Something in the Water review: A mercifully short attempt at Bridget Jones with sharksHuge sections are taken up with the characters gossiping in viscera-thick water as they might while queuing for the bathroom at the pubThu Jun 20 2024 - 05:00
The Sugar Wife review: Siobhán Cullen and Chris Walley star in elegant revival of drama loaded with moral quandariesAnnabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitorsWed Jun 19 2024 - 09:07
The Bikeriders review: Jodie Comer ensures you pay attention to this violent, sometimes tragic biker-gang sagaThis flawed, fascinating film, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, resists the hollow allure of cheap tribalismWed Jun 19 2024 - 05:00
The last of the Dunnes: ‘Someone in a bar said, You are like the Kennedys. That really offended me’Actor Griffin Dunne on his Irish-American family, including his father Dominick Dunne and sister Dominique, who was murdered as a young womanMon Jun 17 2024 - 05:00
In film, depictions of death by robot are everywhere. The perils of midlife redundancy by AI, not so muchIt’s too dull for Hollywood to portray, but we can already identify with being put out of a job by a characterless sliver of softwareSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe onset of puberty sends Riley around the bend in excellent sequel Inside Out 2, plus offbeat Bigfoot dramedy Sasquatch Sunset, Ama Gloria from France and Hounds from MoroccoSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Those Bad Boys are back again. But back where? Plus: Those Bad Boys are back again. But back where?Fri Jun 14 2024 - 05:00
Hounds review: Ingenious thriller with a streak of anthracite-black humourA father and son must dispose of a corpse before morning in lean thriller set in contemporary CasablancaThu Jun 13 2024 - 05:00
Inside Out 2 review: Will Pixar’s new movie trigger a diplomatic incident? Either way, it deserves to be seenAdèle Exarchopoulos as the dark, heavily fringed, polo-necked embodiment of Ennui is borderline geniusWed Jun 12 2024 - 20:00
Sade Malone: ‘We had lots of conversations about the characters’ black Irishness. That’s something really relevant now, to be black and Irish’The unstoppable young actor on her flourishing career, leading John B Keane’s Sive and being cast in Twig, a new film set in a dystopian, gang-run DublinSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:15
Hollywood is at death’s door again. Twitchy movie-industry analysts have found a fall guy Less than a year since Barbenheimer, The Fall Guy and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga have been box-office dudsSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekProto-feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, plus witty true-life Hit Man, period French drama Rosalie, and another big-boom Bad Boys sequelSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which film has made the most money so far in 2024?Plus: Where do the fadas go in the title of the all-conquering Irish film An Cailin Ciuin?Fri Jun 07 2024 - 05:00
Rosalie review: attractive period drama about ‘the original bearded lady’Clémentine Delait strives to shake off rural prejudice in early-19th-century FranceThu Jun 06 2024 - 05:00
Bad Boys: Ride or Die – Will Smith, in his first big film since the Oscars slap, can still twinkle. Martin Lawrence puffs and wheezesAdil & Bilall’s follow-up to Bad Boys for Life is a muddle of set pieces, some impressive but most unintelligibleTue Jun 04 2024 - 21:00
Amid a quasi-reinvention, this is Jeremy Clarkson’s best show yetDonald Clarke: Clarkson’s Farm deserves more than grudging respectSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRediscovered Irish folk horror The Outcasts, plus Sting, The Beast and Gasoline RainbowSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
The Beast: One can only nod in agreement when Léa Seydoux shouts ‘what the f*** are you talking about?’This insanely knotty art house brain-botherer is worth worrying atFri May 31 2024 - 05:10
The Movie Quiz: Who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024?What comes after Bride, Son, Ghost and a meeting with the Wolfman?Fri May 31 2024 - 05:00
Sting: a horribly diverting creature feature of which the late Roger Corman would surely have approvedEnjoyable yarn about giant spider eating everything that moves is fun for all the family (aged 16 and over)Fri May 31 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024 felt like a dud. But then the Palme d’Or race took off – and a great new talent arrivedA volley of superb late entrants, including Anora and All We Imagine as Light, created one of the closest races in decadesMon May 27 2024 - 05:15
Demi Moore has just made one of the great film comebacks. How did that happen?Donald Clarke: Cannes film festival has gone wild for the biggest star of 1995. Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?Sun May 26 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekFerocious Furiosa is the craziest show on Earth. Plus Irish documentaries on Charlie Bird and Chinese music competitors, and an eerie Pakistani social horrorSun May 26 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s screwball comedy Anora wins Palme d’OrKinds of Kindness, latest collaboration between Dublin’s Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos, scoops award for Jesse Plemons’s performanceSat May 25 2024 - 20:57
The Movie Quiz: How many Stephen King adaptations have won an Oscar?Plus: Which iconic old-timer shares his name with the doomed protagonist of Psycho?Fri May 24 2024 - 05:00
