Brie Larson: ‘Just because eating potatoes in the shower doesn’t work for you, that doesn’t mean it won’t work for me’After 25 films and a music career, is 25-year-old Brie Larson finally in danger of becoming a movie star?Fri Jan 23 2015 - 07:45
Ex Machina review: intelligent by designAlex Garland’s directorial debut is a gorgeously constructed, elegant distillation of familiar notions about artificial intelligenceFri Jan 23 2015 - 00:00
A Most Violent Year review: a movie that’s too good for the OscarsJC Chandor’s contemporary classic relocates Faust to early 1980s New York, a place where souls are salami-sliced into gradual extinctionThu Jan 22 2015 - 16:23
‘I am making A Most Violent Year in response to violence in films’Oscars be damned: JC Chandor has taken a minor business transaction and turned it into one of the first great films of 2015. And the director has plenty more he wants to talk aboutWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: So what if some of ‘Charlie’ is made up?Dramatic distortions always risk being mistaken for historical truths, writes Donald ClarkeSun Jan 18 2015 - 19:00
Donald Clarke: Republican free-for-all is the converse of 1970’s situationMitt Romney and Jeb Bush have emerged to save the party from its immoderate urgesSat Jan 17 2015 - 01:00
Whiplash review: JK Simmons’s jazz drumming drill sergeant deserves acclaimDamien Chazelle’s bravura debut treats the drumkit as a theatre of warFri Jan 16 2015 - 10:00
‘Wild’ review: a pretty, well-acted reverie of Cheryl Strayed’s popular bookReese Witherspoon works hard in Jean-Marc Vallée’s self-help epicFri Jan 16 2015 - 06:00
Everything awesome as Irish animation beats Lego movie to Oscar shortlistLinklater’s ‘Boyhood’ is odds-on favourite for best pictureFri Jan 16 2015 - 01:00
Oscars 2015: Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea gets nodSurprise as Irish nomination comes at expense of The Lego MovieThu Jan 15 2015 - 16:55
Future of Irish Film and Television Academy Awards unclearIrish Film Board confirms it has no firm plans to fund the IftasWed Jan 14 2015 - 20:09
‘Boyhood’ wins Best Drama at Golden GlobesRichard Linklater takes top prize for coming of age film at Beverly Hills awards ceremonyMon Jan 12 2015 - 12:11
Hugh Travers’s ‘Hungry’ should be allowed to airComedy set in Famine times does not necessarily ‘make light’ of the tragedySat Jan 10 2015 - 15:05
Foxcatcher review: Carell makes a passive aggressive Nero of John Du PontBennett Miller’s murky tale of the corrupting power of wealth is his best true-life story yetFri Jan 09 2015 - 11:00
A Tale of Samurai Cooking review: martial arts munchiesShort-order shogun trains her husband to be a kitchen Kurosawa in this tasty Japanese dramaFri Jan 09 2015 - 08:00
James Corden: out of the woods and well down the garden pathThe charismatic character actor from High Wycombe has recently hit the jackpot: acting with Meryl Streep in Into the Woods and taking over as host of American telly talker The Late Late ShowFri Jan 09 2015 - 06:00
Into the Woods review: Meryl Streep cackles, James Corden bustles, Emily Blunt saves the dayAll’s well that ends pretty well in Disney’s enjoyable film of Stephen Sondheim’s popular fairy-tale mash-upThu Jan 08 2015 - 14:08
Nigel Farage the Briton of the Year? They might just be rightVirtually no political commentator imagined that Ukip would advance quite so farSat Jan 03 2015 - 01:02
The silver screen in 2015: fasten your seatbeltsWe're about to witness the "Biggest ever year for cinema". Tara Brady takes a look at what's aheadFri Jan 02 2015 - 13:00
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) review: Keaton in flight againCinematically dazzling and brimming with drama, ’Birdman’ walks a fine line between pretentious and brilliantFri Jan 02 2015 - 12:00
Exodus: Gods and Kings review: Swords, sandals and snoozesRidley Scott’s heart-stoppingly sober take on the Book of Exodus badly needs an injection of campFri Jan 02 2015 - 11:00
‘Foxcatcher’: Steve Carrell as you’ve never seen himDirector Bennett Miller on his latest film, in which the likeable actor gets malevolent as doomed chemical heir John Du PontFri Jan 02 2015 - 00:00
