The Lost Bus review: Matthew McConaughey drives classic 1970s-style disaster movieDirector Paul Greengrass, action maestro behind the Bourne films, shoots with kinetic fervourTue Sept 23 2025 - 14:38
‘I want young people to see this film – and anyone who’s got a care to whether the world is burning’Paul Greengrass, who reinvented the action flick with The Bourne Supremacy, on his latest movie, The Lost BusTue Sept 23 2025 - 05:13
Why do the Irish still think it’s charming to be late for everything?Elsewhere in the world, people arrive in good time. Here, many regard the advertised kick-off as loosely advisorySun Sept 21 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Swallow, Steve, Girls & Boys, A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyBrenda Fricker, Cillian Murphy, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 19th, 2025Sun Sept 21 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who has Anthony Hopkins not played?Plus: How many best actress Oscar nominations have Irish nationals accrued in total?Fri Sept 19 2025 - 04:59
The Swallow review: Brenda Fricker holds the screen as few others couldThis is still recognisably the Tadhg O’Sullivan adventurous filmgoers encountered in To the MoonThu Sept 18 2025 - 05:10
Steve review: Cillian Murphy’s performance feels well-worked but unsatisfactoryFilm’s attention is so divided we get little chance to connect with charactersWed Sept 17 2025 - 05:12
The night Robert Redford met Dickie Rock, and other moments from a Hollywood giant’s lifeRedford, the actor, Oscar-winning director and godfather of the indie movement, died as one of the true supernovaeTue Sept 16 2025 - 16:40
The outrage over Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is boiling over. She must be delightedA marketing masterclass has managed to rectify a problem with the Saltburn releaseSun Sept 14 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Spinal Tap II – The End Continues, Downton Abbey – The Grand Finale, The Long Walk, and From Ground ZeroChristopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 12th, 2025Sun Sept 14 2025 - 05:01
Slow Horses returns: ‘Readers know by now I’m capable of killing off whoever is in danger,’ says creator Mick HerronMick Herron knows every character he jettisons spells the end for an actor too. That’s life, he says, as the Apple TV+ series returns and a new Slough House novel arrivesSat Sept 13 2025 - 05:13
In Chop, at Dublin Fringe, Cian Kinsella stages a nervous breakdown in the most anarchic way possibleDublin Fringe Festival 2025: What audience would dare not to be a little amused by the Lord of Strut?Fri Sept 12 2025 - 09:24
The Movie Quiz: Who has not been played by Tom Hanks?Plus: Who is about to follow in the footsteps of Christopher Lee, Peter Boyle and Robert De Niro?Fri Sept 12 2025 - 04:59
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - A reunion with gags, geriatric rock and an oily manager called SimonRob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer return four decades after This Is Spinal TapThu Sept 11 2025 - 02:15
The Long Walk review: This is the best Stephen King film in yearsCompeting cast bust every tendon in creating gripping ambulatory drama that is more relevant than everWed Sept 10 2025 - 05:10
Can becoming a ‘Karen’ be liberating, I Want to Speak to Your Manager asks, at Dublin FringeDublin Fringe Festival 2025: Sparky and engaging, Holly Hughes attempts to tie a complex knotMon Sept 08 2025 - 13:02
I dare you to walk through Dublin city centre of an evening. You won’t believe what you seeIrish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emergeSun Sept 07 2025 - 05:09
Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025Sun Sept 07 2025 - 05:01
Cate Blanchett film set in Dublin wins top prize at Venice film festivalFather Mother Sister Brother, with Cate Blanchett and Charlotte Rampling, takes one of cinema’s most prestigious awardsSat Sept 06 2025 - 21:31
I’ve just seen Saipan, The Movie. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end wellRoy Keane’s clash with Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup is living history in Ireland. Audiences elsewhere might not know what to make of their square-offFri Sept 05 2025 - 06:00
Highest 2 Lowest review: Spike Lee’s film about an old-school music mogul is never boring but lacks cohesionGetting on board with the later stages of this film requires an almighty leap of faithFri Sept 05 2025 - 05:08
The Movie Quiz: On which streaming service will you see the next Bond film?Plus: Who has not been the title character in a Stephen King adaptation? Fri Sept 05 2025 - 04:59
The Cut review: A boxing film with more vomiting, weeing and, umm, self-pleasuring than actual fightingThis weight-loss picture, simultaneously weird and hackneyed, stars Orlando Bloom as an ageing sluggerThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:09
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movieJay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherentThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:03
First Look: Amanda Seyfried is electrifying in Mona Fastvold’s masterly Testament of Ann LeeThe feature has premiered at Venice International Film Festival without a distributor. That deserves to be rectifiedTue Sept 02 2025 - 15:25
The Movie Quiz: Which Irishman has not won an acting prize at Venice?Test your knowledge on all thing Venice International Film Festival with these 10 questionsMon Sept 01 2025 - 09:44
