The Movie Quiz: What was Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood project?Plus: Which 1970s film stars (in a sense) The Dude and Maddie Hayes?Fri May 27 2022 - 06:00
The Bob’s Burgers Movie: A perfectly pleasant way to pass the timeSpin-off of ‘nicecore’ animated TV sitcom will please fans but is unlikely to make new onesFri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Top Gun: Maverick – Takes your breath away in all the right placesThe sequel is in agitated conversation with its 36-year-old predecessorFri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Ray Liotta: A cackling, rugged actor, too dangerous for romantic rolesGoodfellas star died suddenly, aged 67, while on location in the Dominican RepublicThu May 26 2022 - 20:54
The buzz behind Paul Mescal’s Aftersun continues to grow at CannesThe latest from CannesWed May 25 2022 - 10:28
Cannes 2022: Netflix and Apple still splashing the cashDavid Cronenberg returns with familiar body horror but no early critical favourites have emergedTue May 24 2022 - 12:12
Cannes 2022: Paul Mescal comes back with a bigger bang in AftersunThree Thousand Years of Longing wakes up the first cuckoo of awards seasonMon May 23 2022 - 10:25
Cannes 2022: Standing ovations, red carpet protests and deals getting doneFestival Diary: Holy Spider an early contender for Palme d’Or, while genie Idris Elba let out of bottleMon May 23 2022 - 09:40
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Innocents, Benediction, a-ha: The Movie, The Road DanceSun May 22 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Hollywood has changed since the days of Deep ThroatKidult franchises financed on colossal budgets have edged grown-up entertainment out of the multiplexSat May 21 2022 - 00:00
Cannes 2022: It’s the Spinal Tap sequel you’ve been waiting forFestival diary: Rob Reiner plots fictional rock stars’ return, while there’s trouble in TikTok LandFri May 20 2022 - 10:07
The Cannes Movie Quiz: What is the only Irish film to win the Palme d’Or?Plus: Which of our own actors appears in two films at Cannes 2022?Fri May 20 2022 - 06:00
Benediction: A poet’s war, life and lovesFilm review: Terence Davies has produced a sombre biopic of Siegfried SassoonFri May 20 2022 - 05:00
The Road Dance: A pleasant, middling sort of storyNicely acted period drama is afternoon telly entertainment on the big screenFri May 20 2022 - 05:00
Irish film God’s Creatures premieres to warm applause at CannesPaul Mescal confirms ability to work enigmatic smiles in with dangerous charmThu May 19 2022 - 11:22
God’s Creatures at Cannes: Paul Mescal and the ‘muttered evasions of Irish family life’Cannes Diary: Tom Cruise plays a blinder ... there's just one whisper of controversyThu May 19 2022 - 10:45
Top Gun: Maverick at Cannes – Tom Cruise returns in a masterful sequelCannes Diary: Our correspondent settles in for a feast of cinema at the 75th festivalWed May 18 2022 - 11:15
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekAn Cailín Ciúin, Vortex, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Drover’s WifeSun May 15 2022 - 06:00
Cannes festival 2022: prestige arthouse meets Hollywood glitz - plus ça changeTop Gun on screen - finally - and one of the starriest line-ups of auteurs in the event’s historySat May 14 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Not even Wordle can escape the culture wars in the USThe NYT replaced the word ‘fetus’ in its puzzle – but not to placate Anglophone readersSat May 14 2022 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: Pick out the auteur who has never directed Liam NeesonPlus: Who is taking over warbling duties that, 36 years ago, were with Berlin?Fri May 13 2022 - 06:00
An Cailín Ciúin review: Delicately beautiful Irish film lives up to its billingThis unsettling 1980s-set drama has a pervasive sense of unspoken menaceFri May 13 2022 - 05:00
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson – A class on colonialismPowerful performances are let down by heavy-handed undergraduate didacticsFri May 13 2022 - 05:00
‘Nick Cave is an incredibly warm person who loves me right now’Australian director Andrew Dominik on his Marilyn Monroe film and bond with Nick CaveWed May 11 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekDoctor Strange, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, Wake Up Punk, Wild MenSun May 08 2022 - 06:00
