Dr Seuss’ The LoraxWAY BACK in early spring, when this tolerable family animation was released in the US, certain right- wing lunatics complained…Fri Jul 20 2012 - 01:00
My Galway Film Fleadh horrorNOBODY NEED PLACE a mirror over the mouth of the Irish film industry. Times are certainly hardTue Jul 17 2012 - 01:00
'Good Vibrations' picks up fleadh prizeTHE 24TH Galway Film Fleadh, the year’s most significant celebration of new Irish cinema, closed last night with a screening …Mon Jul 16 2012 - 01:00
Magpie Peashooter? Zoltan the Magnificent? That's my boy!The lists of top names for boys and girls betray the shifting sands of tasteSat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
DetachmentTONY KAYE, director of American History X, various commercials and this cluster of derangement, is now in his late 50s, but he…Fri Jul 13 2012 - 01:00
Year of the grisly at Galway Film FleadhThe fleadh always seeks to highlight fresh domestic cinema, and this is the year of the Irish horror as rural sea monsters, Dublin…Wed Jul 11 2012 - 01:00
Tabloid gossip frenzy feeds broadsheet recycling industryHigh-minded critiques of tabloid excess give broadsheet readers their vicarious thrillsSat Jul 07 2012 - 01:00
Katy Perry: Part Of Me 3DOR YOU could mainline a carton of sherbet fountain while staring furiously at a stack of boiled sweets.Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which director currently has films lodged at No 1 and No 2 in the all-time box office chart?Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Where Do We Go Now?/Et Maintenant On Va Où?ALLOW ME to begin by being most unfair to Nadine Labaki’s often charming, though ultimately rather scattershot follow-up to the…Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Tweet and sour reaction to that bomb 'joke'LET ME tell you a story about something that happened to my cousin’s gardenerSat Jun 30 2012 - 01:00
Great giveaway for dark comedyThe 10 Days in Dublin Festival, a multidisciplinary event that begins on July 5th, is to include a number of film screeningsFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Dark HorseWE BEGIN with a shot of two people – male and female, though not yet a couple – sitting at a table while staring enigmatically…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Movie magic up close forGet ready for the Irish Film Institute’s Family Festival, July 5th until July 8thFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Galway gears up for annual fleadhThe Galway Film Fleadh announced its programme in that fine city earlier this weekFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Alan Partridge makes a dealRadio and TV presenter Alan Partridge has commented publicly on the news that StudioCanal, the Anglo-French production company…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Joyful NoiseABOUT TWO-THIRDS of the way through this cynical effort to repackage Glee for “faith audiences”, we get a faint hint of what …Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Legend of anime comes to townOn Monday, the Japanese Film Festival, in association with Access Cinema, will welcome admired anime director Makoto Shinkai …Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Dhaka doc wins ICCL human rights awardLast night Machine Man/ Hombre Maquina took the top prize at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards Gala…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Ice Age: Continental DriftTO USE an appropriate analogy, one may as well argue against the retreating ice sheets or shifts in the earth’s crust.Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
The particle with the power to answer everything yet nothingEven if the Higgs boson subatomic particle is found, it will not yield a meaning for human lifeSat Jun 23 2012 - 01:00
Lay the favouriteWITH THE best will in the world, you couldn’t describe the inestimable Stephen Frears as reliable.Fri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
The ApartmentWhen considering Billy Wilder’s vast array of classics, cinema watchers often struggle to find a golden threadFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Riding out the big waveSION SONO may have begun life as a poet but, to date, the Japanese film-maker has stayed clear of airy lyricismFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
VictimALEX PILLAI, director of this achingly well-intentioned British street drama, has been unlucky in his timingFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterTHE CONFEDERACY has been overrun by the Undead. The President wields an axe that doubles as a shotgunFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Marriage equality should be a priority for campaignersIt is understandable that gay rights activists would seek the right to marriage on principleSat Jun 16 2012 - 01:00
Biblical – but not much senseWe have great faith on Darren Aronofsky, but his latest venture sounds – even from the director of The Fountain – like a most…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Red LightsYou will struggle to name a more disciplined thriller than Rodrigo Cortés’s terrific BuriedFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Rock of AgesTHERE IS, SURELY, no chance that Rock of Ages could fail to work as a guilty pleasureFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet ManHOLY MARY, mother of Jesus. God be with the days when we were all a little embarrassed by The Quiet ManFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
A Royal AffairHere’s a brief for an obscure film festival nobody would wish to attend: movies about commoners whose closeness to the monarch…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Heavy on the Joyce at pop-upCheck out the film events at the inaugural Dublin Biennial Pop-Up ExhibitionFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Deadline for Film Fleadh awardTake heed, budding scribes. The deadline for the Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award has been extended to June 20thFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Confessions of a fleeting football fanAS THE action begins in this Euro Superball thing, we again take time out to bemoan the vile phenomenon of the post-1990 late…Sat Jun 09 2012 - 01:00
Touching the Fordian heightsThe John Ford Ireland film symposium continues at various venues until Sunday. This evening, at 7Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Look at this showerA WEEK AFTER Paul Laverty, working with regular collaborator Ken Loach, delivered The Angels’ Share, his lightest, least didactic…Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
A film with me in itEveryone knows that Hollywood reacts to the success of any film by throwing a series of imitations into production.Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
A Fantastic Fear of EverythingWELL, HERE’S something you don’t see every day. Thank goodnessFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Idol chatterROBERT PATTINSON is taking his first few steps on a long road. You don’t get any sense that he is ashamed of TwilghtFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Edinburgh' s a contenderFollowing several years of decline, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is making an effort to regain its statusFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
The same League as Avengers?Everyone knows that Hollywood reacts to the success of any film by throwing a series of imitations into production.Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
The PactBE FRIGHTENED. The debut film from Nicholas McCarthy, derived from his acclaimed short, concerns a young woman who travels home…Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
