Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion at Venice International Film FestivalSpanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first timeSat Sept 07 2024 - 20:53
The Movie Quiz: Who was not a fellow nominee when Daniel Day-Lewis won one of his Oscars?Plus: How many feature films has Barbra Streisand directed?Fri Sept 06 2024 - 05:00
Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly loseThu Sept 05 2024 - 16:14
Don’t Forget to Remember review: A fine collaboration on the struggle to live with Alzheimer’s diseaseRoss Killeen follows artist Asbestos’s family as his mother struggles to stay connected with the worldThu Sept 05 2024 - 05:00
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Fun? I nearly laughed myself awakeReal hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plotsWed Sept 04 2024 - 05:00
Starve Acre: Daniel Kokotajlo on making one of the best horror films of 2024Seven years on from his debut film The Apostasy, over which he still receives hate mail, the director follows up with an adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s much admired novelTue Sept 03 2024 - 05:15
First Look: George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Wolfs – Too sleek, too chiselled, too Nespresso adVenice International Film Festival 2024: Tolerable buddy comedy might better suit actors who shoulder their age less lightlySun Sept 01 2024 - 21:45
Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett are all at the Venice film festival. What’s odd is why some of them are hereThey’re not in the main competition. None is opening the Italian festival. Why? Because they’re all here with television seriesSun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHaunting, old-school Irish horror Oddity, plus prison-set biopic Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo, transitioned Elliot Page in tailor-made Close to You, and social-realist Swedish drama Paradise Is BurningSun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
Mackenzie Davis: ‘I’m aware of social embarrassment. But most things that feel high stakes are actually low stakes’The Canadian actor stars in Speak No Evil, which plays excruciatingly on tensions in the interaction between ostensibly similar culturesSat Aug 31 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: Who was the last Irish actor to take home a prize from the Venice Film Festival?A special head-scratcher on all things to do with the world’s oldest film festival, now in its 81st yearFri Aug 30 2024 - 05:00
First Look: As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie finally has the starring role she deservesVenice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo LarraínThu Aug 29 2024 - 18:45
Paradise Is Burning: Bianca Delbravo is a revelation in Mika Gustafson’s fine debut dramaImmaculately made film keeps viewers uneasily gripped throughoutThu Aug 29 2024 - 05:00
Sing Sing: Colman Domingo deserves another Oscar nod for this magnetic performanceA drama about a theatre group in a New York prison gamely resists redemptive clichesWed Aug 28 2024 - 05:00
Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festivalAmong the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language filmTue Aug 27 2024 - 05:00
How did the Road Safety Authority’s ‘Lose your licence. Lose your independence’ TV ad become a continent-shifting outrage?Some of us regard not driving as one of our greatest achievements in life. But there are less trivial issues at playSun Aug 25 2024 - 05:00
Colman Domingo: ‘I was noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, and I thought, what?’Actor looks to be on track for another Oscar nomination for imminent prison drama Sing SingSat Aug 24 2024 - 05:15
Life in Hollywood: Golden-age photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and moreA two-volume collection drawn from the Life magazine archive features outstanding portraits of many of the biggest names in American cinemaSat Aug 24 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: When did James Bond first get behind the wheel of his Aston Martin DB5?Plus: Who is the youngest person to ever win two Academy Awards?Fri Aug 23 2024 - 05:00
Blink Twice: Glossy attempt to cross The White Lotus with Get OutZoë Kravitz’s ambitious directorial debut features an impressively starry castThu Aug 22 2024 - 05:00
Mrs Robinson: An admiring portrait of Ireland’s first woman president rather than a penetrating critical studyThere is nothing so wrong about a nicely made good-news documentaryWed Aug 21 2024 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Maybe Erling Haaland can’t stop himself raw dogging. But if you need a wee, go for a weeAre we to believe that the art of staring into the void on a lengthy flight, long a bugbear of Larry David, is now a competitive sport?Sun Aug 18 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAlien: Romulus has strong action, the same old plot. Plus atmospheric Chinese noir Only the River Flows, absorbing Canadian ballet doc Swan Song, and bland Netflix thriller The UnionSun Aug 18 2024 - 05:00
Mika Gustafson: ‘I’m a huge fan of actors. When something comes alive it is almost like magic’Paradise Is Burning director and Alexander Öhrstrand, its writer, on their award-winning new filmSat Aug 17 2024 - 05:15
The Union review: Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry star in an exhilaratingly bad thrillerAnother of those bland, superficially lavish thrillers that Netflix pumps out at the end of summer for those too dehydrated to reach the pause buttonFri Aug 16 2024 - 08:00
