy’s latest film In the Heart of the Sea finds him shipping pounds of weight while shooting far out on the ocean - and he relishes the challenges of difficult workFri Dec 18 2015 - 07:26
The Forbidden Room review: All the phantasmagoria you can handleThe Forbidden Room began life as a wildly ambitious and proudly cuckoo project at the Centre Georges Pompidou in ParisThu Dec 17 2015 - 17:00
There’s no one quite like grandma: Lily Tomlin speaks her mindLily Tomlin is great in Grandma as a foul-mouthed lesbian poet, a part that was written for her. She talks about abortion, feminism and why Jane Fonda owes herMon Dec 14 2015 - 17:00
Grandma review: clever, consistently funny, surprisingly affectingLily Tomlin turns in one of the year’s best performances in this bittersweet crisis-pregnancy comedyFri Dec 11 2015 - 10:10
Sisters review: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler get caught up in some risky businessSparks fly between longtime sparring partners Fey and Poehler in this otherwise predictable comedyFri Dec 11 2015 - 06:10
Young, gifted and black: the new acting force behind The Force AwakensReboot king JJ Abrams is diversifying the Star Wars universe... Gwendoline Christie, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega on finding new hope in a galaxy far, far awayThu Dec 10 2015 - 05:45
Bargaintown review: a loving snapshot of a Dublin long since disappearedDavid Jazay and Judith Klinger’s restored 1988 documentary is a fascinating record of the capital in the years before the Celtic TigerFri Dec 04 2015 - 11:22
Agyness Deyn: “I never intended to be a model. I didn’t have a clue about it"As her new movie Sunset Song opens in cinemas, the accidental-model-turned-actress explains her journey from fish-and-chip shops to the catwalk to the big screenFri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
The Ticket Awards 2015: FilmFranchises were creaky (though a certain space opera has yet to land); the best films were strange beasts; and the locals came good. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady on the best and worst of film in 2015Fri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
Krampus review: This is what happens to naughty kids at ChristmasTrick ’r Treat director Mike Dougherty’s seasonal horror is fun, and with a super cast, but gets bogged down in family pyscho-dramaThu Dec 03 2015 - 23:59
The Lesson review: Debt-related stress has seldom seemed so entertainingSteely heroine takes on Kafkaesque bank bureaucracy in attempt to save her homeThu Dec 03 2015 - 19:00
Christmas with the Coopers review: A starry cast can’t save this seasonal storyMake way for a blitzkreig of Christmasiness – and a terrible waste of a talented ensembleMon Nov 30 2015 - 11:00
AP McCoy: 'I’d love to be out there... I miss torturing myself'In a stellar career, Tony McCoy never relinquished his grip on the jockeys’ championship. So how will he cope with being out of the saddle?Fri Nov 27 2015 - 06:00
The Good Dinosaur review: Yabba-dabba-do time? Not quiteThe premise – What if dinosaurs were dirt-farmers? – doesn’t have quite the appealing ring as Toy Story’s what if toys were alive?Thu Nov 26 2015 - 17:01
Hand Gestures review: slow cinema set brilliantly in bronzeThere are layers of craft in evidence in Francesco Clerici’s detailed study of an historic Italian bronze foundryMon Nov 23 2015 - 16:09
Being AP review: Thrills, spills and dry dour witBeing AP has more in common with a rehab movie than it does with the average sports docMon Nov 23 2015 - 11:00
Gaspar Noé: bringing carnal knowledge into the third dimensionFrench cinema’s baddest bad boy makes really explicit movies about sex and sexuality. ‘Why is male nudity a problem when female nudity is everywhere?’ he wondersFri Nov 20 2015 - 05:00
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans review: lessons about the blinding power of fameHaving heard that Garner had beaten him to making a film about car racing McQueen apparently pulled out little Steve and urinated on Jim’s flower pots. This is one of the more flattering stories in The Man & Le MansThu Nov 19 2015 - 19:00
