The Diary of a Teenage Girl review: sex and the singular girlMarielle Heller’s 1970s drama, based on a popular graphic novel, is a gutsy film that engages with its period and tells a few truths for the agesThu Aug 06 2015 - 18:00
Marshlands review: death in a post-dictatorshipThis edgy, atmospheric Spanish detective drama has much in common with Hollywood noir but can stand entirely on its ownThu Aug 06 2015 - 16:00
Fantastic Four review: After all the hype, it’s both better and worse than expectedThe first half of Josh Trank's reboot is perfectly serviceable as a summer seat-filler. Then it descends into a bendy, transparent, lumpy, flaming catastropheWed Aug 05 2015 - 22:15
Donald Clarke: From Walter the Dentist to Conan the BarbarianFurore over killing of Cecil the lion a sharp reminder of hypocrisy on animal crueltySat Aug 01 2015 - 11:44
The greatest Irish war hero you've never heard of - Aidan MacCarthyThe film directed by Gary Lennon traces the story of the doctor during his time with the British air force in Europe, Singapore and JapanFri Jul 31 2015 - 05:00
13 Minutes review: Hitler assassination tale fails to igniteHirschbiegel’s film captures the period well but we are left asking the wrong questionsFri Jul 31 2015 - 00:00
Hot Pursuit review: You know almost every punchline alreadyThis buddy comedy is useless but its loud, brash heart is in roughly the right placeThu Jul 30 2015 - 23:00
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation review: Your mission - to stay awakeSimon Pegg quips; Ving Rhames rumbles; Jeremy Renner snoozes and Tom Cruise continues to leap, bound and defy the ageing process - if only the franchise was bearing up as wellThu Jul 30 2015 - 17:10
Outrage! over tabloids’ Elizabeth Nazi salute storyThe words 'Queen filmed doing Hitler salute' are so indecently delicious no tabloid could fail to run itSun Jul 26 2015 - 08:45
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson review: a rhythm in his bluesJulian Temple’s documentary on the influential and dying Dr Feelgood guitarist is affectionate and eccentric in all the right waysFri Jul 24 2015 - 12:44
How did Amy Poehler become Hollywood’s favourite person?She’s got an acerbic wit, frequently speaks her mind, and has burned almost everyone at the Golden Globes: so how did Amy Poehler become Hollywood’s most-loved?Fri Jul 24 2015 - 05:00
Aidan Gillen: chasing character at the top of his gameThe ‘Game of Thrones’ star has had an extraordinary career but still likes to do low-budget Irish filmsFri Jul 24 2015 - 04:00
Best of Enemies review: Buckley v VidalThe animosity between a pair of US political pundits makes for a diverting documentaryFri Jul 24 2015 - 02:00
Inside Out review: emotion in constant motionPixar’s comedy, set in the wildly seesawing brain of a child, is funny, moving and clever enough to overcome way too much extraneous plotThu Jul 23 2015 - 16:00
Donald Clarke: Cultural heritage does not excuse excesses of the ‘Twelfth’‘Culture’ seems to be defined as an atavistic force that compels uncivilised behaviourSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:01
What British punk band the Damned did nextWes Orshoski’s new film about the Damned is a consistently funny take on the music industryFri Jul 17 2015 - 11:15
The Salt of the Earth review: the sky above, the muddy image belowWim Wenders’s Oscar-nominated study of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado makes for riveting viewing, though larger issues of the artist’s aesthetics are conspicuously absentFri Jul 17 2015 - 04:00
True Story review: Lies, damned lies, and HollywoodAs a study of journalistic ethics, ‘True Story’ is laughably overheated, though it works well enough as a pretty good thrillerThu Jul 16 2015 - 19:29
Name of Irish Film Board to be changed to Screen IrelandDecision recognises Bord Scannán na hÉireann’s increasing interests beyond world of cinemaTue Jul 14 2015 - 19:07
Omar Sharif, one of the last matinee idolsEgyptian screen legend was as much a vision of romantic possibilities as he was an actorSat Jul 11 2015 - 09:50
We can assume Beckett didn’t mean: try hard and you can win the French Open‘Fail better’ another blood-boiling example of need to extract life lessons from literatureSat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
Documentary flair makes for a Fleadh to savourIrish road movies, documentaries and even a Western ensured that this year’s rainy but characterful Galway Film Fleadh was as full of interesting surprises as everFri Jul 10 2015 - 12:20
Song of the Sea review: A lot of pretty ghosts in the machineOld-fashioned artistry sets Tomm Moore’s second feature apart from the digital mobFri Jul 10 2015 - 08:59
Kathy Bates: an actor with plenty of characterDonald Clarke talks to the actor about sexism, ageism, cancer and the joy of ‘Misery’Fri Jul 10 2015 - 05:00
The Reunion review: a film that realises the dream of every harassed schoolyard outsiderDirector and star Anna Odell does a brilliant job of layering mysteries between enigmas and dosing them in concentrated uncertaintiesThu Jul 09 2015 - 16:33
