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The SpongeBob Movie review: Krabby Patties in danger!

The SpongeBob Movie review: Krabby Patties in danger!

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he still, our hero returns to battle scurvy fast-food pirate Burger Beard

Thu Mar 26 2015 - 16:00
Blind review: a dark story illuminated by a dazzling central performance

Blind review: a dark story illuminated by a dazzling central performance

Wed Mar 25 2015 - 15:47
The Last Man on the Moon review: Quite a trip | JDiff 2015

The Last Man on the Moon review: Quite a trip | JDiff 2015

This documentary does a splendid job of recalling the celebrity and hullabaloo around the space programme

Tue Mar 24 2015 - 16:14
Melbourne review: A thriller with a vice-like hold | JDiff 2015

Melbourne review: A thriller with a vice-like hold | JDiff 2015

Nima Javidi’s debut feature is already being talked about as this year’s ‘A Separation’

Tue Mar 24 2015 - 16:09
Sorrow and Joy review: A very personal tragedy | JDiff 2015

Sorrow and Joy review: A very personal tragedy | JDiff 2015

Director Nils Malmros dramatises the darkest episode of his life

Tue Mar 24 2015 - 11:15
The Fool review: From Russia with audacity | JDiff 2015

The Fool review: From Russia with audacity | JDiff 2015

Mon Mar 23 2015 - 01:00
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night review: smouldering sensuality, achingly cool | JDiff2015

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night review: smouldering sensuality, achingly cool | JDiff2015

Mon Mar 23 2015 - 01:00
The Voices review: Look Who’s Talking for Dexter fans

The Voices review: Look Who’s Talking for Dexter fans

In a world where the term “black comedy” is promiscuously overused, The Voices is the real deal

Fri Mar 20 2015 - 13:00
A Second Chance review: brilliant performances can’t disguise the ludicrous plot

A Second Chance review: brilliant performances can’t disguise the ludicrous plot

Quality emoting and solid direction is drowned out by baffling melodramatic twists

Fri Mar 20 2015 - 12:00
The Gunman review: no way to kill time

The Gunman review: no way to kill time

The Gunman wants to be Taken with a brain and without Liam Neeson

Fri Mar 20 2015 - 11:00

Mark Rylance: 'I remember bringing food to trees. Like bowls of milk and other things'

When Mark Rylance shows up on screen he tends to steal more than the scene, whether in ‘Wolf Hall’ or his few feature films. The current king of theatre talks to Tara Brady

Fri Mar 20 2015 - 06:30
The Second Game JDiff review: politics and football in Ceausescu’s Romania

The Second Game JDiff review: politics and football in Ceausescu’s Romania

Thu Mar 19 2015 - 13:03
Court JDiff review:  Human rights are a luxury few in India can afford in this gripping debut feature

Court JDiff review: Human rights are a luxury few in India can afford in this gripping debut feature

Thu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Kim Cattrall: ‘Women my age have something to say’

Kim Cattrall: ‘Women my age have something to say’

We’ll always have New York, but the actor has gone light years beyond ‘Sex and the City’ with her acclaimed new series, ‘Sensitive Skin’

Wed Mar 18 2015 - 10:00
Far From the Madding Crowd review: could it be any groovier?

Far From the Madding Crowd review: could it be any groovier?

Made in the late 1960, the many psychedelic touches make John Schesinger’s take on Thomas Hardy one of the best English literary adaptations ever

Fri Mar 13 2015 - 16:53
Suite Française review: the second World War has never looked lovelier

Suite Française review: the second World War has never looked lovelier

To describe the central romance as Mills and Boon cheapens that imprint’s worth

Fri Mar 13 2015 - 12:00
X+Y review: A formula without a proof

X+Y review: A formula without a proof

Morgan Matthews’s film is life-affirming but never quite entices the viewer into mathematics

Fri Mar 13 2015 - 11:00
Robert Sheehan: ’I was largely motivated by terror, the fear of getting it completely wrong’

Robert Sheehan: ’I was largely motivated by terror, the fear of getting it completely wrong’

Shaking off ‘Misfits’, the role that made him, was still necessary, Robert Sheehan tells Tara Brady

Fri Mar 13 2015 - 09:15
Dev Patel puts the cheeky in Chappie

Dev Patel puts the cheeky in Chappie

The 24-year-old technophobe says his work in Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi film ‘is probably the best acting I’ve ever done’

Mon Mar 09 2015 - 01:00
Difret review: a one-girl revolution

Difret review: a one-girl revolution

This is the first Ethiopian film to get a theatrical release in Ireland. Do try to get along so that it won’t be the last

Fri Mar 06 2015 - 16:00
White Bird in a Blizzard review: Pitch perfect and finely crafted

White Bird in a Blizzard review: Pitch perfect and finely crafted

How is that a film by a director as significant as Gregg Araki ends up with such a tiny release? And an excellent film, at that?