Why it matters who wins what in Venice and CannesDonald Clarke: Why it matters who wins what at the Venice International Film FestivalSun Aug 31 2025 - 05:18
Darren Aronofsky: ‘What happened over Covid was the streaming war. That’s what killed cinema’The director’s latest film, Caught Stealing, keeps more within genre lines (this time, crime caper) than many of his other, less categorisable works such as Requiem for a Dream and Mother!Sun Aug 31 2025 - 05:14
Four new films to see this week: Caught Stealing, Christy, Young Mothers and Little Trouble GirlsAustin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025Sun Aug 31 2025 - 05:03
First Look: Watch out for Eve Hewson in George Clooney’s cameo-stuffed new satire on stardomVenice International Film Festival 2025: With Jay Kelly, a satire on stardom, Noah Baumbach just about gets back on trackThu Aug 28 2025 - 21:00
Christy: Clattering, noisy, joyful portrait of life in a troubled north Cork suburbFilm-maker Brendan Canty’s debut feature finds the sweet spot between geezer romp and gritty social realismThu Aug 28 2025 - 05:12
The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats readyVenice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launchWed Aug 27 2025 - 05:13
Caught Stealing review: Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper is good fun but tonally chaoticSomething happens a third of the way in that should change everything, but doesn’tWed Aug 27 2025 - 05:07
A biopic of Sinéad O’Connor? There are reasons to want what we haven’t yet got A film about Sinéad O’Connor could prove welcome Sun Aug 24 2025 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Sorry, Baby, The Life of Chuck, Eddington and Oslo Stories: SexEva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025Sun Aug 24 2025 - 05:01
Everything and the Kitchen Sink by Simon Matthews: A survey of entertainment in pre-Beatles BritainThough not a history of gritty realism in film and beyond, kitchen sink is certainly the prevailing mood Sat Aug 23 2025 - 14:27
Pierce Brosnan interview: ‘John Huston said I was too handsome. It can get in the way’The Irish actor, star of The Thursday Murder Club, on losing a John Huston role because of his face, the James Bond years and the state of the USFri Aug 22 2025 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which is not an Elvis flick?Plus: Who among the current Fantastic Four has not appeared in a Ridley Scott film?Fri Aug 22 2025 - 05:00
Sorry, Baby review: Eva Victor’s near-perfect debut is clever, warm and originalThis rare optimistic film from the independent sector likes almost all of its charactersThu Aug 21 2025 - 05:12
The Life of Chuck review: Stephen King adaptation starts strongly and goes backwardsThe fans Mike Flanagan’s film has acquired seem moved to near-religious ecstasy. Beware of the evangelistsWed Aug 20 2025 - 05:09
Brendan Canty on his film Christy: ‘The Brits loved that it was from Cork. They thought there was an exotic flavour to that’The director, who made a name for himself with the video for Hozier’s mega-hit Take Me to Church in 2013, on joining forces with the BBC for his feature film debutTue Aug 19 2025 - 05:15
Terence Stamp, a kid from London’s East End, appeared in all the right films for all the right directorsStamp, who has died aged 87, and Julie Christie were the 1960s signature couple: suave, casual, staggeringly good-lookingMon Aug 18 2025 - 09:08
Emma Raducanu and the crying child: it’s clear who’s to blameThe tennis star’s complaints to the umpire about this disruptive audience highlight an age-old problemSun Aug 17 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Materialists, Together, Night Always Comes and Oslo Stories: LoveDave Franco, Alison Brie, Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Kirby star in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 15th, 2025Sun Aug 17 2025 - 05:00
Mel Gibson: ‘I’ve still got the Irish passport... I think I understand the quirky nature of the Irish mind’Veteran filmmaker is in Trim, Co Meath, for the 30th anniversary of Braveheart, which he directed and starred inSat Aug 16 2025 - 05:31
The Movie Quiz: Which Saturday Night Fever song is a recommended guide to the rhythm for manual CPR?Plus: Who, in 1999, soundtracked the apparent end of the world?Fri Aug 15 2025 - 05:00
The Weir review: A kingly Brendan Gleeson, a magnificent Tom Vaughan-LawlorConor McPherson directs his own drama, now almost 30 years old, with a cast that also includes Seán McGinley, Kate Phillips and Owen McDonnellThu Aug 14 2025 - 06:01
Together review: Alison Brie and Dave Franco star in stomach-churning masterclass in eughThis twisty, shameless entertainment starring the real-life marrieds has tremendous fun playing with how the sexes are perceivedThu Aug 14 2025 - 05:00
Materialists review: This non-romcom has the welcome oddness of a future classicDon’t mind the baffled American critics: Celine Song’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated Past Lives is gorgeous and intelligentWed Aug 13 2025 - 09:10
Film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud: From laid-off librarian to Golden Bear-winning director of the Oslo Stories trilogyThe Norwegian director on writing a convincing teenage girl, how the camera embellishes beauty, and achieving international success at the age of 60Mon Aug 11 2025 - 05:00
