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Witches: A pioneering investigation of post-partum psychosis

Witches: A pioneering investigation of post-partum psychosis

Elizabeth Sankey looks to cinematic tropes of occult-adjacent women in her fascinating documentary about mental health and motherhood

Wed Nov 20 2024 - 05:00
Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Drag gives you a licence to sort of scare yourself and other people. But how do you bring that into your daily life?’

Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Drag gives you a licence to sort of scare yourself and other people. But how do you bring that into your daily life?’

The performer and award-winning author discusses why and how he made his first film, Layla, a buoyant new drama concerning a British-Palestinian drag queen

Mon Nov 18 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Mescal and Washington are solid in otherwise second-hand Gladiator II. Plus charmingly festive Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, vibrant doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, and rigorous if cold drama In Camera

Sun Nov 17 2024 - 05:00
Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’

Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’

Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor

Sat Nov 16 2024 - 05:45
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point: Altmanesque seasonal comedy is a wistful riot of chatter and foods

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point: Altmanesque seasonal comedy is a wistful riot of chatter and foods

Tyler Taormina’s Cannes contender is a trippy Yuletide vibe

Fri Nov 15 2024 - 05:30
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: A fleet-footed chronicle that never lets up

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: A fleet-footed chronicle that never lets up

Johan Grimonprez’s propulsive account of jazz, colonialism, and the murder of Patrice Lumumba

Fri Nov 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Saoirse Ronan in in elaborate but conventional WWII drama Blitz, plus superior family film Paddington in Peru, static adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and peculiar ‘Legoised’ Pharrell Williams doc Piece by Piece

Sun Nov 10 2024 - 04:45
The Problem with People star Paul Reiser: ‘We’d sit out with our Guinness, chatting with people. We don’t have that in New York’

The Problem with People star Paul Reiser: ‘We’d sit out with our Guinness, chatting with people. We don’t have that in New York’

The comedian’s return to the ‘motherland’ was a big part of making his new comedy. ‘I’ve always been drawn to Ireland. The beauty and the greenness and the underlying melancholy’

Fri Nov 08 2024 - 09:45
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama

Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama

Steve McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart is a boy’s own adventure

Thu Nov 07 2024 - 05:00
Paddington in Peru review: Fine lessons wrapped up in fun and fur

Paddington in Peru review: Fine lessons wrapped up in fun and fur

This third Paddington instalment can’t live up to its predecessors, but it’s still vastly superior to most G-rated films

Wed Nov 06 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These and Hugh Grant in Heretic, plus Anora and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Sun Nov 03 2024 - 05:00
Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’

Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’

The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar

Fri Nov 01 2024 - 05:15
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland

Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland

Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland

Thu Oct 31 2024 - 05:00
Heretic review: Hugh Grant has a ball tormenting young Mormon doorsteppers in this gleeful horror thriller

Heretic review: Hugh Grant has a ball tormenting young Mormon doorsteppers in this gleeful horror thriller

Formerly foppish actor menaces in claustrophobic nailbiter from Oscar-nominated writers

Wed Oct 30 2024 - 05:00
Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’

Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’

The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in

Sun Oct 27 2024 - 05:25
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Bold trans drama/musical Emilia Pérez and Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door. Plus a lyrical Senegaelse documentary and an avant-garde depiction of an avant-garde painter

Sun Oct 27 2024 - 05:00
The Room Next Door review: Almodóvar’s English-language debut is stuffed with good performances but sounds off-key

The Room Next Door review: Almodóvar’s English-language debut is stuffed with good performances but sounds off-key

There are things to admire in Pedro Almodóvar's new film but this is a lesser offering from a great director

Thu Oct 24 2024 - 05:00
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review: A lovingly curated chronicle of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review: A lovingly curated chronicle of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Director Mark Cousins mostly lets the painting do the talking, lingering admiringly over the Scottish artist’s canvases

Wed Oct 23 2024 - 05:00
Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’

Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’

If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so

Sat Oct 19 2024 - 05:15
Every Little Thing: A gorgeous, life-affirming portrait of a hummingbird healer