The Movie Quiz: Who exactly won that Oscar for Ghost?Plus: Who voiced Poop in The Emoji Movie?Fri Aug 16 2024 - 05:00
Alien: Romulus – Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson could run with this one. Assuming they survive to the creditsThe ninth film set in this universe returns to the haunted-house-in-space aesthetic that Ridley Scott first unveiled 45 years agoWed Aug 14 2024 - 20:00
Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub and Maru: How cats took over the internet Cats are worshipped online as they were in ancient Egypt. Quite right tooSun Aug 11 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which has not been the Irish submission for best international feature at the Oscars?Plus: Who is not among the actors to appear in every Harry Potter film?Fri Aug 09 2024 - 05:00
Borderlands review: Cate Blanchett plays an intergalactic bounty hunter in Eli Roth’s straight-up, uncomplicated pulpThe problems mount when this wacko video-game adaptation decides it wants us to care about the stupid, stupid plotThu Aug 08 2024 - 09:00
Kneecap review: Ingenious blend of self-mythology and self-deprecation really does recall A Hard Day’s NightFictionalised biopic of the Belfast rap trio adroitly manages to balance provocation and reconciliation, with all three proving flexible, charismatic actorsWed Aug 07 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+From Arrival to The Zone of Interest, our picks also take in everything from Halloween and Lost in Translation to Lawrence of Arabia and PinocchioMon Aug 05 2024 - 06:00
‘I didn’t know anything about noir’: director Wei Shujun on Only the River Flows, his highly regarded thrillerChinese director Wei Shujun was surprised to hear that his critical hit at last year’s Cannes film festival was being viewed as an American-style murder mysteryMon Aug 05 2024 - 05:00
‘Weird’ is the new word of the US presidential campaign. Here’s why it’s ruffling feathersRepublicans pride themselves on sticking to the American normal. That’s why the Democrats’ strategy is hitting them exactly where it hurtsSun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBeautifully animated and told adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, plus excellent indie dramas Janet Planet and Shayda, and blandly unimaginative Harold and the Purple CrayonSun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
Kneecap movie is Irish submission for best international film at OscarsFictionalised biopic of Belfast rap trio Kneecap hopes to follow An Cailín Ciúin to Academy AwardsFri Aug 02 2024 - 08:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan biopic?Plus: What is Timothée Chalamet’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic called?Fri Aug 02 2024 - 05:00
Janet Planet: Annie Baker’s captivating feature debut is a fine-grained study of an admirable parent and her singular daughterJulianne Nicholson confirms her rising status with a turn that hints at unseen torments, but the film belongs to young Zoe ZieglerThu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Harold and the Purple Crayon: Staple of US children’s fiction gets a nondescript, inoffensive big-screen translationThis generic entertainment struggles to find a reason to exist beyond the need for more ‘content’Wed Jul 31 2024 - 14:00
Saipan: Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan to star as Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in film about infamous falling outControversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World CupMon Jul 29 2024 - 14:31
Harold and the Purple Crayon: ‘I always question: why purple? But that became the colour and then I embraced it’Harold and the Purple Crayon, a longtime children’s favourite in the US and by a writer with a radical edge, has finally been adapted for screen by Carlos SaldanhaMon Jul 29 2024 - 05:00
Book culture thrives. Just not where you used to find itBooks are a cult phenomenon as they have never been before, it started with Harry Potter and continues with BookTokSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekDeadpool & Wolverine, I Saw the TV Glow, About Dry Grasses, Notes from SheeplandSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Deadpool & Wolverine is the first MCU flick to receive what in the US?Plus: Who played the grandmother of a candidate for vice-president of the United States?Fri Jul 26 2024 - 05:00
Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla BarryDespite the intellectual heft, this is a film that knows when to cut towards playful diversionThu Jul 25 2024 - 05:00
Deadpool & Wolverine review: One star for this awful, awful pile of puerile, snarky parodyThe first R-rated MCU movie is in fact the most relentlessly juvenile entry in a sequence rarely confused with Bergman’s Faith trilogyTue Jul 23 2024 - 23:00
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-upTodd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competitionTue Jul 23 2024 - 18:38
I am partly responsible for JD Vance’s rise to be Donald Trump’s running mate. SorryWhen I reviewed Hillbilly Elegy, the film based on JD Vance’s memoir, I didn’t anticipate its potential to become one of the few movies to change historySun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary SkywalkersSun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
