‘Video nasties’: It was the 1980s, and moral madness stalked the landA child was possessed while watching a film, moralists claimed, and even dogs were corruptedThu Aug 12 2021 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekZola, Boys from County Hell, Last Letter to Your Lover in cinemas, Antebellum streamingSun Aug 08 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Hollywood stopped putting women at the heart of stories in the 1940sNow, Voyager’s female characters have enormous strength despite the nods to societal normsSat Aug 07 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What sets the second Suicide Squad film apart from the first?Plus: Which Pixar director comes after Brian De Palma, John Woo and JJ Abrams?Fri Aug 06 2021 - 06:00
Boys from County Hell: A decent slice of Irish bog horrorVampires bring gruesome death and welcome diversion to a humdrum rural townFri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00
Zola: A thrilling modern epic that began life as a Twitter threadProvocative, blind-siding project engages with its source media while standing aloneFri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00
Director Tom McCarthy: ‘American movies don’t often come to France and embrace the backdrop’Spotlight director on his new film starring Matt Damon adrift in MarseilleTue Aug 03 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekLimbo, The Suicide Squad, The Sparks Brothers, Jungle CruiseSun Aug 01 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Kick that deviant Shakespeare off the Leaving CertWhat kind of misguided puritan can find ‘no moral learning’ in The Handmaid’s Tale?Sat Jul 31 2021 - 05:00
Scarlett Johansson’s suing Disney. Welcome to the great 21st-century streaming warsThe Black Widow star and her lawyers are riding a wave that has been swelling for some timeFri Jul 30 2021 - 13:55
The Movie Quiz: Who avoided appearing in Gal Gadot’s ridiculed Imagine video?Plus: Which actor has appeared in more James Bond films than anyone else?Fri Jul 30 2021 - 06:00
The Suicide Squad: Franchise gets welcome jolt of mad energyReview: James Gunn’s comic-strip fantasy delivers on its own termsFri Jul 30 2021 - 05:00
Limbo: Original story of asylum seekers on a remote islandThis wonderful, not-to-be-missed comedy finds new ways to tell old storiesFri Jul 30 2021 - 05:00
Björn Andrésen: ‘I was extremely uncomfortable’The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is a new documentary about the pressures imposed on the young star of Death in VeniceWed Jul 28 2021 - 05:00
Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before wins best Irish filmFrom best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to knowMon Jul 26 2021 - 14:10
Four new films to see this weekM Night Shyamalan’s Old, plus I Never Cry, The World to Come, Air ConditionerSun Jul 25 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Gangsta rap has nothing on our violent, bloody national anthemsPromising to make our rivers flow with the blood of our enemies is not very sportsmanlikeSat Jul 24 2021 - 05:00
Richard Hammond: ‘I have been unbelievably lucky’The former Top Gear presenter on crashing at 513 km/h and making a new Grand Tour filmSat Jul 24 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first woman nominated for a director Oscar?Plus: How many of the original Magnificent Seven are also in The Great Escape?Fri Jul 23 2021 - 06:00
Old: M Night Shyamalan’s time-compressing mystery overstays its welcomeAnother chapter in the Sixth Sense director’s peculiarly underwhelming careerFri Jul 23 2021 - 05:00
I Never Cry: A Polish-Irish comedy of difference with a revelatory leadPiotr Domalewski’s new film works best as a showcase for the terrific Zofia StafiejFri Jul 23 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekUnsettling Deerskin, Fear Street trilogy, sequels to The Croods and Space JamSun Jul 18 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Try going outdoors, it might not be too badA big screen in a park isn’t everyone’s idea of a night at the movies, but it’ll workSat Jul 17 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Anthony Hopkins has played Hannibal how many times?Plus: ‘He loved the American dream with a vengeance’: the tagline to which movie?Fri Jul 16 2021 - 06:00