Fri Mar 06 2015 - 14:00
Still Alice review: as moving a film as you will see this quarter

Still Alice review: as moving a film as you will see this quarter

Veteran Julianne Moore gets across the cruelly gradual nature of the illness and holds firm to a character that remains tangible through the mist of forgetfulness

Fri Mar 06 2015 - 07:00

Catch Me Daddy review: a ripping Yorkshire thriller

A landscape of monstrous beauty finds new voice in brothers Daniel and Matthew Wolfe’s tremendous tale of doomed romance

Fri Feb 27 2015 - 07:00
Maika Monroe: from world-class kiteboarder to accidental movie star

Maika Monroe: from world-class kiteboarder to accidental movie star

Monroe shines in new chiller It Follows, a psychological horror about a sexually transmitted murderous ghost

Fri Feb 27 2015 - 06:00
White God review: enormous verve, brooding menace and impressive sincerity

White God review: enormous verve, brooding menace and impressive sincerity

Disney meets Hitchcock in Kornél Mundruczó's beautifully calibrated, immaculately acted Cannes winner

Thu Feb 26 2015 - 17:13
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of review – boys to men via therapy

Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of review – boys to men via therapy

In the 1990s, the Backstreet Boys toured non-stop, burned out and developed various addictions. Now they’re older, wiser and ready to open up

Thu Feb 26 2015 - 13:30
Stolen millions, rehab and redemption: AJ McLean tells his Backstreet story

Stolen millions, rehab and redemption: AJ McLean tells his Backstreet story

McLean joins fellow Backstreet Boys Howie, Nick, Kevin and Brian in new tell-all documentary Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of

Thu Feb 26 2015 - 13:23
The Tales of Hoffmann review: Powell and Pressburger’s otherworldly take on Offenbach

The Tales of Hoffmann review: Powell and Pressburger’s otherworldly take on Offenbach

Thu Feb 26 2015 - 10:00
Kevin Hart: ‘People love a broad comedy’

Kevin Hart: ‘People love a broad comedy’

The world’s biggest-grossing comedian is everywhere at the moment. He talks about new film The Wedding Ringer, ‘the knack’ of success and growing up in a tough part of Philadelphia

Wed Feb 25 2015 - 06:00
Blackhat review: Michael Mann delivers a daft but delightful-looking hacker yarn

Blackhat review: Michael Mann delivers a daft but delightful-looking hacker yarn

The action is entertaining, crunchingly violent and handsomely done, but Mann’s usual pyrotechnics are demeaned by an idiotic plot and the worst screen love interest since Gene Wilder fell in love with a sheep

Mon Feb 23 2015 - 09:20
Cake review: Jennifer Aniston lets it all hang out

Cake review: Jennifer Aniston lets it all hang out

Look! It’s Rachel from ‘Friends’ with scars and no make-up. Sadly for Aniston, however, she can’t have her cake and an Oscar too

Fri Feb 20 2015 - 10:34
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter review: A very impressive, singular piece of work

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter review: A very impressive, singular piece of work

Directors David and Nathan Zellner take an eccentric road trip into Coen country

Fri Feb 20 2015 - 07:00
An Oscar 12 years in the making - here’s a man worth shouting for on   Sunday night

An Oscar 12 years in the making - here’s a man worth shouting for on Sunday night

Shane F Kelly, from Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone, worked with Richard Linklater on Boyhood from the beginning – “I think only Rick [Linklater] and the producer had any idea how it would turn out”

Thu Feb 19 2015 - 17:10
Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) review:  Straight  and narrow

Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) review: Straight and narrow

Fri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Love Is Strange review: a same sex marriage torn apart

Love Is Strange review: a same sex marriage torn apart

Fri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades: ‘Christian not my kind of guy’

Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades: ‘Christian not my kind of guy’

From male model to leading man: Dornan seems unfazed by all the shrieking attention as he attends to various Grey matters

Fri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Inherent Vice review: Thomas Pynchon’s own mother wouldn’t recognise it

Inherent Vice review: Thomas Pynchon’s own mother wouldn’t recognise it

Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin do some magical ideological head-butting in Paul Thomas Anderson’s bravura attempt to stencilise Pynchon into celluloid form

Fri Feb 06 2015 - 10:23
Duck Soup review: Top Marx for one of the greatest comedies ever made

Duck Soup review: Top Marx for one of the greatest comedies ever made

Movies don’t get more sublimely subversive than this 1933 caper from the Marx Brothers

Fri Feb 06 2015 - 07:12
Jupiter Ascending review: Channing and Mila swoon in space

Jupiter Ascending review: Channing and Mila swoon in space

This colourful, vacuous ‘Flash Gordon’ wannabe from the makers of ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Cloud Atlas’ is bizarrely, almost defiantly retro

Fri Feb 06 2015 - 06:44
Moe Dunford:  'Patrick spoke to me. I know Patrick very well'

Moe Dunford: 'Patrick spoke to me. I know Patrick very well'

'I was that way myself growing up. I thought there was something wrong with me' – Moe Dunford on why the lead role in ‘Patrick’s Day’ was one he felt he had to play

Fri Feb 06 2015 - 06:00
Shaun the Sheep Movie review: baa da bing!

Shaun the Sheep Movie review: baa da bing!

Aardman animation fans will be flocking to this delicious lamb chop

Thu Feb 05 2015 - 17:48
The Interview review: dumb and dumber along the DMZ

The Interview review: dumb and dumber along the DMZ

Kim Jong-un needn’t have worried, North Korea has little to fear from this toothless comedy

Thu Feb 05 2015 - 14:56
A brief  history of the big-screen teen

A brief history of the big-screen teen

From Jimmy Dean to Molly Ringwald, teenagers have been skulking around cinema for many decades, but it was in the 1990s that things got really hormonal, ‘Beyond Clueless’ director Charlie Lyne tells Tara Brady

Wed Feb 04 2015 - 14:04
‘Somebody has to play Martin Luther  King. Why not me ?’ asks David Oyelowo

‘Somebody has to play Martin Luther King. Why not me ?’ asks David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo, a familiar face from film and TV, had to transform himself to play Martin Luther King jnr in ‘Selma’. Now, with backing from Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt, the film has propelled the British actor into the limelight with the role of a lifetime

Sat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
Big Hero 6 review: all the hip and zip of Pixar, with added warmth and gentle sorrow

Big Hero 6 review: all the hip and zip of Pixar, with added warmth and gentle sorrow

Walt Disney Animation follows up Frozen with exactly the right sort of project – something completely different

Fri Jan 30 2015 - 14:37
Trash review: Rio rubbish dump romp comes up a bit too clean

Trash review: Rio rubbish dump romp comes up a bit too clean

Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Richard Curtis combine to create a pleasing diversion, but with no clear audience

Fri Jan 30 2015 - 07:03
The Dance of Reality review: another spectacular flourish from the psycho-magician

The Dance of Reality review: another spectacular flourish from the psycho-magician

Alejandro Jodorowsky returns after 25-year absence, and his magical-surrealist lens is as sharply focused as ever

Thu Jan 29 2015 - 22:38
Don’t eat the mala!  How Aardman Studios create cinema magic one step at a time

Don’t eat the mala! How Aardman Studios create cinema magic one step at a time

It takes four days to produce six seconds of film, dozens of directors to finish one movie, and the stars will only wash with baby wipes. Yet Aardman Animations is still the best in the business

Fri Jan 23 2015 - 08:00
The Gambler review: Prof Mark Walhberg’s got a brand new bag

The Gambler review: Prof Mark Walhberg’s got a brand new bag

Fri Jan 23 2015 - 07:25
Beyond Clueless review: The kids are just as dazed and confused as ever

Beyond Clueless review: The kids are just as dazed and confused as ever

From ‘Mean Girls’ to ‘Slap Her, She’s French’, Guardian Charlie Lyne’s documentary takes an elegiac look at what makes a teen movie

Fri Jan 23 2015 - 07:12
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