Ransom ’79 review: Charlie Bird and the £5m plot to blackmail the Irish governmentMuch-loved RTÉ journalist left a fascinating piece of semi-finished business when he died earlier this yearThu May 23 2024 - 05:15
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy has barely any lines. The plot is irrelevant. The mayhem is operaticA good three-quarters of the screenplay might read ‘automotive hell breaks out’Wed May 22 2024 - 05:00
Sardines, trawlers and ‘sympathising a little bit with Hitler’: The agony of the press conference Donald Clarke: At Cannes, be prepared for often humdrum occasions to turn into the most surreal and uncomfortable eventsSun May 19 2024 - 05:00
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth goingFri May 17 2024 - 13:36
Cannes 2024: Bird review – Barry Keoghan excels as a likeable dad geezerFilm showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elementsFri May 17 2024 - 09:06
Cannes 2024 Movie Quiz Special: How many women have won the Palme d’Or for directing?Test your movie mastery with our 2024 Cannes film festival special quizFri May 17 2024 - 06:00
Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat review: Competitive cheerleading in Ireland? It’s like coming across yak racing in CarlowTanya Doyle film features a few shaky elements in the human pyramid, but it just about stays aloftThu May 16 2024 - 05:00
If review: This family film about imaginary friends is often touching, often infuriatingNobody is going to confuse the middle-ranking If with ET, but the same generosity of spirit and respect for childhood is clear in bothWed May 15 2024 - 14:00
Cannes 2024 opens with tears, #MeToo, a Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and plenty of IrishCannes Diary: Juliette Binoche was choked up, Meryl Steep was classy and Greta Gerwig didn’t hold backWed May 15 2024 - 09:19
Cannes 2024: 12 things you need to know about this year’s film festivalFrom the unstoppable Irish to the return of Mad Max, we have all the inside info from the Côte d’AzurMon May 13 2024 - 05:00
Remembering Roger Corman: Cult film-maker whose legacy can be seen in Irish movie business todayLow-budget film legend who influenced major players such as Francis Ford Coppola has died at 98Sun May 12 2024 - 19:11
Begorrah Keoghan, Kerrygold Murphy and our friend Siobhan: Micksploitation has gone mainstream againDonald Clarke: Nobody likes a postcolonial moaner, but it’s odd that casually ridiculing the Irish can be regarded as only the most minor social misdemeanourSun May 12 2024 - 04:56
‘For a few weeks, the reliable machinery of suburban life shut down. There was no milk, no petrol, often no electricity’During the dramatic two-week Ulster Workers’ Council strike in 1974, there was a sense of societal collapseSat May 11 2024 - 06:00
Fiona Shaw on Ireland: ‘It is one of the most successful countries in the world. It wasn’t when I left it’Four decades after leaving Rada, the Cork actor retains an apparently insatiable appetite for workSat May 11 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many Scream films have a number in the title?Plus: Who won this year’s Oscar for best supporting actress?Fri May 10 2024 - 05:00
Much Ado about Dying: A vital film about an extraordinary, infuriating human beingThe singular subject of this documentary is like a character from Harold Pinter but, despite the abundant pressures, kinder and sunnierThu May 09 2024 - 05:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review: A gripping story that rattles along towards an intriguing codaDespite the linguistic atrocity of the title, the film is good enough to deserve the sequels it gestures towardsWed May 08 2024 - 16:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Director Wes Ball on despotic leaders, the war on truth and ‘the soup we’re all swimming in’Drawn from a 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle, the Planet of the Apes franchise has forever worked with two interwoven metaphorsMon May 06 2024 - 05:00
Jerry Seinfeld is this week’s guest star of It Was Better in the Old DaysDonald Clarke: Humans over a certain age have been whinging about the imagined collapse of society since we were worshipping turnipsSun May 05 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLove Lies Bleeding, The Fall Guy, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, UnfrostedSun May 05 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which classic is not celebrating its golden anniversary?Plus: Into whose shoes does Ryan Gosling now step?Fri May 03 2024 - 05:00
Unfrosted review: Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart brandopic is yet another unwelcome addition to the genreThis scattershot approach to the origins of the Kellogg’s breakfast snack relies on cartoonish fantasy and terrible humourFri May 03 2024 - 03:00
Love Lies Bleeding review: The best grubby, bloody lesbian thriller of the seasonKristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian’s fiery, gut-clenched romance keeps Rose Glass’s slice of Americana tickingWed May 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekChallengers, That They May Face the Rising Sun, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, ISSSun Apr 28 2024 - 05:00
Punched on TV by an Irish toff: how criticism worked before Taylor Swift, Morrissey and OasisDonald Clarke: We’ve reached a bad place if reviewers can’t openly express mixed feelings about a singer’s epic evisceration of recently discarded boyfriendsSun Apr 28 2024 - 05:00