Every Little Thing: A gorgeous, life-affirming portrait of a hummingbird healer

Documentary outlines hummingbird healer’s ideas about giving back to nature and complicated backstory

Thu Oct 17 2024 - 05:00
Woman of the Hour: Anna Kendrick’s chilling directorial debut gives voice to the victims of the serial killer Rodney Alcala

Woman of the Hour: Anna Kendrick’s chilling directorial debut gives voice to the victims of the serial killer Rodney Alcala

Anna Kendrick proves herself to be a formidable talent on both sides of the camera in this absorbing and considered film

Wed Oct 16 2024 - 05:00
Terrifier 3 star Daniel Roebuck: ‘You can bring your family to see it – but if you do we will turn you in to social services’

Terrifier 3 star Daniel Roebuck: ‘You can bring your family to see it – but if you do we will turn you in to social services’

Both a prominent Christian and an underground horror icon, Daniel Roebuck makes for a jolly Santa Claus in director Damien Leone’s third instalment of the gory splatter franchise

Mon Oct 14 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

A homage and critique of Hong Kong action cinema in elegiac Stuntman, plus evocative Irish drama King Frankie, sci-fi romcom Timestalker, and a bland return to Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot

Sun Oct 13 2024 - 05:00
François Ozon: ‘I wanted to give the power to the woman in the story. I wanted to make a film about sisterhood’

François Ozon: ‘I wanted to give the power to the woman in the story. I wanted to make a film about sisterhood’

The Crime Is Mine, the French director’s new movie, takes cues from the sensational murder trial of Violette Nozières, but it also flips the gender script

Sat Oct 12 2024 - 05:15
Stuntman: This retro Hong Kong action film is the movie The Fall Guy wanted to be

Stuntman: This retro Hong Kong action film is the movie The Fall Guy wanted to be

This debut feature showcases old-school choreography where performers slam against walls and fall down escalators

Thu Oct 10 2024 - 05:00
Timestalker: Like Horrible Histories with sex-toy jokes

Timestalker: Like Horrible Histories with sex-toy jokes

Alice Lowe chases her crush across centuries in this giddy reincarnation romcom

Wed Oct 09 2024 - 05:00
First Look: Barry Keoghan’s new film, the sometimes sickeningly extreme Bring Them Down, is a hard movie to like

First Look: Barry Keoghan’s new film, the sometimes sickeningly extreme Bring Them Down, is a hard movie to like

Christopher Andrews’s gory new rural revenge drama features scenes of animal mutilation that quickly outstay their welcome

Mon Oct 07 2024 - 11:34
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Turgid Joker: Folie à Deux falls flat, despite Phoenix and Gaga. Plus singular dark comedy A Different Man, West Bank-set drama The Teacher, and deadpan horror comedy Humanist Vampire...

Sun Oct 06 2024 - 05:00
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person: Like a very French Edward Scissorhands

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person: Like a very French Edward Scissorhands

Rising Québécoise star Sara Montpetit channels a young Winona Ryder as a reluctant vampire who feels compassion for her family’s victims

Fri Oct 04 2024 - 05:00
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun

Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster

Wed Oct 02 2024 - 09:33
The Teacher: Farah Nabulsi’s Palestinian drama is powered along by terrific performances and palpable fury

The Teacher: Farah Nabulsi’s Palestinian drama is powered along by terrific performances and palpable fury

The director’s compelling first feature takes cues from hostage negotiations but is more interested in common trauma than in fraught West Bank politics

Tue Oct 01 2024 - 12:17
Tim Roth: ‘Gary Oldman was going to Hollywood. He wanted that. I didn’t’

Tim Roth: ‘Gary Oldman was going to Hollywood. He wanted that. I didn’t’

The British actor on Quentin Tarantino, coping with grief and working with female talent like Dutch director Désirée Nosbusch and her debut film Poison

Mon Sept 30 2024 - 05:00
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter

Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use

Sun Sept 29 2024 - 12:22
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Saoirse Ronan shows new strengths as a recovering alcoholic in The Outrun. Plus sweet and sensitive My Old Ass, kindly road movie Will & Harper, and Francis Coppola’s ambitious folly Megalopolis

