The Irish Times

Alexander Skarsgard: Filming The Northman in Ireland was ‘months in the mud’

The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers

Wed Apr 20 2022 - 06:00

The Painted Bird: This film sent patrons running from cinema. I recommend you watch it

Review: Wartime horrors and inhumane acts are present from the very beginning

Thu Sept 10 2020 - 06:00

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Compromised and astonishingly unfinished

Review: 25 years in the making, the hollowness of the female characters is bad timing

Thu Jan 23 2020 - 05:30

Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins big

Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger

Mon Jan 06 2020 - 06:00

Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards

From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry

Mon Sept 02 2019 - 05:00

Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees

Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations

Wed Jul 17 2019 - 10:02

Chernobyl writer urges Instagram tourists to ‘respect’ nuclear disaster site

Spike in visitors, including someone posing in a g-string, prompts HBO writer to speak out

Wed Jun 12 2019 - 09:50

Chernobyl TV drama will bring new light to 1986 nuclear disaster, says Adi Roche

Campaigner welcomes hard-hitting Sky and HBO TV series that prompted tears at UN

Tue Apr 30 2019 - 18:10

Pierce Brosnan: Our New VBF

If you are having a low day, Brosnan’s Instagram account is a surefire way to lift that dark cloud

Sat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun

Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun

Tue Jul 17 2018 - 12:32

Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Sat May 26 2018 - 05:00

Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Here I was, legs wrapped around Tom Cruise’

Rebecca Ferguson on learning stunts on-set, and Michael Fassbender's incessant singing

Sat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00

Return to Montauk review: A cold but classy concoction

Sadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best work

Fri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00

Borg Vs McEnroe: a smashing match made in heaven

This dramatisation cleverly demonstrates that the two weren’t so different after all

Thu Sept 21 2017 - 09:15

The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh

Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film

Mon Jul 17 2017 - 09:59

Galway Film Fleadh will premiere ‘Dunkirk’ and Maze escape feature

The 29th festival will close with a rare original feature project from Colm Toíbín

Tue Jun 27 2017 - 19:20

Alexander Skarsgård: The most popular Swedish export since Abba

Alexander Skarsgård has followed in his father’s acting footsteps, and with ‘Generation Kill’ and ‘True Blood’ behind him, he’s finding new worlds to conquer in film

Sat Oct 01 2016 - 03:00

Colm Tóibín, novice screenwriter

The Irish writer has teamed up with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss and Volker Schlöndorff to make his first film, about ‘rewriting reality’

Sat Jul 23 2016 - 05:00

Laurence Mackin’s 2015: Singular success and collective triumphs

Despite complaints about collaborative art, there have been great examples this year

Sat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00

Television: Cry me a River and pay tribute to the Don – the small-screen year

Year in review: From ‘Red Rock’ to Aidan Turner’s biceps in ‘Poldark’ and Don Draper’s final ad campaign in ‘Mad Men’, TV delivered the goods in 2015

Fri Dec 18 2015 - 15:00

Television: ‘River’ is pitch perfect. But please don’t bring it back

Review: ‘River’, ‘Liveline: Callback’, ‘True North: Will’s Kitchen’

Fri Nov 20 2015 - 17:16

Review: This ‘River’ goes against the flow of hackneyed crime shows

Television: ‘River’, ‘Unforgotten’, ‘Death of a Son: The Killing of Michael Dwyer’, ‘Maia Dunphy’s Truth About Breaking London’

Fri Oct 16 2015 - 14:00

In Order of Disappearance review: revenge, Norwegian-style, served up ice-cold and bloody

Fri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00

Hector and the Search for Happiness review: A first world solution to a first world problem

Fri Aug 15 2014 - 00:00

Stellan Skarsgård: Nymphomaniac’s off-centred everyman

Two decades of collaboration with out-there Lars Von Trier has honed Stellan Skarsgård’s Swedish oddball persona to perfection – but deep down he’s really just an ordinary family man with a peculiar sort of career

Fri Feb 28 2014 - 00:00