The Irish Times

Deep Water: Neurotic, not very erotic and pretty pathetic return from Fatal Attraction director

Film review: Adrian Lyne’s ninth feature fails miserably to be any sort of good film

Fri Mar 18 2022 - 05:00

Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne: ‘Jealousy is an aphrodisiac’

The British film-maker is back after 20 years with another erotic thriller, Deep Water

Wed Mar 16 2022 - 06:00

Lucy Foley: ‘I love a really well-written yarn’

Best-selling author enjoys playing with old crime clichés

Sat Mar 05 2022 - 06:00

Patrick Freyne: The pandemic can’t end until Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends airs

The big shows I’m anticipating in 2022, featuring Baby Yoda and my wife’s other husband

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: ‘I’m grateful for my chances. But it took a lot of digging my heels in’

The Bollywood star who cracked Hollywood on being able to set her own direction

Wed Jan 20 2021 - 05:00

Washed Out: Purple Noon – Smooth but interest wears thin

Album covers ground previously explored many, many times before

Fri Aug 07 2020 - 05:00

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10

Baby review: Sharing a boat with a memorable psychopath

Annaleese Jochems unleashes an original debut set in cramped quarters in New Zealand

Sat Aug 24 2019 - 07:00

Dan Mallory, the fiction writer who made up stories about his own life

The author has been exposed as a serial liar. But how did he get away with it for so long?

Sat Feb 09 2019 - 07:00

The power of a good book in times of chaos

From Hunter S Thompson to Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson and John Connolly, great writing has a way of making readers feel less isolated in a world of anxiety and upheaval

Sat Nov 03 2018 - 05:00

100 books by women you have to read

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Mon Jun 04 2018 - 16:14

Todd Haynes: ‘I was consciously making a film that I wanted kids to see’

The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for children

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00

Meet the bright young things of Irish writing

Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books

Thu Feb 15 2018 - 06:00

James Bond has always been a misogynist dinosaur. Now he has to change

There is something unsettling about a video, compiled in the wake of the #MeToo movement, detailing Bond’s repeated, casual mistreatment of women

Fri Feb 02 2018 - 05:00

Call Me By Your Name review: sun-dappled romance both delicious and sad

Luca Guadagnino’s hotly-tipped film just about deserves the extravagant praise it is attracting

Fri Oct 27 2017 - 05:00

Skintown review: Pills ‘n’ thrills and bellyaches

Actor Ciarán McMenamin’s debut captures the voice of disaffected youth in 1990s North

Sat Apr 08 2017 - 06:00

School of Velocity review: notes on a friendship

A classical pianist looks back on his life in Eric Beck Rubin’s short, meditative novel

Sat Nov 26 2016 - 05:00

Dadland review: Riddle of a dad who made an ‘almighty cock of it’

Keggie Carew’s quest to solve the puzzle of her Dublin-born father’s event-filled life includes war and peace – and a fascinating mother

Sat Jul 30 2016 - 01:35

Screening of Orson Welles’s F for Fake at Cork Film Festival

Actor and biographer Simon Callow to introduce last significant work from auteur

Fri Nov 06 2015 - 16:39

Spectre review: James Bond back on form, but...

Tension between innovation and tradition ultimately pulls latest 007 episode to pieces

Mon Oct 26 2015 - 11:20

Booze as muse: writers and alcohol, from Ernest Hemingway to Patricia Highsmith

Nobel laureates Faulkner, O’Neill, Hemingway and Steinbeck were alcoholics, as were Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas, Jean Rhys and many more. Anne O’Neill explores why

Mon Sept 28 2015 - 12:10

Patricia Highsmith: a talented writer who always let rip

Sinéad Gleeson celebrates a great writer 20 years after her death

Sat Jun 13 2015 - 00:24

The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender

Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds

Sat May 23 2015 - 08:00