The top 50 films on Netflix, October 2014The classics section is surprisingly small, and the same schlock keeps coming up again and again, but there are plenty of movie gems lurking around NetflixFri Oct 10 2014 - 14:18
'71 review: a visceral reminder of dark daysThis visceral pursuit yarn makes Northern Ireland during the Troubles look like a distant hostile planetFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:00
Annabelle review: crying, talking, sleeping, walking evil dollThe toy could hardly seem more sinister if it had presented ‘Top of the Pops’ during the 1970sFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
Will Poulter: ‘Acting was a release from what I found to be a very tough period of my life’Even at 21, Will Poulter works hard at being the best thing in every picture he makes, writes Donald ClarkeFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
The Rewrite review: Hugh Grant’s fringe may be gone, but the comic timing is still thereFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
Gold review: strong performances, convincing characterisationNiall Heery follows up ‘Small Engine Repair’ with ‘Gold’; the sort of film you want to hug indulgently to a welcoming bosomFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
End may be approaching for absurd blasphemy offenceOpinion: Nobody should be discriminated against because of his or her personal philosophy (whether religious or not)Sat Oct 04 2014 - 00:01
There will be Vlad: an audience with young Dracula in AntrimThe Northern Irish set of Universal’s latest take on a horror legend seems to hark back more to a place called Westeros than to 15th-century RomaniaThu Oct 02 2014 - 01:00
Why is it happy days in Northern Ireland, but anxious times in Cookstown?Opinion: Our most celebrated rock musician, Van Morrison, brings whole weather systems of misery onto stage with himSun Sept 28 2014 - 12:01
Denzel Washington: ‘People retire because they think they should, but you need that work to live’Can Denzel Washington really be about to turn 60? He came late to film but he’s already built up a fine legacyFri Sept 26 2014 - 01:00
Woody Allen: ‘I am realistic in my appraisal of the human condition, but not realistic in my everyday life’Recent scandals haven’t dimmed Woody Allen’s enthusiasm for making films – though he doesn’t understand why people still want to watch themFri Sept 19 2014 - 00:20
A Walk Among the Tombstones review: more measured than the average Neeson punch-upFri Sept 19 2014 - 00:00
Director of The Guard says Irish films are not ‘intelligent’McDonagh doesn’t want Calvary regarded as Irish: ‘it’s just set in Ireland with lots of Irish characters’Mon Sept 15 2014 - 13:37
Make the most of your college days - it’s all downhill after thatOpinion: ‘Within minutes of completing one’s final exams, the vileness of the student state imbeds itself in the part of the human brain that controls irrational hatreds’Sat Sept 13 2014 - 00:01
A Most Wanted Man review: Corbijn does Le Carré, Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the showFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
Pride and the pits: when gay rights met the striking minersNew movie Pride celebrates the unlikely meeting of Britain’s striking miners and gay rights campaigners in the 1980s. Poverty, homophobia, Aids and the defeat of the miners provide an unlikely backdrop. Donald Clarke takes pride in a cultural rebellionThu Sept 11 2014 - 17:00
The Wizard of Oz 3D review: Caligenous Junk! It was already perfect in two dimensionsThu Sept 11 2014 - 16:54
No peace on the train, as we’re trapped with low-fi, telephonic mash-up of Katy Perry and Taylor SwiftOpinion: Tinny versions of popular tunes are now broadcast to every person unlucky enough to be sitting in the same train carriageSun Sept 07 2014 - 12:01
Helen Mirren: ‘I’m not chopped liver’Helen Mirren on traumas, triumphs and the biggest lie ever told about herFri Sept 05 2014 - 01:00
Screenwriter: What’s the bloody point?The end is nigh, but sequels live foreverFri Sept 05 2014 - 00:00
Reel love: a century of passion on the silver screenFor her latest film 'Love is All' – hewn from a century of archive – renowned documentarian Kim Longinotto has turned her attentions to the changing notions of love in cinemaFri Sept 05 2014 - 00:00
Hats off to the gardaí of Limerick who have raised the rainbow flagOpinion: When it comes to gay matters, an extraordinary shift towards tolerance has occurredSat Aug 30 2014 - 00:01
Obvious Child: when it comes to abortion, choice would be a fine thingObvious Child is not an ‘abortion comedy’ but a movie about a woman choosing to have an abortion in an area where women have access to abortion services. And it is quite funny, because life is funny. Director Gillian Robespierre talks about not judging peopleFri Aug 29 2014 - 00:00
Richard Attenborough was a gifted actor and director, but so much more than thatKindly-old-uncle façade hid inner steel and prodigious gift for the macabreMon Aug 25 2014 - 02:08
Pouring cold water on the ice bucket challengeOpinion: ‘Heck, even columns complaining about the exercise invite contributions to the cause’Sat Aug 23 2014 - 00:01
