Accessing Japanese filmsREEL NEWS: Among the presentations at the Cork Film Festival you will discover the first outing for Access Cinema’s travelling…Fri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Demons Never DieIN THE unlikely event that you spend Saturday evenings berating Tulisa Contostavlos for the crime of not being Danii Minogue, …Fri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Miss BalaIT IS forgivable to feel a certain unease when viewing movies about drug wars in less wealthy parts of the planetFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Calling a spade a spade is fine if that's what it wants to be calledRICKY GERVAIS is currently suffering – or, more likely, enjoying – a spell of internet notorietySat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
Liberal luvvies on the attackREEL NEWS: Hollywood liberals have really been letting rip over the past few days.Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer SummerIN RECENT years, distributors, after failing to launch franchises based on juvenile novel sequences, have received sad reminders…Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Clones fest won’t be duplicatedREEL NEWS: The hard-working people at the Clones film festival are about to celebrate 10 years of that fine event.Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
The Yellow Sea/HwanghaeWHILE WATCHING the opening 30 minutes of Na Hong-jin’s gargantuan South Korean picture, the viewer could be forgiven for wondering…Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Allen film has Rome boppingREEL NEWS: It must be an interesting time to be Woody AllenFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Ultimate tribute to Irish animatorsREEL NEWS: The recent stirling work by Irish animators – think all those Oscar nominations – has been recognised by the prestigious…Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Rentaghost gets Brand for BenREEL NEWS: Do you remember that story about Russell Brand appearing in a big-screen US version of the creaky British kids’ show…Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
McGuinness detractors guilty of underestimating 'sod you' factorEXPERTS INFORM me that Martin McGuinness has little chance of victory in the upcoming election.Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
AlbatrossA SOOTHING aura of competence hangs over this remarkably unremarkable coming-of-age comedy, set in a dull English seaside resort…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
No blasphemy for Flying CircusRather depressingly, Terry Jones, original member of the Monty Python team, has suggested that, with the apparent upsurge in …Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
A no-barriers film festivalAbära, Ireland's first International Disability Film Festival, kicks off Thursday at various venues in DublinFri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which TV couple got off their couch to “do America” in 1996?Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
ParkedDURING THE YEARS of plenty, domestic pundits would often note that Irish movies still too often dealt in grit, misery and deprivation…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Money for old moviesSave our films! On October 16th the Irish Film Institute will launch a fund-raising drive to help to help build a new facility…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Winning Fleadh flicks at FilmbaseNext week Filmbase, that admirable Dublin institution, will present the winning short films from this year's Galway Film Fleadh…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Meaney in the driving seatA man of strong views who might have made a politician, Colm Meaney has nonetheless stayed focused on the acting dream that made…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
Orgy of 1960s remembrance might kill nostalgia stone deadTHERE IS a great deal to ponder in 2011. It is a decade since the attacks of 9/11Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
Put that in your pipe and smoke itRisteard Ó Domhnaill’s The Pipe , that fine documentary on the Corrib gas controversy, continues to gather prizesFri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
Oscar clamps down on aggressive campaigningREEL NEWS: It is supposedly change at the OscarsFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
The DebtTHIS THRILLER from the workmanlike John Madden asks us to swallow a great dealFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Ruby slippers for the price of rubiesREEL NEWS: Hollywood seems to be flogging every precious icon lying beneath its bed.Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Lion King roars back in 3DREEL NEWS: What do we make of the fact that The Lion King 3D – still fresh after 17 years — has topped the US box office for…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
What's Your Number?THERE’S A thorny question at the heart of this troublesome romantic comedyFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Penn’s diplomatic pulling powerREEL NEWS: It’s a bit easy to make fun of Sean Penn’s political grandstanding, but it seems that his intervention was genuinely…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Books we don’t want to readREEL NEWS: The staggeringly unimaginative title of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s upcoming autobiography: Total Recall.Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Cut beloved texts at your perilTHE UNEXPECTED box- office success of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has set in motion many fiery debates about the limitations…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Page One: Inside the New York TimesAT TIME OF writing, it still seemed likely that you will be able to read this review on flattened sheets of wood pulpFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
As Close as it getsREEL NE WS: In recent years, the Toronto Film Festival’s people’s choice award has had a good record of picking the coming year…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
High cost of high conceptREEL NEWS: High concepts can cause all kinds of problems for movie-makersFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Jurassic ParkBY 1993, STEVEN Spielberg had become an institution within the movie industryFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Puzzling Oscar newsREEL NE WS: It has been announced that As If I am Not There , Juanita Wilson’s tale of the Bosnian war, will be Ireland’s entry…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which 1972 film spawned the instrumental hit Duelling Banjos?Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Avatar gets Disney treatmentREEL NE WS: Has anyone noticed the strange way that rival film companies – traditionally at one another’s throats – become best…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Ongoing wave of love for the oval ball game just isn't cricketWHEN DID we all start giving a fig about filthy rugby? Look, I understand that there has long been a tradition of working-class…Sat Sept 17 2011 - 01:00
Guard beats a HangoverThe Guard has been breaking Irish box-office records all summer.Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Gibson’s takes on a Jewish warriorIt looks as if Mel Gibson is overdoing his efforts at rehabilitationFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
You InsteadTHIS IS THE sort of funky-legged film you want to like. It’s got a neat central premiseFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Knightley takes Karenina roleIn furter casting news, we don’t hold with all this Knightley slagging, but the notion of Keira as Anna Karenina sounds like …Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Joy for Irish in VeniceMichael Fassbender’s soaring status has been confirmed with his award for best actor at last week’s Venice Film FestivalFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
London lays on a spreadThe programme for the BFI London Film Festival includes such enticing projects as Alexander Payne’s The Descendents , David Cronenberg…Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
