Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ as a rock opera? Jesus Christ...Donald Clarke: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, ‘Quadrophenia’, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lloyd Webber. EnoughFri Oct 19 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendFahrenheit 11/9, Halloween, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Read, DogmanFri Oct 19 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Who is the fake president?Also: Two-time Oscar nominees, the sequels gap and defying Irish classificationFri Oct 19 2018 - 05:55
Touch Me Not: The transgressive sex is not the problem; it’s the lack of humourReview: Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Golden Bear-winning film is ‘not for everyone’Fri Oct 19 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 19 2018 - 00:00
Fahrenheit 11/9: As funny as anything Michael Moore has doneReview: Moore takes aim at Trump with satire, stunts and sometimes unreliable reportingThu Oct 18 2018 - 06:00
The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid: The Kildare man who wouldn’t sell his land to the IDAReview: The David-and-Goliath film pits a stubborn, brave rebel against official IrelandThu Oct 18 2018 - 05:00
Why ‘Venom’, a stupid film about a monster, has killed ‘A Star Is Born’ at the box officeThe stinkily reviewed ‘Venom’ proves that the right film at the right time still can sellMon Oct 15 2018 - 10:17
Katie Taylor: ‘Stepping away from my dad was difficult’The boxing champion on fame, and keeping her mind ‘intact’Sat Oct 13 2018 - 05:00
‘After the Celtic Tiger, maybe even ordinary people became a little more brutal’Paddy Breathnach on making a film about a homeless family with Roddy DoyleFri Oct 12 2018 - 06:15
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: First Man, Rosie, Mandy, 1945Fri Oct 12 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: a dirty question about Clint EastwoodAlso: Wuthering Heights’ Cathy, the Marvel Universe, and a gangster who loved loved the American DreamFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:55
My Bergmanesque despair is being dialled up to 11The Oxford English Dictionary’s newest entries include more than 100 film-related termsFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:30
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 12 2018 - 00:00
Bad Times at the El Royale: Up-itself post-Tarantino flopReview: director Drew Goddard has made a pastiche of a pastiche of a pastiche. Could that be right?Thu Oct 11 2018 - 06:00
Rosie: Roddy Doyle’s homeless film burns with a raw urgencyReview: Credible picture of an ordinary family cast into an extraordinary situationThu Oct 11 2018 - 05:00
‘Sean Gallagher’s electrifying exercise in grand patriotic baloney’Donald Clarke dishes out the star ratings for the presidential candidates’ one-minute pitchesWed Oct 10 2018 - 06:00
First Man: Who better to play robotic Neil Armstrong than perennially blank Ryan Gosling?Review: This terrific study of the 1969 Moon landing is all about the man inside the suitWed Oct 10 2018 - 06:00
The Johnny Depp you once loved wasn’t the real Johnny DeppDiscrediting of movie stars we admire can be hard to process. But we never really knew themMon Oct 08 2018 - 06:30
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: A Star Is Born, Tehran Taboo, Columbus, Under the ClockFri Oct 05 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: The last Irish-born Oscar winner for acting is...?Also: name a taxidermy-loving son and think of a fast number for a Pixar characterFri Oct 05 2018 - 05:55
The creeping menace of Americanised Halloween is frighteningDonald Clarke: We began dressing up as monsters. Now it’s a Vegas Elvis or saucy flight attendantFri Oct 05 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 05 2018 - 00:00
Under the Clock: A socio-sexual history of IrelandReview: Few millennials will know Clery’s clock was a meeting place for courting couplesThu Oct 04 2018 - 10:18
The Simpsons, series 30: After 640 episodes it feels as out of date as The FlintstonesThe show no longer reaches the heights of the 1990s. Maybe it should slip into retirementThu Oct 04 2018 - 05:00
Ali Soozandeh: tackling the taboos of setting a film in TehranTo shoot ‘Tehran Taboo’, a story of sex and corruption in a theocratic society, the director chose rotoscope animation. ‘A city cannot be faked. It always has its own look,’ he saysThu Oct 04 2018 - 05:00
Venom: Tom Hardy is so over the top, the film never gets boringReview: Tom Hardy comes across like Marlon Brando playing Animal from the MuppetsWed Oct 03 2018 - 10:00
A Star Is Born: Lady Gaga is exotic when she’s ordinary and rooted when she’s fantasticReview: The first hour is as funny and romantic as any mainstream film this decadeTue Oct 02 2018 - 05:00
A Star is Born: Bradley Cooper’s film is the third – arguably fourth – remake of the same movieWill the new Lady Gaga film make as much cash as the Barbra Streisand version?Mon Oct 01 2018 - 06:00
Multiverse review: A delightful exercise in creative torqueDublin Theatre Festival: Louis Vanhaverbeke shows off his staggeringly precise skillsFri Sept 28 2018 - 08:40
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Wife, Nureyev, The MeetingFri Sept 28 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Will the real Sherlock Holmes please stand up?Also: 007’s first American director and who has not hosted the Golden Globes?Fri Sept 28 2018 - 05:55
Everyone’s talking about ‘Saturday Night Live’, but who’s laughing?Saoirse Ronan’s Aer Lingus sketch shows SNL’s humour is trapped in a liberal-elite bubbleFri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00
Night School: As idiotic as you’d expect a Kevin Hart film to beReview: This would be hilarious if didn’t play out with such depressing inevitabilityFri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00
The Meeting: Real-life rape story is uncomfortable viewingReview: This unusual film is powerful and unsettling, but what are we watching?Fri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 28 2018 - 00:00
James Bond: How a potentially radical film became a far safer movieSwapping Danny Boyle for Cary Fukunaga looks like a cautious move by the producersMon Sept 24 2018 - 00:04
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage rebootCorn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom largeSat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Little Stranger, Climax, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, M.I.AFri Sept 21 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: God help us with this religious stumperAlso: The Rolling Stones on film, adapted by Hitchcock, and with Gable at the very endFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:55
Advice for college: never forget that social media never forgetsDonald Clarke: Choose your friends, clothes and politics wisely. They’ll come back to haunt youFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea for Peace – a nostalgic popemobile tripReview: This creaky documentary links the pope’s 1979 visit with the peace processFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
Mile 22: Mark Wahlberg in an underwhelming glob of generic pulpReview: The fight scenes are bruising and jaw-rattling. The rest of the film in rubbishFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 21 2018 - 00:00
For Saoirse review: Well worth travelling up Dublin’s Champs-Élysées to seeDublin Fringe Festival: Colm Keegan’s Ballymun odyssey rarely takes an expected turnThu Sept 20 2018 - 11:56
The Little Stranger: Ghosts in the big house are not scary partReview: Lenny Abrahamson’s impressively clammy follow-up to the all-conquering 'Room'Thu Sept 20 2018 - 06:00
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistolMon Sept 17 2018 - 12:03
Toronto may not have the Cannes kudos, but the gap is closingAudience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometerMon Sept 17 2018 - 11:22
Float like a Butterfly: Film about Irish Traveller girl boxer wins in Toronto“In Ireland, to have a young female Irish Traveller at the centre of a film ... is unthinkable”Sun Sept 16 2018 - 20:42
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matterToronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stampSat Sept 15 2018 - 11:00
