Mulan: live action remake is beautifully shot, impeccably tidy... and blandReview: Disney adaptation ditches the songs and could no longer easily pass as a family filmFri Sept 04 2020 - 07:49
Four new films to see this weekendI’m Thinking of Ending Things, Mulan, Socrates streaming, Les Misérables in cinemasFri Sept 04 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Spot the fake Helen Mirren filmPlus: Oscar winners playing Oscar winners, singing Bond and a home for MulanFri Sept 04 2020 - 06:00
John Boyega says Star Wars has a problem with actors of colour. Is he right?The London actor, who found fame as stormtrooper Finn, criticised how Disney treated non-white characters in the franchiseThu Sept 03 2020 - 14:47
I’m Thinking of Ending Things review: Netflix’s brilliant, frustrating, daring Charlie Kaufman filmWhile there are typically bleak comic diversions, there's an atmosphere of surreal gloom that is very much Kaufman’s ownThu Sept 03 2020 - 05:30
‘I became a cop watcher. I was filming every time there was confrontation’Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables marks documentary maker’s big league arrivalTue Sept 01 2020 - 05:00
Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, was so much more than just a gifted actorThe late actor was a star for the ages who helped change Hollywood's view on raceSat Aug 29 2020 - 13:06
The Movie Quiz: Which film has the longest complete title?Plus: David Fincher films, Disney directors, starring roles in TenetFri Aug 28 2020 - 06:15
TV comfort culture: Feeding viewers period dramas since the 1960sNobody wants to be overly challenged when ahead of the Monday commuteFri Aug 28 2020 - 05:00
A White White Day: A creepy and grim slice of Scandi-noirIngvar Sigurðsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir star in this bereavement dramaFri Aug 28 2020 - 05:00
Tenet: One cinema is showing the film 29 times today aloneToday is a giant step in the normalisation of the cinema industry in Ireland and worldwideWed Aug 26 2020 - 10:26
Ammonite: Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet fall in love in first trailerWill this be the film that delivers first Oscar for Irish film star?Tue Aug 25 2020 - 20:00
Sean Connery turns 90: An avatar of old-fashioned masculinityThe Scottish actor, voted ‘sexiest man alive’ for decades, started as a milkman and became ‘the greatest’ James BondTue Aug 25 2020 - 15:35
Is Tenet as good as Inception? Christopher Nolan’s films rankedAs Tenet arrives in cinemas, we judge how it compares with The Dark Knight and MementoTue Aug 25 2020 - 10:19
Danny DeVito: My comic career and my Irish familyThe force of nature on US politics, winding people up, and how his stature shaped himSat Aug 22 2020 - 05:00
Tenet review: Is Christopher Nolan’s film good enough to save cinema from Covid-19?It has the makings of a gung-ho entertainment, but It’s hard to work out what’s happeningFri Aug 21 2020 - 17:23
The Movie Quiz: Name that femme fatale – and spell it right!Plus: Netflix numbers at the Oscars, directors on screen, the odd literary source outFri Aug 21 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendPerfumes, Chemical Hearts, The One and Only Ivan, Coup 53Fri Aug 21 2020 - 06:00
Perfumes: Something a little like a romantic comedyReview: Nobody will be enormously surprised by how the story plays itself outFri Aug 21 2020 - 05:00
Trump doesn’t have a pet – is that proof he’s a bad president?Many pets have padded through the White House; some have been used for political gainFri Aug 21 2020 - 05:00
No more sex scenes: Film-makers advised to revert to chaste style of golden eraThere’s a touch of pearl-clutching in report aimed at keeping ‘intimacy’ safe in the pandemicThu Aug 20 2020 - 13:28
Chemical Hearts: Following the teen angst formula with flairReview: The film deals with the trials of Gen Z, but could apply to any generationThu Aug 20 2020 - 13:03
The Movie Quiz: What is the completely made-up tagline for Jaws 19?Plus: How many M's have there been in the official James Bond films?Fri Aug 14 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekendPinoccho and Spree on limited release, Project Power and Sputnik on demandFri Aug 14 2020 - 06:00
‘Staycation’ is just another sad casualty of the war against pointless pedantryDonald Clarke: The original meaning has gone the way of trolls, rebooters and gaslightersFri Aug 14 2020 - 05:00
