Robbie Coltrane could radiate enormous warmth as an actor with an element of threatDonald Clarke: Some obituaries will mourn the ‘death of Hagrid’ but there are worse ways to be rememberedFri Oct 14 2022 - 20:19
Holy Island review: A puzzle that never achieves a resolutionRobert Manson’s film is often sharp and engaging but after a while the arthouse tropes grind you downFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Spot the film for which Meryl Streep was not Oscar nominatedPlus: Who took the same gig as Douglas Fairbanks, Don Ameche, Gene Kelly, Gabriel Byrne and Logan Lerman?Fri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
All Quiet on the Western Front: Anti-war classic gets a noisy new lease of lifeEdward Berger’s bone-rattling film is, surprisingly, the first cinema adaptation of the 1928 novel in almost a centuryFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Richard Harris, Carey Mulligan, Matilda the Musical: Cork Film Festival unveils an eye-watering line-upWith Belfast Film Festival also kicking off next month, both ends of the island are alive with moviesWed Oct 12 2022 - 18:30
Angela Lansbury was ‘Irish, English, Scottish’, a TV superstar and a Broadway demonFilm Correspondent Donald Clarke pays tribute to the late actorTue Oct 11 2022 - 22:56
Name-dropping, sniping and beans on toast: The Alan Rickman DiariesDonald Clarke on the late star’s salty, engaging journalsTue Oct 11 2022 - 04:30
Velma is finally coming out, but will something important be lost in the process?Donald Clarke: The downside of openness is that we lose the convoluted attractions of spotting coded gay charactersSat Oct 08 2022 - 05:00
When Brendan Gleeson met Colin Farrell: ‘We hit it off — in a fundamental way’Fourteen long years since In Bruges, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell have teamed up again with director Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of InisherinSat Oct 08 2022 - 04:59
The Woman King: Viola Davis stars in a thrilling adventure of the old schoolViola Davis is a commanding central presence in this 19th century African epicFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Nothing Compares: Sinéad O’Connor, a patronising Gay Byrne, and the shock waves of that photo-ripping momentKathryn Ferguson builds her documentary around the night the singer ripped up a photograph of John Paul II on US TV and sent a nation into paroxysmsFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Christian Bale: ‘As an actor, you get to be a weirdo’‘I’ve never thought of myself as any kind of a decent leading man,’ Amsterdam star admitsTue Oct 04 2022 - 05:00
Sacheen Littlefeather, made famous by Marlon Brando, was a lifelong warrior for justiceThe activist has died aged 75. Her rejection of Brando’s Oscar in 1973 highlighted the injustices heaped on the first AmericansMon Oct 03 2022 - 16:16
Four new films to see this weekFlux Gourmet, Pure Grit and Midwives on limited release, Hocus Pocus 2 streamingSun Oct 02 2022 - 05:00
Vicky Phelan: ‘She’s just extraordinary. And somehow she was able to keep going’Sasha King talks about making a portrait of the courageous campaignerSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Nothing compares to Sinéad O’Connor, proudly awkward national treasureBelfast film-maker Kathryn Ferguson discusses her excellent study of the Irish singerSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Why wouldn’t you judge a book by its cover? I always doDonald Clarke: A book’s design is essential to the reading experience. Mess with it at your perilSat Oct 01 2022 - 04:30
Flux Gourmet: the latest smorgasbord of peculiarity from Peter StricklandNone more queasy. None more strange. None more alienating. None more off-beigeFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Pure Grit: opening up a hidden world with styleFew non-fiction films released this year have done a better job of encapsulating their protagonistFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Lesley Manville: From Emmerdale to the OscarsIt is hard to think of a British actor busier with promising projects than ManvilleTue Sept 27 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week, including a controversial Marilyn Monroe biopicBlonde, Don’t Worry Darling, Athena, After YangSun Sept 25 2022 - 05:00
What do you mean, we have to wait two months for the film to come to Ireland?Donald Clarke: Young whippersnappers don’t know how easy they have it in these daysSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
20 great new films to see between now and the end of 2022Sequels to Avatar and Black Panther plus a Whitney Houston biopic and the In Bruges team reunitesSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Opening Night review: A puzzling experimental piece that works best when it does leastDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Electronic composer Jane Deasy monitors the space around her as she probes the anxiety of performanceFri Sept 23 2022 - 09:30
