Bros review: Ticks all the boxes but fails to launchGay spin on rom-com archetypes can’t overcome the genre’s limitationsFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:00
The Bear is the best new series of autumn. It doesn’t waste a second of your timeDonald Clarke: The season’s best new drama questions assumptions of how long a TV drama should beSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
From kinetic thrillers to elegant film noir Park Chan-Wook’s new film takes audience in new directionVeteran auteur on the enduring power of cinema and the irresistible rise of Korean cultureSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What are The 39 Steps?Plus: Which Irish star read a poem at Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral?Fri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
The Banshees of Inisherin film review: An impeccable cast eats up the succulent dialogueColin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with Martin McDonagh for the first time since In BrugesFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Black Adam review: The Rock and an older gentleman from Navan have more demented adventures in overpriced chaosThere is something perversely cheering about the DC Extended Universe’s ramshackle approach to storytellingThu Oct 20 2022 - 11:35
All that Breathes: How the bird men of New Delhi conquered Cannes and SundanceShaunak Sen’s documentary about two brothers caring for the city’s black kites could swoop up an Oscar nominationMon Oct 17 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAll Quiet on the Western Front, Emily and Holy Island in cinemas, Rosaline streamingSun Oct 16 2022 - 05:00
Social media and cameras create a nightmare for anyone capable of mistakes (ie, all of us)The controversy over football celebrations illustrates the dangers of self-surveillanceSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Robbie Coltrane could radiate enormous warmth as an actor with an element of threatDonald Clarke: Some obituaries will mourn the ‘death of Hagrid’ but there are worse ways to be rememberedFri Oct 14 2022 - 20:19
The Movie Quiz: Spot the film for which Meryl Streep was not Oscar nominatedPlus: Who took the same gig as Douglas Fairbanks, Don Ameche, Gene Kelly, Gabriel Byrne and Logan Lerman?Fri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
All Quiet on the Western Front: Anti-war classic gets a noisy new lease of lifeEdward Berger’s bone-rattling film is, surprisingly, the first cinema adaptation of the 1928 novel in almost a centuryFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Holy Island review: A puzzle that never achieves a resolutionRobert Manson’s film is often sharp and engaging but after a while the arthouse tropes grind you downFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Richard Harris, Carey Mulligan, Matilda the Musical: Cork Film Festival unveils an eye-watering line-upWith Belfast Film Festival also kicking off next month, both ends of the island are alive with moviesWed Oct 12 2022 - 18:30
Angela Lansbury was ‘Irish, English, Scottish’, a TV superstar and a Broadway demonFilm Correspondent Donald Clarke pays tribute to the late actorTue Oct 11 2022 - 22:56
Name-dropping, sniping and beans on toast: The Alan Rickman DiariesDonald Clarke on the late star’s salty, engaging journalsTue Oct 11 2022 - 04:30
Velma is finally coming out, but will something important be lost in the process?Donald Clarke: The downside of openness is that we lose the convoluted attractions of spotting coded gay charactersSat Oct 08 2022 - 05:00
When Brendan Gleeson met Colin Farrell: ‘We hit it off — in a fundamental way’Fourteen long years since In Bruges, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell have teamed up again with director Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of InisherinSat Oct 08 2022 - 04:59
Nothing Compares: Sinéad O’Connor, a patronising Gay Byrne, and the shock waves of that photo-ripping momentKathryn Ferguson builds her documentary around the night the singer ripped up a photograph of John Paul II on US TV and sent a nation into paroxysmsFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
The Woman King: Viola Davis stars in a thrilling adventure of the old schoolViola Davis is a commanding central presence in this 19th century African epicFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Christian Bale: ‘As an actor, you get to be a weirdo’‘I’ve never thought of myself as any kind of a decent leading man,’ Amsterdam star admitsTue Oct 04 2022 - 05:00
Sacheen Littlefeather, made famous by Marlon Brando, was a lifelong warrior for justiceThe activist has died aged 75. Her rejection of Brando’s Oscar in 1973 highlighted the injustices heaped on the first AmericansMon Oct 03 2022 - 16:16
Four new films to see this weekFlux Gourmet, Pure Grit and Midwives on limited release, Hocus Pocus 2 streamingSun Oct 02 2022 - 05:00
