John Waters: the filth and the funny‘I started Catholic and went backwards’ - cult film-maker John Waters unpacks his transgressive-laden career ahead of his appearance at Belfast’s Queer Arts FestivalWed Nov 09 2016 - 13:00
You’ve Been Trumped Too review: and you thought you’d reached peak disgust...Anthony Baxter’s film about 92-year-old Molly Forbes treatment at the hands of Trump shows beyond doubt the contempt he holds for “little people”Fri Nov 04 2016 - 16:35
James Bowen and the tale of the cat who saved the dayJames Bowen was a recovering addict when he took in a stray cat named Bob. The ginger tom helped turn his life around, which led to a bestseller and now a major feature filmFri Nov 04 2016 - 05:28
Nocturnal Animals review: a masterclass in style and substanceA superb cast, including Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon, weaves between fantasy and reality in Tom Ford’s edgy second featureThu Nov 03 2016 - 15:13
Under the Shadow: real-world terrors and supernatural horrorsSet in war-torn Tehran in the 1980s, this fantastic horror movie plays neat feminist games with familiar ghost-story tropesThu Nov 03 2016 - 12:57
Ben Affleck’s Accountant: an autistic savant with a killer complexGavin O’Connor, director of the hit thriller, takes a realist approach to an over-the-top plotMon Oct 31 2016 - 06:00
Train To Busan review: The undead are born againEchoes of George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead ripple through Yeon Sang-ho's first-rate zombie apocalypse filmThu Oct 27 2016 - 15:00
After Love review: asphyxiating, forensic depiction of marital breakdownA family slowly and brutally tears itself apart in Joachim Lafosse’s unflinching look at a marriage coming to an endWed Oct 26 2016 - 17:00
Cumberbatch as Dr Strange: expect $1 billion at the box officeBenedict Cumberbatch dons a cape and gets in touch with his chakras in a movie that stays true to Marvel’s tried-and-tested formulaMon Oct 24 2016 - 11:32
Lupita Nyong’o: ‘You have to speak up for the world you want to live in’‘Queen of Katwe’, the Oscar-winning actor’s new film, is an ‘anthem for dreaming out loud. I want to play a role in making opportunities for people of colour,’ she saysFri Oct 21 2016 - 12:00
John Carpenter: "A lot of old-timers like to bitch... Movies are for the young"Director John Carpenter has no regrets and little time for film whingers - he talks horror and electronica ahead of a Dublin performance of his best soundtracks and musicFri Oct 21 2016 - 06:11
The Queen of Katwe review: a feelgood triumph from DisneyTremendous central performances from David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga and Lupita Nyong’o propel this lively true-life tale of a Ugandan chess championThu Oct 20 2016 - 17:00
Ouija: Origin of Evil review - everything but the haunted kitchen sinkEvery horror cliche (well, almost) is thrown into the mix in this by-the-numbers horror sequelThu Oct 20 2016 - 16:00
Trolls review: A karaoke monster mash of minuscule proportionsAnna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake lead the voice cast in an animation that’s thin on plot but bursting with perky singalongsThu Oct 20 2016 - 12:00
Ken Loach: 'Most people don’t wallow in their poverty. Most people just get by'For five decades Ken Loach has been a champion of the disposessed: ‘It’s the moments of hope that make you catch your breath,’ he saysThu Oct 20 2016 - 07:05
The Surprise review: the best euthanasia rom-com of the yearOscar-winner Mike van Diem’s first film in 18 years is a funny delight with the lightest possible hue of black comedyTue Oct 18 2016 - 12:50
Kate Plays Christine review: the anatomy of an on-air suicideThis fascinating, maddening meta-doc sets itself the impossible task of exploring the interior life of a TV reporter who killed herselfThu Oct 13 2016 - 16:27
Storks review: The truth about the birds and the beesStorks do and don’t deliver babies in this confused though lively animated filmThu Oct 13 2016 - 13:22
Lights, camera, equality action - tackling misogyny one shot at a timeFilm-makers Kate Shenton and Jessica Cameron on how the horror genre is taking on misogyny in the film industryWed Oct 12 2016 - 14:02
Blood Father review: family values with added ultra-violenceMel Gibson channels an older, wounded version of his ‘Lethal Weapon’ character in this high-octane, ultra-violent action filmThu Oct 06 2016 - 23:41
The Fencer/Miekkailijaa review: a fabulous fencing film? TouchéAn Estonian fencer gets heroic treatment in this well-crafted sports biopicThu Oct 06 2016 - 13:00
War on Everyone review: puerile, tone-deaf and offensively stupidDespite gamy performances from Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård, John Michael McDonagh latest is a mishmash of second-hand tropes and bad tasteWed Oct 05 2016 - 17:12
De Palma review: An untouchable auteur in his own wordsBrian De Palma - the “last of the Hitchcockian practitioners” - expertly and wittily surveys his own career in this straight-up bio-doc by Noah Baumbach and Jake PaltrowWed Oct 05 2016 - 17:11
Luke Evans: ‘Sex here. Then sex. Then more sex. Lucky I had been going to the gym’Starring with Emily Blunt in Hollywood blockbuster ‘The Girl on the Train’ is a long way from the West End – or the tiny Welsh village where Evans grew upTue Oct 04 2016 - 16:57
Dan Brown: From Da Vinci’s Jesus code to Dante’s hellishly Divine ComedyOn the Florence set of ‘Inferno’, the novelist talks critics, Christianity and saving the worldSat Oct 01 2016 - 06:00
Alexander Skarsgård: The most popular Swedish export since AbbaAlexander Skarsgård has followed in his father’s acting footsteps, and with ‘Generation Kill’ and ‘True Blood’ behind him, he’s finding new worlds to conquer in filmSat Oct 01 2016 - 03:00
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
