Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Pain and Glory, Never Grow Old, Hail Satan?, CrawlFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: Who escapes in The Great Escape?Also: The Marvel universe in order, a Brad Pitt non-movie, Oscar number crunchingFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Never Grow Old: John Cusack shines in gripping western filmed in ConnemaraReview: Ivan Kavanagh’s film is impressively filthy and studded with convincing violenceFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Stephen King would approveReview: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teensFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Pain and Glory: Banderas excels in Almodóvar’s personal dramaReview: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½Fri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dadPeter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent HollywoodMon Aug 19 2019 - 17:11
Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenesFilm sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really worksMon Aug 19 2019 - 06:00
Trump’s tweet oozed out the day before The Hunt was pulledWithout seeing the movie, people have opinions on whether it was a right-wing or a left-wingSat Aug 17 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 16 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Transit, Penny Slinger: Out of the ShadowsFri Aug 16 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: How many Star Wars films came out before 2000?Also: Once upon a role in Hollywood, a new Bafta award, Saoirse Ronan’s mumsFri Aug 16 2019 - 05:00
Emile Hirsch on remorse, Bono's daughter and shooting an Irish westernIn 2015, the actor was convicted of assaulting a movie executive at Sundance. His quiet rehabilitation continues with a role in Tarantino’s new film and, oddly, a new Irish westernFri Aug 16 2019 - 05:00
How can you spot a deepfake, and if you can’t is that a problem?A harmless doctored video of Bill Hader becoming Tom Cruise has triggered full-on panicThu Aug 15 2019 - 19:47
Good Boys: Too sentimental for adults, too raunchy for kidsReview: It’s a squalid mess that makes ill use of some talented young performersThu Aug 15 2019 - 16:40
Transit: A five-star, art-house modern-day CasablancaReview: This existential riddle keeps the audience on edge throughoutThu Aug 15 2019 - 15:30
Half the movies at Toronto Film Festival are made by womenThe number of female directors in the film business remains stubbornly lowWed Aug 14 2019 - 12:26
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood review: Exhilarating and infuriatingThe film isn’t about the murder of Sharon Tate and friends in 1969. It’s about the end of erasTue Aug 13 2019 - 10:00
Apocalypse Now returns to cinemas, minus the Playboy BunniesFrancis Ford Coppola’s disaster-struck Vietnam epic has had yet another recutTue Aug 13 2019 - 00:55
Film titles: (Some of) the punctuation is just ....W*E*I*R*D?!Those three dots in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood are a ‘creative decision’Mon Aug 12 2019 - 06:01
For Monica Lewinsky, it’s payback timeA new American Crime Story project will see overdue redemption for Monica LewinskySat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
Irish movies feature strongly at Toronto International Film FestivalCanadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendarFri Aug 09 2019 - 08:45
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 09 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Holiday, Blinded by the Light, Gaza, The Sun Is Also a StarFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:30
The Sun is also a Star: As America divides, Hollywood offers hopeReview: A dreamy romance that will cause even cynics to emit contented sighsFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What is the last word spoken in Annie Hall?Also: Two-Oscar characters, staffing Hogwarts, Jackman credits, films of THE bookFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
Humanity’s search for normality amid the chaos that is Gaza‘We have three phases in Gaza. We prepare for war. There’s the war. There is mopping up after war’Fri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
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
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
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
‘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
Oldboy: An established classic emerges in a new printReview: Famous, often-copied action sequence remains as striking as everFri 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
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
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
