The Guarantee review: like watching men push at a door marked pull for 80 minutesIan Power’s bailout drama captures the yahoo patriarchy of bankers but is ultimately let down by a lack of subtletyFri Oct 31 2014 - 10:11
Donal Foreman: Tiger cub on the prowlFilm-maker Donal Foreman is hot property right now, thanks to the buzz surrounding his debut feature Out of Here - Irish cinema's first real grapple with post-boom youth cultureFri Oct 31 2014 - 04:14
Invasion of the Body Snatchers review: six decades on, Don Seigel’s classic still spooksSteeped in post-war paranoia and such contemporaneous hot topics as psychiatry, it offers a snapshot of 1950s consciousnessFri Oct 31 2014 - 00:00
Ouija review: a horror movie for people who hate horror moviesThe film-makers stick to the standard horror film template with not very startling resultsFri Oct 31 2014 - 00:00
Jimi: All is By My Side review - lost in period hazeAndré Benjamin shines in a strangely muted boipic that seems to struggle against its own limitationsFri Oct 24 2014 - 03:30
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day reviewHere’s a old-fashioned family comedy with a hero to root forFri Oct 24 2014 - 03:30
Fury director David Ayer: ’War is hell, yeah’All-round yank David Ayer talks South Central LA, navy discipline and true-grit cinema with Tara Brady. And what if he hadn’t become a director?“A betting man would have said dead or in prison.”Fri Oct 24 2014 - 01:45
Fury review: Good guys do good. Nazis get shot. What more do you want?A motley crew fights its way from north Africa to Nazi Germany. but the real star is the tankMon Oct 20 2014 - 08:02
Palo Alto review: a little aimless, but then again, aren’t all teenagers?The latest member of the Coppola clan to get behind a camera delivers a debut that feels very much in the family tradition.Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:54
The Babadook: a truly, madly, creepy film debutAustralian writer-director Jennifer Kent has created a truly sinister slice of cinema with her debut movie ‘The Babadook’. ‘For me, the entry point was the idea of facing the unfaceable,’ she tellsTara BradyFri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
The Battles of Coronel and Falklands Islands review: prescient naval gazingThis dramatisation of two major sea battles of the first World War uncannily prefigures the future of both cinema and conflictFri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
The Overnighters review: a compelling portrait of the best and worst of humanityThe Overnighters is a beautifully crafted piece of storytelling - and as an important snapshot of the new Great Depression.Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
Ballet at the movies: A poetic dance across the silver screenAhead of tonight's live relay of Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Manon’ in selected cinema’s around the country, the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, reveals how he went from appearing in Bugsy Malone to leading Britain’s largest ballet companyWed Oct 15 2014 - 16:00
The top 50 films on Netflix, October 2014The classics section is surprisingly small, and the same schlock keeps coming up again and again, but there are plenty of movie gems lurking around NetflixFri Oct 10 2014 - 14:18
Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones fame: ‘People have a sense of ownership about you . . . And I think, how do you know? This is exactly who I am. F**k you’School’s a challenge, Twitter’s a minefield and growing up in public is no picnic. But Games of Thrones star Maisie Williams wears her adolescent fury wellFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
The Maze Runner review: A young adult epic failBuff actors? Formulaic and incomprehensible plot? Must be the the latest dystopian YA sci-fi movieFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
Sam Reid plays it posh again but has sights on less plummy partsSam Reid seems to have a monopoly on posh English parts. A soldiering stint is next for the Australian actorSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
The Great Train Robbery’s Irish mastermindHalf a century after the famous heist, one of the two survivors has spilled the beans on Patrick McKenna, a Belfast-born postmasterSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
David Fincher, the unflinching auteurNoted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’Fri Oct 03 2014 - 04:02
David Fincher, the unflinching auteurNoted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’Fri Oct 03 2014 - 00:00
Salvatore Giuliano review: a complex portrait of Sicily’s citizens, the Mafia and the governmentFri Sept 26 2014 - 03:00
Billy Connolly: he's not your average 71-year-oldThe comedian was diagnosed with prostate cancer on the same day he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but it seems nothing can stop the Big Yin laughingThu Sept 25 2014 - 01:00
Nick Cave: ‘As long as I can remember I’ve had a pre-disposition toward violent thought’On the eve of the release of the documentary ‘20,000 Days on Earth’, Nick Cave talks life, music and his Aussie sense of humourFri Sept 19 2014 - 00:00
Film choice: Night Will Fall - too important to missAndre Singer film tells the remarkable story of the footage shot by the Allies of Nazi Concentration Camps in 1945, and how it took 70 years to make it to screenFri Sept 19 2014 - 00:00
Despite the homogeneous onslaught, quality can still make it at the box officeFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
Down By Law review: character, style and atmosphere from a contemporary masterFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
In Order of Disappearance review: revenge, Norwegian-style, served up ice-cold and bloodyFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
Christina Noble: “We talk about abortion and there’s an uproar. But what about the billions of children that are already out there?”Christina Noble emerged from a tough upbringing and a turbulent marriage to start a foundation that works with children in southeast Asia. As a new movie about her remarkable life opens, the humanitarian worker talks to Tara BradyFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
A Spell to Ward off the Darkness review: a too-dreamy search for the spiritualFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
