Paul Verhoeven on his ‘rape comedy’: ‘this is horrible and that is funny’The seriousness of the rape should not exclude anything funny in the film, argues the Dutch directorFri Mar 10 2017 - 06:26
Elle review: A shocking, unconventional take on rapeIsabelle Huppert’s conspicuous authorship of central role may have muted controversyThu Mar 09 2017 - 11:00
Iftas 2017: ‘The Young Offenders’ leads film nominations‘The Siege of Jadotville’ also secures seven nods, while TG4 series ‘Klondike’ scores 10Wed Mar 08 2017 - 15:38
Kong Skull Island review: a rip-roaring retro monster-movie rompTom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson go ape in this irresistible Godzilla prequel, which sees Kong bigger and meaner than ever beforeWed Mar 08 2017 - 06:26
‘Visibly unhappy’ Brie Larson and the amateur body linguistsCommentators dissecting perceived slights at Oscars need to brush up on film historySat Mar 04 2017 - 06:00
And the nominees for the 2018 Academy Award for best picture are ...Our fearless Film Correspondent tries to predict the films that will battle it out for the Best Picture Oscar next FebruaryFri Mar 03 2017 - 06:00
Between Land and Sea - putting Irish surfing on the global mapRoss Whitaker’s brilliant documentary gives two windswept fingers to ‘Ireland's mediocrity complex’ - well, when it comes to big surf anywayFri Mar 03 2017 - 05:49
Juanita Wilson: ‘It is our rage that will destroy us’Oscar-nominated Irish director Juanita Wilson’s latest film focuses on why people hate: ‘A random act of violence is often an accumulation of small injustices'Fri Mar 03 2017 - 05:00
Tomato Red review: A hard-boiled trailer-park tragedyJuanita Wilson’s adaptation of a Daniel Woodrell novel gets by on sass, atmosphere and strong performances and delivers on a great deal of ominous foreshadowingThu Mar 02 2017 - 14:09
Lost in France review: a sepia-toned love-letter to Chemikal UndergroundThe seminal Scottish record label that brought us the likes of Mogwai and Arab Strapis fondly remembered in Niall McCann’s documentaryThu Mar 02 2017 - 13:30
Fassbender and Gleeson face off as a Traveller family at warDirector Adam Smith’s debut Trespass Against Us plays baby Tarantino games to enjoyable effect, but where is the damn plot?Thu Mar 02 2017 - 09:36
Will ‘Alien: Covenant’ give fans exactly what they want?The trailer for Ridley Scott’s new film suggests it will be a lot like the original – and a lot of funWed Mar 01 2017 - 14:07
Logan review: Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine takes one last slice at the superhero gameJames Mangold, director of 3:10 to Yuma, embraces a bit of mortal grime and delivers the most diverting superhero film in yearsTue Feb 28 2017 - 13:00
Oscars 2017: Blunder overshadows biggest upset in recent history‘Moonlight’ carries off best picture statuette after ‘La La Land’ wrongly declared winnerMon Feb 27 2017 - 17:32
Oscars 2017: how did I fare with my predictions?A diligent Oscars observer should be happy with nothing less than 70 per cent in the prediction stakes – which means I’m not happy with my forecastingMon Feb 27 2017 - 14:00
Alternative Oscars: and the award for Grumpiest Loser goes to . . .Donald Clarke on the best, worst and most awkward moments of the 89th Academy AwardsMon Feb 27 2017 - 08:12
Oscars: PwC apologises for blunder after La La Land incorrectly named as winnerShock as Moonlight takes best picture minutes after La La Land is announcedMon Feb 27 2017 - 06:32
whats the point of punctuation donald clarke wants to knowclever people whove published books and lectured at harvard argue on twitter like this so obviously i’m the idiot hereSat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
Scorsese ‘surprised and moved’ when told of Trinity College honour‘Taxi Driver’ director also in Dublin to receive John Ford Award from PresidentFri Feb 24 2017 - 19:00
Oscars 2017: This year's best picture nominees, from grand to greatDonald Clarke ranks the best picture nominees at this year’s Academy AwardsFri Feb 24 2017 - 14:00
Dane DeHaan: 'I couldn’t have pulled it off without Gabriel Byrne'The smooth actor’s star has risen slowly but surely, from ‘In Treatment’ to ‘Chronicle’ to playing James Dean. Now he's up to his neck in horror in ‘A Cure for Wellness’Fri Feb 24 2017 - 05:22
It’s Only the End of the World review: an unfocused sort of homecoming from Xavier DolanDolan’s entry into the Weekend in Family Hell genre is certainly adventurous, but woefully miscast, and ultimately fails in its ambitionsThu Feb 23 2017 - 11:00
Bitter Harvest review: an epic monstrosity that’s so bad it’s almost unmissableNoble intentions may be behind the production of this privately financed Ukrainian history lesson, but that’s really no excuseThu Feb 23 2017 - 11:00
Oscars 2017 predictions: What should win, and what will win‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremonyThu Feb 23 2017 - 05:00
Viola Davis: Fame ‘means everything and nothing to me’Golden Globe winner tipped for an Oscar for ‘Fences’ is, at 51, taking success in her strideSat Feb 18 2017 - 06:10
