Three Thousand Years of Longing: Underwhelming fantasy that doesn’t fulfil its eastern promiseIdris Elba is a genie in George Miller’s overcooked fable that comes across as a 21st-century Turkish Delight adFri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
The Venice Movie Quiz: Who is missing from Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin?Plus: Which was the last film to win both the Golden Lion and best picture at the Oscars?Fri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
Blackbird: Michael Flatley’s film is a hoot. If only it was meant to be funnyA Chicagoan dancer saves the world while evading amorous younger women. But don’t mistake this for a vanity projectWed Aug 31 2022 - 22:00
Venice Film Festival: A controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic and the In Bruges team reunited Reunited In Bruges team and controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic among the line-upWed Aug 31 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekOfficial Competition, Beast, Queen of Glory, Mr Malcolm’s listSun Aug 28 2022 - 05:00
Cinema nostalgia ain’t what it used to beDonald Clarke: Filmmakers have always loved recalling their movie-going childhoods, but that may be coming to an endSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Where do most of John Hughes’ movies take place?Plus: Who is the star honoured with a statue in Bristol?Fri Aug 26 2022 - 05:00
Beast: Entertaining lion-v-man action romp of the old schoolIdris Elba and his family are up against a man-eater in this efficient adventure storyFri Aug 26 2022 - 05:00
Queen of Glory: Getting back to roots in a Bronx taleReview: Intergenerational immigrant tensions are delicately explored in this debut featureFri Aug 26 2022 - 05:00
Watch the trailer for Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson: hatchet job or hagiography?News of Michael Winterbottom’s This England has been met with fury by online conspiracistsMon Aug 22 2022 - 15:35
Four new ★★★★☆ films to see in cinemas this weekAnaïs in Love, My Old School, The Feast and Free Chol Soo Lee, all on limited releaseMon Aug 22 2022 - 08:53
Donald Clarke: Sacheen Littlefeather finally gets her Oscars apologyThe Academy is moving to redress a wrong that occurred nearly 50 years agoSat Aug 20 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What was the original title of Monty Python’s Life of Brian?What film ends (and begins) with The End?Fri Aug 19 2022 - 12:46
Anaïs in Love: Truly, madly, deeply entertainingThe eponymous central character is appallingly, delightfully fascinating in this Woody Allen-esque French comedyFri Aug 19 2022 - 05:00
Free Chol Soo Lee: a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decadesReview: San Francisco murder conviction may seem obscure today, but bears a resemblance to the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four casesFri Aug 19 2022 - 05:00
Jonah Hill has quit film promotion interviews to protect his mental health. Are they really that bad?Actors may go before cameras and audiences for a living. That doesn’t mean they’re always comfortable with the attentionThu Aug 18 2022 - 14:00
Wolfgang Petersen: Director of Eastwood, Clooney, Pitt and, in Das Boot, one of the best war movies ever madeThe German film-maker then deftly moved to Hollywood, where he directed Troy, In the Line of Fire and Air Force OneWed Aug 17 2022 - 15:50
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNope on general release, Hole in the Head at the IFI, Where Is Anne Frank and Blind Ambition on select releaseSun Aug 14 2022 - 06:00
Anne Heche: A charismatic and witty actor whose personal life was beset by misery Donnie Brasco star believed her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres damaged her career prospectsSat Aug 13 2022 - 07:03
Beware. The Woodstock ‘99 documentary abounds with apocalyptic warningsDonald Clarke: Imagine enduring chaos just for the pleasure of being yelled at by Korn, Limp Bizkit and Kid RockSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who has been in every Star Wars film (spinoffs excluded)?Plus: Edward, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Emmet. Which clan?Fri Aug 12 2022 - 06:00
Hole in the Head: An imaginative and infuriating cut from the edge of Irish cinemaFilm review: Experimentalist film-maker Dean Kavanagh takes an oblique approach to a family mysteryFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:00
Nope: Daniel Kaluuya moves through the increasingly bizarre action with a rocky stoicismFilm review: Although not perfect, it is so elegantly carried off one scarcely feels the impulse to complainFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:00
Olivia Newton-John: Nothing could dampen the affection she generated among the watching publicDonald Clarke: Newton-John’s sunny positivity paved the way for the British infatuation with AustraliaTue Aug 09 2022 - 15:47
