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The Ticket Awards: Film

The strong showing of 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' suggests erudite Ticket readers just can’t get enough Franco-Tunisian neo-realism, writes Donald Clarke

Fri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00

Film review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Blow-dried blowhard Ron Burgundy and his crew are back in a fitfully funny media satire

Fri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00

Walking with Dinosaurs – The 3D Movie

Fri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
Actor of incomparable charisma Peter O’Toole dies aged 81

Actor of incomparable charisma Peter O’Toole dies aged 81

Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ brought new style of theatrical weight to cinema

Mon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
Reading those columnists whose views we hate lets us  feel good about ourselves

Reading those columnists whose views we hate lets us feel good about ourselves

Opinion: Nothing cheers one up quite so much as feeling contempt for the ignorant

Sat Dec 14 2013 - 00:01

Film review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Peter Jackson serves up another distended pile of his patented Middle-earth mulch, writes Donald Clarke

Fri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00

The Innocents

Fri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00

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 Clarke

Fri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00

Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story

Fri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00
Scientists are from Mars, Journalists are from Venus

Scientists are from Mars, Journalists are from Venus

Opinion: Beware of any science story that tends to confirm you own prejudices

Sat Dec 07 2013 - 00:01

Film review: Frozen

The latest animated Disney epic bears comparison with the Mouse House’s finest work, writes Donald Clarke

Fri Dec 06 2013 - 10:34

Kill Your Darlings

Fri Dec 06 2013 - 10:32

Just a Sigh/Le Temps de l’Aventure

Fri Dec 06 2013 - 10:32

Black Nativity

Fri Dec 06 2013 - 10:31
Best bad films have that special X Factor

Best bad films have that special X Factor

Idiot Sandler can’t lay a glove on Diana or The Counsellor

Fri Dec 06 2013 - 00:00
Best film of 2013 - vote for the top ten films of the year

Best film of 2013 - vote for the top ten films of the year

It 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

The Swell Season

Fri Dec 06 2013 - 00:00
Christmas at the Cinema

Christmas at the Cinema

Mon Dec 02 2013 - 13:37
Hey, I’m only 50. What would I want with ‘peace of mind’?

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 began

Sat Nov 30 2013 - 00:01

Jeune et Jolie (Young & Beautiful)

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00

Film review: Carrie

Bizarre in a bad way, says Donald Clarke

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00

Leviathan

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00
The Swell Season: the documentary that’s stranger than fiction

The Swell Season: the documentary that’s stranger than fiction

A documentary about the duo The Swell Season as they embarked on a post-Oscar tour plays a little like the Oscar-winning drama ‘Once’ in reverse. “It was an interesting endeavour to embark on,” says director Carlo Mirabella-Davis

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00

Film review: Saving Mr Banks

Disney’s Triumph of the Walt is supercalifragilistic propaganda wites Donald Clarke

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00
Interest in JFK conspiracies dwindling as other fantasies get online attention

Interest in JFK conspiracies dwindling as other fantasies get online attention

A majority in a recent poll still do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. But the figure is lower than at any point since John F Kennedy’s assassination. What’s going on?

Sat Nov 23 2013 - 07:06
Death on K2: inching towards answers

Death on K2: inching towards answers

In ‘The Summit’, the film-maker Nick Ryan tries to work out what happened on the day when 11 mountaineers, the Irishman Ger McDonnell among them, died trying to scale the world’s most challenging mountain

Sat Nov 23 2013 - 01:00
Hollywood's JFK

Hollywood's JFK

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00

Film review - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

This incendiary sequel to The Hunger Games actually betters the already exciting original, writes Donald Clarke

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00

Seduced and Abandoned

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00

The Summit

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00

The Family

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00

Blue proves the warmest colour as 10-minute lesbian sex scenes pull in the plaudits

As his three-hour love story arrives in Irish cinemas weighed down with awards – and ongoing allegations of exploitation – director Abdellatif Kechiche ponders the dynamics of love and betrayal with Donald Clarke

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00
Prudery seems to reign more securely  in America than on this side of the pond

Prudery seems to reign more securely in America than on this side of the pond

Opinion: ‘Wardrobe malfunction’ had a nation transfixed by one stray areola

Sun Nov 17 2013 - 00:01
Sweden puts the Bechdel test to the test

Sweden puts the Bechdel test to the test

Sandra Bullock in Gravity is an anomaly as far as Bechdel’s rules are concerned

Fri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00

Don Jon

Fri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00

John Pilger on breaking the Great Silence of Australia’s past

In his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native Australia

Fri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00

Film review: The Counsellor

Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy come together to forge one of the year’s worst films, writes Donald Clarke

Fri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00

In Fear

Fri Nov 15 2013 - 00:00
Toronto’s crack-smoking, hard-drinking mayor seems so, well, unCanadian

Toronto’s crack-smoking, hard-drinking mayor seems so, well, unCanadian

Opinion: Rob Ford has a history of indiscretions while in a festive condition

Sat Nov 09 2013 - 00:01

Gravity

Sandra Bullock is compelling as a novice astronaut under pressure in this visually staggering epic

Fri Nov 08 2013 - 17:17
For Those in Peril

For Those in Peril

Fri Nov 08 2013 - 16:51
Yo! Northside  raps –  Broken Song’s tale of hip-hop  redemption

Yo! Northside raps – Broken Song’s tale of hip-hop redemption

Urban rhymes, beats and truth are not just a US west coast vs east coast thing – hip-hop is changing lives in north Dublin too, say the stars of a new documentary, Broken Song, about the scene

Fri Nov 08 2013 - 00:00
Why would anyone think that blacking up is a suitable way to mark Christmas?

Why would anyone think that blacking up is a suitable way to mark Christmas?

Opinion: The important question is not are you allowed to do this but why would you want to do this?

Sat Nov 02 2013 - 00:01
Gravity’s pull: the making of a rocket-fuelled space smash

Gravity’s pull: the making of a rocket-fuelled space smash

Mexican film-maker Alfonso Cuarón is delighted about the warm reception for his gripping space yarn. And what about the criticism of its supposed scientific inaccuracies? ‘It’s not a documentary,’ he shrugs

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 15:54
Cutie and the Boxer

Cutie and the Boxer

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Review: Philomena

Review: Philomena

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan excell in a true-life tale that combines drama and comedy to surprisingly winning effect

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00

Short Term 12

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Short Term 12

Short Term 12

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Gloria

Gloria

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"

Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"

As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
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