Screaming Fox transformedDo you care who gets to take over from Megan Fox in the third Transformers picture?Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
O’Sullivan reeled in for festivalDonegal’s excellent Gufu Gafa International Documentary Film Festival kicks off next week.Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
The Girl on the Train/ La Fille du RerTHE LATEST film from André Téchiné deals with a notoriously incendiary hoax from recent French historyFri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
She’s Out Of My LeagueIF YOU lived through the fag end of Irish showband culture, you will recall that, right up to the early 1980s, the charts would…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Film slate for Edinburgh festGrumbles persist about the Edinburgh Film Festival’s decision to move from August (where it shared space with the main arts jamboree…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Hobbit helmer gets fed up waiting for BilboThere’s no question about the big Hollywood story this week: Guillermo del Toro has quit The Hobbit.Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Then again, she could be kiddingIs Sex and the City 2 the worst-reviewed major release in recent history?Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
The Brothers BloomRIAN JOHNSON’S Brick , an indie hit from 2005, appeared to offer us a fresh, original cinematic talentFri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Conflict irresolutionWE HAVE, over the past month, seen quite a few interesting films from IsraelFri May 28 2010 - 01:00
How to get ahead in advertisingNot too many Romanian comedies begin with a tune by the Pet Shop BoysFri May 28 2010 - 01:00
TraffickedYET MORE proof that the immigrant (rather than the emigrant) experience remains an unavoidable theme in current Irish cinemas…Fri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Streetdance 3D‘I CAN honestly say this is one of the worst films I have ever sat through. The story is awfulFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimeOH, HEAVENS. Spare us another high-minded political filmFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
To Cannes for death and feudingTWO CANNES favourites made returns to La Croisette at the weekend, with new features.Mon May 17 2010 - 01:00
Deja vu all over again in 'Wall Street' sequel as corporate decadence proves greed still rulesLAST NIGHT, 23 years after Oliver Stone’s Wall Street defined the red-braces era of capitalism, the same director unveiled a …Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsIt’s the cinematic version of the futures marketSat May 15 2010 - 01:00
No Greater LoveBY OPENING this rigorous, respectful documentary about a Carmelite monastery hidden in London’s otherwise trendy Notting Hill…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
On Tour/TournéeThe first film to screen in competition at Cannes turns out to be a fairly humble affairFri May 14 2010 - 01:00
VincereTHIS DERANGED, operatic study of Benito Mussolini’s early life is packed full of arresting shots, each of which encapsulates …Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
Eyes Wide Open/Einaym PkuhotHAIM TABAKMAN, director of this formidably controlled if somewhat suffocating drama, has, almost certainly, become used to hearing…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
Still gagging for Saint BillSixteen years after his death, the cult of Bill Hicks is as strong as ever, and now two British film-makers have made a documentary…Mon May 10 2010 - 01:00
Blooming hellWISEACRES used to propose a theory arguing that it required a massive leap of faith by trusting passengers to keep a plane in…Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
More than a film and a halfHOW PLEASING it is to come across something so wonderful – and yet so unheralded – as this intricate, moving, barmy study of …Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Does my bump look big in this?IT’S TRUE. We critics really missed having Jennifer Lopez about the placeFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Nap time on Elm StreetTO THIS point, the horror remakes emanating from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes studio have been annoyingly bearableFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
NightwatchingYOU COULD be forgiven for assuming that Peter Greenaway had fled film-making for a life making cheese or designing cathedrals…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
RevanchePERHAPS THOSE Austrian film-makers whose work fails to play abroad tend towards light romcoms and kids’ films about talking rabbits…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
The Disappearance of Alice CreedWHEN film-makers place any sort of artificial restriction on themselves – no dialogue, just the one set, a single take – one …Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
This remake is too close for comfortIsn’t it terrible that there are so many remakes and sequels in cinemas these days? The lack of imagination in today’s Hollywood…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
Life During WartimeWE ARE all older now. It has been 12 years since Todd Solondz confounded viewers with the hugely influential HappinessFri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
CherrybombHAS THE peace dividend been sufficiently generous to allow for a hip Belfast youth comedy? Is the North ready for its own Trainspotting…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
La Danse: The Paris Opera BalletIN 1967, film-maker Frederick Wiseman set out his stall with Titicut Follies , a searing documentary account of the regime at…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Dogtooth/KynodontasHERE IS an odd, troubling, original film that creeps up on you slowly, before slipping something slimy down the back of your …Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Date NightSTOP ME if you’ve read this here before (and you have), but the current status of the romantic comedy is so dire – a steady tone…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
The Daisy ChainBARELY A month goes by without a scary child movie opening in Irish cinemasFri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Dear JohnIF THIS insipid blubfest secures just one place in the history books, it will be as the film that finally deposed Avatar from…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Cemetary JunctionIF YOU were searching for a cheap, lazy phrase to sum up the appeal of The Office , you might happen upon something like “sitcom…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
City of life and death/Nanjing! Nanjing!AN EARLY episode of the legendary documentary series The World at War touched on the notorious massacre of (figures are still…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Brosnan on being Bond - and BlairSmooth and sonorous, distant yet endearing, Irish in his imagination and in his soul, Pierce Brosnan refuses to be drawn on his…Sat Apr 10 2010 - 01:00
The IFI keeps it real with doc festivalREMEMBER THE mainstream documentary boom? A few short years ago, following the success of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 , it…Fri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
FoxesWHATEVER ELSE you might say about new Irish cinema, you can’t claim it has ignored the immigrant experienceFri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
