Blinded by the Light: One of summer’s most irresistibly entertaining filmsReview: Actors play delightfully off one another as every beat hits with resounding forceThu Aug 08 2019 - 05:00
Playmobil: The Movie – Shameless, terrible promo for German plastic dollsReview: This effort to replicate the commercial sucess of The Lego Movie is a creative flopWed Aug 07 2019 - 05:00
Yara Shahidi: Oprah Winfrey's tip for US presidentThe fluency of this politically engaged actor, just 19, is staggering. Maybe Oprah is right?Wed Aug 07 2019 - 05:00
‘Cancelled’ Woody Allen unlikely to ever again find welcome in US film industryDifferent cases of Allen and Polanski show how past is now up for vigorous reassessmentSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Aug 02 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Do the Right Thing and Oldboy rereleased, plus Photograph and The Angry Birds Movie 2Fri Aug 02 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: What, supposedly, is Boris Johnson’s favourite film?Also: The first of 4 franchises, officially Tarantino, the most Marvel, not starring TravoltaFri Aug 02 2019 - 05:00
Do the Right Thing: Come for the politics, stay for the energyReview: Previous ranting about the film nudging black audiences towards violence now sounds like so much gibberishFri Aug 02 2019 - 05:00
Oldboy: An established classic emerges in a new printReview: Famous, often-copied action sequence remains as striking as everFri Aug 02 2019 - 05:00
The Irishman: New trailer for Netflix movie starring Robert de Niro and Al PacinoThe trailer exists to reassure the millions who grew up with Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.Thu Aug 01 2019 - 06:00
Hobbs & Shaw: Fast & Furious needs to get back to basicsReview: Neither Johnson nor Statham has much to work with, but the banter is awfulWed Jul 31 2019 - 17:00
Brad Pitt on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: ‘There’s no set like a Tarantino set’Director Quentin Tarantino as enthusiastic as ever but can’t avoid criticism of his pastSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
It is rare to hear anybody arguing for the inherent inferiority of popular fictionTóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Jul 26 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Jaws, The Chambermaid, Marianne & Leonard, A Season in FranceFri Jul 26 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: Anyone for a rousing rendition of Hakuna Matata?Also: That Cats trailer, Sam Jackson titles, Oscar nominees by country, the first ColumboFri Jul 26 2019 - 05:00
Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer dies age 75Imposing Dutch actor died on July 19th after a short illness, family saysWed Jul 24 2019 - 20:11
Jaws: One of the most gripping films out of HollywoodReview: Steven Spielberg’s 1976 classic is back for a limited release of a shiny new printTue Jul 23 2019 - 16:00
The Chambermaid: A perfect, cinematic sketch of a working lifeReview: Gabriela Cartol plays a hardworking hotel worker in Mexico, striving for betterTue Jul 23 2019 - 15:08
Avengers: Endgame becomes highest-grossing film of all timeJames Cameron’s Avatar knocked from top spot as Marvel film makes €2.5 billionMon Jul 22 2019 - 09:12
Jack Reynor: ‘It’s good to have a break from talking about my penis’The actor has made his first film: ‘I got to wear my own clothes, be Jack all day. Amazing’Sat Jul 20 2019 - 06:00
We should stop calling Boris Johnson by his first name onlyThe informality invites us to view his less lovely outbursts as the forgivable ramblings of a silly palSat Jul 20 2019 - 05:00
Top Gun sequel is here to remind us some things can remain exactly the sameTom Cruise was as unblemished as a newly born kitten 34 years ago and not much has changedFri Jul 19 2019 - 13:20
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Jul 19 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Gwen, Varda by AgnèsFri Jul 19 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: What was Clint Eastwood’s first film as director?Also: Hitchcock women in danger, adapting Shakespeare, Bond’s numero uno baddieFri Jul 19 2019 - 05:00
Easy Rider at 50: ‘Unwatchable’ – unless you’re stonedIn July 1969, Dennis Hopper’s movie baffled the suits, freaked out audiences and made a fortuneTue Jul 16 2019 - 13:30
The Lion King: Ruined by slavish devotion to the originalReview: It’s technically remarkable but the characters are weak and the story a carbon copyTue Jul 16 2019 - 10:15
James Bond: Is a black female actor really the ‘new 007’?Reports that Lashana Lynch is to take on the 007 code name should be approached with cautionMon Jul 15 2019 - 16:00
Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festivalMon Jul 15 2019 - 10:10
Pavarotti documentary: Needless to say, Bono turns upReview: His earthy storytelling helps counteract the general blandness of this filmMon Jul 15 2019 - 05:00
Streaming wars: How Disney wants to take your cashNetflix once had the field to itself. Now Disney and other Hollywood behemoths are closing in – and they’re here to take your moneySat Jul 13 2019 - 06:30
The difference between the average unionist and average nationalist? Not muchThe Twelfth weekend neatly illustrates Freud’s ‘narcissism of small differences’Sat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Jul 12 2019 - 06:00
Ron Howard: ‘Bono said Pavarotti was an emotional arm wrestler – he’d break your f**king arm’The director on telling Pavarotti’s larger-than-life story, making movies that last and looking for stories to shareFri Jul 12 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: The Dead Don’t Die, Only You, Stuber, Eating Animals, The BrinkFri Jul 12 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: What ‘phase’ comes next in the Marvel movieverse?Also: Whose old man doesn’t rock, Oscar-nominated characters, based on an untrue storyFri Jul 12 2019 - 05:00
The Dead Don’t Die: The most light-hearted film of Jim Jarmusch’s careerReview: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombiesThu Jul 11 2019 - 06:00
Stuber: Laugh at this amusingly dumb comedy – it’s an endangered speciesReview: The buddy-cop comedy makes a rare comeback in this mid-summer diversionThu Jul 11 2019 - 05:00
Eating Animals: An anti-meat film to chill the blood and dull the appetiteReview: Future generations may look back on these practices as we now do at slaveryWed Jul 10 2019 - 05:00
Galway Film Fleadh: Which Irish films will be a breakout success?Prestigious festival provides point of reference for for the very best of new Irish cinemaMon Jul 08 2019 - 05:00
Jim Jarmusch: ‘The Dead Don’t Die cast were paid in oatmeal’The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the worldSat Jul 06 2019 - 06:30
All hail the Walkman and its legacy of individual freedomBlame the Walkman for bringing us all to the point of listening to music in isolationSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
Halle Bailey's casting as the Little Mermaid drove internet racists nuts. Or did it?Racist backlash to Disney's Little Mermaid casting wasn’t all it seemedFri Jul 05 2019 - 15:55
The Cold Blue: Stunning retelling of a second World War legendReview: The testimony of the airmen is what lingers most strongly in this documentaryFri Jul 05 2019 - 12:00
Who are the newly invited Irish members of Hollywood’s Academy?The Oscars body has invited 842 new members: 50% female, 29% people of colourFri Jul 05 2019 - 08:54
Never Look Away: An undeniably enjoyable, absurdly long potboilerReview: Nobody has a hair out of place in this highly buffed account of a German artistFri Jul 05 2019 - 08:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Midsommar, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Knife + HeartFri Jul 05 2019 - 06:30
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Jul 05 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: When did Woody Allen last appear on screen?Also: Ron Howard movies, directors’ last, filming Raymond Chandler, joining DCFri Jul 05 2019 - 05:30