Four new films to see this week ... One of them is a lean, exhilarating thrillerThirteen Live and Prey streaming, Bullet Train and Maisie in cinemasSun Aug 07 2022 - 06:00
Dean Kavanagh on getting his ‘bloody weird’ film into cinemasDean Kavanagh’s latest work shows there’s space in national cinema for the avant-garde despite franchisesSat Aug 06 2022 - 18:36
Death of a movie: Who killed Batgirl and why? Donald Clarke: The superhero movie is set to join a select list of titles that never saw the light of daySat Aug 06 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Spot the ‘Andy Warhol film’ actually directed by Andy WarholPlus: Who are the only siblings to both win lead acting Oscars?Fri Aug 05 2022 - 06:00
Thirteen Lives: A solid drama of the old schoolRon Howard’s dramatisation of the Thai cave rescue is his best film in yearsFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Bullet Train film review: Brad Pitt’s action epic never leaves the stationIt’s big, it’s brash, it should be great, but sadly this Brad Pitt vehicle never leaves the stationFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Is For All Mankind the most overlooked series on TV?The show hasn’t a single Emmy nomination, yet it’s conceived on a scale that makes evangelical devotees of its regular viewersThu Aug 04 2022 - 05:07
Hit Irish-language film An Cailín Ciúin selected as Ireland’s Oscars entry Colm Bairéad’s movie has strong chance of progressing to the 2023 Academy Awards longlist for best international featureWed Aug 03 2022 - 08:26
Colin Farrell’s canny journey from ‘hell-raiser’ to star of prestige cinemaThe Castleknock Brando went up like a rocket two decades ago and could have come down like a stick. It didn’t happenMon Aug 01 2022 - 05:20
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekHit the Road, Joyride, Fire of Love, The Deer KingSun Jul 31 2022 - 06:00
Exuberant Indian epic RRR reaches new audiencesAnti-colonial extravaganza lands with the energy of a meteor strikeSat Jul 30 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Steven Spielberg’s production company?Plus: Who might belong with Ian McEwan, Alice Sebold, Stephenie Meyer, Colm Tóibín and Anton Chekhov?Fri Jul 29 2022 - 06:00
Joyride: Irish road movie of the old schoolOlivia Colman stars in a drama that never quite achieves its objectivesFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Hit the Road: An almost flawless Iranian comic dramaPanah Panahi’s cunning, funny first feature is latest in a long tradition of car-set filmsFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Brad Pitt, 43rd highest-grossing movie star ever, gets mired in a whitewashing controversyHis new film Bullet Train is the latest to be accused of casting white actors in non-white rolesWed Jul 27 2022 - 08:32
In Bruges team of Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Martin McDonagh reunite in VeniceThe Banshees of Inisherin is Martin McDonagh's first film since Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriTue Jul 26 2022 - 15:49
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWhere the Crawdads Sing on general release, Robust, Notre Dame on Fire and Kurt Vonnegut: Unstock in Time on limited releaseSun Jul 24 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Despite the doom-mongers, linear TV is still hanging onYes, our viewing habits are changing, but not as fast as some predictSat Jul 23 2022 - 05:57
The Movie Quiz: If Liam is Thor, then who is Loki?Plus: Which Jane Austen character follows on from Melanie Daniels and Tess McGill?Fri Jul 22 2022 - 06:00
Robust: Utterly charming, ultimately sad debut from Constance MeyerReview: Film’s refusal to wheel out familiar tropes may ultimately leave some viewers disappointedFri Jul 22 2022 - 05:30
Toby Jones: ‘Anything that takes Beckett out of the university and puts him in the world is to be encouraged’Over the last few decades, no actor has spread himself more generously – or more productively – over so many diverse modes and genres as JonesThu Jul 21 2022 - 09:00
Where the Crawdads Sing: Daisy Edgar-Jones does her best in a mostly terrible filmThe storytelling veers between soap-opera cheese and middle-brow literary pufferyThu Jul 21 2022 - 06:00
Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, wanted for questioning over real-life killingThe bestselling book, now a major movie, echoes a death in Africa in 1995Wed Jul 20 2022 - 05:00
Death of Tom Collins, a crucial figure in the growth of Irish cinema, announcedThe writer and director’s films included Bogwoman, Teenage Kicks, Kings, and the Oscars-considered An BronntanasTue Jul 19 2022 - 15:54
Four new films to see this weekPersuasion and The Gray Man streaming, The Railway Children Return and McEnroe on cinema releaseSun Jul 17 2022 - 06:00
Tipping point of idiocy as anti-wokery edges into the Tory leadership campaign Donald Clarke: Preposterous phenomenon could well have grim repercussions for some minoritiesSat Jul 16 2022 - 06:00