Project Power: Netflix nails the action movieReview: It mostly succeeds on old-fashioned smack-’em-up and sure personal chemistryFri Aug 14 2020 - 02:00
Pinocchio: A gorgeous but dark and unsettling reworkingMatteo Garrone sets a challenge for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘darker’ stop-motion takeThu Aug 13 2020 - 05:00
‘North Dakota, nul points’: Why the American Song Contest can never be as bizarre as EurovisionThe US reboot won’t have the accidental camp or regional conflicts of the European originalTue Aug 11 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who stirred the late Olivia de Havilland to consult her lawyers?Plus: talking pictures’ first words spoken and the first animated best picture contenderFri Aug 07 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendEndings Beginning, Howard, Giraffe, Spaceship EarthFri Aug 07 2020 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one beforeStephenie Meyer has retold Twilight from the vampire’s point of view. It’s a popular ployFri Aug 07 2020 - 05:00
Giraffe: Cautiously constructed film about endangered rural communityReview: Picture has quality of high-brow essay in austerely presented literary magazineFri Aug 07 2020 - 05:00
Endings, Beginnings: An easy-going sit-com universe where everyone is prettyReview: Drake Doremus’s romantic drama throws off any serious effort at structureFri Aug 07 2020 - 05:00
The 40 best Irish fictional characters – in orderFrom Nidge and Connell Waldron to Gretta Conroy, Rashers Tierney and Pegeen MikeSat Aug 01 2020 - 05:00
Alan Parker helped kickstart a cultural renaissance in DublinThe director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his careerFri Jul 31 2020 - 20:00
Four new films to see this weekendBroken Law, Proxima and The Vigil in selected cinemas, Make Up on demandFri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which Jaws warned against going back into the water?Plus: movies with Love/Hate stars, home of the highest-grossing film, between BondsFri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
Make Up: A surreal nightmare vision of Cornwall caravan gothicReview: Claire Oakley’s debut navigates the worrying spaces Lynne Ramsay favoursFri Jul 31 2020 - 05:00
Broken Law: An atmospheric but flawed Irish gangster filmReview: Digestible slice of Dublin life will open doors for debut director Paddy SlatteryFri Jul 31 2020 - 05:00
Hollywood’s a cruel place. But not as cruel as it used to be. Here’s whyWomen over 40 are no longer relegated to tweed twinsets. It’s progress, of a sortFri Jul 31 2020 - 05:00
‘Two fat couples kissing’: Concerned Irish parents complain about filmsJoker, Spider-Man, Aquaman and the horror film Midsommar feature in complaints to IfcoMon Jul 27 2020 - 10:58
Olivia de Havilland: From Gone with the Wind to Captain Blood – her 10 greatest performancesShe began as an avatar of soft-focus integrity, then began to deal in more nuanced attitudeMon Jul 27 2020 - 06:00
Olivia de Havilland: Rarely has the phrase ‘end of an era’ felt more appropriateWith de Havilland’s death, all sorts of connections with earlier Hollywood eras have finally been severedSun Jul 26 2020 - 20:30
Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind star, dies aged 104The last remaining superstar from Hollywood’s Golden Age won two OscarsSun Jul 26 2020 - 17:36
Oliver Stone: ‘I realised the cocaine wasn’t helping my writing’American director has written a cracking memoir charting his entire careerSat Jul 25 2020 - 05:45
Q magazine closure marks the end of one chapter in music journalismThe music press has not gone away – a handful of websites still hold substantial influenceSat Jul 25 2020 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Who has appeared in all six Tolkien films?Plus: Foxx’s flicks, order of Star Wars, the riddle of the oater, voicing with the fishesFri Jul 24 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekendSaint Frances, Stage Mother on release, Last and First Men, The Traitor streamingFri Jul 24 2020 - 06:00
The Traitor: There’s a gripping Mafia story buried somewhere in hereFilm review: This true-life mafioso-turned-snitch tale thinks it’s a documentaryThu Jul 23 2020 - 10:06
Saint Frances presents abortion as an ordinary part of human experienceFilm review: Taboo-busting comedy with a generous spirit and a concealed polemic edgeWed Jul 22 2020 - 05:00
