Geoffrey Rush: ‘I used to be the Fool; now I’m Lear’20 years after ‘Shine’, the self-effacing Aussie is the youngest actor to have won the elite acting treble of an Oscar, Emmy and TonyFri May 20 2016 - 06:00
Kate Beckinsale: Phone taps and Austen super powersKate Beckinsale might be a go-to girl for Jane Austen adaptations, in between badass superhero roles. But her family life growing up had more to do with miners’ marches, Trotskyism and having their phone tappedFri May 20 2016 - 06:00
The Red Turtle Cannes review: Studio Ghibli makes a stylish returnNerve-wrecking action and a castaway story make for a thrilling, fresh creationThu May 19 2016 - 18:26
Journey to the Shore review: a maddeningly spectral ghost storyKiyoshi Kurosawa veers away from his acclaimed J-horror for a Buddhist riff on ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’Thu May 19 2016 - 18:21
Graduation Cannes review: A brilliant study in the small evils of cronyismDirector Cristian Mungiu follows a logic that begins with “Do me just this one favour . . . ”Thu May 19 2016 - 18:04
The Silent Storm review: wind swept, well-chewed sceneryEverything about The Silent Storm suggests a screenplay was written entirely IN CAPITAL LETTERS. No “r” goes unrolled, no piece of furniture is unpoundedThu May 19 2016 - 17:30
X-Men Apocalypse review: latest effort fails to hit the spotAfter 17 years the franchise seems tired, despite some star performancesThu May 19 2016 - 13:00
The Angry Birds Movie review: delightful all-ages comedy with a subversive streakA stand-out voice cast – Jason Sudekis, Sean Penn, Peter Dinklage, Danny McBride, Bill Hadar – add great colour to an already brightly hued animated comedyFri May 13 2016 - 12:36
Troublemakers review: There’s conceptual art in them thar hillsThere is much to sea in James Crump’s lively documentary about the Land Art movementThu May 12 2016 - 18:00
Green Room review: band on the run from neo-NazisA punk band’s performance turns into a nail-biting thriller that spills into carnageThu May 12 2016 - 17:04
Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I never decided to become an actor. I still haven’t decided’Stellan Skarsgård is one of Hollywood’s top earners, yet he has little time for the system. ‘I just happened to appear in very successful films,’ he saysThu May 12 2016 - 16:00
Knight of Cups review: Terrence Malick twirls himself into near-total incoherenceChristian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett mumble codology as the oblique auteur strays even further into self-parody with this narrative-free pretentious messThu May 05 2016 - 17:25
Lucile Hadihalilovic: ‘The first idea was the male pregnancy and the hospital’French writer-director Lucile Hadihalilovic’s transfixing new film Evolution will subvert everything you thought you knew about procreationThu May 05 2016 - 15:24
Robinson Crusoe review: Daniel Defoe’s eventful original is deserted “to the max”Two two mangy cats take the lead as the shipwrecked sailor is shoehorned into a wacky animal escapadeThu May 05 2016 - 13:01
Reissue of the Week: Johnny Guitar - How the west was . . . whoa!The peerless Joan Crawford stars as a pistol-packin’, cross-dressin’ saloonkeeper in one of the strangest and most subversive of American westernsThu May 05 2016 - 08:05
Marvel’s masterplan - here's the MCU superhero schedule from now till 2019From Dr Strange in November to Avengers: Infinity War Part Two in mid-2019, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three is just about completeFri Apr 29 2016 - 11:15
Marvel marches on, but when will the bubble burst?Captain America: Civil War is the latest staging post in Marvel's attack on the box office. Can it be stopped? Directors Joe and Anthony Russo and star Chris Evans talk to Tara BradyFri Apr 29 2016 - 06:00
Welcome to Me review: toe-curling comedy about the horrors of car-crash TVKristen Wiig plays a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins $86 million on the lottery - and then the fun/nightmare beginsThu Apr 28 2016 - 23:12
Golden Years review: a good-natured, if ramshackle, ‘grey pound’ crime caperBernard Hill and Virginia McKenna deliver lovely performances as bank-robbing pensioners, but the film just can’t shake off the TV sitcom vibeThu Apr 28 2016 - 17:05
Son of Saul review: wrestles with the impossible to stunning effectMeticulously organised in its portrayal of dehumanisation and moral chaos, László Nemes Oscar-winner is almost beyond compareThu Apr 28 2016 - 15:36
Don Cheadle on Miles Davis: ‘He touched on everything. And he changed everything’A decade in the making, ‘Miles Ahead’ director-writer Don Cheadle battled to create a film that touched on lots of genres. "I wanted it to feel like a Miles Davis composition"Fri Apr 22 2016 - 06:38
Jane Got a Gun review: solidly entertaining despite the production shenanigansNatalie Portman proves a dab hand with the weapon of the titleThu Apr 21 2016 - 19:35
Louder Than Bombs review: Exploring the deafening silence of lossThe starry ensemble cast excels in Joachim Trier’s film about the tangles of deception that enmesh a grieving familyThu Apr 21 2016 - 15:47
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures review - Life through a distorted lensDespite some moving contributions from family members and friends, this documentary on the famed photographer never really gets anywhere near its subjectThu Apr 21 2016 - 15:15
Brand New Testament review: a divine, playful comedyFilm portrays God as a jerk living in a Brussels apartmentFri Apr 15 2016 - 07:13
‘There are people in the military extremely sceptical about drone warfare’When researching his new film Eye in the Sky, director Gavin Hood found that far from a united front, the military is divided on drone strikesFri Apr 15 2016 - 06:20