Reissue of the Week: True Romance - Still a firecracker of a film after all these yearsTwo decades after it flopped at the box-office, Tony Scott take on Quentin Tarantino’s trope-filled screenplay plays like a classic of anti-canonical canonical cinemaThu Nov 19 2015 - 14:13
A very Panti Christmas: Rory O’Neill makes merry with family, Roses and a good filmSurely nobody deserves Christmas more than Rory O’Neill, the man behind Panti Bliss, this country’s undisputed Woman of the YearThu Nov 19 2015 - 06:00
A Christmas Star review: a charming Irish Yuletide movie made by kids for kidsA few twinkling stars – including Kylie, Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson – ramp up the seasonal spirit of this above-average yarnFri Nov 13 2015 - 10:38
Tangerine: How to make an award-winning movie with an iPhoneDirector Sean Baker on his zingy new movie about transgender sex workers in LAFri Nov 13 2015 - 05:30
Fathers and Daughters review: a good ol’ melodramatic thesp-festThere’s something too old-fashioned and wilfully anachronistic about the entire enterpriseThu Nov 12 2015 - 20:00
The Hallow review: from zero to cuckoo bananas in less than a minuteA creature feature can’t survive on creatures alone: one can’t execute a jump scare when the jumps just keep on comingThu Nov 12 2015 - 18:00
He Named Me Malala: a portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning teenage campaignerWhile filming ‘He Named Me Malala’, director Davis Guggenheim had an audience in mind: his own teenage daughtersFri Nov 06 2015 - 06:00
He Named Me Malala review: the private life of a public heroineMalala Yousafzai, the girl who took on the Taliban, is given a poignantly intimate portrayal in Davis Guggenheim’s affecting documentaryThu Nov 05 2015 - 17:00
Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse review: even grosser than you'd imagineRisky Business meets Evil Dead 2 in this low-grade teen horror comedyThu Nov 05 2015 - 15:00
Fresh Dressed review: a most excellent history of hip-hop styleSacha Jenkins documentary expertly traces the fashion line from from classic B-Boys and B-Girls to P Diddy and beyondSat Oct 31 2015 - 08:35
They Will Have to Kill Us First review: A breath of Mali’s forbidden musical oxygenThe presence, and bravery, of female musicians Khaira Arby and Fadimata Walet Oumar, aka Disco, lend extra substance to Johanna Schwartz’s moving documentaryThu Oct 29 2015 - 15:08
“Feminism has been a dirty word for a long time” - the untold story of women’s liberation in the USWitches in Washington, illegal abortion networks and reproductive rights: the history of late 20th-century feminism is filled with fascinating stories, says film-maker Mary DoreThu Oct 29 2015 - 07:14
Listen To Me Marlon review: the great, mumbling enigma in his own wordsStevan Riley’s documentary uses private recordings featuring Marlon Brando's fascinating and occasionally disturbing musingsWed Oct 28 2015 - 16:08
The Queen of Ireland review: Tragedy, comedy, a plucky, unlikely heroine, and a sweeping dramatic arcConor Horgan’s triumphant documentary deftly weaves through monumental moment of social history without losing sight of protagonistFri Oct 23 2015 - 15:51
The Legend of Longwood review: a plot as thick as horse thievesBoo-hiss pantomime villains, gothic apparitions, and mystic codology make this film far too cluttered with blarney and competing narrativesFri Oct 23 2015 - 12:58
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension review - more found footage that should’ve stayed lostThe horror franchise that started with such a bang goes out with a disappointing whimperFri Oct 23 2015 - 12:56
The Last Witch Hunter review: Harry Potter for emo kidsThis CGI-crazed fantasy is like Harry Potter for Emo kids, but broody Vin Diesel and a good cast give it some oomphFri Oct 23 2015 - 12:56
Saoirse Ronan: bold before her timeAt the age of 9 she made her screen debut in RTÉ’s ‘The Clinic’. At 13 she was Oscar-nominated for ‘Atonement’. The Bronx-born, Carlow-raised star truly has been there/done that, which suits her role as an Irish immigrant in ‘Brooklyn’Fri Oct 23 2015 - 06:00
That’s a weight off Colin Farrell’s mindAsk the actor to pile on the pounds, then lose them? No bother. Need a cracking interview in jig time? Here you go. But beneath the bonhomie is an unmistakable intensitySat Oct 17 2015 - 07:00
