Working with Weinstein: What happened in IrelandAlleged misbehaviour after ‘Into the West’ filming probed by Channel 4 documentaryTue Feb 20 2018 - 23:05
Lady Bird: Flawless Saoirse Ronan in a wholly wonderful filmReview: The film’s genius is its ability to root us in Lady Bird’s perspective. But it does moreTue Feb 20 2018 - 10:08
Black 47: The Famine on film – it’s only taken 170 years‘Black 47’, Lance Daly’s film that addresses one of the most traumatic periods in Irish history, is a story that has barely registered on the big screen beforeTue Feb 20 2018 - 06:00
Baftas 2018: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ wins five awardsOscar-favourite Frances McDormand named best actress ahead of Saoirse RonanSun Feb 18 2018 - 22:18
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t know where I am from. I’m just Irish’The three-time Oscar nominee on fame, Hollywood scandals, and the abortion referendumSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Black 47: First clips of Famine movie revealedFilm premieres tonight at the prestigious Berlin Film FestivalFri Feb 16 2018 - 13:46
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Shape of Water is a fish-meets-female fantasy that dives deep into romanceFri Feb 16 2018 - 06:00
Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakesThe news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?Fri Feb 16 2018 - 06:00
Heartstone review: Sensitive, slightly over-extended debutDespite a surfeit of gay coming-of-age cliches, this Icelandic drama is surging with potentialFri Feb 16 2018 - 05:00
Iftas 2018: ‘I’m a Traveller, I can’t get an agent, but this is still a huge moment for me’John Connors’ best actor acceptance speech got a noisy standing ovation at the IftasThu Feb 15 2018 - 22:20
Saoirse Ronan will win actress Ifta – unless a meteorite hits DublinThursday’s Irish Film and Television Awards mark a strong year for Irish cinemaWed Feb 14 2018 - 11:48
The Shape of Water: Most Oscar nominated movie is a lovely thingReview: The favourite for best picture Oscar is a happy rom-com starring a B-movie creatureTue Feb 13 2018 - 11:35
‘Black Panther’: sparking a revolution in black cultureLatest chapter in Marvel cinematic universe more than another superhero filmTue Feb 13 2018 - 06:00
The weekly movie quiz: Which was bigger, Frozen or Twilight?Donald Clarke tests your knowledge of Hitchcock, Bond and Matthew McCona-somethingFri Feb 09 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Loveless offers a grimly brilliant portrayal of Russia today, Black Panther is an enjoyable Marvel of a different hueFri Feb 09 2018 - 06:00
Why John Mahoney is an inspiration to late bloomers everywhereChanging lanes in later life and following your muse isn’t easy, but it can be doneFri Feb 09 2018 - 05:00
Lover For a Day: The most French film you’ll see this yearReview: Lecturer beds student. Characters talk a lot about love and sex. In black and whiteThu Feb 08 2018 - 05:00
Loveless review: From Russia, but definitely not with loveAlexey Zvyagintsev’s powerful movie is deservedly up for the best foreign film OscarWed Feb 07 2018 - 17:00
Quentin Tarantino has questions to answer about his Roman Polanski rape commentsOver the last few weeks a mass of interwoven accusations have pushed the movie director into an increasingly uncomfortable placeWed Feb 07 2018 - 16:15
Black Panther: This film is revolutionary. Just not that goodReview: It features a black superhero, but the CGI is suffocating and the plot is weakWed Feb 07 2018 - 10:27
Andrey Zvyagintsev: ‘With Russia’s re-Stalinsation, there are negative tendencies’Film director Andrey Zvyagintsev is viewed as one of the greatest film-makers but in his native Russia the acclaim is not so universalWed Feb 07 2018 - 05:00
Fifty Shades Freed: Last gasp of a decrepit phenomenonFifty Shades of Grey, part 3 is out this week – a stinky post-Weinstein anachronismMon Feb 05 2018 - 10:39
Virtual reality: Even better than the real thing?Virtual reality is coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival with a two-day conference on ‘immersive entertainment’Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendDaniel Day-Lewis goes out in haute style, and Gerard Butler channels his inner BlackbeardFri Feb 02 2018 - 06:00
James Bond has always been a misogynist dinosaur. Now he has to changeThere is something unsettling about a video, compiled in the wake of the #MeToo movement, detailing Bond’s repeated, casual mistreatment of womenFri Feb 02 2018 - 05:00