Sun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
Megalopolis or Megaflopolis? Francis Ford Coppola took 40 years to make this sci-fi epic but it misfires on the grandest scale

Megalopolis or Megaflopolis? Francis Ford Coppola took 40 years to make this sci-fi epic but it misfires on the grandest scale

Adam Driver looks as if he doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. We know exactly how he feels

Thu Sept 26 2024 - 05:00
My Old Ass: Aubrey Plaza deadpans as this charming low-fi sci-fi puts a fun spin on coming of age

My Old Ass: Aubrey Plaza deadpans as this charming low-fi sci-fi puts a fun spin on coming of age

Megan Park takes a wistful and sensitive angle on the letters-to-my-younger-self theme in this sassy comedy

Wed Sept 25 2024 - 05:00
Irish Hellboy star Leah McNamara: ‘At horror films I’m always the person watching between my fingers’

Irish Hellboy star Leah McNamara: ‘At horror films I’m always the person watching between my fingers’

The actor knew nothing about the series before she was cast in Hellboy: The Crooked Man. It triggered a deep dive into witchcraft

Mon Sept 23 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Bad dream horrors The Substance and Strange Darling are instant cult classics. Plus ‘tragically familiar’ Canadian abuse documentary Sugarcane and tense French drama The Goldman Case

Sun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
Strange Darling: How weird is this cult sensation? There’ll never be another movie quite like it

Strange Darling: How weird is this cult sensation? There’ll never be another movie quite like it

JT Mollner’s fever-pitch dream of serial killers and Americana aims to mess with your head – and succeeds

Fri Sept 20 2024 - 05:00
Sugarcane: Gripping story of abuse in Catholic schools in Canada is an early Oscar favourite

Sugarcane: Gripping story of abuse in Catholic schools in Canada is an early Oscar favourite

Documentary details horrific cruelty towards and abuse of First Nations children in residential schools and discovery of unmarked graves

Thu Sept 19 2024 - 05:15
Sketcherella: This must be Dublin Fringe Festival’s funniest show

Sketcherella: This must be Dublin Fringe Festival’s funniest show

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Erin McGathy delivers a quadruple threat of singing, wicked comic chops, costume changes and interpretive writhing

Tue Sept 17 2024 - 10:06
The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama

The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama

‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case

Mon Sept 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Speak No Evil, The Critic, My Favourite Cake, Lee

Sun Sept 15 2024 - 12:14
My Favourite Cake: A septuagenarian Brief Encounter jollied along by quiet political fury

My Favourite Cake: A septuagenarian Brief Encounter jollied along by quiet political fury

A lonely retired nurse goes out on the prowl in Iran where she meets an unmarried taxi driver

Thu Sept 12 2024 - 05:00
War photographer Lee Miller finds a champion in Kate Winslet, but this long-delayed biopic isn’t worth the wait

War photographer Lee Miller finds a champion in Kate Winslet, but this long-delayed biopic isn’t worth the wait

Despite the starry cast and Winslet’s dogged commitment, Lee is a very ordinary film about an extraordinary woman

Wed Sept 11 2024 - 05:00
Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to be

Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to be

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment

Tue Sept 10 2024 - 09:48
Jared Harris: ‘It’s much harder now for films without people who wear their underwear outside their clothes’

Jared Harris: ‘It’s much harder now for films without people who wear their underwear outside their clothes’

The Reawakening star talks about his famous Irish father, being his own harshest critic and how big stars have not been good for small movies

Mon Sept 09 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Tim Burton’s chaotic Beetlejuice sequel feels desperate, plus slow-burn folkie horror Starve Acre, superior Netflix drama Rebel Ridge, and striking Alzheimer’s doc Don’t Forget to Remember

Sun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
Starve Acre: Hare-raising horror about ancient dark things in the unnerving Yorkshire Dales

Starve Acre: Hare-raising horror about ancient dark things in the unnerving Yorkshire Dales

Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation deftly embellishes domestic backstory into grander, grimmer mythology

Thu Sept 05 2024 - 05:00
First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama

First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama

Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta

Wed Sept 04 2024 - 18:00
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