The Movie Quiz: Whose nose created some kerfuffle in the last week?Plus: Barbie just passed $1 billion. How many films have now made that much?Fri Aug 25 2023 - 12:31
Theater Camp: A rollicking, endlessly good-natured send-up of musical theatreThe chutzpah of the cast and the inventive jokes constantly distract from the cliched narrativeThu Aug 24 2023 - 05:15
Barbie becomes Ireland’s most successful box office film, ending Avatar’s 14-year recordGreta Gerwig’s smash hit has amassed €8.85m, making it Ireland’s highest-grossing movie, as it continues to break records worldwideWed Aug 23 2023 - 09:51
Louis Garrel: ‘I have a good friend from Ireland. When he speaks I don’t understand a word’The director and star of The Innocent has become one of his nation’s most sought-after actors. But he still enjoys a bit of self-deprecationWed Aug 23 2023 - 05:30
The Blackening: This comedy horror’s a bit of a muddle – but an entertaining oneAre we supposed to be scared or are we supposed to be laughing at the absurdity of it all?Wed Aug 23 2023 - 05:00
The Maestro mess: Did Bradley Cooper really need to tamper with his nose to play Leonard Bernstein?Donald Clarke: A class of dull pedantry seems to have taken over in the production officeSun Aug 20 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLatino culture celebrated in enjoyable DC yarn Blue Beetle, plus chilly AI drama T.I.M., unfunny adult doggy tale Strays, and Desperate Optimists in thoughtful The Future TenseSun Aug 20 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: In which Star Wars film do we first hear Darth Vader’s sinister Imperial March?Plus:Fri Aug 18 2023 - 05:00
Michael Parkinson was a maestro of the golden age of British televisionParkinson, who has died aged 88, will be remembered for his blend of entertainment and serious thinking, a rare combination todayThu Aug 17 2023 - 15:25
Strays review: A gleefully obscene comedy about cute dogs with potty mouths Warning: ‘Adult themes explored from a canine perspective.’ Further warning: it’s not very goodThu Aug 17 2023 - 08:00
Blue Beetle: This is not how we expected Susan Sarandon to enter her golden yearsDirector Ángel Manuel Soto can congratulate himself on bringing freshness to an often turgid genre but the problems are pretty typicalWed Aug 16 2023 - 18:00
Burt Reynolds as 007, Sandra Bullock in The Matrix, Emilia Clarke in Fifty Shades: 12 starring roles that never wereA dozen juicy parts that, for one reason or another, actors pushed to the side of their plate, beginning nearly a century agoMon Aug 14 2023 - 05:15
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekA fun cast can’t save Disney’s limp Haunted Mansion. Plus sensitive Trouble documentary Face Down, true-life video game tale Gran Turismo, and Penélope Cruz in Italian transgender drama L’immensitàSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
‘Overrated’ should be banished from any grown-up lexicon. Except when I use itIconoclastic critics are – to turn their own words against them – short on emotional resonance, boring as sin and not all that compellingSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
Netflix’s Chef’s Table Brian McGinn: ‘There are certainly people in Ireland I am keen to make films about’Brian McGinn, co-creator of Chef’s Table on Netflix, on working on The Bear and the art of lighting a kitchenSat Aug 12 2023 - 05:00
Much to disentangle in new film about IRA abduction and killing of German in BelfastDavid Blake Knox, who first examined the kidnapping and murder of Thomas Niedermayer in a 2019 book, is keen to show how such outrages spread misery through generationsSat Aug 12 2023 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: Flynn, Connery, Costner, Crowe and, in 1973, what?Plus: Who does not play a Barbie in Barbie?Fri Aug 11 2023 - 05:00
Haunted Mansion: A group of people are trapped in a darkened space. And that’s just the audienceThe wispiness of the spectres and the creakiness of the allusions in this fatally compromised farrago will puzzle legions of whatever audience shows upThu Aug 10 2023 - 05:00
Face Down: A gripping, properly enraging account of the IRA’s murder of Thomas NiedermayerFace Down is adroit in its weaving of the ongoing consequences of a ghastly story that began almost exactly 50 years agoThu Aug 10 2023 - 05:00
Celebrated director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, William Friedkin, dies at 87"If you get to be a movie director and express yourself in a mass medium, you’re damned lucky. I look upon myself as a damn lucky man.”Mon Aug 07 2023 - 21:05
Four new films to see this weekInclusive new TMNT animation is excellent family fun. Plus vital transgender doc Kokomo City, French Bataclan drama Paris Memories, and weakly whimsical murder mystery Maggie Moore(s)Sun Aug 06 2023 - 05:00
American puritanism still reigns at the moviesDonald Clarke: It wasn’t the bombs, it was the nudity that got Oppenheimer a restrictive R ratingSun Aug 06 2023 - 05:00
Jamie Dornan: ‘I’ve loved finding comfort in playing psychopaths. I’m trying to find comfort in good people and bad people’The boy raised in Belfast suburbs has gone from being a top model who did some telly to a genuine movie starSat Aug 05 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who played Jeffrey in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet?Plus: Who is first cousin twice removed to the Oscar-winning star of Mrs Miniver?Fri Aug 04 2023 - 05:00
Kokomo City: D Smith’s wise examination of the black transgender experienceThis film inevitably touches on the enormities of racism, but there is also a great deal of conversation about conflicts within the subjects’ own communityThu Aug 03 2023 - 05:00
