Nap time on Elm StreetTO THIS point, the horror remakes emanating from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes studio have been annoyingly bearableFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Blooming hellWISEACRES used to propose a theory arguing that it required a massive leap of faith by trusting passengers to keep a plane in…Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
More than a film and a halfHOW PLEASING it is to come across something so wonderful – and yet so unheralded – as this intricate, moving, barmy study of …Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Does my bump look big in this?IT’S TRUE. We critics really missed having Jennifer Lopez about the placeFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
NightwatchingYOU COULD be forgiven for assuming that Peter Greenaway had fled film-making for a life making cheese or designing cathedrals…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
RevanchePERHAPS THOSE Austrian film-makers whose work fails to play abroad tend towards light romcoms and kids’ films about talking rabbits…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
The Disappearance of Alice CreedWHEN film-makers place any sort of artificial restriction on themselves – no dialogue, just the one set, a single take – one …Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
This remake is too close for comfortIsn’t it terrible that there are so many remakes and sequels in cinemas these days? The lack of imagination in today’s Hollywood…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
Dogtooth/KynodontasHERE IS an odd, troubling, original film that creeps up on you slowly, before slipping something slimy down the back of your …Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Date NightSTOP ME if you’ve read this here before (and you have), but the current status of the romantic comedy is so dire – a steady tone…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
Life During WartimeWE ARE all older now. It has been 12 years since Todd Solondz confounded viewers with the hugely influential HappinessFri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
CherrybombHAS THE peace dividend been sufficiently generous to allow for a hip Belfast youth comedy? Is the North ready for its own Trainspotting…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
La Danse: The Paris Opera BalletIN 1967, film-maker Frederick Wiseman set out his stall with Titicut Follies , a searing documentary account of the regime at…Fri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
City of life and death/Nanjing! Nanjing!AN EARLY episode of the legendary documentary series The World at War touched on the notorious massacre of (figures are still…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
The Daisy ChainBARELY A month goes by without a scary child movie opening in Irish cinemasFri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Dear JohnIF THIS insipid blubfest secures just one place in the history books, it will be as the film that finally deposed Avatar from…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Cemetary JunctionIF YOU were searching for a cheap, lazy phrase to sum up the appeal of The Office , you might happen upon something like “sitcom…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Brosnan on being Bond - and BlairSmooth and sonorous, distant yet endearing, Irish in his imagination and in his soul, Pierce Brosnan refuses to be drawn on his…Sat Apr 10 2010 - 01:00
The IFI keeps it real with doc festivalREMEMBER THE mainstream documentary boom? A few short years ago, following the success of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 , it…Fri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
FoxesWHATEVER ELSE you might say about new Irish cinema, you can’t claim it has ignored the immigrant experienceFri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
Clash of the TitansWHAT EXACTLY is the point of this exercise? The original Clash of the Titans is now best remembered as an exercise in rollicking…Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
How to train your dragonSIX YEARS after the nadir that was Shark Tale , DreamWorks Animation finally secures a place at the top table with this funny…Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Remember MeWATCHING this disappointing attempt to propel Robert Pattinson into the land of the living is a little like attending a particularly…Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Samson & DelilahIT’S NOT too often that cinema provides us with something entirely unexpectedFri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Double takeJOHAN GRIMONPREZ has come up with a wonderful idea. Scratch that. Johan Grimonprez has come up with a dozen wonderful ideas.Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
Lion's Den/LeoneraRECEIVING ITS Cannes premiere a full 12 months before A Prophet , this skull-judderingly well acted, incongruously good-looking…Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
StormIF YOU were feeling mean, you could point out that this fascinating courtroom thriller – a rare cinematic attempt to address …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
No One Knows About Persian Cats/Kasi Az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar NadarehWHEN BAHMAN Ghobadi, director of such recent Iranian gems as A Time for Drunken Horses and Turtles Can Fly , set out to make…Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
LourdesTHIS SLOW, ritualistic, but undeniably fascinating French drama concerning pilgrims to the shrine at Lourdes is, ultimately, …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
The Bounty HunterTHERE COMES a point in almost everyone’s career when the novelty of the job wears out and work becomes an appallingly tedious…Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00
The Scouting Book for BoysHEARING THAT this English coming-of-age drama involves the writer of the lubricious TV show Skins , the frail reader could be…Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00
Occupational hazardsYOU COULD see Paul Greengrass’s latest film (very, very loosely inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s book Imperial Life in the …Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
Knocking At death's doorIVAN KAVANAGH’S story is one of the odder ones in Irish filmFri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
The year of the dragonFANS OF the late Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful Millennium trilogy will be adept at dissembling misinformation and, …Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
Few surprises on Bigelow's big night‘ The Hurt Locker ’ – and Irishman Richie Baneham – were winners in an Oscar night of mostly agreeably dignified speeches and…Tue Mar 09 2010 - 00:00
Case 39THERE’S NO mystery about the fact that this ropey scary-stary child horror has remained in unreleased limbo for the past two-…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
OndineGLANCE AT most directors’ oeuvres and you will spot a few films that, rather than standing as major opuses, comes across as casual…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Exit through the gift shopYOU COULD be forgiven for approaching the first film by Banksy with a can of petrol and a blowtorchFri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Father of My ChildrenHERE’S ONE of those films that is almost impossible to review without revealing a significant, distinctly surprising plot development…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
LegionIF THE US really is as uniformly Christian as editorials in liberal newspapers argue, then Legion would surely have been driven…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Ireland's art films, fag ash and allThe Irish films at this year's JDIFF show that works of variety and originality can get to the screen without Hollywood-scale…Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
