Speech maker feeling misérableHaving won an Oscar for The King’s Speech – and made a surprising amount of money with the film – director Tom Hooper has his…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Jane EyreCERTAIN NOVELS have become so entrenched in the collective psyche that they have taken on the quality of mythFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
The Hedgehog/Le HerissonYOU HAVE TO feel queasy about a middlebrow French film that actually introduces a character named Mr OzuFri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Congo: An Irish AffairFOR REASONS that hardly need to be stated, this is an appropriate time to release a documentary concerning the United Nations…Fri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
The Art of Getting ByNO, NO, NO. Is the tortured teenage hero really reading Albert Camus’s L’étranger while listening to the now ubiquitous sounds…Fri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Self MadeTHE ERSTWHILE Young British Artists are continuing their cautious advance into cinemasFri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Wild boasts of being very bad at maths just don't add upYou don’t go around proclaiming ignorance of literature. Why then revel in innumeracy?Sat Aug 27 2011 - 01:00
Final Destination 5Reviewing a Final Destination film is a little like assessing an engineering projectFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Untitled projects from their brainsAnimation fans, used to worshipping the great god Pixar were rendered a little jumpy by the underwhelming quality of the recent…Fri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Threat to Auntie's cultSMALL PRINT: CAN THERE be such a thing a cult TV channel? If so, could that beast emerge from an Establishment body such as …Tue Aug 23 2011 - 01:00
Annual medieval pageant in Tralee does not come up rosesSOME TRULY gruesome phenomena just refuse to go awaySat Aug 20 2011 - 01:00
The Inbetweeners MovieOH, NO. The characters in a popular TV show are going on holidayFri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
North bods for Norse gods?REEL NEWS: Here’s a strange one. It seems somebody has decided that only Northern Irishmen should direct Thor filmsFri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Bigelow refutes Bin Laden claimsREEL NEWS: US congressman Peter King – long a campaigner on Irish issues – has suggested that President Obama has jeopardised…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Porno for FrancoREEL NEWS: What’s James Franco up to this week? After writing a sub-beatnik novel, appearing in General Hospital as part of …Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Myers gets his mojo backREEL NEWS: The rumours that Mike Myers is planning a fourth Austin Powers film are a little less secureFri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
The little guys suffer as London stock burnsWHILE travelling across London on Tuesday, this correspondent managed to avoid being set on fire or torn to shreds by angry rioters…Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Monroe film fake fails to sellA sordid “stag film” purporting to show Marilyn Monroe in pornographic action has failed to sell at auction in Argentina.Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Berry wins LA director awardCongratulations to Frank Berry, director of the excellent Ballymun Lullaby , for winning the prestigious Directors Finders Series…Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Beautiful Lies/De Vrais MensongesOH, SPARE US. Some maniac has decided that Audrey Tautou is one of the few French stars who can draw anglophone audiences to …Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Teen kicks off awards seasonOne suspects that any teenager worth his or her salt would spurn something called the Teen Choice AwardsFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The Devil's DoubleIT’S ABOUT time some bright film-maker offered us a serious study of the outrages that went on in the court of Saddam Hussein…Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Double Trouble for EisenbergThis week sees the release of another film – The Devil’s Double – in which an actor manfully plays against himselfFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
What’s the scéal at TG4?Another excellent initiative has been announced for film-makers eager to work in the national tongueFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Do we need to elect a largely powerless president at all?THE ONGOING race for the presidency has, as I understand it, stirred up some controversy this weekSat Aug 06 2011 - 01:00
Sarah's Key/Elle S'Appelait SarahTHE HOLOCAUST was, surely, sufficiently catastrophic to require little melodramatic enhancementFri Aug 05 2011 - 01:00
Taking a bare-knuckle rideIt took 10 years to capture the blood, sweat and punches that make up ‘Knuckle’, a gripping documentary about Travellers and …Wed Aug 03 2011 - 01:00
A Better LifeHEAVEN SAVE us from Hollywood directors and their troubled consciencesFri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
Horrid Henry: The MovieKEEP THE little ones away from the fizzy pop before bringing them – if you must – to Nick Moore’s take on Francesca Simon’s pathologically…Fri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
No hate figure worthy of name left to fill the Murdoch vacuumThe arch-Beelzebub’s loss of menace leaves lefties bereft of a bête noireSat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00
BeginnersIF YOU WERE feeling unkind, you could view Mike Mills’s latest film as an almost self-parodic adventure in liberal quirkiness…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Race between China and US for Top Nation trophy not over yetCan America’s belief that all things are possible win it back its coveted global status?Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00
Koreans put the Pow! in PandaJust when we thought 3D was dying off, a gang of Korean boffins has gone one dimension furtherFri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: a surprising degree of high dramaThe final film in the Potter saga offers a surprising degree of high drama, writes Donald ClarkeFri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Arresting debut for Connemara cop comedyThe week before the most successful film of the year opened (come on, what else is going to trump the last Potter?), the box-…Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Bobby Fischer Against the WorldTHERE’S A SCENE in All the President’s Men where, as Bob Woodward readies himself for the day, a newscaster relates details of…Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Guard takes top Fleadh prizeThe Guard had more to celebrate this week – the film secured the audience prize for best Irish feature at last week’s Galway…Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which current hit teams Cheadle with Gleeson?Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Quality movies for the little onesSick of watching your children hammer away at those Angry Birds? In search of a more cerebral alternative to Harry Potter? Get…Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Film Fleadh ends with prize-givingTHE 23RD Galway Film Fleadh ended last night by awarding the event’s audience prize, an influential citation, to John Michael…Mon Jul 11 2011 - 01:00
Hard to contain resentment of the anti-begrudgery brigadeAREN’T YOU sick of so-called Rory McIlroy? Look at him playing golfSat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00
