Stop lying about musicals. We can see your foot tappingDonald Clarke: Hollywood musicals have been trying to obscure their true natures before opening. There can be only one explanationSun Jan 21 2024 - 05:00
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott brave icy weather for Dublin gala screening of All of Us StrangersIrish double act brings something ‘pretty special’ to film already conquering audiences across the United StatesFri Jan 19 2024 - 20:24
The Movie Quiz: What does ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ mean?Plus: Where does Kevin Hart have a drink in the Netflix thriller Lift?Fri Jan 19 2024 - 08:00
First Look: Kneecap the movie – Sundance has never seen anything like this immersion in acidic Northern humourMajor coup for Belfast punk-rap trio’s film with Michael Fassbender as Sony Pictures buys distribution rightsFri Jan 19 2024 - 06:30
Baftas 2024: Donald Clarke on the snubs and surprises on a good day for Irish nominationsDid Barry Keoghan edge out Andrew Scott? And might Paul Mescal’s chances at the Oscars be revived?Thu Jan 18 2024 - 16:51
Bafta nominations 2024: Irish actors Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal shortlistedAndrew Scott and Lily Gladstone, who were both hotly tipped for nominations, miss out in major upsetThu Jan 18 2024 - 12:27
Krapp’s Last Tape review: Stephen Rea invites us to applaud the tape recorder – but the triumph is his The actor had the forethought to record Krapp’s early tapes 12 years ago. What a pleasure to see, and hear, the result in the intimacy of Project Arts CentreThu Jan 18 2024 - 08:53
The Holdovers review: Paul Giamatti emerges as Cillian Murphy’s Oscars rival in a comedy set to become a Christmas classic Arriving in Ireland three months after its US release, Alexander Payne’s film is still a seasonal delightThu Jan 18 2024 - 05:45
Mean Girls review: Musical remake adds so-so songs but little else to the 20-year-old high-school classicStill, there is enough of the original beast remaining to pass the time pleasantly enoughWed Jan 17 2024 - 05:00
Rocky Horror Show review: I heard one person behind me complaining about the hecklingTheatre: Actors wisely choose not to reinvent too much, though one gag suggests show can still offendTue Jan 16 2024 - 14:11
How Saltburn became the most chattered about film of the season despite a cool critical receptionOver in the puritanical United States, there has been much bloviating about how ‘unnecessary’ some scenes in Emerald Fennell's film areSun Jan 14 2024 - 06:00
Paul Giamatti: ‘I like interesting supporting parts. I have no strict rule I need to play the lead’The Holdovers star, whose performance has just won him a Golden Globe, always liked the idea of the ‘character actor’, even though he’s not exactly sure what it meansSun Jan 14 2024 - 05:15
Ayo Edebiri, we’re proud to call you Irish. It makes a nice change from BritwashingDonald Clarke: Didn’t realise the Bear and Bottoms star is from the Emerald Isle? Sure she’s from InisherinSun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftPoor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftSun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the most successful Bond film adjusted for inflation?Plus: The source of what film first arrived with Apt Pupil, The Body and The Breathing Method?Fri Jan 12 2024 - 08:00
Lift review: ’Bout ye! Belfast’s Crown bar has a cameo in this undemanding biff-bang-wallopThis undemanding heist film is not exactly good but you could imagine it securing a place in the Netflix top 10Fri Jan 12 2024 - 03:00
Screen Actors Guild Awards: Cillian Murphy nominated as best male lead actorMixed news for Irish talent at the guild awards that have fast become one of the more significant pointers to Oscar successWed Jan 10 2024 - 17:22
Poor Things review: Emma Stone is properly unsettling in this provocative feminist fable drenched in Victorian horrorThis deranged comedy with shades of Pygmalion is a feast of cinematic excess loaded with intellectual traction and psychological gritWed Jan 10 2024 - 05:00
Golden Globes 2024: full list of winners All the winners from the 81st annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaMon Jan 08 2024 - 06:00
Golden Globes 2024: Cillian Murphy wins best actor as Oppenheimer takes home five awardsCillian Murphy triumphed over Barry Keoghan, nominated for Emerald Fennell’s SaltburnMon Jan 08 2024 - 05:38
Four new films to see this weekEmpathetic take on well-known Andean crash survivors story Society of the Snow, plus Anthony Hopkins in fine historical drama One Life, fun documentary Scala!!!, and uneven comedy-drama Good GriefSun Jan 07 2024 - 05:00
Star Trek’s prediction of Irish unification in 2024 is upon us, but the full scene muddies the waterDonald Clarke: Reunification will come, but Romulan annexation may come firstSun Jan 07 2024 - 05:00
‘Emma Stone came up with a lot of the sex stuff that we did’: Poor Things director Yorgos LanthimosThe master of cerebral weird has made a string of angular comedies with Element Pictures. Their latest, Golden Lion-winning collaboration is their wildest ride yetSat Jan 06 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: When was Barbenheimer day?Plus: Who links David Lynch, Martin Scorsese and Gary Oldman?Fri Jan 05 2024 - 05:00
Scala!!!: This was my local cinema. It showed everything from the highest art house to the lowest exploitationEvery month the wonderfully garish programme would clatter through the letterboxFri Jan 05 2024 - 04:57
Dan Levy: ‘Sometimes all you have is laughter,’ says the Schitt’s Creek actor and writerKnown along with his more famous dad as co-star and co-creator of hit comedy Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy has graduated to movie maker with his feature debut, Good GriefTue Jan 02 2024 - 05:15