Journey’s End: A serious version of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’Review: Long camera takes give a sense of the claustrophobia of life in the trenchesThu Feb 01 2018 - 12:00
Roman J Israel, Esq: Colin Farrell is fine. The film is a total messReview: This Oscar-nominated film starring Farrell and Denzel Washington just doesn’t feel ready for release.Thu Feb 01 2018 - 09:42
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final filmReview: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around himWed Jan 31 2018 - 11:52
‘The Post’, ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘I, Tonya’ are full of errors. So what?A film isn’t a history class. Clever audiences bring a healthy scepticism to the moviesTue Jan 30 2018 - 06:00
The Young Offenders: Breaking into the English MarketThe runaway success of the film has led to a BBC series and a new level of attention in CorkSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
The movie quiz: How mad did Max 2 get in the US?Also: Star family dynasties, putting the Good in Fellas and acting to the Vronsky beatFri Jan 26 2018 - 07:00
Five of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Early Man is a primitive hoot, Last Flag Flying sombrely channels The Last Detail, and Downsizing proves the law of diminishing returnsFri Jan 26 2018 - 06:00
‘Three Billboards’ is not suffering a backlash: some people just didn’t like itFilm’s failure to score a Best Director Oscar nomination for Martin McDonagh is not necessarily a reactionFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Bryan Cranston: ‘I was going to become a police officer’Bryan Cranston had a solid career as a jobbing actor for three decades, then ‘Breaking Bad’ happenedFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Third and (thank heavens!) final Maze Runner filmFantasy-sequence finale is so generic it has given up pretending to be a real movieThu Jan 25 2018 - 05:00
Downsizing: A film reeking of Long-Cherished Project SyndromeIntriguing concept gets lost amid naive environmental fantasy in rare disappointmentWed Jan 24 2018 - 09:28
Oscars 2018: 10 talking points from the nominationsNetflix has its first nod, Cinematography has its first woman, ‘Three Billboards’ could struggleTue Jan 23 2018 - 17:12
Saoirse Ronan, ‘Three Billboards’, Cartoon Saloon and Daniel Day-Lewis nominated for OscarsMartin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ is named in seven nomination categoriesTue Jan 23 2018 - 13:49
Tomorrow’s Oscar nominations today – Donald Clarke predictsHe called 83% of the nominations correctly in 2016 and 2017. But this year is tougherMon Jan 22 2018 - 11:25
Will Saoirse Ronan win an Oscar? Watch the SAG Awards to find outThe ‘Lady Bird’ star faces tough competition in this year’s best female actor categorySun Jan 21 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: What film went home without a Golden Globe?Also: The many faces of Winston Churchill, Pixar’s latest, and the Bull Durham brandFri Jan 19 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendSpielberg, Hanks and Streep’s The Post is heavy with shadows of Trumpocracy while Liam Neeson just about stays on track in The CommuterFri Jan 19 2018 - 06:00
Get deleting. You might be the next Milkshake Duck‘Milkshake duck’ captures perfectly the social media dystopia we have created for ourselvesFri Jan 19 2018 - 05:00
Liam Neeson: Unexpectedly beating up people at age 65Liam Neeson never expected to be beating up people on a train at the age of 65 – or still getting into trouble for opening his big Ballymena mouthFri Jan 19 2018 - 05:00
Rey: Filmed over seven years, it often feels that wayThis unconventional historical yarn is disjointed, self-important and lacks humourFri Jan 19 2018 - 00:00
The Post: Steven Spielberg’s latest irresistible entertainmentTom Hanks is stubborn, Meryl Streep is vulnerable, the whole film is elegantWed Jan 17 2018 - 05:00
Christoph Waltz: slightly sinister, supremely talentedPrecise, odd and a little bit untrustworthy, the Oscar-winner is the best thing in ‘Downsizing’Sat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00
The movie quiz: are you golden, or you just an empty globe?Also: The actor who never appeared in a Potter, living with Oscar nominations, and Thunderbirds are who?Fri Jan 12 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Golden Globe-winning 'Three Billboards' and what makes Eric Clapton tickFri Jan 12 2018 - 05:00
