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
Persuasion: An honourable effort for all the bellyachingFilm review: A spirited adaptation of Jane Austen’s most intricate novelFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Railway Children Return: A plodding affair that seems to annoy the right peopleReview: A film more characterised more by fastidious set dressing than by narrative tension and clunky plottingFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which 007 film ends rather than begins with ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’?Plus: Who has shared roles with both Rex Harrison and Jerry Lewis?Fri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Michael Flatley’s spy film Blackbird finally comes to Irish cinemas after four-year waitLord of the Dance legend stars as 007-style agent in self-financed thriller which was made in 2018 and has since achieved semi-mythical statusThu Jul 14 2022 - 19:26
Natalie Portman: From child star to mother of two — ‘I keep pinching myself’Oscar winner talks about the changes in film, being cast as a superhero and the rise of streamers and TV seriesTue Jul 12 2022 - 05:00
Sinéad O’Connor’s viral SNL moment generates cheers and applause at 34th Galway Film FleadhNew documentary confirms singer dismissed in Ireland for speaking uncomfortable truths — most conspicuously those concerning the Catholic Church — that are now little disputedMon Jul 11 2022 - 13:53
Four new films to see this weekThe Sea Beast streaming, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles and Futura on cinema releaseSun Jul 10 2022 - 06:00
Jenny Agutter: ‘I have Irish ancestry on my mother’s side’ As The Railway Children Return rolls into a station near you, the former child star and Call the Midwife actor embodies clear-headed EnglishnessSat Jul 09 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Let’s hear it for the GentleminionsMinion lovers in suits? Screaming at Spider-Man? These are vital signs of a vibrant artformSat Jul 09 2022 - 05:51
The Movie Quiz: The opening of Easy Rider suggests which German writer?Plus: Which are not among Maria’s favourite things?Fri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
The Sea Beast: Netflix comes good with a lavish, funny, playful adventureFilm review: Streaming giant undercuts the studios with an epic whose worthwhile lessons are tainted only slightly by preachinessFri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
James Caan: The butcher’s sensitive son with a gift for explosive violence Caan, who has died aged 82, had his breakout role as Sonny Corleone in The GodfatherThu Jul 07 2022 - 20:44
Joyride: Olivia Colman and her slightly undisciplined Irish accent open Galway Film FleadhThe 34th Galway Film Fleadh features the world premiere of Emer Reynolds’s road movieTue Jul 05 2022 - 23:00
Thor: Love and Thunder is a strange, strange film. And not always in a good wayFilm review: The movie makes no effort to take the Marvel Cinematic Universe seriouslyTue Jul 05 2022 - 14:00
From Communard to clergyman: ‘I was consumed with envy of Jimmy Somerville’ The retired Church of England clergyman and former member of The Communards on his new crime novel, Murder Before EvensongMon Jul 04 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNitram, The Princess, Pompo: The Cinephile, Minions: The Rise of GruSun Jul 03 2022 - 06:00
Ah, Wimbledon ... lawn tennis, strawberries, women having to wear white during their periodsDonald Clarke: We can safely assume the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club did not discuss periodsSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
Nitram: A chilling study of solipsism at its most destructiveFilm review: Psychologically nuanced film based on the man responsible for a 1996 massacre in TasmaniaFri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
