The Lovers and the Despot review: nabbed, drugged and dragged to North KoreaRoss Adam and Robert Cannan’s film tells the compelling true-life tale of the moviemaking couple kidnapped by dictator Kim Jong-ilFri Sept 30 2016 - 14:31
Daniel Radcliffe: ‘I don’t run around shouting about being Irish’‘Find me a Beckettian absurdist comedy where one guy’s dead!’ That is not how the Harry Potter vet landed the part of a partially animated corpse in a bizarre bromance called ‘Swiss Army Man’Fri Sept 30 2016 - 06:00
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children review: weird but winningFeaturing floating girls and knife-fighting homunculi , Tim Burton’s take on the popular young-adult novel is lovely to look at – and great funThu Sept 29 2016 - 16:15
First Monday in May review: a total mess of Met balls and celebrity porn, dahlingAndrew Ross, usually a disciplined documentarian, delivers a maddeningly unfocused, often inane look at the upper echelons of New York fashionThu Sept 29 2016 - 12:30
Southside With You review: When Barack met MichelleThe cutsey-pie mingles with the intellectual in this fawning but clever depiction of the First Couple’s first dateThu Sept 29 2016 - 11:22
Kirsten Johnson: A life behind the lensThe Fahrenheit 9/11 cinematographer exposes her years behind the camera in a new documentaryFri Sept 23 2016 - 06:00
The Girl With All the Gifts review: a knockout zombie zingerPost-apocalyptic British sci-fi movie introduces thrilling newcomer Sennia NanuaThu Sept 22 2016 - 17:00
Little Men review: understated drama that subtly plays out intergenerational differencesGentrification blues and family conflict is explored by the director of ‘Love Is Strange’Thu Sept 22 2016 - 16:40
The Clan review: chilling portrait of patriarchal entitlement in twisted true dramaA respectable patriarch kidnaps his friends and neighbours in this true life crime flickThu Sept 22 2016 - 16:11
The Infiltrator review: Bryan Cranston cranks it up in the hunt for Pablo Escobar’s moneyBrad Furman’s true-story thriller follows familiar beats but stays ahead of the game with standout performances from the likes of Diane Kruger and John LeguizamoFri Sept 16 2016 - 14:57
Reissue of the week: Victor Erice’s El Sur/The South (1983)Thirty-three years after it premiered, Victor Erice’s little-seen follow-up to Voice of the Beehive is back in cinemasFri Sept 16 2016 - 14:56
How Cork cocaine caper The Young Offenders struck comedy goldCork actors Alex Murphy and Chris Walley are a perfect double act in new Irish movie The Young Offenders. And their comic banter is as hilarious off-screenFri Sept 16 2016 - 06:03
Hunt for the Wilderpeople review: super all-ages adventure with a hint of dangerA city kid goes on the run in this ‘majestical’ Kiwi adventure from What We Do in the Shadows director Taika WaititiThu Sept 15 2016 - 11:38
Blair Witch review: And the prize for Most Pointless Remake of 2016 goes to...Adam Wingard's remake of the 1998 found-footage classic is entirely pointlessWed Sept 14 2016 - 16:30
Kubo and the Two Strings review: another gorgeous, thoughtful gem from LaikaDonegal teenager Art Parkinson leads a starry voice cast – including Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey – in the animation studio’s latest epic adventureThu Sept 08 2016 - 18:00
Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie: ‘It speaks to the zeitgeist of modern America’Director David Mackenzie had a joyous experience directing Hell or High Water, now 2016’s most successful indie filmThu Sept 08 2016 - 17:00
Captain Fantastic review: Viggo Mortensen takes parenting up a notchWhat begins as Little Miss Sunshine for Marxist survivalists soon evolves into a subtly brilliant comedy-dramaThu Sept 08 2016 - 15:15
Anthropoid review: Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy go Nazi huntingResistance is brutal in this old-fashioned second World War drama, but is it futile?Thu Sept 08 2016 - 10:00
Ben Hur review: Chariots of dire - not even Jesus can save youThis remake may be much shorter than William Wyler’s 1959 classic but it’s a misconceived project from the offWed Sept 07 2016 - 14:19
Call of the wild: Viggo Mortensen goes off grid in ‘Captain Fantastic’‘Lord of the Rings’ star takes to wilderness in latest role as survivalist dadFri Sept 02 2016 - 06:00
Jim: The James Foley Story review: no happy endingThe story of the man behind the horrifying 2014 headlines and video footageThu Sept 01 2016 - 20:00
Almost Holy review: Crocodile tears for a holy tough guyA fascinating portrait of Ukraiine’s crusading vigilante preacher, ‘Crocodile’ GennadiyThu Sept 01 2016 - 18:00
Sausage Party review: More than enough meaty satire for adultsSausage Party is a tasty proposition. Just don’t expect too much subtlety as the animated adventure plays itself outTue Aug 30 2016 - 17:28
Faith as fact as the Knock apparitions are revisitedThe director of sleeper hit One Million Dubliners returns with Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish VillageThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:22
War Dogs review: when stoners go to warTwo brothers land a Pentagon arms contract in this based-on-a-true-story caper, with Jonah Hill and Miles Teller packing plenty of heatThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:20