Conversations with Friends: How we made the new Sally Rooney TV dramaDirector Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novelSat May 07 2022 - 06:05
Sam Raimi: ‘It hurts when the audience doesn’t really like your movie’Director discusses working on no budget, Doctor Strange and playing Marvel catch-upSat May 07 2022 - 05:00
Maureen O’Hara, latest victim of the bronze statue treatmentDonald Clarke: It’s hard satisfy fans with an old-fashioned, vaguely naturalistic statueSat May 07 2022 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: Which Python might go with Richard Harris & Clive Owen?Plus: Spot the novelist never adapted by Ismail Merchant and James IvoryFri May 06 2022 - 06:00
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle – Portrait of the last combatantFilm review: True story of the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender is impressively brought to lifeFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Marvel-by-numbersReview: Swirling psychedelia can’t hide the limitations of this disappointmentTue May 03 2022 - 04:20
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekDownton Abbey: A New Era, The Velvet Queen, Casablanca Beats, The Lady of HeavenSun May 01 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Is it time to dust off your 3D specs?Avatar kickstarted a brief and blurry 3D revival, Cameron could do it again this ChristmasSat Apr 30 2022 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: What was the film in which Bacall taught Bogey to whistle?Plus: Who might have hung out with Dominic, Letty, Mia, Han, Luke and Deckard?Fri Apr 29 2022 - 06:00
The Lady of Heaven: A rare biopic in which the subject is never properly seenFilm review: Faith-based movie concerned with Muhammad’s daughter FatimaFri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
Downton Abbey: A New Era review – Both aristocrats and servants sound too middle classDominic West is superb in a strong cast battling valiantly with an overstuffed scriptTue Apr 26 2022 - 13:30
Four new films to see in cinemas and stream this weekHappening, Playground, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, EnnioSun Apr 24 2022 - 06:00
Why does nobody have the decency to protest any more?Donald Clarke: Protesters from the progressive left seem more easy to provoke these days than their conservative counterpartsSat Apr 23 2022 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: The Northman shares much of its plot with Shakespeare’s...?Plus: Who was the last Corleone standing at the end of the Godfather trilogy?Fri Apr 22 2022 - 06:00
Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s FranceAudrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thrillerFri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Sharon Horgan is funny, Nic Cage is himselfReview: Cage plays a version of himself, similar to his Wild at Heart characterFri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie BuckleyTue Apr 19 2022 - 15:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekRobert Eggers’s The Northman, Bullock & Tatum in The Lost City, Small Body, BenedetaSun Apr 17 2022 - 06:00
Stephen King’s prolific writing will leave future generations gratefulDonald Clarke: Problem is not with the writer but with the smallness of the critics’ mindsSat Apr 16 2022 - 00:00
‘I am grateful for the experience. It was like I got a PhD in filmmaking’Director Robert Eggers on making his bloody Viking epic The Northman in time of CovidSat Apr 16 2022 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: What Oscar was Chris Rock presenting when ‘that’ happened?Plus: Which decade saw the release of the most official Star Wars films?Fri Apr 15 2022 - 06:00
The Lost City: Not as much fun as it thinks it isTen minutes of Brad Pitt livens up a film woefully short on screwball energyFri Apr 15 2022 - 05:00
Cannes 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick to be shown at film festivalUp to 35,000 accredited to attend the festival this year, the biggest showing since 2019Thu Apr 14 2022 - 14:18
The Northman: Gruesome Viking epic bustles with intelligence and inventionNo dull moments in Robert Eggers’ third film, though the extreme violence will not be for everyoneMon Apr 11 2022 - 18:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Outfit, Fantastic Beasts 3, Compartment No 6, All I Can SaySun Apr 10 2022 - 06:00
