Four new films to see this week: Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Megadeth: Behind the MaskBrendan Fraser, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell and Dave Mustaine feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 16th, 2026Sun Jan 18 2026 - 04:52
Brendan Fraser: ‘My great-grandad escaped the Famine. He came across the Atlantic by himself aged 11’The Oscar-winning actor’s peripatetic life makes him a perfect fit for his new film, Rental FamilyFri Jan 16 2026 - 05:21
The Movie Quiz: Where will the Sundance Film Festival be from next year?Plus: Which Grease song was not in the original 1971 stage musical?Fri Jan 16 2026 - 04:50
Rental Family review: Brendan Fraser helps sell this odd but charming American-in-Tokyo comedyFraser plays a struggling actor hired to pose as the estranged father of a young mixed-race girlThu Jan 15 2026 - 05:10
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – a trivial but entertaining series diversionThis fourth episode strays into torture porn and is the most gratuitously nasty of the series so farTue Jan 13 2026 - 21:00
Jessie Buckley’s Golden Globes win sees odds shorten on best actress Oscar victoryKerrywoman will walk into nominations, barring a meteor strike, while Paul Mescal might face a tougher battle to take top prizeMon Jan 12 2026 - 06:24
‘This is not a normal feeling or situation to be in’: Jessie Buckley wins Golden Globe for HamnetPaul Mescal loses out to Stellan Skarsgård in best supporting actor category Mon Jan 12 2026 - 06:11
Are The Beatles too big to fade into obscurity? The rise of Geese suggests they areEven now, Sam Mendes is preparing a tetralogy of films, each focusing on an individual Beatle. They will resonate forever, right?Sun Jan 11 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Hamnet, Giant, Oh, Canada and People We Meet on VacationJessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026Sun Jan 11 2026 - 04:46
The Movie Quiz: What is now the highest grossing Disney animation ever?Plus: What is the only film to have won the best picture Oscar with no other nominations?Fri Jan 09 2026 - 04:42
Giant review: Pierce Brosnan shines as Irish hero behind a prince of the boxing ringPrince Naseem Hamed’s Dublin-born coach Brendan Ingle became a Sheffield legendWed Jan 07 2026 - 05:10
Four new films to see this week: Saipan, Menu-Plaisir: Les Troisgros, Peter Hujar’s Day and Song Sung Blue Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 2nd, 2026Mon Jan 05 2026 - 09:09
As the US prepares for its 250th, cinema is going through its greatest nervous breakdown yetThe US believed itself to be in a very different place 50 years agoSun Jan 04 2026 - 05:15
50 people to watch in 2026: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreThe artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up in the new yearSat Jan 03 2026 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which is the correct Mary Poppins song?Plus: Who is not mentioned in the longest song on Highway 61 Revisited?Fri Jan 02 2026 - 04:57
Ryan Coogler on Sinners’ hit Celtic vampire dance: ‘Rocky Road to Dublin is an affirmation of humanity’The director of one of 2025’s most talked-about films on the links between Irish and black communitiesWed Dec 31 2025 - 05:15
Song Sung Blue review: On the nose. Shamelessly manipulative. Quite charmingKate Hudson and Hugh Jackman combine for genuinely stirring versions of the Neil Diamond oeuvreWed Dec 31 2025 - 05:10
Four new films to see this week: Marty Supreme, Cover-Up, Sentimental Value and David Bowie: The Final ActTimothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025Tue Dec 30 2025 - 06:00
Brigitte Bardot: The reluctant cinema icon who embodied France’s sexual revolutionA star who became a symbol of sexual freedom, artistic frustration and political controversySun Dec 28 2025 - 14:28
Who’s to blame for the end of cinema? It’s not who you think Talk around Netflix’s potential takeover of Warner Bros has accelerated fretting over cinema’s lifespanSun Dec 28 2025 - 05:15
The 2025 Movie Quiz: What Irish drinking song could you hear this year in Sinners?Plus: Which director did not have a film released in Irish cinemas this year?Fri Dec 26 2025 - 04:57
Saipan review: The likeability of Éanna Hardwicke’s Roy Keane makes the big meltdown all the more shockingThis is an entertaining ride even for those who don’t know one end of a football from anotherThu Dec 25 2025 - 05:12
Sentimental Value review: The most civilised film of 2025Beautifully played piece of highish-middle-brow filmmaking that makes the best of strategically staged confrontationsWed Dec 24 2025 - 05:10
Marty Supreme review: Timothée Chalamet is bravely abrasive in Josh Safdie’s stunning film Study of an insufferable table-tennis prodigy is an intelligent entertainment as generously stuffed as the greatest 19th-century novelTue Dec 23 2025 - 05:12
