Mike Leigh: ‘I’m not a jobbing director. I’ve only ever done my own thing’The acclaimed British director’s first feature film, Bleak Moments, is 50 years oldTue Nov 09 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSpencer, The Card Counter, Love Yourself Today, EternalsSun Nov 07 2021 - 06:00
The Card Counter: Oscar Isaac is magnetic in this powerful, politically charged dramaPaul Schrader’s stylish film revisits his twin preoccupations with despair and salvationFri Nov 05 2021 - 05:00
Love Yourself Today: Finds focus in cathartic power of songReview: Damien Dempsey’s work is meaningful and this heartfelt documentary can attestFri Nov 05 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPassing, Last Night in Soho, Azor, AntlersSun Oct 31 2021 - 06:00
Kristen Stewart: ‘Diana was cool. She made the world feel pretty special’The actor on capturing the voice, walk and every tiny mannerism of Princess Diana in film SpencerSat Oct 30 2021 - 05:00
Azor: Fear and loathing during Argentina’s dirty warReview: Knotty conspiracies and obfuscations abound in unsettling dramaFri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00
Antlers: Run-of-the-mill thrills in time for HalloweenFilm review: Despite good intentions, this American horror story fails to igniteFri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekDune, The French Dispatch, Dear Evan Hansen, Boss Baby 2Sun Oct 24 2021 - 06:00
Dune: A pretty but ponderous start to a lengthy epicFirst instalment of sci-fi trilogy has more than a few longueursFri Oct 22 2021 - 06:38
Boss Baby 2: Infantile and not in a good wayLazily scripted sequel is a chore to watch and tests one’s faith in the three-act structureFri Oct 22 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekendThe Last Duel, Arracht, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Venom: Let There Be CarnageSun Oct 17 2021 - 06:00
Dave Bautista: ‘Professional wrestling brought me out of my shell’Dune actor gets to grip with the dramatics that facilitated leap from fight ring to screenSat Oct 16 2021 - 05:00
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão: They don’t often make them like this any moreReview: This old-school melodrama about unhappy sisters is anything but miserablismFri Oct 15 2021 - 05:00
Venom: Let There Be Carnage – The baddest bad movie of the yearFilm: Marvel sequel might have been a blast if the exchanges were not so dullFri Oct 15 2021 - 05:00
Film-maker Jim Cummings: The Hollywood that built Harvey Weinstein is still thereCummings’s breakthrough style he calls ‘backyard Pixar’ is shaking up the film industryWed Oct 13 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSweetheart, Deadly Cuts, My Little Sister, The Addams Family 2Sun Oct 10 2021 - 06:00
Tom Sullivan: ‘The famine is still a powder keg emotionally for us as a nation’The film-maker on new drama Arracht, love of Gaeilge and move from acting to directingSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
My Little Sister: Sibling loyalty in Alpine settingFilm review: Finely crafted family drama charts relationship between twinsFri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00
The Addams Family 2: The nightmare continuesFilm review: Can the much-loved family survive this appalling desecration?Fri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00
Victoria Smurfit: ‘The minute I turned 40 I was given a resting bitch face’In Deadly Cuts, the actor has an over-the-top evil role to match her turn as Cruella de VilWed Oct 06 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekNo Time to Die, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Anne at 13,000 Ft, GagarineSun Oct 03 2021 - 06:00
Anne at 13,000 Ft: A brilliant performance you’ll watch through your fingersFilm review: Toronto prize-winner follows life of a socially awkward daycare assistantFri Oct 01 2021 - 05:00
Gagarine: Dreams of space in the rubble of modernityFilm review: In a Parisian banlieue a teenager seeks to recreate a vanished dreamFri Oct 01 2021 - 05:00
