Hope and despair: Edwyn Collins puts his poststroke life on filmAfter nearly dying in 2005, the former Orange Juice singer began a long recovery with the tireless help of his wife, Grace Maxwell – a journey captured in ‘The Possibilities Are Endless’, a new filmSun Nov 30 2014 - 06:00
‘Downton Abbey’ star Hugh Bonneville on working with PaddingtonTara Brady talks to the English actor about going from lord of the manor to friend of the bearFri Nov 28 2014 - 06:00
Redemption song: what’s eating Tommy Lee Jones?The actor and director has been in fiery form of late. His latest film, a feminist take on the high plains yarn, stars Hilary Swank as a brave frontierswoman. But don’t dare call it a westernWed Nov 26 2014 - 06:00
Jemaine Clement: from Conchords to bloodsuckersThe Flight of the Conchords star is stepping into the shadows with his new big-budget vampire flat-share comedyFri Nov 21 2014 - 08:15
No Good Deed review: home invasion and a serial killer - but it’s all in good funFri Nov 21 2014 - 07:00
Charlie Murphy: from Love/Hate to zenAs she gears up for a Christmas reunion with her extended family back in her native Wexford, Charlie Murphy pauses to chat about a ridiculously busy yearThu Nov 20 2014 - 00:00
Paul Haggis: “I do feel quite guilty sometimes . . . This is who we are. We’re vampires”From Scooby Doo to his Oscar-winner Crash, Paul Haggis is a man supremely in charge of his craftFri Nov 14 2014 - 02:42
Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are’The Imitation Game star chats about Sherlock, Star Trek and our place in the cosmosFri Nov 14 2014 - 01:12
The Case Against 8 review: sex and the singular homophobesThe US fight for marriage equality is movingly portrayed in this stirring documentaryFri Nov 14 2014 - 00:02
Bill Hader: “What I liked about the script was that he has lots of problems, but being gay isn’t one of them”The Saturday Night Live veteran on comic timing, his acclaimed dramatic turn in ‘The Skeleton Twins’ - and what it was like to work with Justin BeiberFri Nov 07 2014 - 00:00
The Guarantee review: like watching men push at a door marked pull for 80 minutesIan Power’s bailout drama captures the yahoo patriarchy of bankers but is ultimately let down by a lack of subtletyFri Oct 31 2014 - 10:11
Donal Foreman: Tiger cub on the prowlFilm-maker Donal Foreman is hot property right now, thanks to the buzz surrounding his debut feature Out of Here - Irish cinema's first real grapple with post-boom youth cultureFri Oct 31 2014 - 04:14
Invasion of the Body Snatchers review: six decades on, Don Seigel’s classic still spooksSteeped in post-war paranoia and such contemporaneous hot topics as psychiatry, it offers a snapshot of 1950s consciousnessFri Oct 31 2014 - 00:00
Ouija review: a horror movie for people who hate horror moviesThe film-makers stick to the standard horror film template with not very startling resultsFri Oct 31 2014 - 00:00
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day reviewHere’s a old-fashioned family comedy with a hero to root forFri Oct 24 2014 - 03:30
Jimi: All is By My Side review - lost in period hazeAndré Benjamin shines in a strangely muted boipic that seems to struggle against its own limitationsFri Oct 24 2014 - 03:30
Fury director David Ayer: ’War is hell, yeah’All-round yank David Ayer talks South Central LA, navy discipline and true-grit cinema with Tara Brady. And what if he hadn’t become a director?“A betting man would have said dead or in prison.”Fri Oct 24 2014 - 01:45
Fury review: Good guys do good. Nazis get shot. What more do you want?A motley crew fights its way from north Africa to Nazi Germany. but the real star is the tankMon Oct 20 2014 - 08:02
Palo Alto review: a little aimless, but then again, aren’t all teenagers?The latest member of the Coppola clan to get behind a camera delivers a debut that feels very much in the family tradition.Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:54
The Battles of Coronel and Falklands Islands review: prescient naval gazingThis dramatisation of two major sea battles of the first World War uncannily prefigures the future of both cinema and conflictFri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
The Babadook: a truly, madly, creepy film debutAustralian writer-director Jennifer Kent has created a truly sinister slice of cinema with her debut movie ‘The Babadook’. ‘For me, the entry point was the idea of facing the unfaceable,’ she tellsTara BradyFri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
The Overnighters review: a compelling portrait of the best and worst of humanityThe Overnighters is a beautifully crafted piece of storytelling - and as an important snapshot of the new Great Depression.Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
Ballet at the movies: A poetic dance across the silver screenAhead of tonight's live relay of Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Manon’ in selected cinema’s around the country, the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, reveals how he went from appearing in Bugsy Malone to leading Britain’s largest ballet companyWed Oct 15 2014 - 16:00
The top 50 films on Netflix, October 2014The classics section is surprisingly small, and the same schlock keeps coming up again and again, but there are plenty of movie gems lurking around NetflixFri Oct 10 2014 - 14:18
Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones fame: ‘People have a sense of ownership about you . . . And I think, how do you know? This is exactly who I am. F**k you’School’s a challenge, Twitter’s a minefield and growing up in public is no picnic. But Games of Thrones star Maisie Williams wears her adolescent fury wellFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
The Maze Runner review: A young adult epic failBuff actors? Formulaic and incomprehensible plot? Must be the the latest dystopian YA sci-fi movieFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
Sam Reid plays it posh again but has sights on less plummy partsSam Reid seems to have a monopoly on posh English parts. A soldiering stint is next for the Australian actorSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
The Great Train Robbery’s Irish mastermindHalf a century after the famous heist, one of the two survivors has spilled the beans on Patrick McKenna, a Belfast-born postmasterSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
