AlbatrossA SOOTHING aura of competence hangs over this remarkably unremarkable coming-of-age comedy, set in a dull English seaside resort…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
No blasphemy for Flying CircusRather depressingly, Terry Jones, original member of the Monty Python team, has suggested that, with the apparent upsurge in …Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
A no-barriers film festivalAbära, Ireland's first International Disability Film Festival, kicks off Thursday at various venues in DublinFri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which TV couple got off their couch to “do America” in 1996?Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
ParkedDURING THE YEARS of plenty, domestic pundits would often note that Irish movies still too often dealt in grit, misery and deprivation…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Money for old moviesSave our films! On October 16th the Irish Film Institute will launch a fund-raising drive to help to help build a new facility…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Winning Fleadh flicks at FilmbaseNext week Filmbase, that admirable Dublin institution, will present the winning short films from this year's Galway Film Fleadh…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Meaney in the driving seatA man of strong views who might have made a politician, Colm Meaney has nonetheless stayed focused on the acting dream that made…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
Orgy of 1960s remembrance might kill nostalgia stone deadTHERE IS a great deal to ponder in 2011. It is a decade since the attacks of 9/11Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
Put that in your pipe and smoke itRisteard Ó Domhnaill’s The Pipe , that fine documentary on the Corrib gas controversy, continues to gather prizesFri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
Oscar clamps down on aggressive campaigningREEL NEWS: It is supposedly change at the OscarsFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
The DebtTHIS THRILLER from the workmanlike John Madden asks us to swallow a great dealFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Ruby slippers for the price of rubiesREEL NEWS: Hollywood seems to be flogging every precious icon lying beneath its bed.Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Lion King roars back in 3DREEL NEWS: What do we make of the fact that The Lion King 3D – still fresh after 17 years — has topped the US box office for…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
What's Your Number?THERE’S A thorny question at the heart of this troublesome romantic comedyFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Penn’s diplomatic pulling powerREEL NEWS: It’s a bit easy to make fun of Sean Penn’s political grandstanding, but it seems that his intervention was genuinely…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Books we don’t want to readREEL NEWS: The staggeringly unimaginative title of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s upcoming autobiography: Total Recall.Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Cut beloved texts at your perilTHE UNEXPECTED box- office success of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has set in motion many fiery debates about the limitations…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Puzzling Oscar newsREEL NE WS: It has been announced that As If I am Not There , Juanita Wilson’s tale of the Bosnian war, will be Ireland’s entry…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which 1972 film spawned the instrumental hit Duelling Banjos?Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Avatar gets Disney treatmentREEL NE WS: Has anyone noticed the strange way that rival film companies – traditionally at one another’s throats – become best…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
As Close as it getsREEL NE WS: In recent years, the Toronto Film Festival’s people’s choice award has had a good record of picking the coming year…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
High cost of high conceptREEL NEWS: High concepts can cause all kinds of problems for movie-makersFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Jurassic ParkBY 1993, STEVEN Spielberg had become an institution within the movie industryFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Page One: Inside the New York TimesAT TIME OF writing, it still seemed likely that you will be able to read this review on flattened sheets of wood pulpFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Ongoing wave of love for the oval ball game just isn't cricketWHEN DID we all start giving a fig about filthy rugby? Look, I understand that there has long been a tradition of working-class…Sat Sept 17 2011 - 01:00
You InsteadTHIS IS THE sort of funky-legged film you want to like. It’s got a neat central premiseFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Knightley takes Karenina roleIn furter casting news, we don’t hold with all this Knightley slagging, but the notion of Keira as Anna Karenina sounds like …Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Joy for Irish in VeniceMichael Fassbender’s soaring status has been confirmed with his award for best actor at last week’s Venice Film FestivalFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Guard beats a HangoverThe Guard has been breaking Irish box-office records all summer.Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Gibson’s takes on a Jewish warriorIt looks as if Mel Gibson is overdoing his efforts at rehabilitationFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
London lays on a spreadThe programme for the BFI London Film Festival includes such enticing projects as Alexander Payne’s The Descendents , David Cronenberg…Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which cranky bald gentleman is often seen hunting “wabbits”?Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
The Change-UpIN THE OLDEN days, the body-swap comedy made some effort to explain how its principals ended up in each other’s framesFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
All set for a Misérable timeVariety reports that Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe as, respectively, hero Jean Valjean and antagonist Inspector Javert will…Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Still a reluctant hellraiser after all these yearsTHE ACTING profession has a way of turning its young tyros into harmless, tweedy national treasures. We won’t name namesWed Sept 14 2011 - 01:00
Fassbender wins best actor award at Venice Film FestivalMICHAEL FASSBENDER, currently among the busiest of Irish actors, cemented his status by winning best actor at the Venice Film…Mon Sept 12 2011 - 01:00
Life in the Fassbender laneWhat’s special about Ireland is that we are steeped in storytelling. That rich involvement has influenced meSat Sept 10 2011 - 01:00
September 11th attacks had little impact on cultural mainstreamBY THE time one is old enough to remember clearly something that happened 10 years ago, such events will, more often than not…Sat Sept 10 2011 - 01:00
A Lonely Place to DieCOMING A WEEK after the astonishing jolt of horrific energy that was Kill List, this strange British thriller was – despite frequent…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Post MortemMORE THAN a few great film- makers have devised their own genre, but many have done so with such rigorous eccentricity as Chilean…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Irish peacekeepers doc expandsIf you missed Brendan Culleton and Irina Maldea’s fascinating documentary Congo: An Irish Affair at one of the Access Cinema …Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Screen WriterIF YOU DON’T like this column then you might like to arrange a boycott of future editions. You know how such things workFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which young Belgian reporter is about to be brought to life by Steven Spielberg?Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Depardieu plumbs his depthsReel News doesn’t condone Gérard Depardieu’s recent decision to urinate in a bottle while travelling from Paris to Dublin, but…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Dundalk’s Hard directorJohn Moore, the Dundalk- born director of Behind Enemy Lines and The Omen, has been selected to direct the fifth episode in the…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