How bad does a Christmas film have to be for it to disappear forever? Feast your eyes on theseSanta Claus Conquers the Martians, anyone? What about Arnie in Jingle All the Way? It doesn’t matter: Christmas movies are the audiovisual equivalent of snow in a canSun Dec 21 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The SpongeBob Movie, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash and 1975: BreakdownJulian Assange, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Martin Scorsese feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 19th, 2025Sun Dec 21 2025 - 04:54
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different IrelandsSat Dec 20 2025 - 05:32
The 12 Days of Christmas Movie Quiz: Which film did not provide an I’m Alan Partridge episode title?Plus: Who has never played a Swan (or a Swann)?Fri Dec 19 2025 - 04:57
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2025: Sinners wins near unprecedented number of categoriesBig winners among Irish productions were Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story and Brendan Canty’s ChristyThu Dec 18 2025 - 11:00
The Great Gambon by Milly Ellis: A hilarious stocking filler about the Dublin-born actorAmong those contributing anecdoates are Charles Dance, Simon Russell Beale and Tom HollanderWed Dec 17 2025 - 15:15
Breakdown: 1975 review – Documentary goes big on entertainment as it pursues a serious endMorgan Neville unlocks the solipsism at the centre of the decade in a sharp analysis of a body politic apparently unaware of its own psychological instabilityWed Dec 17 2025 - 05:10
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – All the breakneck oomph of an Antiques RoadshowIf the first instalment of the franchise was a version of Dances with Wolves, this one owes a debt to The Jungle Book. It will make a squidillion dollarsTue Dec 16 2025 - 14:00
Ten great Rob Reiner movie moments: From Co Clare’s ‘Cliffs of Insanity’ to Kathy Bates’s sledge-hammer performanceReiner had a gift for delivering standout lines and moments in his movies that stayed with audiences long after final credits had rolledMon Dec 15 2025 - 20:14
Rob Reiner: Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally director had unparalleled run of hit movies From 1984 to 1992, the unclassifiable film-maker delivered one of the most extraordinary directorial runs in Hollywood historyMon Dec 15 2025 - 13:32
Sigourney Weaver interview: ‘I had no illusions about the showbiz world. My father called it the racket’ The Avatar, Alien and Ice Storm actor never had any illusions about show business. That may have helped her become an old-school Hollywood starSun Dec 14 2025 - 05:29
Sydney Sweeney looked unstoppable. But she leaves 2025 a divisive figureYoung, talented and good-looking? Then prepare for an online onslaughtSun Dec 14 2025 - 05:13
Éanna Hardwicke: ‘I don’t feel any kind of security. I enjoy the feeling of each job being the one and only’The Cork actor is having quite the year, with Saipan en route to cinemas and his London role in The Playboy of the Western WorldSat Dec 13 2025 - 06:00
Knives Out director Rian Johnson: ‘Daniel Craig never requires encouragement to go big’Rian Johnson, director of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, on Agatha Christie, religion and ColumboSat Dec 13 2025 - 05:11
Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is shamelessly sentimental – but it could run and runThe bar for ‘Christmas classic’ has fallen so low that this could be a contender. It’s not the worst example actuallyThu Dec 11 2025 - 17:00
Hamnet review: Five stars for Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s devastating filmIn Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving ShakespearesWed Dec 10 2025 - 12:00
Wake Up Dead Man review: Another cosy murder mystery for Daniel Craig’s Poirot send-upThis huge-budget variation on Sunday-evening mystery telly will entertain Netflix viewers over ChristmasWed Dec 10 2025 - 05:12
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nodsPaul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominationsMon Dec 08 2025 - 16:35
The 50 best films of 2025 – a full list in reverse orderThere were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchisesSun Dec 07 2025 - 05:35
The 10 worst films of 2025: ‘Cap’, you say? Crap, more likeWe gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worstSun Dec 07 2025 - 05:35
No generation is the best. None is the worst. We are all great. We are all appallingAlpha, beta, boomers, Joneses: confusion reigns about the ‘gen’ paramaters, never mind which is the greatestSun Dec 07 2025 - 05:09
Four new films to see this week: Eternity, It Was Just an Accident, Folktales and HorseshoeElizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner and Lalor Roddy feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 5th, 2025Sun Dec 07 2025 - 04:53
The 50 best films of 2025: Top 10 movies of the year Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 06 2025 - 06:02
The 50 best films of 2025: No 20 to No 11We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 05 2025 - 06:02
The Movie Quiz: Which film does not feature a Friend?Plus: Which is not a Rock Hudson and Doris Day film?Fri Dec 05 2025 - 04:57
The 50 best films of 2025: Materialists, Bridget Jones and Alpha make the list of numbers 30 to 21We continue the countdown of our top-rated movies released in Ireland this yearThu Dec 04 2025 - 06:02