Pedro Almodóvar: Writing for men is a ‘kind of torture’The Spanish director on the making of his latest movie Julieta, his ‘unity with women’, and the lack of authenticity in modern cinemaThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:00
Bad Moms review: Mean girls, the next generationThe writers of The Hangover take on modern motherhood in this sharply-observed comic turnThu Aug 25 2016 - 06:00
Seána Kerslake: the hottest new name in Irish cinemaThe actor – aka ‘the Irish Scarlett Johansson’ – is terrific as an angry young woman in A Date for Mad MaryMon Aug 22 2016 - 06:00
Asterix & Obelix: The Mansion of the Gods review - Making Gaul great againJack Whitehall and Nick Frost add their voice talents to the classic French little-and-large double actFri Aug 19 2016 - 12:22
Tickled review: Competitive sport? Sexual fetish? Unmissable storyDavid Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s Oscar-tipped documentary starts out an investigation of an internet sub-culture, then gets much, much weirderThu Aug 18 2016 - 12:50
Blinky Bill the Movie review: you had us at eucalyptusThe iconic Australian koala goes in search of his long-lost explorer dad in this animated film that will please the kids, if not their parentsThu Aug 18 2016 - 12:18
The making of a fascist megalomaniac: a family creationThe film kept falling apart’: Brady Corbet’s audacious film The Childhood of a LeaderThu Aug 18 2016 - 06:00
David Brent: Life on the Road review - fails the big-screen testThere are some good jokes en route in Ricky Gervais’s spoof ‘road movie’, but overall it is still a vanity projectWed Aug 17 2016 - 09:15
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words review: captivating star, not much of a parentThis intimate study of the Hollywood icon reveals the cool-headed free-spirit of the Swedish movie starFri Aug 12 2016 - 12:23
Viva la vida: Mark O’Halloran explains the Cuban connectionMark O’Halloran on how he and Paddy Breathnach wound up making a film about a drag performer in Havana – with a little help from Panti Bliss and her wig collectionFri Aug 12 2016 - 06:17
The Idol review: from the Gaza Strip to the starsSpirited performances and an irresistible narrative propel this based-on-fact story about the Palestinian winner of Arab IdolThu Aug 11 2016 - 14:00
The Confession: Living The War On Terror review: throwing more shade on a shadowy time in historyFormer Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg tells his side of the story calmly and quietly, but not conclusivelyThu Aug 11 2016 - 12:00
No laughing matter: the sinister world of competitive ticklingDirector David Farrier set out to make a film about the strange world of ‘competitive tickling’. Instead, what he discovered was a lot more bizarreWed Aug 10 2016 - 14:10
The Shallows review: a daft but entertaining shark thrillerBlake Lively pits her wits against a Great White with a grudge in this daft but enjoyable summer popcorn thrillerTue Aug 09 2016 - 15:33
‘Remakes need to be more than what the original was’Star of Pete’s Dragon Bryce Dallas Howard talks to Tara Brady about imaginary friends, goat poop and post-partum disordersFri Aug 05 2016 - 06:00
Sid and Nancy review: Sex, drugs and a Vicious circleMade just seven years after the couple died, Sid and Nancy emerged at a moment when punk was still fresh in the collective consciousnessThu Aug 04 2016 - 19:49
Sweet Bean review: Touching talk of second chancesUnabashedly sentimental Japanese film exhorts everybody to follow their dreamsThu Aug 04 2016 - 18:00
Up For Love review: The height of romanceUp For Love doesn’t care for accurate proportions when there’s a short gag to be had at its leading man’s expenseThu Aug 04 2016 - 15:00
2016: The 50 best films on NetflixWhile some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’Fri Jul 29 2016 - 12:30
Matt Damon on banishing ‘Matty Fatty’ and bringing back Jason BourneFifteen years ago, The Bourne Identity “saved his career”, and now Matt Damon has dropped the dad jeans and returned to the hit action franchiseFri Jul 29 2016 - 06:33
Finding Dory review: Nemo sequel is as magical as the originalThe award-winning studio goes back to the ocean - and avoids sinking the legacy of Nemo - with a sequel that's well worth its saltThu Jul 28 2016 - 16:28
The Commune review: truly, madly, deeply implausibleThomas Vinterberg struggles with the domestic arrangements in this uneven drama about a middle-class 1970s Danish communeThu Jul 28 2016 - 15:45
Born To Be Blue review: Ethan Hawke steals the show as the James Dean of jazzHawke delivers a searing solo turn as troubled jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this imaginatively structured biopicThu Jul 28 2016 - 11:00
Laura Albert tells the stranger-than-fiction story of JT LeRoyJT LeRoy was gender-fluid, heroin-addicted teenage hustler who became a literary sensation. It was a product of my own deeply troubled upbringing, says the Laura AlbertFri Jul 22 2016 - 05:57
The Girl King review: queer history as preposterous bodice-ripperMalin Buska delivers a pointedly manly performance as Sweden’s Queen Kristina in this faintly ridiculous historical dramaThu Jul 21 2016 - 16:46