Our Little Sister review: a tranquil reflection on the meaning of familyAn all-female family finds contentment in discontents and bliss in dysfunction in Hirokazu Koreeda warm-hearted featureThu Apr 14 2016 - 13:34
Ruth Negga: ‘There aren’t many black people on film sets’The actor, who is an early Oscar tip for Loving and also stars in the ‘entrancing’ Iona, talks about the ‘white Oscars’ controversy and her desire to move homeFri Apr 08 2016 - 06:00
Couple in a Hole review: brilliantly does exactly what it says on the tinCinematographer Sam Care carefully counterpoints a very stark existence with verdant vistasThu Apr 07 2016 - 22:00
Dheepan review: Audiard’s latest feels more like a doodle than a tableau vivantA surprise Palme d’Or winner, Dheepan revisits Jacques Audiard’s pet preoccupations with masculinity and violence, but lacks the coherence of his best-loved worksThu Apr 07 2016 - 17:28
Evanna Lynch: ‘I found that it was a way of getting attention that I could control’The star of My Name is Emily talks about battling anorexia as a child, landing the part of Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter, and moving from Termonfeckin to LA to build a careerWed Apr 06 2016 - 15:00
Nasty Baby review: a truly mean hipster satire that deserves the title nastyYou can see why the Toronto Film Festival turned this film down - although you can equally see how it took home the Teddy from BerlinWed Apr 06 2016 - 14:00
The Huntsman: Winter’s War review - a CGI-laden exercise in pointlessnessEven if Kristen Stewart hadn’t disappeared from the project, this prequel would still rank as one one of the daftest studio miscalculations of all timeTue Apr 05 2016 - 11:45
Rachel Griffiths: 'I can walk into a scene, break balls, and cause shit to go down'It's not the first time the star of Irish drama Mammal has been here - two decades ago, Griffith toured Ireland in a camper van with Muriel’s Wedding co-star Toni Colette...Fri Apr 01 2016 - 06:00
Mammal review: brilliant depiction of unspoken needs and muffled emotionsMichael McElhatton nicely balances Rachel Griffith’s deadened cool in Rebecca Daly's film, but it is the young Barry Keoghan who walks away with the pictureThu Mar 31 2016 - 16:30
Sebastian Schipper, the one-take wonder: filming Victoria 'was a crazy enterprise’There have been single-shot movies before, but none comes close to what writer-director Sebastian Schipper has achieved with his bank-heist action film 'Victoria'Thu Mar 31 2016 - 15:30
Ran review: Kurosawa’s masterpiece remains as sharp as a serpent’s toothFreshly restored in a new print, Akira Kurosawa's epic reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear has not dimmed one bit in the three decades since its first releaseWed Mar 30 2016 - 16:56
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo: Sing Street, Sundance... now back to schoolHe wowed Sundance and impressed at Audi Dublin International Film Festival – the teenage musician and actor is perfectly cast as director John Carney’s movie alter-egoFri Mar 25 2016 - 12:00
The Club review: the must-see feel-bad film of the yearPablo Larraín, director of Tony Manero and Post Mortem, returns with an intensely grim, insistently provocative film about paedophile priestThu Mar 24 2016 - 17:30
Disorder review: Flourishes of brilliance amongst the minimalismMatthais Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger are excellent in Alice Winocour’s stylish take on the age-old tale of the bodyguard and the mollThu Mar 24 2016 - 16:10
Court review: magnificent, maddening drama from first-time director Chaitanya TamhaneEven with a novice crew and amateur actors, this fiendishly clever debut takes the courtroom drama to new placesThu Mar 24 2016 - 14:01
Fresh nuptials: My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos is backFive minutes with Nia Vardalos would melt even the most thuggish heart. The creator of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its sequel talks family values and follow-upsThu Mar 24 2016 - 07:00
High-Rise ambition: why super-producer Jeremy Thomas brought JG Ballard to BelfastThomas is on his second Ballard film: High-Rise starring Tom HiddlestonMon Mar 21 2016 - 07:00
10 Cloverfield Lane review: white-knuckle affair, replete with twists, turns and terrorThis one-room, micro-budget thriller works well as a ‘parallel’ film to JJ Abrams’s Cloverfield - just try to ignore the monster-sizer spoiler in the titleFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:58
Sing Street review: A New Romantic vision of Dublin in the 1980sIt may paint an unnaturally rosy picture of 1980s Dublin, but terrific songs and excellent performances make John Carney’s latest musical a delightThu Mar 17 2016 - 21:58
Marguerite review: Off-key, but right on the moneyThe story of socialite and ‘singer’ Florence Foster Jenkins is transferred brilliantly to Roaring Twenties ParisThu Mar 17 2016 - 11:10
Neil Jordan: ‘Michael Collins was conventional – apart from the guerrilla warfare’Ahead of the 20th-anniversary re-release of Neil Jordan’s hugely successful film Michael Collins, the director reflects on the ‘unique opportunity’ he got to make itThu Mar 17 2016 - 06:00
The Boy review: pleasingly ridiculous, high-concept old-school horror fareEventually, The Boy gets too damned silly for its own good, but is nevertheless nicely orchestrated and powered along by good performancesWed Mar 16 2016 - 23:15
Iftas: My Name is Emily, Room and Sing Street sweep 2016 nominationsLiam Neeson to receive award in recognition of his ‘outstanding contribution to cinema’Mon Mar 14 2016 - 11:24
Anomalisa review: Charlie Kaufman dissects the anatomy of lonlinessStrange, off-putting, sour and meticulous - this stop-motion animation is perhaps the most Kaufman-esque thing Charlie Kaufman’s ever doneThu Mar 10 2016 - 22:19
