‘I knew I’d never seen anything like it’: Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams on Whalefall
Trapped inside a sperm whale with only an hour of oxygen, a grieving son confronts his relationship with his father in the film adaptation of Daniel Kraus’s novel
Cotton Queen review: Commendably scathing dramatic takedown of postcolonial ‘freedom’
Coming-of-age story examines how imperial power survives through new economic arrangements
Forever Is Now: Portrait of Eamon Ryan’s political demise shows how hard it is being Green
Neasa Ní Chianán’s documentary on the former Green Party leader charts the travails of the larger environmental movement
‘I only ever heard Jeremy speak in Mark Zuckerberg’s voice until his last day of shooting’
Aaron Sorkin’s new film, The Social Reckoning, dramatises Frances Haugen’s whistle-blowing on Facebook and Meta’s approach to business
Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill review – This scrappy film’s Irish director is as plucky as her heroine
Zoe Kavanagh has fashioned an imaginative supernatural franchise from a microbudget
The Social Reckoning review: Jeremy Strong is unblinking as Mark Zuckerberg
More stylish TV special than Academy Award prospect, the film lacks the toxic bang of its predecessor
Extra Geography review: Nerve-rackingly brilliant boarding-school cringe comedy
Debut feature by Molly Manners culminates in an unforgettably spiky denouement
The Weight review: Ethan Hawke does the heavy lifting in this 1970s-style genre movie
Russell Crowe makes an impression in a gritty 1930s survival film that draws on classic Hollywood
Four new films to see this week: Sense and Sensibility, The Lost Children of Tuam, Her Private Hell, Stupid August
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Caitríona Balfe, Monica Dolan and Andrew Bennett feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 25th, 2026
Daisy Edgar-Jones: ‘It was great practice for Sense and Sensibility, all that time in Fermanagh fields with cows’
The actor’s Irish childhood holidays helped make her a breakout star of Normal People – a happy memory as her new film, Sense and Sensibility, arrives
Stupid August review: Irish film marries Charlie Chaplin with an analysis of nefarious alliances
Pádraig Trehy’s latest feature marries silent cinema, expressionism and surrealism to create a historical fantasy
The Lost Children of Tuam review: Historical evils lurk beneath a muted surface
Frank Berry’s film reconstructs Catherine Corless’s meticulous investigation into the Bon Secours mother and baby home in the Co Galway town
Four new films to see this week: Bad Apples, Resident Evil, Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? and The Degenerate
Saoirse Ronan, Austin Abrams, Jarvis Cocker and Andy Milligan feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 18th, 2026
The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan review – below the bottom of the barrel
Raucous doc about Irish-American Z-movie master and his misanthropic milieu is wildly entertaining
Pulp - What Do You Do for an Encore? review: Alchemy of such a band cannot be replicated
Cultural trove charts outfit’s improbable passage from woodchip wallpaper to Britpop royalty