One Life: Anthony Hopkins, indisputable great, gets one more chance to show us what he can doThe master of introverted distraction plays the real-life Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 endangered children from Czechoslovakia before the Nazi invasionMon Jan 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFive stars for Sofia Coppola’s perceptive Priscilla biopic but only two for Michael Mann’s plodding Ferrari. Plus: Ben Kingsley in a charming ET for geezers and John Cena in a rotten action comedySun Dec 31 2023 - 05:00
Freelance: You’d get more sparks from rubbing a wet flannel with a wetter rock than from John Cena and Alison BrieCena’s latest demolition derby is predictable, patronising but passable; the utter lack of fizzle between the two leads, however, is the real kick in the teethFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Priscilla: Sofia Coppola’s intoxicating film is her best movie in 20 yearsAll this is presented within the sort of tastefully persuasive package that only Sofia Coppola can manageTue Dec 26 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpiritual Japanese animation The Boy and the Heron and exemplary documentary on fearless photographer Trish Murtha. Plus: misfired sports biopic Next Goal Wins and dull Star Wars clone Rebel MoonSun Dec 24 2023 - 05:00
Who won pop culture in 2023? It was so nearly Taylor Swift – but she was pipped at the postDonald Clarke: Her Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert film ever. She was Time magazine’s person of the year. But another woman had an even better yearSun Dec 24 2023 - 05:00
Sofia Coppola on Priscilla: ‘People imagine you escape tragedy and loneliness and sadness if you can be rich and famous’The director has always been interested in the romantic progress of young women. Her new film explores universal traumas that accompany first loveSat Dec 23 2023 - 05:30
Oscars 2023 shortlist: Irish film Flora and Son among the 15 contenders for original song Irish production Poor Things, by Yorgos Lanthimos, nominated in three categoriesFri Dec 22 2023 - 09:50
The Movie Quiz: Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past to Scrooge McDuck’s Ebenezer?Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Bailey, Judy Garland, the Grinch, Kevin McCallister...It must be Donald Clarke’s annual bumper holiday quiz!Fri Dec 22 2023 - 08:00
Christmas TV guide: Great movies and shows for you to watch over the next few daysChoose from a selection box of old staples such as It’s A Wonderful Life and The Big Sleep and modern marvels such as Wolfwalkers and May DecemberFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
Next Goal Wins: What’s Michael Fassbender doing in this film? You may as well ask Natalie Portman to play ChurchillThe ramshackle, borderline offensive farrago that Next Goal Wins has become seems unlikely to refurbish the New Zealander’s reputationFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire: In space, no one can hear you yawnZack Snyder’s take on Star Wars and Seven Samurai is a transgalactic travesty. And why do some of the worst villains have Northern Irish accents?Thu Dec 21 2023 - 05:00
Best films of 2023: Irish critics name their favouritesCeline Song’s Past Lives and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall top Dublin Film Critics Circle poll, which also names best actor, actress and Irish filmMon Dec 18 2023 - 18:03
Four new films to see this weekGodzilla Minus One, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, I Like Movies, In the Shadow of BeirutSun Dec 17 2023 - 05:00
Comedy has to be funny? Don’t make me laughDonald Clarke: Humour has forever been a tool for gutting the hypocrisies and inconsistencies in bigoted thinking. Do we really need to explain this?Sun Dec 17 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Infinity Pool is to Naked Lunch as Spinal Tap is to...?Plus: How many men born in Ireland have won the best actor Oscar?Fri Dec 15 2023 - 08:00
In the Shadow of Beirut: Brilliant, heart-breaking and even more pertinent than plannedEvents since this nuanced and at times beautiful film was made mean it nods even more vigorously to the wealthy world thousands of kilometres from Sabra and ShatilaFri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget – This middle-ranking Aardman sequel still beats almost anyone else on top formThough not on the same plane as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, it delivers zippy good-hearted jokes at a cracking paceThu Dec 14 2023 - 05:00
Ireland used to ban films. Now it’s more relaxed than Britain or the US about what’s on screen. Why?Such shockers as Brief Encounter and The Big Sleep were once prohibited here. Ciarán Kissane of the Irish Film Classification Office explains his more modern approachWed Dec 13 2023 - 05:15
Golden Globes: Irish actors Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Andrew Scott nominatedYorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, produced by Dublin’s Element Pictures, receives a whopping seven nominationsMon Dec 11 2023 - 16:01
The 10 worst films of 2023We’ve already told you our favourite movies released in Ireland this year. Here are the ones we hatedMon Dec 11 2023 - 05:30
Have the dictionaries all gone insane? The real word of 2023 was right there, word geeksDonald Clarke: Forget rizz, we should choose a word that properly defines an eraSun Dec 10 2023 - 05:00
Actor Ryan O’Neal dies aged 82 as a legend of Hollywood’s post-classical eraBarbra Streisand among fellow actors who recalled ‘funny and charming’ leading manSat Dec 09 2023 - 09:22