The Movie Quiz: Which film did Boris Johnson quote in his last Prime Minister’s Questions?A character voiced by whom appeared twice on the BBC in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth?Fri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Blonde review: Marilyn Monroe is still waiting for the justice she deservesThe unrelieved bleakness of Andrew Dominik’s fictionalised biopic becomes monotonousFri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Don’t Worry Darling review: What lies beneath the surface? Not muchAs pop crossovers into film go, Harry Styles is more Cliff Richard than Frank Sinatra – it’s Florence Pugh who steals the show in an otherwise vacuous fantasyFri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Oliver Cromwell Is Really Very Sorry review: This barnstorming musical deserves to run and runDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Xnthony’s hilarious, deceptively angry marvel smuggles polemic into its comic show-stoppersThu Sept 22 2022 - 09:23
The Spin review: Tense two-hander balances social comedy with emotional heftDublin Fringe Festival 2022: This Corcadorca production finds a singular mechanism for telling its unsettling storyWed Sept 21 2022 - 09:34
Back with a bang: The Dane who conquered IrelandWhether it’s as a Viking in The Northman or an abusive husband in Bad Sisters, the Danish actor keeps getting cast in Irish-based productionsTue Sept 20 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTicket to Paradise, Róise & Frank, Clerks III, Funny PagesSun Sept 18 2022 - 05:00
Since when did a bear from Peru become the royals’ grim reaper?Donald Clarke: There could have been worse mascots for a bereaved nation than PaddingtonSat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: When is the sequel to Blade Runner set?Plus: Who was billed as ‘the shame of the nation’?Fri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
Ticket to Paradise: Bringing the rom-com back to partial lifeThis resuscitation of a moribund genre manages to coast along on the star wattage of Julia Roberts and George ClooneyFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
Róise & Frank: A shaggy dog story with real heartComedic but emotionally true study of bereavement and its effectsFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
‘David Bowie didn’t die. David Jones died’Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream isn’t a traditional documentary, but it has the momentum of a great songWed Sept 14 2022 - 05:00
Jean-Luc Godard: Until this morning, he was the most influential living film-maker The nouvelle vague director, who has died at the age of 91, revolutionised film-makingTue Sept 13 2022 - 14:17
Colin Farrell wins best actor at Venice International Film FestivalMartin McDonagh takes best screenplay for The Banshees of Inisherin, which stars FarrellSat Sept 10 2022 - 20:39
The standing ovation used to mean something. Not any moreDonald Clarke: The standing-o is an unreliable metric for judging a film’s qualitySat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
Ciarán Hinds: ‘A lot of my friends have the same talent as me, but never got the breaks’The Belfast actor talks about that night at the Oscars, and his lifetime of non-stop workingSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
See How They Run: Saoirse Ronan gives a stand-out performance using her own accentAgatha Christie-style comic whodunit is at least as enjoyable as Knives OutFri Sept 09 2022 - 05:00
Crimes of the Future: The master of body horror serves up some discomfort food‘Surgery is the new sex,’ remarks Kristen Stewart, apparently aware she is in a David Cronenberg filmFri Sept 09 2022 - 05:00
Oscar contenders assemble for the Venice Film FestivalBrendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell get the longest ovation, but Cate Blanchett is the star of the showThu Sept 08 2022 - 05:00
‘There was really only one dog for this role’The directors of new Irish-language film Róise & Frank on the increasing acceptability of subtitles and their casting secretTue Sept 06 2022 - 05:00
The Banshees of Inisherin might finally get Brendan Gleeson his long-deserved Oscar nodVenice Film Festival audiences liked this reunification of In Bruges alumni Gleeson and Colin FarrellMon Sept 05 2022 - 16:45
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekFall, Three Thousand Years of Longing, The Territory...and BlackbirdSun Sept 04 2022 - 05:00
What is it about movies that attracts pop stars so much?Donald Clarke: Harry Styles is just latest in a long line of musicians to leap from music to screenSat Sept 03 2022 - 05:00
Three Thousand Years of Longing: Underwhelming fantasy that doesn’t fulfil its eastern promiseIdris Elba is a genie in George Miller’s overcooked fable that comes across as a 21st-century Turkish Delight adFri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
The Venice Movie Quiz: Who is missing from Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin?Plus: Which was the last film to win both the Golden Lion and best picture at the Oscars?Fri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
Blackbird: Michael Flatley’s film is a hoot. If only it was meant to be funnyA Chicagoan dancer saves the world while evading amorous younger women. But don’t mistake this for a vanity projectWed Aug 31 2022 - 22:00