Nothing compares to Sinéad O’Connor, proudly awkward national treasureBelfast film-maker Kathryn Ferguson discusses her excellent study of the Irish singerSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Vicky Phelan: ‘She’s just extraordinary. And somehow she was able to keep going’Sasha King talks about making a portrait of the courageous campaignerSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Why wouldn’t you judge a book by its cover? I always doDonald Clarke: A book’s design is essential to the reading experience. Mess with it at your perilSat Oct 01 2022 - 04:30
Pure Grit: opening up a hidden world with styleFew non-fiction films released this year have done a better job of encapsulating their protagonistFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Flux Gourmet: the latest smorgasbord of peculiarity from Peter StricklandNone more queasy. None more strange. None more alienating. None more off-beigeFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Lesley Manville: From Emmerdale to the OscarsIt is hard to think of a British actor busier with promising projects than ManvilleTue Sept 27 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week, including a controversial Marilyn Monroe biopicBlonde, Don’t Worry Darling, Athena, After YangSun Sept 25 2022 - 05:00
What do you mean, we have to wait two months for the film to come to Ireland?Donald Clarke: Young whippersnappers don’t know how easy they have it in these daysSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
20 great new films to see between now and the end of 2022Sequels to Avatar and Black Panther plus a Whitney Houston biopic and the In Bruges team reunitesSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Opening Night review: A puzzling experimental piece that works best when it does leastDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Electronic composer Jane Deasy monitors the space around her as she probes the anxiety of performanceFri Sept 23 2022 - 09:30
The Movie Quiz: Which film did Boris Johnson quote in his last Prime Minister’s Questions?A character voiced by whom appeared twice on the BBC in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth?Fri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Blonde review: Marilyn Monroe is still waiting for the justice she deservesThe unrelieved bleakness of Andrew Dominik’s fictionalised biopic becomes monotonousFri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Don’t Worry Darling review: What lies beneath the surface? Not muchAs pop crossovers into film go, Harry Styles is more Cliff Richard than Frank Sinatra – it’s Florence Pugh who steals the show in an otherwise vacuous fantasyFri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Oliver Cromwell Is Really Very Sorry review: This barnstorming musical deserves to run and runDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Xnthony’s hilarious, deceptively angry marvel smuggles polemic into its comic show-stoppersThu Sept 22 2022 - 09:23
The Spin review: Tense two-hander balances social comedy with emotional heftDublin Fringe Festival 2022: This Corcadorca production finds a singular mechanism for telling its unsettling storyWed Sept 21 2022 - 09:34
Back with a bang: The Dane who conquered IrelandWhether it’s as a Viking in The Northman or an abusive husband in Bad Sisters, the Danish actor keeps getting cast in Irish-based productionsTue Sept 20 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTicket to Paradise, Róise & Frank, Clerks III, Funny PagesSun Sept 18 2022 - 05:00
Since when did a bear from Peru become the royals’ grim reaper?Donald Clarke: There could have been worse mascots for a bereaved nation than PaddingtonSat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
Róise & Frank: A shaggy dog story with real heartComedic but emotionally true study of bereavement and its effectsFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: When is the sequel to Blade Runner set?Plus: Who was billed as ‘the shame of the nation’?Fri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
Ticket to Paradise: Bringing the rom-com back to partial lifeThis resuscitation of a moribund genre manages to coast along on the star wattage of Julia Roberts and George ClooneyFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
‘David Bowie didn’t die. David Jones died’Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream isn’t a traditional documentary, but it has the momentum of a great songWed Sept 14 2022 - 05:00
Jean-Luc Godard: Until this morning, he was the most influential living film-maker The nouvelle vague director, who has died at the age of 91, revolutionised film-makingTue Sept 13 2022 - 14:17
Colin Farrell wins best actor at Venice International Film FestivalMartin McDonagh takes best screenplay for The Banshees of Inisherin, which stars FarrellSat Sept 10 2022 - 20:39
Ciarán Hinds: ‘A lot of my friends have the same talent as me, but never got the breaks’The Belfast actor talks about that night at the Oscars, and his lifetime of non-stop workingSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
The standing ovation used to mean something. Not any moreDonald Clarke: The standing-o is an unreliable metric for judging a film’s qualitySat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
Crimes of the Future: The master of body horror serves up some discomfort food‘Surgery is the new sex,’ remarks Kristen Stewart, apparently aware she is in a David Cronenberg filmFri Sept 09 2022 - 05:00
