‘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
Four new films to stream this weekendEndings Beginning, Howard, Giraffe, Spaceship EarthFri Aug 07 2020 - 06:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
The age-old ‘Ugly American’ trope, after decades, has reappearedCovid-19 failure has reignited hostilities towards stereotypically loud US touristsSat Jul 18 2020 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Spot the bogus Ennio Morricone scorePlus: keeping up with the Skywalkers and a line never once spoken in CasablancaFri Jul 17 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendClemency, The Night Eats the World, Landless, Come as You AreFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
Clemency: A masterclass in anxiety acting from Alfre WoodardReview: For all its virtues, the film becomes taken up with procedures. But it’s worth the effortFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
Come As You Are: A bunch of disabled people go to a brothel. Yes, it’s a comedyDespite its controversial aspects, this movie works well and that’s largely down to the actorsThu Jul 16 2020 - 07:57
Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for ‘virtual’ awardsJessie Buckley and Niamh Algar among nominees for Irish Film and TV AwardsTue Jul 14 2020 - 12:13
Galway Film Fleadh: No shortage of talent as online festival still delivers the goodsDark comedy from Cavan wins best Irish film as many highlights found in documentary sectionMon Jul 13 2020 - 13:20
Thandie Newton names names. Will Hollywood punish her?Many are women tidied away by an industry that prefers its boats to remain unrockedSat Jul 11 2020 - 05:00
Alfre Woodard: ‘I love coming to Ireland, but we’re the pariahs now’The actor on capital punishment, ‘mentally compromised’ Trump and US race relationsSat Jul 11 2020 - 05:00
Three new films to stream – and one actually in the cinemasThe Old Guard, Finding the Way Back, Scoob!, Black Water: AbyssFri Jul 10 2020 - 06:00
The movie quiz: ‘Jaws’ appeared in how many James Bond films?Plus: brothers & sisters of Oscar winners, playing The Exorcist, directing Stephen KingFri Jul 10 2020 - 06:00
The Old Guard: Charlize Theron is the most potent female action star of our timeSilly adaptation of Greg Rucka’s comic about ancient immortals tees up new franchiseFri Jul 10 2020 - 05:00
Black Water: Abyss – The first cinema release in months. It must be a great movie, right?Review: The characters are dull, the tensions intermittent, the violent scenes confusingWed Jul 08 2020 - 22:27
Galway Film Fleadh online: The highlights of what to watch from wherever you areFilms can be rented from the website. Conversations and seminars are free on ZoomTue Jul 07 2020 - 13:00
Ennio Morricone, genius: ‘I didn’t know I was doing anything new or revolutionary’Late composer was among tiny handful of film scorers whose work is instantly recognisableMon Jul 06 2020 - 13:30
Inheritance: Awful gothic idiocy in the key of baloneyTen minutes in, the plot has already tested the allowances we make for pulp hokumMon Jul 06 2020 - 05:00
We are world masters of The Slag – but Niall Horan fans don’t get itThe Irish experts at expressing themselves through ironic aggression rather than sincere affectionSat Jul 04 2020 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Who has never starred in Little Women?Plus: great escape goddesses, Hitchcock's first silent/last sound film, the show still went onFri Jul 03 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendHamilton, Lynn + Lucy, The Booksellers, InheritanceFri Jul 03 2020 - 06:00
The Booksellers: A brilliant browse through New York’s small bookshopsFilm Review: This study of independent and antiquarian booksellers speaks volumesFri Jul 03 2020 - 05:00
Sex, swearing and flushing the loo: How these films broke big-screen taboosThe new indie comedy Saint Frances features period sex – cinema has travelled a long wayThu Jul 02 2020 - 06:00
Emma Mackey: ‘No, not all French people want to have sex all the time’The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringingSat Jun 27 2020 - 05:00
The internet age has turned fan communities into mass cultsThe activity of ‘stans’ online is not entirely harmless - dissenters get abusedSat Jun 27 2020 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Who has hair of Harlow gold?Plus: Spot the fake Michael Bay film, performing for Bond, the month for OscarFri Jun 26 2020 - 06:00
