Four new films to see this week: A Quiet Love, Send Help, My Father’s Shadow and TwinlessRachel McAdams, Sope Dirisu, Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney and Aisling Franciosi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 6th, 2026Mon Feb 09 2026 - 04:58
Lupita Nyong’o, Odessa A’zion and the Norman Nobrains of racially controversial castingNobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actorsSun Feb 08 2026 - 05:15
Sam Raimi: ‘I was very lucky that Stephen King gave The Evil Dead a good word. It got noticed and I was off’The Send Help director is best known for horror but his roots lie in comedy and no-budget shorts shot with pals in 1970s DetroitFri Feb 06 2026 - 05:12
The Movie Quiz: Who is not a Looney Tuner?Plus: The director of which sequence has just stepped up as the first lady’s official chronicler?Fri Feb 06 2026 - 04:59
A Quiet Love review: Charming and deeply humane As well as being touched by the sweetness of the stories, anyone ignorant about deafness will get an educationThu Feb 05 2026 - 05:10
Send Help review: Trash this classy doesn’t come along often enoughSam Raimi’s genre-skipping desert-island satire gives Rachel McAdams room to be charming, vicious and unsettling in equal measureWed Feb 04 2026 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit TrapWill Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026Sun Feb 01 2026 - 04:48
Melania review: Shameless propaganda that could put you to sleep If this supposed documentary weren’t about what it’s actually about, it could at times play as an unlikely meditation aidSat Jan 31 2026 - 07:25
John Bishop: ‘I went into a mad depression because I realised I was a man being told what to do by another man’The Liverpudlian comedian on inspiring Bradley Cooper’s new film Is This Thing On?Fri Jan 30 2026 - 05:25
The Movie Quiz: Who has never been in a James Bond film?Plus: What song plays under the Walt Disney logo at the start of their films?Fri Jan 30 2026 - 04:59
Nigella Lawson descends from the heavens to redeem The Great British Bake Off with her sacred double entendresNews that the food guru is to join the Channel 4 cookery show has sent journalists crackersThu Jan 29 2026 - 12:00
Nouvelle Vague review: Richard Linklater’s love letter to an iconic era of French cinemaThis portrayal of the creation of Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, celebrates Frenchness at its most proudly awkwardThu Jan 29 2026 - 05:12
Is This Thing On? review: A sincerely felt origin story for comedian John Bishop moved from Liverpool to New York Director Bradley Cooper’s approach takes us closer to an improv night than a session of disciplined joke-tellingWed Jan 28 2026 - 05:10
Baftas 2026: A record-breaking Hamnet, a slate of Irish talent, and a strange awards-race decisionJessie Buckley’s Bafta nomination confirms her as strong favourite for the best-actress awardTue Jan 27 2026 - 14:56
Sorry, what did Matt Damon just say? I was looking at my phoneThe Rip star says Netflix tells film-makers to repeat the plot a few times, for the benefit of doom-scrolling audiences Sun Jan 25 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The History of Sound, Mercy, No Other Choice and H Is for HawkPaul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026Sun Jan 25 2026 - 04:53
The Movie Quiz: Which decade has seen the most Die Hard films?Plus: Who just passed out Scarlett Johansson’s record, set last July, as the highest grossing film star ever?Fri Jan 23 2026 - 04:52
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley is in strong position to win Ireland’s first best actress awardIrish talent ranked high in this year’s Oscar nominations, but Hamnet film-makers will be disappointed Paul Mescal didn’t make the final listThu Jan 22 2026 - 16:30
Oscars 2026: Donald Clarke’s predictions for today’s nominationsWatch out for One Battle After Another or Sinners shattering the record for most Academy Award nominationsThu Jan 22 2026 - 08:38
Mercy review: If AI does take over the world, it can’t be as boring as this film’s depictionWe spend a lot of time staring at Chris Pratt looking worried and a Rebecca Ferguson increasingly bored of sounding increasingly boringWed Jan 21 2026 - 17:00
‘The other new Paul Mescal film’: Classy production, engaging actors, no sparkDespite fine performances from Mescal and Josh O’Connor, Oliver Hermanus’s period drama remains curiously inertWed Jan 21 2026 - 05:12
Iftas 2026: Top two films scoop 26 nominations as Steve Coogan goes up against Daniel Day-LewisIrish Film & Television Academy Awards nominations recognise Christy and Saipan as Blue Lights and The Walsh Sisters get drama nodsTue Jan 20 2026 - 08:30
Chris Pratt: ‘There’s this temptation to just cut the tether and fly off into space’Chris Pratt is one of Hollywood’s most bankable names. That makes it crucial to keep your feet on the groundTue Jan 20 2026 - 05:14
Performative readers could only dream of the reaction War and Peace got on the Belfast trainThe internet would have us believe public transport is full of men ostentatiously reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Is this a joke?Sun Jan 18 2026 - 05:15
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