‘When you are drawing yourself, you can draw yourself however you want’For many LGBTQ people, underground comics provided their first glimpse of representationMon Sept 27 2021 - 05:00
Four new movies to see this weekThe Many Saints of Newark, The Alpinist, The Green Knight and The StarlingSun Sept 26 2021 - 06:00
The Many Saints of Newark: A crime family history of violenceSopranos prequel – or pilot for a prequel series, perhaps – will have fans swooningFri Sept 24 2021 - 05:00
The Green Knight: Gawain you good thingVisually impressive but narratively suspect take on the Arthurian legendFri Sept 24 2021 - 05:00
‘I look at someone else’s film, and I immediately feel that my films are inferior’Terence Davies on his films, his aversion to pop culture, and being gay as a residual CatholicWed Sept 22 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRose Plays Julie and The Story of Looking in cinemas, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie and The Mad Women’s Ball streamingSun Sept 19 2021 - 06:00
Ray Liotta interview: ‘You’re playing pretend. That’s basically what I do’The actor who was almost Tony Soprano stars in a new prequel to the television seriesSat Sept 18 2021 - 05:00
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie: An exuberant crowd-pleaserReview: 1980s-set musical about teenage drag artist deserves a bigger audienceFri Sept 17 2021 - 05:00
The Mad Women’s Ball: A hideous carnival in the hospitalReview: Mélanie Laurent directs and stars in this portrait of 19th-century misogynyFri Sept 17 2021 - 05:00
Mélanie Laurent: ‘My brain always, always goes to directing first’Tarantino thrust her into the limelight and now she is making her own feminist thrillersTue Sept 14 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAretha Franklin biopic Respect, Herself and Copilot in cinemas, Sweet Thing streamingSun Sept 12 2021 - 06:00
Copilot: Portrait of a relationship destroyed by fanaticismStory of young love becomes tale of the humanity underlying extremismFri Sept 10 2021 - 05:00
Sweet Thing: An underappreciated director returns with styleAlexandre Rockwell has made a lively coming-of-age fableFri Sept 10 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekAnnette, Wildfire, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Here TodaySun Sept 05 2021 - 06:00
Annette: Big, bold and wildly originalAdam Driver is monstrously good in Leos Carax’s gorgeous musicalFri Sept 03 2021 - 05:00
Here Today: It’s a funny old worldReview: Billy Crystal plays a veteran comedy writer in ths non-romantic rom-comFri Sept 03 2021 - 05:00
Director Cathy Brady: ‘With Wildfire I was interested in the internal violence of women in the North’Newry-born film-maker depicts a Border family drama starring Nora-Jane Noone and the late Nika McGuiganWed Sept 01 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week, including 5 stars for Jude LawThe Nest, Candyman and Redemption of a Rogue in cinemas, Demonic streamingSun Aug 29 2021 - 06:00
Simon Helberg: ‘I became a French citizen just to get a part in Annette’The actor on starring in Leos Carax’s raucous rock opera with Adam Driver and SparksSat Aug 28 2021 - 05:00
The Nest: Jude Law is unnerving in this arrestingly chilly five-star filmA superficially happy family is transformed in Sean Durkin’s impressive psychological dramaFri Aug 27 2021 - 05:00
Demonic: A new way of looking at thingsReview: Intriguing camera technology adds to sense of eerinessFri Aug 27 2021 - 05:00
Hidden horrors: Remaking Candyman for the Black Lives Matter eraFilmmaker Nia DaCosta looks at modern issues affecting the black community in the USWed Aug 25 2021 - 05:00
Sweet Girl: Jason Mamoa is impressive. The rest of this Netflix film is notReview: This new revenge thriller depends too heavily on its unexpected plot twistFri Aug 20 2021 - 05:00
Pig: Five stars for Nicolas Cage’s expectation-upending new movieReview: This is the actor's most contemplative performance in yearsThu Aug 19 2021 - 05:00
Gemma-Leah Devereux: ‘Whatever you think I can’t do, that’s what I want to do’The Irish actor leaves the comfort zone behind in Smother, Judy and The Bright SideSat Aug 14 2021 - 05:00
