Four new films to see this week: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Wizard of the Kremlin, The Blue Trail
Jack Reynor, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jude Law feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 16th, 2026
Mark Jenkin on his bigger-budget film Rose of Nevada: ‘You don’t want to be luxuriating too much’
The singular Cornish film-maker’s latest eerie maritime flick centres on a timeslip back to ancient 1993
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played the title character in a John Boorman film?
Plus: What’s missing: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink, Brown?
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review: This nauseating Irish horror film is an absolute blast
Talented Dublin director of the title is proving to be a master prankster of the genre
A Greenland shark is the sort of chap you could go for a pint with
Sligo stranding of creature that can live for 500 years a reminder of how we foolishly imagine ourselves divinely engineered superbeings
Kiss of the Spider Woman review: Jennifer Lopez brings the house down. But it’s not quite enough
J-Lo makes the best of latest musical adaptation of 1976 novel but much about production feels underpowered and poorly thought through
Cannes 2026: Barry Keoghan, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew films win prestige slots
Butterfly Jam and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning to screen in Directors’ Fortnight. Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle announced for Critics’ Week
Ciarán Hinds: ‘Liam Neeson wanted a go at being a film star. I didn’t have that in my DNA’
As his new film, The Three Urns, arrives, the actor talks on-set reunions, ‘proper adventures’ and his Belfast upbringing free from ‘awareness of the huge tribal divide’
The Z-factor: Zendaya and the secret of The Drama’s success
Did film’s crafty marketing campaign work or are people queuing up to see movie stars again?
Four new films to see this week: Father Mother Sister Brother, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany, The Stranger
Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Halle Bailey, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 10th, 2026
The Stranger review: eerily beautiful, psychologically acute Camus adaptation
François Ozon’s project, though touched with adjacent misery, represents a desirable sort of existence
The Movie Quiz: The Maltese Falcon ends with a slight misquote from what play?
Plus: What film just broke the all-time record for the most losses at the Oscars?
Cannes 2026: John Travolta and Barbra Streisand set to walk red carpet as film festival announces official selection
Could Irish stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew feature in Directors Fortnight?
You, Me & Tuscany review: another patronising Hollywood comedy replete with thumping stereotypes
A dazzled and bemused Halle Bailey leads this rattlebrained romcom from Kat Coiro
Aer Lingus has begun its free in-flight wifi. Bang goes a rare oasis of tranquillity
Soon the only place a person will get free of online badgering is when under general anaesthetic