The Traitors makes no sense. Its logic is flimsy, its flaws obvious. So why do I happily yell through three episodes a week?Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviouslySun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMuch trumpeted Bob Dylan biopic is pleasant but bland hagiography. Plus surprisingly original monster mash The Wolf Man, moving speculative documentary Pepe, and slick but decidedly unerotic remake of ‘70s softcore sensation EmmanuelleSun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Cameron Diaz: ‘I left movies because I wanted to live my life differently. We started our family, and that was all I wanted to do’The 1990s megastar is back on screen alongside Jamie Foxx in Netflix thriller Back in ActionSat Jan 18 2025 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: Pick the actor who was not in Saving Private Ryan?Plus: How many Terminator films are there?Fri Jan 17 2025 - 05:00
David Lynch: the surrealist who combined depravity with wholesome iconography of small-town USADeath of film-maker David Lynch: With Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart it seemed, for a brief magic moment, as if Lynch’s version of the avant-garde could really sit at the centre of mainstream culture. It was not to beThu Jan 16 2025 - 21:00
A Complete Unknown review: As Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet works his wee nasal cavity to deathJames Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fansThu Jan 16 2025 - 05:00
Wolf Man review: Shocker finds new ways of turning the stomach as it honours the great werewolf tradition Leigh Whannell’s focus on the psychological over the physical may alienate some gorehounds, but it makes for an original take with subtexts that lingerWed Jan 15 2025 - 17:00
‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language filmBaftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chanceWed Jan 15 2025 - 15:30
Kneecap film and Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These lead Ifta nominationsIrish Film and Television Academy awards: Say Nothing and Bad Sisters among other nomineesTue Jan 14 2025 - 08:00
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-makingSun Jan 12 2025 - 05:15
Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I’ve seen’ is big win for the churchThe conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accuratelySun Jan 12 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who wears the balaclava in Kneecap? Plus: Who wears the balaclava in Kneecap?Fri Jan 10 2025 - 05:00
Maria review: Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera starPablo Larraín’s film attempts to grasp the real human while wallowing in the gorgeousness of it allThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
A Real Pain review: Kieran Culkin could be on an unstoppable run to an Oscar for this touching, funny dramaJesse Eisenberg’s light-fingered second directorial effort is a touching, funny drama that allows truths to emerge subtly and sometimes ambiguouslyWed Jan 08 2025 - 05:00
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoorsWhat to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and moreTue Jan 07 2025 - 10:32
Golden Globes 2025: Colin Farrell wins award for The Penguin as Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist triumphAdrien Brody and Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres win main acting awards at a lively Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles that delivered a few surprisesMon Jan 06 2025 - 05:52
Four new films to see this week Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, We Live in Time, BeezelSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
What U2 knew about the United States that some quintessentially English stars didn’tBetter Man, the new Robbie Williams biopic, has been baffling Americans. Hitting a wall in the US really can be to do with being just a little too foreignSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she saysSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
50 people to watch in 2025: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreAs a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things upSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
Bafta longlists 2025: Kneecap in running for seven awards as Saoirse Ronan named on best actress listPortia A Buckley’s Irish drama Clodagh is one of the 10 titles listed for best British short filmFri Jan 03 2025 - 14:07
The Movie Quiz: Which film has the most nominations at this weekend’s Golden Globes 2025?Plus: Wings of Desire, The Proposal and Blonde share a connection with which great post-punk band?Fri Jan 03 2025 - 05:00
Beezel review: This queasy horror set in an impressively creepy Massachusetts house is pulp as pulp should beFilm feels oddly of its moment, taking place in a similar space from which Longlegs emergedThu Jan 02 2025 - 05:00