Boredom: a force for good in the worldOpinion: too much entertainment could be more dangerous than the Black DeathSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Donald Clarke’s cultural highs and lows of 2014The Irish films of 2014 were ’Out of Here’ and ’Frank’Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Forget the real news, what about the top trivia of 2014?There is now so much pop-cultural balderdash about the place that the conscious uncoupling sort of non-story can pass through the complete cycle – in the time it used to take for one journalist to file one diaphanous reportThu Dec 25 2014 - 06:01
Unbroken review: Bravery in search of a personalityAngelina Jolie’s wartime epic has everything going for it – except character and plotWed Dec 24 2014 - 12:00
Donald Clarke's Christmas moviesOur movie reviewer's selection of films not to miss on the small screen this ChristmasWed Dec 24 2014 - 08:00
Donald Clarke: My great expectations for ChristmasThe Brontës were a force and Jane Austen mattered, but . . . Dickens still leads the waySat Dec 20 2014 - 12:01
Netflix’s top 50 seriesWhether it's a Netflix original like Orange Is The New Black, a British comedy like Peep Show or just completely addictive like Breaking Bad; we've listed and categorised the very best Netflix boxsets for you to enjoy.Fri Dec 19 2014 - 12:00
Secret of the Tomb review: London gallingThe ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise limps into Bloomsbury: it should go no furtherFri Dec 19 2014 - 11:00
The Ticket Awards results: your favourite films of 2014Hollywood may not think so, but you Ticket readers have good memories and great tasteFri Dec 19 2014 - 06:00
The Interview: rarely has such a film created such noiseDonald Clarke analysis: If film never goes on wide release it will be key text in Hollywood’s historyThu Dec 18 2014 - 06:59
Angelina Jolie, North Korea and Sony Pictures: the story that keeps on givingWelcome to the leaky, insecure world of 21st century communicationSat Dec 13 2014 - 11:00
The Green Prince review: Israel’s man in HamasThis fascinating but frustrating documentary tells only part of the true story of a Palestinian with Hamas in the blood who spied for the IsraelisFri Dec 12 2014 - 11:00
The Great Museum review: fly-on-the-wall in Hapsburg heartlandThis study of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum is as sober and formal as the city’s architectureFri Dec 12 2014 - 08:00
Dumb and Dumber To: the Farrellys return to their gross-out grassrootsJim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back as cinema’s most lovable idiots. But why a sequel 20 years later? ‘It makes sense because these guys are always the same. They’re too stupid to have character arcs’Fri Dec 12 2014 - 06:00
Tinker Bell review: Tinky winky stinkyThese cheapo Disney animations aren’t the worst of their kind, but Tink’s evolution from jealous menace to mindless chatterbox isn’t much funThu Dec 11 2014 - 17:35
Golden Globe nominations: Birdman leads with seven nodsBoyhood and Imitation Game come second while Brendan Gleeson ’s Calvary loses outThu Dec 11 2014 - 16:05
Gleeson and Scott win at British Independent Film AwardsRespective performances in ‘Calvary’ and ‘Pride’ recognised with male acting prizesMon Dec 08 2014 - 00:10
More than a feminist furore over Hozier’s appearance at Victoria’s Secret fashion show‘Both feminists and conservatives railed at the naked commercialism and naked, well, nakedness’Sat Dec 06 2014 - 01:00
Black Sea review: Jude Law under pressureMan on board and overboard in a cracking submarine thriller that’s the best boy’s adventure Alastair Maclean never wroteFri Dec 05 2014 - 10:00
Men, Women and Children review: the Twitterati made me do itAnsel Elgort, Adam Sandler and a big-name cast play it oh-so-serious in Jason Reitman’s latestFri Dec 05 2014 - 09:00
Ticket Awards 2014 - The best screen shotsIrish film had a standout year, franchises asserted their dominance, and some of the year’s best films came in documentary form. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady name-check the best - and a few of the worst - of 2014Fri Dec 05 2014 - 06:00
Penguins of Madagascar review: cracking jokes keep these birdbrains flying highBirds of little brain still manage to fly fairly high in funny sequelFri Dec 05 2014 - 05:00
Concerning Violence review: people powerColonialism and its violently radicalising effect is the subject of this chilling documentaryFri Dec 05 2014 - 04:00
