The PierFOLLOWING A successful screening at last year’s Galway Film Fleadh, Gerard Butler’s pleasant, low-key drama gets a deserved outing…Fri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
House of Tolerance/L'appolonide: Souvenirs de la Maison CloseHEAVEN SAVE us from middlebrow notions of sophisticated entertainment. Classical orchestras play the music of QueenFri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
A Monster in ParisISN’T IT peculiar the way certain unlikely subjects suddenly colonise one medium or another? Bibo Bergeron’s tolerable French…Fri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
Oscar surprise as Scorsese's 'Hugo' edges it over 'The Artist' for nomination top spotFOR ONCE there were a few surprises when the Oscar nominations were announced in Los Angeles yesterday.Wed Jan 25 2012 - 00:00
Two Irish directors make the cut for best short filmTWO EXPERIENCED Irish film professionals are celebrating today after picking up Oscar nominations for Best Live Action Short …Wed Jan 25 2012 - 00:00
CoriolanusDRAGGING SHAKESPEARE plays to other times and other places causes greater problems on film than it does in the theatre.Fri Jan 20 2012 - 00:00
'Artist' and 'Tinker Tailor' on track for BaftasFOLLOWING ITS triumph at the Golden Globes on Sunday, Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist has garnered an impressive 12 nominations…Wed Jan 18 2012 - 00:00
Star in freefall over silent's 'Vertigo' sampleREEL NEWS : Nobody has got a bad word to say about The Artist , right? Wrong! Kim Novak, a key icon of the late 1950s, has taken…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Wiig never a bride for sequelREEL NEWS : As you should be aware by now, Bridesmaids turned out to be the biggest film of 2011 in the Republic of IrelandFri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Margin CallIN THE mid-1970s, as the Watergate malarkey unfurled, the complex, unforgiving conspiracy thriller became the era’s signature…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Two studios mark 100 yearsREEL NEWS : Two of the big studios celebrate their centenaries this yearFri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Iftas tinker with meaning of ‘lead’REEL NEWS : Nominations for the Irish Film and Television Awards were announced on Tuesday.Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Screen WriterREMEMBER THAT story about the actress who was suing the Internet Movie Database for printing her real age? These sorts of dubious…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Arresting performance could swing awards for Gleeson and 'The Guard'JOHN MICHAEL McDonagh’s hit comedy, The Guard, came out on top when nominations for the Irish Film and Television Awards were…Wed Jan 11 2012 - 00:00
'The Guard' gets nine IFTA nominationsThe Guard, John Michael McDonagh’s hit comedy, came out on top when nominations for the Irish Film and Television Awards (Ifta…Tue Jan 10 2012 - 00:00
In search of the real Iron LadyWhether loathed or revered, Margaret Thatcher is now a figure of myth who defies efforts to humanise herSat Jan 07 2012 - 00:00
Sir Elton talks up his own biopicREEL NEWS: Elton John has confirmed that plans are afoot for a film based on his life.Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Chimp makes a chump out of gullible mediaREEL NEWS: Do you remember, a little less than a decade ago, when some mad cult announced that it had cloned the first human…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
GoonAS THE muted “overseas” response to Moneyball demonstrated, films concerning American sports rarely thrive outside the United…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
RTÉ CO gives Dimitri his dueREEL NEWS: The RTÉ Concert Orchestra will honour Dimitri Tiomkin, composer of classic scores such as High Noon, The Guns of …Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Clash of the box-office titansREEL NEWS: Paramount has knocked Warner Bros from the top of the box-office hit parade for the first time in three yearsFri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Soho deli's plight underlines dreary inevitability of clone cityIn the 1980s you could still visit a city in Britain or Ireland and expect to see unfamiliar shopsSat Dec 24 2011 - 00:00
Free speech for all, including the rancid BNPTrinity’s ban on Nick Griffin only bolsters his supposed status as a censored outsiderSat Dec 17 2011 - 00:00
Gumball rallies at LA AnniesThe Amazing World of Gumball from Dublin-based Boulder Media has picked up four nominations for the annual Annie Awards.Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
The villainIF EVER an actor were marinated in theatrical royalty it would be Jared HarrisFri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
What you're missingHollywood’s annual Black List has just been published. No, the studios aren’t back to hunting closet MarxistsFri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Fassbender and Gleeson nominated for Golden GlobesTHERE WAS happy news for Brendan Gleeson and Michael Fassbender, two of the nation’s busiest actors, when the nominations for…Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
US critics dishing out the gongsAwards season is hitting its stride as various American critics’ organisations give out their prizesFri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
It’s a Wonderful LifeIt behoves the seasonal sceptic to find something unacceptable in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Romantics Anonymous/Les Émotifs AnonymesAT JUST 78 minutes, this French comedy is actually 10 minutes shorter than ChipwreckedFri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
The British Guide to Showing OffTRUE, THIS documentary on the Alternative Miss World does not demand to be seen on the world’s biggest screenFri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Helen Mirren as Mrs Hitchcock?Sacha Gervasi, director of the sublime Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, is a famously well- connected chap.Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Time for the annual bout of listomaniaWhat can account for the deluge of best-of charts? Is it just a male obsession with lists?Sat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00
Puss in BootsTHE LAST Shrek film wasn’t bad, but, by the close of that overextended cycle, few punters were mourning its demiseFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Irish will be well repped in UtahThe Sundance Film Festival announced its 2012 programme (sundanceFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Early-bird review calls up the dragonOne controvery this week has greatly excited film criticsFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
New Year's EveALLOW US A brief diversion before kicking this appalling film’s teeth down its cute little throat.Fri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Twilight’s Stewart in the big money zonePerhaps the most interesting of those endless lists concerning cinematic money generators is Forbes Magazine’s chart detailing…Fri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Young Irish directors invade FranceBest wishes to the 10 young film-makers from Cork whose pictures are playing at the Rencontres Henri Langlois Festival International…Fri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Pacino to attend Dublin film festivalAL PACINO will attend the upcoming 2012 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival for the Irish premiere of Wilde Salome , the…Thu Dec 08 2011 - 00:00
Pacino to attend Dublin film festivalIt has been announced that Al Pacino will attend the upcoming 2012 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival for the Irish premiere…Wed Dec 07 2011 - 00:00
Scorsese and 3D: enough alreadyOh no. Elsewhere in these pages we grudgingly acknowledge that Hugo , the fine new film from Martin Scorsese, profits from being…Fri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
No schoolboy antics for Oldman’s SmileyBack in the early 1980s, fans of John le Carré were disappointed when the BBC, following up their successful adaptation of T …Fri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
Twitchy conniptions in ‘Twilight’ zoneThis can’t be real. Can it? Apparently, the latest Twilight film is triggering seizures in American viewers.Fri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
We Have a Pope / Habemus PapamTEN YEARS ago, Nanni Moretti won the Palme d’Or at Cannes with a film, The Son’s Room , that found favour with every sane observer…Fri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
Russell's X-rated 'Devils' fit for DVDLet us all doff our caps in memory of the great Ken Russell, who died earlier in the weekFri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
Blood in the Mobile / Blod I MobilenTHIS DOGGED documentary begins with an unavoidable staple of the genreFri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
