Mattress Mick gets ready to wow the international film festival circuitThe Irish are set to make a strong showing at this weekend Sheffield International Documentary Festival and the upcoming Edinburgh Film FestivalWed Jun 08 2016 - 14:59
Mother’s Day review: a foul, irredeemable mess of sentimental clichesGarry Marshall's third "holiday" film - after the awful Valentine’s Day and worse New Year’s Eve - manages the considerable feat of being the worst of the bunchTue Jun 07 2016 - 14:55
The unstoppable Saoirse Ronan makes cover of Time MagazineCarlow actor makes magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’ listSun Jun 05 2016 - 16:26
Donald Clarke: So many gorilla experts. So little insightSince Harambe was shot in the US, it’s crazy how many great-ape authorities have emergedSat Jun 04 2016 - 05:00
Paula Patton: ‘It’s fear that makes you want to follow something so dark and evil’Warcraft star Paula Patton on breaking up with Robin Thicke, breaking down Hollywood’s colour barrier and the shadow being cast in the US by Donald Trump’s presidential bidFri Jun 03 2016 - 06:00
The Measure of a Man review: a social drama to cherishStéphane Brizé gives us a quietly effective consideration of how surveillance culture degrades and debasesThu Jun 02 2016 - 15:00
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows review – Heroes in a half-baked shellWith a talking rhino from Cabra, this film is much more aware than Warcraft of its own ridiculousnessThu Jun 02 2016 - 12:05
Warcraft review: never in your wildest fantasies could you have imagined thisDuncan Jones tragically stultifying fantasy is hard to pin down - picture a film in which most of the antagonists wear buckets on their heads and you’re halfway thereMon May 30 2016 - 13:59
Jane Bond? Trolls would go bonkersIf an all-women ‘Ghostbusters’ has misogynists spitting venom, imagine their reaction to Gillian Anderson as 007Sat May 28 2016 - 07:00
Love & Friendship review: fizzles with wit, intrigue and creative amoralityJane Austen's eternal good sense is beautifully married to Whit Stillman's sensibility in this sharp and funny Irish co-productionFri May 27 2016 - 10:45
Money Monster review: not so much a hot tip, more a solid investmentThere?s nothing wildly original about Jodie Foster's latest, but strong turns from the bankable leads make it worth a puntFri May 27 2016 - 10:44
The Price of Desire review: an Eileen Gray biopic with a little too much furnitureToo many soft-focus Cote d'Azure exteriors bring 'Absolutely Fabulous' to mindFri May 27 2016 - 06:30
Money Monster’s Jack O’Connell: ‘Not as Irish as I would like to be’Star worked hard to make it in Hollywood and is very proud of his Irish rootsFri May 27 2016 - 05:55
Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach picks up second Palme D’OrBritish film-maker’s win for ‘I, Daniel Blake’ leads evening of surprises in southern FranceSun May 22 2016 - 20:30
Is Boris Johnson like ‘Hitler or one of those mad fellas’?It’s crazy talk for the Brexit leader to compare an increasingly integrated EU to the Fuhrer’s plans for EuropeSat May 21 2016 - 07:00
The Last Face Cannes: Nothing can disguise the jaw-dropping imbecility of this projectSean Penn delivers a film that suggests he may need to stick to his investigative reporting day jobFri May 20 2016 - 17:28
Cannes Film Festival: Sean Penn fails to save faceDirector’s new film receives abysmal reviews, while Iggy Pop shows his lust for lifeFri May 20 2016 - 16:51
Heart of a Dog review: Laurie Anderson makes the experimental deliciousAnderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, is an unmentioned presence in a sweetly sentimental tributeThu May 19 2016 - 19:51
Mirror review: Mother love in the motherlandAndrei Tarkovsky explores his relationships with family and country in a ’75 cult favourite that is the very definition of arthouseThu May 19 2016 - 19:25
It’s Only the End of the World Cannes review: the festival’s largest disappointment so farAt the grand age of 27, Xavier Dolan has finally made a poor filmThu May 19 2016 - 17:59
Cannes bidding war hots up for Martin Scorcese’s 'The Irishman'Film-maker to reprise relationship with De Niro and direct for first time . . . Al PacinoThu May 19 2016 - 12:53
Cannes review: The Unknown Woman. A bit of a dud from the DardennesJessica Fletcher had more angles to her personality than the protagonist of this passionless affairWed May 18 2016 - 15:20
Cannes review: Ma’ Rosa. A hustle through the grim streets of ManilaDirector Brillante Mendoza is relentless in his pursuit of grubby verité, and his vision is worth enduringWed May 18 2016 - 15:13
Cannes review: Aquarius. A defiant Brazilian heroine eyes up a prizeSônia Braga is brilliant in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s wonderful second featureWed May 18 2016 - 15:03
Julieta Cannes review: ‘Age is not an illness. It’s a massacre’Pedro Almodóvar quoted Philip Roth while promoting his latest work, made in his typical primary coloursTue May 17 2016 - 13:05
