De Niro's Canned commentaryAfter a truly appalling recent run of films– have you seen Little Fockers? – Robert De Niro is desperately in need of worthwhile…Fri Jan 14 2011 - 00:00
Dublin director's Bosnian War drama is Ifta front runnerJUANITA WILSON’S As If I Am Not There , a searing drama of the 1990s Bosnian War, emerged as the front runner in the film section…Wed Jan 12 2011 - 00:00
Damn Drunkovision. Call in the Specky Liberation FrontSMALL PRINT: WE THINK OF Hollywood as a liberal sort of placeTue Jan 11 2011 - 00:00
TheThorn in the Heart/ L'Épine dans le CoeurWHAT ARE WE to do with Michel Gondry? There’s no denying that the director speaks in the most singular of cinematic voicesFri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
Season of the WitchFIRST, SOME trivia. The latest lowbrow potboiler from Nicolas Cage shares its name with the working title for Martin Scorsese…Fri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
'Apocalypse' now for Dublin festThe Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has confirmed its first event for the 2011 outing.Fri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
North Korea takes axe to BeckhamHere’s a weird one. On St Stephen’s Day, North Korean television broadcast a western-made film for the first time everFri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
Celluloid closet door still closedHow tricky is it for gay actors to find work in Hollywood? A recent piece in Newsweek argues that major studios are still very…Fri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
Warner wins clash of the box-office titansThe dust is still settling on last year’s US box-office figures, but one statistic does seem decided: the most successful studio…Fri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
Working-class hero becomes distant voiceThe craggy-featured British actor who won Irish hearts with his role as Giuseppe Conlon in ‘ In the Name of the Father ’ has …Tue Jan 04 2011 - 00:00
The next three daysRELEASED JUST two years ago, Anything for Her was an enjoyable French thriller somewhat sabotaged by its rampaging implausibility…Fri Dec 31 2010 - 00:00
THE BIG IRISH TIMES CHRISTMAS QUIZ OF 2010Ten questions on film by DONALD CLARKEMon Dec 27 2010 - 00:00
Capital crits pick top pixThe hard-working folk at the Dublin Film Critics Circle have delivered their list of the best films from 2010Thu Dec 23 2010 - 00:00
ChatroomFEW FILMS at this year’s Cannes received quite such a vigorous pummelling as Hideo Nakata’s adaptation of Enda Walsh’s play concerning…Thu Dec 23 2010 - 00:00
Burmese hero Lucs outBe afraid. It has been suggested that Luc Besson is to direct a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, the courageous Burmese democracy …Fri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
Brand new rent-a-ghostIs this for real? It has been reported that Russell Brand is to star in a big-screen remake of the notoriously shoddy BBC children…Fri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
Scorsese plans hitman biopicBack in February Martin Scorsese told this writer that he was planning to get back together with Robert De Niro for a film concerning…Fri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
Third Narnia epic only treads water in the USThe Narnia franchise is, in financial terms, shaping up into one of the odder Hollywood phenomenaFri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
New films for couch potatoesThe future is here. Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that advertisements for Mathieu Amalric’s On Tour in this organ inform…Fri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
On Tour/TournéeMATHIEU AMALRIC, that infuriatingly charismatic French actor, makes his directorial debut with a drama about a declining impresario…Fri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
Irish contenders for SundanceThe first falls of snow remind us that the Sundance Film Festival is nearly upon usFri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
Film Board escapes huge cutThe Irish film industry held its collective breath on Tuesday when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse turned up to deliver the…Fri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader‘NARNIA MAY still have need of youFri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
Ewan in for a ghost of a chanceRoman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer (aka The Ghost) was the big winner at the European Film Awards in Talinn last weekendFri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
The most overlooked films of the yearSMALL PRINT: ON FRIDAY, you will all be up bright and early to grab The Ticket and – having set the day aside – begin perusing…Wed Dec 08 2010 - 00:00
Daniel Radcliffe gets a text from J K Rowling“She felt I’d been very good in this Harry Potter film and as a reward for that she wasn’t going to make any more Harry Potter…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Oldies off the OscarsWho saw this coming? After employing a couple of veterans last year – Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin – the Academy of Motion Picture…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Directions back to GalwayBe aware that the third Different Directions Experimental Film Festival will take place at Nun’s Island Theatre, Galway from …Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Meryl set for Tory storyIs the UK Film Council using its last moments to take a dig at the Tories? It has been reported that one of the body’s last grants…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
MegamindIF ANY ONE area of popular culture has been subverted to the point of extinction (not to say tedium), it is the arena of the …Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Ruffalo ruffles feathersYou may have read Mark Ruffalo giving out about political stuff in these pages recentlyFri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
He will be missed by us all - including ShirleyFarewell then, Leslie Nielsen. The great man died earlier this week at the age of 84. It was, surely, a most peculiar lifeFri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
The PipeWOULD YOU really want to watch a film that – setting one talking head against a dozen more – attempts a measured, comprehensive…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
MiralFOLLOWING the spectacular critical (and, for a foreign-language film, commercial) success of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly…Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Almost by accident, he was making a documentaryNews cameraman Risteárd Ó Domhnaill, troubled by coverage of the Corrib gas story, began shooting what would become an extraordinary…Sat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00
Cash for shorts as GaeilgeThe Dingle Film Festival has unveiled a competition for makers of short films in the Irish languageFri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Harry vs Woody at the wicketsCan H arry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 pass out Toy Story 3 and become the most lucrative film of 2010? The film’s…Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
Day-Lewis to play Honest AbeAfter years of speculation that Liam Neeson would play Abraham Lincoln in a biopic for Steven Spielberg, it has emerged that …Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
London BoulevardWE’VE SEEN a few misleading trailers recently, but the TV promo for this (faint praise alert) interesting thriller really takes…Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