Deerskin: Jean Dujardin excels as a man in love with his jacketReview: Clothes maketh the man in this perplexing and darkly funny filmFri Jul 16 2021 - 05:00
Fear Street Parts One, Two & Three: a trilogy of oddball shockersNetflix offerings bridge the gap between YA aesthetic and grown-up(ish) horrorFri Jul 16 2021 - 05:00
Finding You: Months after Wild Mountain Thyme, Sky gives us more crock-of-gold baloneyReview: Twinkly ballads aside, it at least portrays Ireland as a modern placeWed Jul 14 2021 - 16:36
Vicky Krieps: ‘I lit a candle every day to not be nominated for an Oscar’The Luxembourger did not share Daniel Day-Lewis’s ire over Phantom Thread snubWed Jul 14 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBlockbuster Black Widow, US indie First Cow, and Euro dramas Jumbo and ToveSun Jul 11 2021 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the very first line in The Godfather?Plus: Jackie is my mom. Frank Jr is my brother. Who is my ex-wife?Fri Jul 09 2021 - 10:30
Jumbo: A magic-ride escape from realityThere is comedy and warmth in a drama about a woman’s love for an inanimate objectFri Jul 09 2021 - 05:00
Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel swansong is a cut aboveFlorence Pugh steals the show in the latest, mercifully fun superhero outing in the MCUFri Jul 09 2021 - 05:00
Galway Film Fleadh unveils this year’s ‘outdoor summer’ programmeThe mainstage will be an outdoor cinema with all events available to stream onlineWed Jul 07 2021 - 19:00
Iftas 2021: Posthumous award for ‘searing’ Nika McGuigan is the moment of the nightThe hit TV adaptation Normal People converts nine of its 15 nominations into IftasSun Jul 04 2021 - 23:00
Four new films to see this weekOscar winner Another Round, Irish horror Son, docs Last Man Standing, Lady BossSun Jul 04 2021 - 06:00
Black Widow starring Scarlett Johansson: ‘We finally have an entire film dedicated to her’The Marvel film arrives a year-plus later than intended, in an evolving cinematic marketSun Jul 04 2021 - 05:00
There is no easier way to annoy a British soccer fan than referring to soccer as ‘soccer’Donald Clarke: The rejection of the word by English people happened weirdly recentlySat Jul 03 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is currently the highest grossing film of all time?Plus: Which unavoidable 1960s hit was derived from Lara’s Theme in Dr Zhivago?Fri Jul 02 2021 - 06:00
Another Round: An intoxicating mix of ideas about boozingThe glass is both half empty and half full in Thomas Vinterberg’s fascinating, funny filmFri Jul 02 2021 - 05:00
Son: Gothic parental horrors in the American southIrish director Ivan Kavanagh anchors his ambiguous horror in believable traumaFri Jul 02 2021 - 05:00
The 10 best movies of 2021 so far – in orderOur film correspondent on Nomadland, A Quiet Place Part II and a few overlooked gemsTue Jun 29 2021 - 09:20
Four new films to see this weekFast & Furious 9, Supernova, Fatima, The Hitman’s Wife’s BodyguardSun Jun 27 2021 - 06:00
The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summerFilms are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+Sun Jun 27 2021 - 05:00
Thomas Vinterberg: ‘We were fascinated with the dark side of drinking’Danish director of Another Round on creativity, destruction and temptation of moneySat Jun 26 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Is Spielberg returning to TV? Yes and noThe auteur’s Netflix deal is more a case of making peace with an evolving hybrid formSat Jun 26 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Black Widow is the first film in which phase of the MCU?Plus: One Scot. Two Englishmen. One Welshman. One Irishman. Who’s missing?Fri Jun 25 2021 - 06:00
Supernova: Irresistible film about life on the fringes of catastropheFilm review: Firth and Tucci are flawless as partners grappling with early dementiaFri Jun 25 2021 - 05:00
Fast & Furious 9: Never mind the physics, just go along for the rideImmerse yourself in ever-sillier stunts and the stars’ genuinely sparky interplayFri Jun 25 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week, including Pixar’s latest streamingLuca, In the Heights, In the Earth, The Money OrderSun Jun 20 2021 - 06:00
From ‘credit-card movies’ to a billion-dollar franchiseJustin Lin on starting out as an indie director, diversity in film, and making Fast & Furious 9, the latest in the superhit seriesSat Jun 19 2021 - 05:00
