Tony Scott cancer rumour scotchedThe coroner’s report on Tony Scott’s death has put one rumour to bed.Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Room 237IF YOU HOLD this newspaper to the light, a faint image of the Masonic compasses can be glimpsed in the upper right-hand corner…Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Misogyny in Australia no longer what it used to beThere is something irritating about semantic shifts in the meaning of wordsSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
Queens of the big screamIt’s a role as old as storytelling itself and one that cinema has taken to spine-chilling lengthsSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
BarakaIF YOU WERE determined to dislike the whole Ron Fricke experience, you could try arguing that his films form one continuous mass…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Oh, the horror, the horrorAs mentioned elsewhere in these pages, the annual Horrorthon festival is on at the Irish Film Institute next weekendFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Time to take off to ClonesIt’s time to hit the north (more specifically the southern bit of the north)Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Gervais out of Golden GlobesRicky Gervais’s reign as cheeky ringmaster at the Golden Globes has endedFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Ginger and RosaMIGHT THE PRESENCE of Christina Hendricks in this superficially gorgeous period piece be intended as a joke? The top- heavy star…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Dustin gets the gang together for one last warbleTO THE BFI London Film Festival for an orgy of culture and cheap celebrity spottingFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
He’s got some Force with himWhat better way to spend the evening that to watch one man act out all the parts in the original Star Wars trilogy?Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Gaff over China’s Looper takeawayA bizarre error triggered much confusion in the trade papers last week.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Stars in Dublin for premieresTwo tantalising films will be premiering at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema over the next week.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Mobile film fest crosses KerryThe Kerry Film Festival has begun its race across that KingdomFri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
No shades of grey in Ellis rant over film directorApparently, to increase readership, all we need to do is print the words “fifty shades of grey” over and over again.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Hit & RunOH, LOOK. IT’S one of those genres they just don’t bother with any moreFri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Dreamtime, RevisitedJulius Ziz and Dónal Ó Céilleachair have made a transcendentally beautiful film of their appropriately eccentric musing on the…Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Public image no longer hides private actionsCynicism about priests, politicians, pop stars and the rest of the establishment has set us free from destructive obsequiousness…Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
How did that nice Liam Neeson become a psychopathic killing machine?YOU WILL BE familiar with the stock scene, more often parodied than it is staged sincerely, that finds the plain secretary pulling…Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
SinisterTHE SET-UP couldn’t be more cliched if the hero were actually moving into a house where a grisly murder once took placeFri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
The faculty fatheadIT IS QUITE an achievement to build a film around insular, self-absorbed literary twits – the sorts who bond over David Foster…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
IFI screens Lenny’s oeuvreTo celebrate the release of Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did (see review, page 12), the Irish Film Institute will host a season…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Actors Guild blocks big BeastsAccept our apologies for already filling these pages with awards season news, but a controversy has bubbled up in relation to…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Dame Judi tries out Irish accentStephen Frears, director of two Roddy Doyle adaptations, savours any opportunity to work in IrelandFri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Oscars choose the GuyBy now you will have heard that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and the recent smash Ted, is to host next year’s Oscars…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
We've swallowed Guinness festival hook, line and sinkerHow could we have been taken in by this level of corporate manipulation?Sat Sept 29 2012 - 01:00
Hitch in Fox's get-a-gongFour months to go and we are already deep into Oscar gossipFri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
Slovaks chuck Norris for bridgeThe Slovakian powers that be have rejected the result of an internet poll and named a new bridge in the country after something…Fri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
FootnoteWe don’t have space for another moan about the vagaries of film distribution, but it remains painful to live in a world where…Fri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
Rage of Innocence: Iran snubs OscarsThe Innocence of Muslims controversy continuesFri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
The CampaignTHIS VERY agreeable, slightly scattershot comedy arrives at a somewhat unfortunate point in the political calendarFri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
Screen writerI’VE JUST WRITTEN a really good novel. It’s called Today I Sleep With Life, But Tomorrow I Will Awake to DeathFri Sept 21 2012 - 01:00
Santa SangreALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY deserves his status as an avant- garde saintFri Sept 21 2012 - 01:00
Sorry seems to be the most flexible wordDavid Cameron’s apology for the Hillsborough disaster was not the real thingSat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
KeyholeKEYHOLE IS THE first Guy Maddin film that could, just conceivably (at a stretch) have been made by somebody elseFri Sept 14 2012 - 01:00
Welcome aboard the fine-print, foul-mouthed, low-cost airlineAM I imagining this or was there a time when Michael O’Leary’s foul-mouthed, hyper-arrogant swagger seemed robustly endearing…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
It doesn't matter how tanned I look. People still say, 'He turned the room sepulchral'From postpunk cacophony and misbehaviour in Australia to top-notch films and middle-aged fatherhood in Brighton, Nick Cave might…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
Double opening for Domhnall as Irish star risesREEL NEWS: You can’t put on your jacket these days without elbowing Domhnall Gleeson in the faceFri Sept 07 2012 - 01:00
Language of abortion debate secure in lexicon of controversyPhrases like ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ have escaped their meanings in the propaganda warSat Sept 01 2012 - 01:00
A Few Best MenWhat does a poor old studio do if it doesn’t have a wedding comedy for the summer? It’s a dilemmaFri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
SamsaraWhen Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi emerged in 1982, few punters knew quite what to make of itFri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
Depardieu’s driving dishWhat would we do without Gérard Depardieu? If he’s not weeing in planes, he’s boasting about youthful indiscretions or saying…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Sam on celluloidThe Beckett on Screen festival continues at Cinema West’s Mobile Cinema in Enniskillen Castle until August 27th.Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