Personal Shopper Cannes review: Kristen Stewart film gets booed at festivalThe Cannes crowd react to a ghost story with no scares and a psychological drama with no gripTue May 17 2016 - 12:54
Negga’s ‘Loving’ performance already generating Oscar buzzLimerick actor who was cut out of ‘12 Years a Slave’ is having a dizzying career surgeTue May 17 2016 - 01:00
Cannes review: Loving. Ruth Negga shines as one half of a couple who changed the USJeff Nichols’s film about a couple who were arrested and expelled from Virginia for falling foul of anti-miscegenation laws refuses to take the obvious pathMon May 16 2016 - 18:49
Paterson Cannes review: Pure, filmic poetryJim Jarmusch latest film is deceptively rich with its elements in perfect balanceMon May 16 2016 - 10:48
Female voices to fore in first half of Cannes Film FestivalMaren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’OrSun May 15 2016 - 19:45
The BFG review: It's no catastrophe, but it's no E.T.Steven Spielberg directs Roald Dahl’s classic tale which is playing out of competition in CannesSat May 14 2016 - 14:46
Greetings from the anti-Eurovision Cannes film festivalEurovision allows endless self-satirising digs. Refreshingly, Cannes takes itself seriouslySat May 14 2016 - 05:00
Amazon leading la révolution at Cannes Film FestivalStreaming service presents five films at event potentially offering hope to independent sectorFri May 13 2016 - 21:24
Ma Loute/Slack Bay Cannes review: gorgeous, funny and a bit infuriatingJuliette Binoche throws herself at the camera with admirable abandon, but Bruno Dumont’s brave step into comedy frustrates as often as it delightsFri May 13 2016 - 16:44
I, Daniel Blake Cannes review: a deeply moving, darkly funny dramaKen Loach and Paul Laverty continue their longtime collaboration with a skull-shaking study of the Kafkaesque lunacy of Britain’s benefit systemFri May 13 2016 - 11:47
Patrick Stewart on shouting, playing a Nazi and elocution with Brian BlessedBeloved for his Jean-Luc Picard in ‘ST:TNG’, the Shakespearean star now plays a scarifying neo-Nazi skinhead in the hit thriller ‘Green Room’. And why not? ‘I know I’m known for screaming and shouting’Fri May 13 2016 - 06:00
Woody Allen rejects culture of judgment at Cannes festivalControversy stoked by MC’s bizarre joke about director and rape at opening ceremonyThu May 12 2016 - 21:43
Mustang review: a sad story with delicious energyThis wonderful, Oscar-nominated debut suggests one of those playful novels that employ a first-person plural narratorThu May 12 2016 - 19:00
Our Kind of Traitor review: master filleted with a cautious knifeEwan McGregor and Naomie Harris can’t spice up the latest Le Carré adaptationThu May 12 2016 - 17:30
Café Society Cannes review: the brand new old thingWoody Allen’s new film for Amazon welds together his typical party pieces, with Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart playing with charmThu May 12 2016 - 16:11
Everybody Wants Some!! review: Breezy dispatch from the dark agesThe right-on director has made something closer to ‘Animal House’ than anything in his own admirable oeuvreThu May 12 2016 - 14:30
Money Monster Cannes review: Jack O'Connell seethes around George Clooney's vulgarityJodie Foster delivers her best directorial effort yet in this starry financial thrillerThu May 12 2016 - 12:00
Sieranevada Cannes review: ample food for thought amid all the long takesDespite some inevitable longeurs during its defiant three-hour running time, Cristi Puiu follow-up to The Death of Mister Lazarescu remains gripping and amusingThu May 12 2016 - 11:52
Staying Vertical Cannes review: more madness than methodA fine visual style, with strange and beautiful sights, but absurd shifts make this Alain Guiraudie film too jarringThu May 12 2016 - 11:47
Cannes Film Festival 2016: Established masters - and some fresh facesThree female directors out of 20 will compete for this year's Palme d’Or - in 2012 there was none on the list for the top prizeWed May 11 2016 - 14:09
Cannes Film Festival set to save cinematic souls from limboWoody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’OrWed May 11 2016 - 03:00
Cannes 2016: the Palme d’Or really does influence world cinema – and here’s the proofEvery now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movementTue May 10 2016 - 15:24
Gerry Adams’s N-word tweet: racism is not binaryWe need vigilance, but all of us, including the Sinn Féin leader, are probably somewhere on the scaleSat May 07 2016 - 07:00
Stephen Frears: ‘I’m a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else, I'd hate me'The director greets questions with a sigh, suffers no fools - and is entirely fascinatingFri May 06 2016 - 06:00
I Saw the Light review: Tom Hiddleston is too good for this Hank Williams biopicIf they were to give out awards for the most by-the-numbers release of the year (doesn’t the Academy already do that?), then this would take some beatingThu May 05 2016 - 16:34