The superstar you’ve never heard of – at least, not from usYouTubers have followers in the millions but rarely appear on traditional media’s radarSat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Moonlight review: A near-perfect filmBarry Jenkins meticulous, emotional triptych on masculinity, identity and sexuality offers up a remarkable new American hero for our ageThu Feb 16 2017 - 17:46
Fences review: great performances left sitting on the metaphorDenzel Washington directs and stars alongside Viola Davis in a drama that betrays its origins as a stage playThu Feb 16 2017 - 16:00
The Founder review: supersized tale of the man who made McDonald’s an empireMichael Keaton brings a Faustian undercurrent to John Lee Hancock’s entertaining, ambiguous biopicThu Feb 16 2017 - 14:05
The Great Wall review: The most beautiful rubbish you could ever hope to seeChinese master Zhang Yimou’s monster flick, featuring Matt Damon battling killer lizards, is stunningly silly and surprisingly enjoyableThu Feb 16 2017 - 12:03
Dublin Film Festival: Seven films you need to seeThe Dublin Film Festival is about to begin. Here are our picks for each night of the festival’s opening weekWed Feb 15 2017 - 15:30
Baftas 2017: La La Land wins best film on night of surprisesHollywood musical scoops most gongs on occasion coloured by celebrity and politicsSun Feb 12 2017 - 22:10
Sitcoms are the best gauge of our societyIf you want to learn about premillennial complacency in the US you need only endure a few episodes of Friends or marvel at a season of SeinfeldSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
Bad sex in the movies: from Top Gun to Fifty ShadesThe most popular ‘arts’ story of 2017 was this history of bad sex scenesSat Feb 11 2017 - 05:00
Fifty Shades Darker review: dreadful sex saga with no plot and awful dialogueFilm Review: Part two of EL James’s recreational sadism story is even worse than the firstFri Feb 10 2017 - 07:44
Annette Bening on Trump : 'We have to have dignity even if some of our leaders don't'The star of ‘20th Century Women’ on Trump's America and the generation gapFri Feb 10 2017 - 05:00
Prevenge review: Very nasty, very funny, very pregnantSightseers co-creator Alice Lowe delivers a dark and messy essay on gestation - and it's an unsettling, satirical gemThu Feb 09 2017 - 12:41
Meetings With Ivor review: a tie-dyed in the wool, almost mystical guruThis documentary about Prof Ivor Browne portrays a divisive figure in a playful way, and is alive to his flaws as his far-out ideasThu Feb 09 2017 - 12:01
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk review: a heroic 120fps failureAng Lee’s extremely odd film is certainly audacious, but it falls flat, both as a technical experiment and as a critique of US militarismThu Feb 09 2017 - 05:00
Enda Kenny and the Big Bejaysus ceremonyTo touch forelocks to Donald Trump on the Taoiseach’s St Patrick’s Day visit to the White House would belittle us allSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Rings review: you might die of boredom within seven minutesF Javier Gutiérrez’s murky sequel proves that some horror franchises are best left interredThu Feb 02 2017 - 17:50
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter review - Jovovich is innocent, the rest must hangThe latest instalment of the zombie franchise is 20 per cent boring plot and 80 per cent even more boring actionThu Feb 02 2017 - 11:26
The pros and cons of being murderously pregnantAlice Lowe’s new film Prevenge is a dark comedy about a pregnant woman intent on murder. The character is a "superhero", she says, "and pregnancy is her special power”Thu Feb 02 2017 - 05:00
Loving review: Ruth Negga, Limerick’s greatest export since Richard HarrisJeff Nichols’s crusading love story bravely focuses on the domestic over the public, the personal over the politicalWed Feb 01 2017 - 16:00
The Unknown Girl review: a worthwhile addition to the Dardennes canonRecut after its first showing at Cannes, the Dardenne brothers’ latest is a low-key whodunnit with a moral sting in the tailWed Feb 01 2017 - 13:10
John Hurt: A brilliant actor who ‘never lost his sense of adolescent mischief’Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generationSat Jan 28 2017 - 13:03
Donald Clarke: Who are you calling punk?Pitchfork says Mike Mills’s Oscar-nominated ‘20th Century Women’ gets early punk right. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heardSat Jan 28 2017 - 07:00
Rachel Weisz: ‘Holocaust denial didn’t affect me until the internet age’With a background in avant garde theatre, the actress broke big with ‘The Mummy’. Now she plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on Holocaust denier David IrvingFri Jan 27 2017 - 05:33
Denial review: Rachel Weisz takes on the alternative facts of a Holocaust denierMick Jackson’s courtroom drama tells the story of David Irving's ultimately foolhardy decision to sue Deborah Lipstadt for libelThu Jan 26 2017 - 13:00
Mary Tyler Moore: A singular figure in TV historyThe charming actor established new ground for women in the entertainment industryWed Jan 25 2017 - 21:06
