Clio Barnard – “The idea that film can deliver reality is nonsense”Cinema needs clear thinkers like Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard. Trained as a visual artist, she brings a critical eye and a seriousness of purpose to her film-making. She talks to Donald ClarkeFri Oct 25 2013 - 00:00
Heaven knows Morrissey’s oddballs would be miserable nowOpinion: It is better to be properly alone than exposed to a million bullies on the latest social networkSat Oct 19 2013 - 00:01
Shock horror! It’s Kim NewmanFor four decades, Kim Newman has provided a peerless commentary to the lesser known gems of horror cinema – and is a dab hand himself at the monster mythsFri Oct 18 2013 - 00:00
Film review: Captain PhillipsPaul Greengrass's latest is a thrilling take on the reality of modern-day piracy, writes Donald ClarkeFri Oct 18 2013 - 00:00
The week’s most disturbing scene on TV was not the cat business in ‘Love/Hate’Opinion: We have come to accept that sex is natural, wholesome, beautiful and all that baloneySat Oct 12 2013 - 00:01
Highs and lows: David Gordon Green walks a fine lineThe award-winning director is best known for stoner hits Pineapple Express and Your Highness, but he also does a fine line in quality – and is always eager to sort out the stoner farce from the high artFri Oct 11 2013 - 00:00
Le Week-EndThis provocative but smug dramedy – about a couple on a dirty old weekend – is not your mum’s usual geezer pleaserFri Oct 11 2013 - 00:00
Forget plush, forget bicycles, the real Irish pub has stone floors and a dodgy lavOpinion: Gastro pubs are fine, but some of us still long for the orange cellophane sandwichSat Oct 05 2013 - 00:01
They have a lot, but they ain’t got what the movies gotThe more the next generation of games and TV series grab our attention, the more they confirm the power of cinemaFri Oct 04 2013 - 14:25
Film review: Thanks for SharingFocusing on attendees at a self-help group as they fight courageously with an inability to keep mickies in pants, Donald Clarke won't be watching this one twiceFri Oct 04 2013 - 00:00
Film review: How I Live NowAdapted from a young adult novel and starring Saoirse Ronan, this is an unexpectedly powerful drama of English endurance, writes Donald ClarkeFri Oct 04 2013 - 00:00
The pervert’s guide to Slavoj ZizekFirebrand Slovenian academic Slavoj Zizek has spent his entire career dismantling culture and exposing the banality of conventional wisdom. He’s delivering his splenetic opinions again in Sophie Fiennes’s ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’. “Life is shit,” he says. “But it’s relatively okay today.”Fri Oct 04 2013 - 00:00
The shocking truth is that this notorious video game is no longer shockingOpinion: Grand Theft Auto, now defanged, has sunk into the cultural mainstreamSat Sept 28 2013 - 00:01
How Kevin Macdonald found his fallout girl in Saoirse RonanAt first, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald had doubts about casting Saoirse Ronan in the nuclear romance How I Live Now, but he quickly revised his opinion – “She’s the finest actor I have ever worked with”Fri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00
Film review: Blue JasmineWoody Allen descends to his version of slumming, with toxically witty results, writes Donald ClarkeFri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00
A serious man: the intensity of Jake GyllenhaalGyllenhaal brings such a heft to his roles – a trend maintained in ‘Prisoners’ – it’s a surprise to learn he has only just decided that acting is the trade for himThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
Best to call people what they want you call themSpurs fans reappropriate the ‘y’ wordSat Sept 21 2013 - 14:00
Review: DianaThe much-ballyhooed biopic of the late Princess of Wales is not quite a camp classicFri Sept 20 2013 - 10:42
Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie previewWhat better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new yearFri Sept 20 2013 - 00:00
Good people often rise late. Keep the noise down, we’re trying to sleepThere’s me, and Simon Cowell, and Proust and Churchill ...Sat Sept 14 2013 - 01:00
In a World... director Lake Bell shows off her vocal talentsAfter a decade paying her dues, writer, director, actor Lake Bell’s has made a big splash with her first feature about Hollywood’s voice-over communityFri Sept 13 2013 - 00:00
Class act overkillIt’s that tune again! Arvo Pärt tops the charts for cinematic over-exposureThu Sept 12 2013 - 18:27
Film review: White House DownBarack Obama meets Die Hard in this ludicrously enjoyable thrillerThu Sept 12 2013 - 15:38
No offence to George Best, but Loyalists could be doing with a few more heroesOpinion: Could the Protestant people of the North be a little uncomfortable with culture?Sat Sept 07 2013 - 00:01
David Lowery: Timeless in TexasFilm-maker David Lowery on his Texan aesthetic, why he prefers old-school celluloid to the new world of digital film-making and what it’s like working with Casey Affleck and Rooney MaraFri Sept 06 2013 - 00:00
The English language is literally spiralling exponentially out of the control of pedantsOpinion: a word now seems to mean what a lot of people think it might meanSat Aug 31 2013 - 00:01