Love and Mercy review: The life of Brian Wilson revisitedThough imaginative, this Beach Boys movie cannot shake itself free from the overworked 1960s mythologyThu Jul 09 2015 - 16:00
Donald Clarke: Hold on there – do we now approve of strippers?Are female strippers only okay if – by attaching frills and bows – they redefine themselves as ‘burlesque’Sun Jul 05 2015 - 08:03
Terminator Genisys review: Nuclear war is the least of its disastersGenisys crams every key trope into the mix; Schwarzenegger’s older, cuddlier Terminator adds the cornFri Jul 03 2015 - 18:37
Orson Welles: Man, myth and ‘Magic’‘He wasn’t really difficult,’ says Chuck Workman, director of a compelling new documentary about one of cinema’s giantsFri Jul 03 2015 - 05:00
Amy review: an essential, propulsive portraitAsif Kapadia’s definitive examination of Amy Winehouse charts a sickening drift towards fatal catastropheThu Jul 02 2015 - 22:00
Still the Water review: a bewitching, sideswiping experienceNaomi Kawase’s film comes with a ‘spirituality’ warning, but it’s worth itThu Jul 02 2015 - 20:30
Peter Bogdanovich: the last picture showmanWhat’s up, Pete? The quintessential movie brat is still directing ’em, but that old Hollywood magic is long gone: ‘Things have gone downhill since the end of the 1970s. This focus on the top 10 grossers and the first weekend is all new’Sun Jun 28 2015 - 12:00
Donald Clarke: Charleston killings raise the spectre of the T-word‘If this isn’t terrorism, then nothing is’ tweeted Glenn GreenwaldSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
The Wrecking Crew review: how they made the musicThe documentary about the legendary session musicians will be a hit with music fansThu Jun 25 2015 - 22:30
She’s Funny That Way review: problematic tribute to the screwball comedyIts ‘breathtakingly unreconstructed’ attitude to women mars this tribute to the screwball comedyThu Jun 25 2015 - 21:30
Slow West review: an unending treat to look atJohn Maclean’s elegant, original western takes its time and is a treat to look atThu Jun 25 2015 - 20:30
Festival programme unveiled for July’s Galway Film FleadhFilm notables such as John C Reilly, Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera set to attendTue Jun 23 2015 - 18:00
Slow West: ‘The Brits secretly all want to make westerns’Interview: John Maclean, once of the Beta Band, set out to demythologise the western in his first film, Slow West. He’s succeededMon Jun 22 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Why Trump is answer to Democrats’ prayersAbsurd, eccentric, right-wing carnival huckster has no chance of becoming presidentSat Jun 20 2015 - 01:00
The Longest Ride review: Sparks don’t fly in this latest cornball atrocityIt would not be fair to suggest that Nicholas Sparks has only one plot. He has as many as threeFri Jun 19 2015 - 11:14
Les Combattants review: engaging rom-com with a novel twistFrench romantic comedy looks and sounds like very few films in its debased genreFri Jun 19 2015 - 11:14
Mr Holmes review: Elementary? More or less, but Ian McKellan nails itIn the current multiverse of Sherlock Holmses, Ian McKellen's spot-on version of the great detective is older, wiser and dottier ... but not much moreFri Jun 19 2015 - 11:11
New York Times article a fantastic distortion of J-1sComment: article weaved story of inappropriate behaviour into tragedy in BerkeleyWed Jun 17 2015 - 17:16
Freaks: Tod Browning’s greatest film still has the power to shockMore than 80 years on, Browning’s tale of carnival ’freaks’ taking hideous revenge has failed to become even the tiniest bit respectableMon Jun 15 2015 - 12:38
Donald Clarke: Revealing Caitlyn Jenner and curse of the Kardashians‘Any criticism of the family business – an international joke 24 hours earlier – came to seem like intolerance of transsexual rights and aspirations’Sat Jun 13 2015 - 01:00
Jurassic World review: will a bigger, fiercer, genetically modified T-rex do?Jurassic World hits all the right beats, but in the end, it's just another Spielbergian safari to an island of genetically modified monstersFri Jun 12 2015 - 10:38
Queen and Country review: All quiet on the nostalgia front in John Boorman's latestBoorman’s new film is an agreeable follow-up to Hope and Glory, but it lacks the mild derangement of his best workFri Jun 12 2015 - 10:37
Ian McKellen: ‘The records of my early performances are painful'Revered but not widely known for his stage acting, Ian McKellen’s role as Gandalf in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films made him a star – which is handy, he says, if you’re ‘rather shy’Fri Jun 12 2015 - 06:00
The Look of Silence review: an optician peers into the heart of darknessJoshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to ‘The Art of Killing’ is another stunning, hugely unsettling documentary about Indonesia’s dark pastThu Jun 11 2015 - 23:24
Donald Clarke: Remembering screen legend Christopher LeeActor associated with Hammer productions of Dracula enjoyed rich and varied careerThu Jun 11 2015 - 15:16