Alice Winocour: ‘I wanted the film to celebrate everything the terrorists wanted to destroy’Paris Memories, prompted by the Bataclan and Stade de France attacks of 2015, is part of the city’s healing process, says its directorWed Aug 02 2023 - 05:00
Mutant Mayhem: This new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is top notch. Who could have seen it coming?Previous Turtles incarnations had a twentysomething swagger. Jeff Rowe’s subterranean avengers are continually battling with believable insecuritiesTue Aug 01 2023 - 09:55
Mick Jagger is 80. Let’s pay tribute to his greatest gift to the worldDonald Clarke: Mick Jagger and his peers liberated young men from requirement to dress like their dadSun Jul 30 2023 - 05:00
What lessons will Hollywood learn from Oppenheimer and Barbie? Probably the wrong onesDespite setting post-pandemic box-office records, the industry is still struggling with an existential crisis that compares to the arrival of television in the 1950sSat Jul 29 2023 - 06:00
The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema by Lance PettittDespite analysis of Hurst’s work being academic in form, this book offers pleasures to the casual readerSat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who is not really a character in The Flintstones (1994)?Plus: Which was the first film directed by Woody Allen in which he didn’t appear?Fri Jul 28 2023 - 15:07
The Virgin Suicides: The most 1999 film of 1999 is even more persuasive now than it was on releaseSofia Coppola’s beautiful debut film, restored to 4K quality, returns us to a time when the world had no clue what was comingFri Jul 28 2023 - 05:00
‘It was our film and Oppenheimer. I thought, What the f**k? This is crazy’Talk to Me, Danny and Michael Philippou’s superb horror film, has catapulted the brothers from YouTube spoofs to the mainstreamThu Jul 27 2023 - 05:15
Talk to Me: RackaRacka’s Philippou brothers get serious with a bracingly grim horror Expect a lot of money to be thrown at the Philippous. On this evidence, they deserve the opportunityThu Jul 27 2023 - 05:00
Venice film festival 2023: Liam Neeson and Emma Stone movies lead Irish interest as line-up unveiledA sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announcedTue Jul 25 2023 - 16:46
Barbenheimer: Spectacular figures at box office evidence huge turnout around Ireland The Light House cinema in Dublin and Pálás in Galway annihilate records with busiest weekends everTue Jul 25 2023 - 11:55
Éanna Hardwicke on The Sixth Commandment: ‘It’s a devastating story. I’m just glad that it reached people’As the four-part BBC series comes to a close, the young Cork actor has received ecstatic reviews for his disturbing performanceTue Jul 25 2023 - 09:09
Cillian Murphy is one of film’s most reclusive actors – how much longer can he avoid the spotlight?Actors’ strike may be blessing in disguise for Corkman, but Oscar buzz for his performance in Oppenheimer could force him out of his comfort zoneSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
Popcorn in the IFI: is this the buttery end of a long campaign to turn cinemas into feeding pens?Much as we would wish it otherwise, the exhibitors function within the brutal matrix of neoliberal economicsSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What was the first Hitchcock film in colour?Think you know your films inside out? It’s time to put your cinema knowledge to the test in our weekly movie quizFri Jul 21 2023 - 08:27
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock: A rigorous commentary for Hitch enthusiasts and a useful primer for newcomersAn unseen Alistair McGowan impersonates the great man as he talks us through themes in his workFri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
Barbie review: Margot Robbie is explosive in Greta Gerwig’s lurid assault on sensesThe screenplay is positively philosophical at times, as a self-conscious plot spins ever deeper into creative absurdityThu Jul 20 2023 - 05:56
Does the Barbenheimer phenomenon ring any bells?If the box-office projections are right, the battle between Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie won’t even be closeTue Jul 18 2023 - 07:00
Galway Film Fleadh 2023: Rambunctious comedy Apocalypse Clown wins best Irish filmThis year’s event boasted 34 Irish films, including 20 world premieres and seven Irish premieresMon Jul 17 2023 - 11:11
Whodunit? In search of the lesser presented Alfred Hitchcock Mark Cousins discusses his exploration of the great film-maker’s thoughts on life and workMon Jul 17 2023 - 05:00
Jane Birkin: A charismatic actor best known for a song that ‘wasn’t rude at all’Birkin, who has died aged 76, was also a fashion idol and a philanthropistSun Jul 16 2023 - 16:45
Donald Clarke: Napoleon still the historic figure film directors can’t get away fromNo figure in history has been portrayed so often in movies than the little CorsicanSun Jul 16 2023 - 05:45
Squaring the Circle: Celebrating designers of era-defining album sleevesFrom Pink Floyd to the likes of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, design house Hipgnosis forged some of the best known album covers with improvised chaosSat Jul 15 2023 - 13:35
The Movie Quiz: How many times did Clint Eastwood play Dirty Harry?Plus: Which Hitchcock star just celebrated her 99th birthday?Fri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00
While We Watched: Gripping film about Ravish Kumar presents a chilling view of India’s broadcast mediaThis film, centred on one brave journalist railing against populist fervour, addresses universal problemsFri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00
