Irish people are flocking back to the cinema. What’s going on?
Cinema sales have jumped by 53%, perhaps because young people stuck at home with their parents need to get out of the house
Four new films to see this week: Toy Story 5, Nino, Familiar Touch and Lesbian Space Princess
Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Théodore Pellerin and Kathleen Chalfant feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 19th, 2026
‘I was so welcomed in France. I think it’s because I have the nose of a Frenchman’
The Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin, star of Nino, straddles the European and North American movie worlds. With his looks, talent and nose for a good role, he should go far
Nino review: Théodore Pellerin exudes leading-man charisma in a gutsy, life-affirming movie
Paris-set debut from Pauline Loquès bravely treats brush against mortality with a light touch
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have won Oscars for roles in Martin Scorsese films?
Plus: What might have come into your head before, say, Singin’ in the Rain or A Night at the Opera?
Liam Neeson-produced Lost Children of Tuam dramatisation to premiere at Galway Film Fleadh
Monica Dolan plays mother and baby home historian Catherine Corless in Frank Berry’s film
Toy Story 5 review: Pixar’s founding franchise is getting squeaky around its middle-aged joints
Good gags are plentiful but the sense of a finger wagging throughout can’t help but temper the fun
Face it, the casual mob cares not if phones impinge on the audience experience of others
Future generations will find the notion of texting at the cinema or theatre as unacceptable as we now regard smoking in such places
Four new films to see this week: Disclosure Day, Pink Narcissus, Time and Water, The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson, Bobby Kendall, Andri Snær Magnason and Peter Mullan feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 12th, 2026
The Movie Quiz: Which Toy Story do we reach next week?
Plus: What is, at time of quizzing, the highest grossing film of 2026?
Pink Narcissus review: This languorous queer sexual fantasy from 1971 has aged well
The sense of adventure, experiment and risk remains
Disclosure Day review: Eve Hewson asks the practical questions in Spielberg’s sprawling sci-fi yarn
Gloomier, less sentimental and less focused than ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg’s best films, in reverse order
As Disclosure Day arrives in cinemas, we rate each of the director’s 34 movies so far
A century on, Marilyn Monroe speaks to the possibilities the United States once offered
With Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, the film star contributed to an unstoppable excitement about the future
Four new films to see this week: Savage House, Masters of the Universe, Afternoons of Solitude, Erupcja
Richard E Grant, Claire Foy, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrés Roca Rey and Charli XCX feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 5th, 2026