Film review: Blue JasmineWoody Allen descends to his version of slumming, with toxically witty results, writes Donald ClarkeFri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00
How Kevin Macdonald found his fallout girl in Saoirse RonanAt first, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald had doubts about casting Saoirse Ronan in the nuclear romance How I Live Now, but he quickly revised his opinion – “She’s the finest actor I have ever worked with”Fri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00
A serious man: the intensity of Jake GyllenhaalGyllenhaal brings such a heft to his roles – a trend maintained in ‘Prisoners’ – it’s a surprise to learn he has only just decided that acting is the trade for himThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
Best to call people what they want you call themSpurs fans reappropriate the ‘y’ wordSat Sept 21 2013 - 14:00
Review: DianaThe much-ballyhooed biopic of the late Princess of Wales is not quite a camp classicFri Sept 20 2013 - 10:42
Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie previewWhat better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new yearFri Sept 20 2013 - 00:00
Good people often rise late. Keep the noise down, we’re trying to sleepThere’s me, and Simon Cowell, and Proust and Churchill ...Sat Sept 14 2013 - 01:00
In a World... director Lake Bell shows off her vocal talentsAfter a decade paying her dues, writer, director, actor Lake Bell’s has made a big splash with her first feature about Hollywood’s voice-over communityFri Sept 13 2013 - 00:00
Class act overkillIt’s that tune again! Arvo Pärt tops the charts for cinematic over-exposureThu Sept 12 2013 - 18:27
Film review: White House DownBarack Obama meets Die Hard in this ludicrously enjoyable thrillerThu Sept 12 2013 - 15:38
No offence to George Best, but Loyalists could be doing with a few more heroesOpinion: Could the Protestant people of the North be a little uncomfortable with culture?Sat Sept 07 2013 - 00:01
David Lowery: Timeless in TexasFilm-maker David Lowery on his Texan aesthetic, why he prefers old-school celluloid to the new world of digital film-making and what it’s like working with Casey Affleck and Rooney MaraFri Sept 06 2013 - 00:00
The English language is literally spiralling exponentially out of the control of pedantsOpinion: a word now seems to mean what a lot of people think it might meanSat Aug 31 2013 - 00:01
Ireland's boy racers fuel Johnny Gogan’s need for SpeedThe Irish film-maker discusses his serious thriller about road racing in the Border countiesFri Aug 30 2013 - 00:00
Upstream ColourShane Carruth’s mind-bending follow-up to Primer bewitches as it puzzlesFri Aug 30 2013 - 00:00
Bristling at the bearded Jeremy Paxman? Or too hip to be hirsute? It’s a fuzzy issueThe level of coverage for Beardgate has been more than a little baffling. What the heck is going on?Sat Aug 24 2013 - 00:01
Does it matter if films betray their own internal logic? Sometimes.Does it matter if films betray their own internal logic? Sometimes.Fri Aug 23 2013 - 00:00
Shane Carruth’s precision visionThe director of the head-spinng Upstream Colour discusses his weird, beautiful, mathematically sound visionFri Aug 23 2013 - 00:00
‘Sun’ decision to drop Page Three in Ireland reflects well on ‘cultural differences’Opinion: Catholics and feminists find themselves on the same side on this issue at leastSat Aug 17 2013 - 00:01
Touching on a Turkish taboo‘Kuma’, a touching drama about a ‘second wife’ in a Turkish community in Vienna, has polarised opinion, but its Austrian-Kurdish director, Umut Dag, is unrepentantFri Aug 16 2013 - 00:00
Review: Wahlberg and Washington in 2 GunsThe charismatic stars lift this breezy action thriller a good bit above the routine, writes Donald ClarkeFri Aug 16 2013 - 00:00
No need to see red just yet over Russian parliament’s assault on the pink sideOpinion: Stance on gay rights may not be extreme enough to earn pariah statusSat Aug 10 2013 - 00:01
‘I’d abolish the royal family’ - Steve Coogan on what separates him from Alan PartridgeThe man behind Alan Partridge discusses politics, privacy and Irishness – and his new movie, Alpha Papa.Fri Aug 09 2013 - 00:00
Pope has no intention of doing for the church what Gorbachev did for the USSRIf you want to set an original moral compass you don’t belong within any organised religionSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Girls in the Gang: Laurent Cantet on Foxfire‘Foxfire’, the story of the gradual deterioration of a feminist group in 1950s America, gave Palme d’Or-winning French director Laurent Cantet a chance to look at the era’s mythologyFri Aug 02 2013 - 00:00
