Four new films to stream this weekendDolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, Hillbilly Elegy, Patrick, CollectiveFri Nov 20 2020 - 06:00
Patrick: Excellent absurdist comedy set in a nudist colonyReview: This is an absolute original that should launch a starry careerFri Nov 20 2020 - 05:30
Hillbilly Elegy: The Black and White Minstrel Show was subtler in its stereotypingReview: One’s brain aches pondering why anyone thought this would be a good ideaThu Nov 19 2020 - 07:49
Cork Film Festival: Castro’s Spies and Border drama among the virtual highlightsThe 65th outing had Pixar’s Soul, great Irish premieres and a film about cycling cheatsMon Nov 16 2020 - 06:00
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challengeShe is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowelsSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new IrelandSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which Irish landmark appears in The Princess Bride?Plus: Which monster links Jack Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr and Benicio Del Toro?Fri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendThe Life Ahead, Martin Eden, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Two of UsFri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
The Life Ahead: It’s time to give Sofia Loren that Oscar nominationThe indomitable star’s stoic performance is the main reason to watch this Italian dramaFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey – Chaotic, exhausting and merryReview: A combination of high Disney gloop with Hamilton hip-hopFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat?Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising PaddywhackeryWed Nov 11 2020 - 06:00
Sean Connery often said it was okay to hit a woman. The obits barely mentioned itWe are never too far from a story about a celebrity with a history of domestic violenceSat Nov 07 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many official Bond films starred Sean Connery?Plus: What film won most Oscars this year, who give the Golden Globes, name a Cohen Bros sequelFri Nov 06 2020 - 06:00
Jonathan Coe: ‘All my influences were pushing me towards film and television’The novelist on his new book, being an unromantic outsider and Billy WilderThu Nov 05 2020 - 06:00
Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives onHe was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinitySat Oct 31 2020 - 15:17
US pop culture has struggled to come to terms with TrumpismThe angry pop culture of the Nixon years is better than that of the Trump eraSat Oct 31 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Maureen O’Hara was raised in which leafy Dublin suburb?Plus: playing Cleopatra, a Hitchcock no-show, Meryl and her many nominationsFri Oct 30 2020 - 06:00
There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist artSat Oct 24 2020 - 14:02
The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?Plus: singing Oscarless, editing Martin Scorsese, a co-director goes uncreditedFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendOn the Rocks, Rebecca, Summer of 85, The Secret GardenFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:00
On the Rocks: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones are perfect in Sofia Coppola’s latest filmExasperated, bewildered Jones is at least the equal of her older costar in this exquisite filmThu Oct 22 2020 - 05:00
Netflix’s Rebecca: The new Mrs de Winter isn’t a patch on the first oneReview: The film is so lathered in superficial gloss the subtexts struggle to breatheWed Oct 21 2020 - 05:00
Iftas 2020: ‘My daughter’s hitting the keys, sorry.’ Tom Vaughan-Lawlor accepts best actor awardCharming domestic moments made up for the lack of red-carpet pizzazz at the virtual eventSun Oct 18 2020 - 23:46
Walking sort of like an Egyptian may not be enough any moreThe news had barely landed before social media blew its collective topSat Oct 17 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendUnsettling Wicklow-shot The Other Lamb, Sundance winner Time, harrowing Body of Water, saccharine Disney biopic CloudsFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
Iftas 2020: Martin Scorsese, Daisy Ridley, Michael D Higgins to appear at virtual ceremonyThe Irish Film and Television Academy’s awards will be broadcast on Sunday nightFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first filmmaker to win three Oscars for a film?Plus: In what year is the new Wonder Woman film mostly set?Fri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
The Other Lamb: This is not a film designed to shake off late-Covid uneaseReview: Film is at the more austere end of the cult-movie spectrumFri Oct 16 2020 - 05:00
Body of Water: Powerful study of an eating disorderReview: Stark and unyielding throughout for those adventurous enough to dive inThu Oct 15 2020 - 05:00
Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanisticDublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuanceTue Oct 13 2020 - 05:00
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right nowThere’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you canSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic AmericanA limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravadoSat Oct 10 2020 - 05:00
The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packagesDublin Theatre Festival review: Summoning the despair of an urban space in the time of CovidFri Oct 09 2020 - 13:00
Four new films to see this weekendKajillionaire in cinemas, David Attenborough, 40-Year-Old Version, My Zoe at homeFri Oct 09 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: What is Sean Connery’s last feature role?Plus: SNL spin-offs, Marvel alter egos, the American Pie crew, Carry On castingFri Oct 09 2020 - 06:00
Kajillionaire: Miranda July’s best film to dateReview: The film is more aware of its own oddness than the director’s first two featuresThu Oct 08 2020 - 08:17
David Attenborough: ‘To continue, humans require more than intelligence. We require wisdom’Review: This ‘witness statement’ for Netflix is filled with truths worth hammering homeThu Oct 08 2020 - 05:00
Miranda July: Some people will always react to something new with derisionThe director of US high-quirk indie cinema returns with her best yet, KajillionaireWed Oct 07 2020 - 05:00
The Savoy may soon be the last big cinema in the heart of DublinCineworld shut down ... Bond postponed again ... The cinema sector is on life supportMon Oct 05 2020 - 13:30
Dara Ó Briain: ‘I get abuse from Brexiteers and Corbynistas in satisfyingly similar amounts’His new book, Is There Anybody Out There?, skilfully weaves thumping gags with raw physicsSat Oct 03 2020 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Is Stallone’s Sico knockout just a publicity stunt?The disappearance of Rocky’s robotic butler has the conspiracy censors twitchingSat Oct 03 2020 - 05:00
To be a Machine review: Experimental format well-suited to play’s core themeSelf-conscious experiments complement the exploration of transhumanismFri Oct 02 2020 - 09:38
Four new films to see this weekendRialto, The Boys in the Band, Eternal Beauty, The Trial of the Chicago 7Fri Oct 02 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which of the Magnificent Seven lived the longest?Plus: a year without Marvel, the home of Cartoon Saloon, nothing for the ladiesFri Oct 02 2020 - 06:00
The Trial of the Chicago 7: Plodding and pedantic reading of the 1968 riotsReview: The film fails to engage with the radicalism of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry RubinFri Oct 02 2020 - 05:00
Rialto: A searing Dublin movie that will stay in your brainFilm review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the miseryThu Oct 01 2020 - 05:00
Oscars 2021 could be the best awards season everWith big releases postponed, this awards season looks more welcoming of smaller filmsSat Sept 26 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the last line in Chinatown?Plus: Riley and Elvis, Hitchcock and du Maurier, and if it sounds like an Orson Welles flick...Fri Sept 25 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekendBill & Ted in cinemas, Enola Holmes, Miss Juneteenth and Tesla streamingFri Sept 25 2020 - 06:00
Tesla: Fascinating film detailing the ‘underappreciated’ genuis’ life and workReview: Almereyda’s efforts to steer away from standard biopic tropes is admirableFri Sept 25 2020 - 05:00
