Hugh O’Conor: the long road from Young Poisoner to reluctant stagHugh O’Conor’s brilliant childhood performances are seared into our collective memory – and as his grown-up self gets a big-screen outing in new Irish comedy The Stag, he sits down with Donald Clarke to talk early success, turning 40 and everything in betweenFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
The Wolf of Wall StreetMartin Scorsese’s study of Wall Street excess is beautifully made but madly over the topThu Jan 23 2014 - 16:11
Programme for 12th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival revealedThis year’s guests include actors Richard Dreyfuss, Terry Gilliam, John Hurt and Jason PriestleyTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:01
A contrast in press cultures as Hollande affair leaves French press unmovedOpinion: There is something unsettling about the apparent Gallic belief that deceit in marriage is a sign of sophisticationSat Jan 18 2014 - 00:01
‘Gravity’ and ‘American Hustle’ lead field in nominations for three-horse Oscar raceFassbender in the running for best supporting actorFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:01
Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac on folk, film and working with catsAn anti-hero like only the Coens could create, downtrodden folk singer Llewyn Davis has been described as one of the biggest a**holes ever put on film. Oscar Isaac sees it differently, however. "He’s not all that selfish. He spends almost the whole movie trying to take care of this f**king cat”Fri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
12 Years a Slave causes cranky critical contrarianismUS film critic Armond White lobs opinionated dynamiteFri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
American Hustle and Gravity get 10 Oscar nodsMichael Fassbender and U2 make Oscar nominationsThu Jan 16 2014 - 17:07
American HustleThere are pleasures to be had in this brash, '70s-set comic thriller, even if it's all one big bogus boogie nightThu Jan 16 2014 - 15:37
12 Years a SlaveSteve McQueen’s scorching drama exposes the evil behind that ‘peculiar institution’Thu Jan 16 2014 - 15:36
Your annual epic Oscar-nomination napBefore today’s announcement, we make a stab at predicting who is going to figureThu Jan 16 2014 - 09:45
American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave win big at Golden GlobesU2’s ‘Ordinary Love’ recorded for Nelson Mandela biopic wins best original song awardMon Jan 13 2014 - 14:12
Richard Dreyfuss set for Dublin film festivalOscar-winning star of Jaws to attend Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in FebruarySun Jan 12 2014 - 21:00
Just because we can’t stand it doesn’t mean we have to make it illegalOpinion: The female midriff remained an indecent zone until someone invented the bikiniSat Jan 11 2014 - 00:01
War babyBritish actor Jeremy Irvine got his break early in Spielberg’s War Horse and stars in the moving second-World War drama The Railway Man. He talks to Donald Clarke about trauma, forgiveness – and fameFri Jan 10 2014 - 00:00
All eyes on film: the Big Movie Preview 2014Donald Clarke and Tara Brady cast eyes towards the coming year’s cinematic treatsFri Jan 03 2014 - 02:00
Singing hymns at atheist services makes as much sense as celebrating one’s elbowOpinion: Not believing in a deity does not involve subscribing to any particuclar moral viewpointSat Dec 28 2013 - 00:01
So who tops the Hollywood A-list for 2013?There were many contenders, but Jennifer Lawrence is the undisputed boss of 2013Fri Dec 27 2013 - 18:46
Film review: All Is LostOne-man show Robert Redford is superbly cast in this daring, intense tale of survivalFri Dec 27 2013 - 00:00
Capturing the magic of Christmas past‘Baby Jesus may have kicked off this Christmas business, but it was John Logie Baird who introduced harmony to the festive season’Wed Dec 25 2013 - 01:00
It’s hard to believe in the ‘white Santa’ promoted by Fox NewsThe notion that kids will be ‘confused’ if Father Christmas sometimes looks black, Chinese or Turkish is absurdSat Dec 21 2013 - 00:01
The Ticket Awards: FilmThe strong showing of 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' suggests erudite Ticket readers just can’t get enough Franco-Tunisian neo-realism, writes Donald ClarkeFri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
Film review: Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesBlow-dried blowhard Ron Burgundy and his crew are back in a fitfully funny media satireFri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
Actor of incomparable charisma Peter O’Toole dies aged 81Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ brought new style of theatrical weight to cinemaMon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
Reading those columnists whose views we hate lets us feel good about ourselvesOpinion: Nothing cheers one up quite so much as feeling contempt for the ignorantSat Dec 14 2013 - 00:01
Benedict Cumberbatch: "I have been the bearer of a few secrets this year"Benedict Cumberbatch first set hearts aflutter in the BBCs hugely popular Sherlock, which returns on New Year’s Day, and has since made great waves playing Julian Assange, Khan and now, as the voice of Smaug, the dragon in The Hobbit. He has also made a big impact on the world of otters. He talks to Donald ClarkeFri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00
Film review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of SmaugPeter Jackson serves up another distended pile of his patented Middle-earth mulch, writes Donald ClarkeFri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00
Scientists are from Mars, Journalists are from VenusOpinion: Beware of any science story that tends to confirm you own prejudicesSat Dec 07 2013 - 00:01
Film review: FrozenThe latest animated Disney epic bears comparison with the Mouse House’s finest work, writes Donald ClarkeFri Dec 06 2013 - 10:34
Best bad films have that special X FactorIdiot Sandler can’t lay a glove on Diana or The CounsellorFri Dec 06 2013 - 00:00
Best film of 2013 - vote for the top ten films of the yearIt was a spectacular year for cinema – but once again, many of 2013’s best offerings made little or no impact on the mainstream. Plus ça change . . .Fri Dec 06 2013 - 00:00
Hey, I’m only 50. What would I want with ‘peace of mind’?Opinion: Much has changed, and for the better, in the half-century since sex beganSat Nov 30 2013 - 00:01