We Live in Time review: Is there is a word for a manipulative drama that isn’t up to the task?Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield seem to have emerged from Richard Curtis Posho Factory in John Crowley’s drippily insubstantial filmMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘One of the references I have when I talk about Nickel Boys is the Magadelene laundry mothers in Ireland’Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor missed out on an Oscar for her role in King Richard. It will be no surprise if she’s nominated again for RaMell Ross’s acclaimed new filmMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: In 1975, Dylan, Patti Smith, Bowie and Marley woke up a cosseted music culture2025 marks the golden jubilee of some fine records, to be sure, but also of a time when punk came to sack rock’s citadel and popular music began to go in new directionsSun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in the cinema this week Clever Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and gripping Christmas shocker Terrifier 3, plus How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies and Sonic the Hedgehog 3Sun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the only 2024 film in the box office top 10 that’s not a sequel?Plus: How many films titled for Marvel characters were released in cinemas this year?Fri Dec 27 2024 - 04:57
Better Man review: Robbie Williams as a monkey is a surprising look at the ego-driven’s star’s lifeGenuinely challenging critique is an impressive juggling act between celebration and self-deprecationMon Dec 23 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse orderThe 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:30
The Oscars aren’t fair. Just look at what’s happening to Cillian MurphyThe actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of everyone’s second-favourite Christmas film?Plus: Who has the very first line in holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life?Fri Dec 20 2024 - 05:00
Dolphin Boy review: What in the name of bejaysus are we looking at here?The animation is horrible. The voice work is annoying. The plot can be hard to followFri Dec 20 2024 - 05:00
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winnersCritics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning AnoraThu Dec 19 2024 - 15:08
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: A hunk of good honest rubbish for the festive seasonJim Carrey’s antic madness is just what the Sonic films needed. He hardly seemed more committed in his give-me-an-Oscar periodWed Dec 18 2024 - 14:00
Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original songTwo Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, land spots in the shortlist for best live-action shortTue Dec 17 2024 - 19:29
Mufasa: The Lion King review – This follow-up has a hungry cash-box where its soul should beNever mind Disney’s classic cartoons. Its dull origin story of Simba’s father is closer to those pseudo-storytelling live-action TV shows from the 1960sTue Dec 17 2024 - 17:00
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy ChristmasMon Dec 16 2024 - 05:45
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four QuartetsThe likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024Sun Dec 15 2024 - 21:34
What kind of Christmas songs are Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland? Funny you should askIt’s a swizz: both belong to a large class of winter songs that have been shuffled cynically on to the Christmas playlistSun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLord of the Rings anime prequel is violent fun for fans, but Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a vacuous disappointment. Plus documentaries The Bibi Files and Chasing the LightSun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays by Mark Cousins: A generous, playful and unpretentious collectionThe self-confessed ‘altar boy in the church of cinema’ propels the reader comfortably from one argument to the nextSat Dec 14 2024 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: Hackman, Spacey, Eisenberg: Who has played Lex Luthor the most often?Plus: Which is the only Bond film to feature the singer of the theme song in an acting role?Fri Dec 13 2024 - 05:00
Chasing the Light review: This agreeable Irish documentary is all peace and healing. Then something disturbing happensReceiving a limited theatrical release, Chasing the Light is worth seeing on the big screen to savour breathtaking vistas of the Atlantic coastThu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – Enjoyably gory epic is a useful addition to Tolkien loreQuibbles aside, Kenji Kamiyama’s prequel is better than a place-holding animation needed to beWed Dec 11 2024 - 05:00
Daily Mail vs Kneecap: Belfast rap trio’s ‘anti-British’ film has the newspaper up in arms againDaily Mail article headlined ‘Anti-British Irish-language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film gong’ is the latest salvo in the war of words with KneecapTue Dec 10 2024 - 06:00
Golden Globes 2025: Good day for Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott. Bad day for Paul Mescal and Saoirse RonanColin Farrell and Andrew Scott compete against each other villainously in the race for best actor in a TV movie or limited seriesMon Dec 09 2024 - 17:00
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of themWe gave you the best films, now here’s the worst. Is it a surprise half of these are sequels?Sun Dec 08 2024 - 05:30
The rise and rise of Moana 2: How the Disney film is conquering the world Dollar signs are lighting up eyes all over Hollywood after Moana 2 - yes, you read that right - blew Thanksgiving apartSun Dec 08 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the yearWe reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 07 2024 - 05:30
