Rachel Griffiths: 'I can walk into a scene, break balls, and cause shit to go down'It's not the first time the star of Irish drama Mammal has been here - two decades ago, Griffith toured Ireland in a camper van with Muriel’s Wedding co-star Toni Colette...Fri Apr 01 2016 - 06:00
Mammal review: brilliant depiction of unspoken needs and muffled emotionsMichael McElhatton nicely balances Rachel Griffith’s deadened cool in Rebecca Daly's film, but it is the young Barry Keoghan who walks away with the pictureThu Mar 31 2016 - 16:30
Sebastian Schipper, the one-take wonder: filming Victoria 'was a crazy enterprise’There have been single-shot movies before, but none comes close to what writer-director Sebastian Schipper has achieved with his bank-heist action film 'Victoria'Thu Mar 31 2016 - 15:30
Ran review: Kurosawa’s masterpiece remains as sharp as a serpent’s toothFreshly restored in a new print, Akira Kurosawa's epic reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear has not dimmed one bit in the three decades since its first releaseWed Mar 30 2016 - 16:56
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo: Sing Street, Sundance... now back to schoolHe wowed Sundance and impressed at Audi Dublin International Film Festival – the teenage musician and actor is perfectly cast as director John Carney’s movie alter-egoFri Mar 25 2016 - 12:00
The Club review: the must-see feel-bad film of the yearPablo Larraín, director of Tony Manero and Post Mortem, returns with an intensely grim, insistently provocative film about paedophile priestThu Mar 24 2016 - 17:30
Disorder review: Flourishes of brilliance amongst the minimalismMatthais Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger are excellent in Alice Winocour’s stylish take on the age-old tale of the bodyguard and the mollThu Mar 24 2016 - 16:10
Court review: magnificent, maddening drama from first-time director Chaitanya TamhaneEven with a novice crew and amateur actors, this fiendishly clever debut takes the courtroom drama to new placesThu Mar 24 2016 - 14:01
Fresh nuptials: My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos is backFive minutes with Nia Vardalos would melt even the most thuggish heart. The creator of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its sequel talks family values and follow-upsThu Mar 24 2016 - 07:00
High-Rise ambition: why super-producer Jeremy Thomas brought JG Ballard to BelfastThomas is on his second Ballard film: High-Rise starring Tom HiddlestonMon Mar 21 2016 - 07:00
10 Cloverfield Lane review: white-knuckle affair, replete with twists, turns and terrorThis one-room, micro-budget thriller works well as a ‘parallel’ film to JJ Abrams’s Cloverfield - just try to ignore the monster-sizer spoiler in the titleFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:58
Sing Street review: A New Romantic vision of Dublin in the 1980sIt may paint an unnaturally rosy picture of 1980s Dublin, but terrific songs and excellent performances make John Carney’s latest musical a delightThu Mar 17 2016 - 21:58
Marguerite review: Off-key, but right on the moneyThe story of socialite and ‘singer’ Florence Foster Jenkins is transferred brilliantly to Roaring Twenties ParisThu Mar 17 2016 - 11:10
Neil Jordan: ‘Michael Collins was conventional – apart from the guerrilla warfare’Ahead of the 20th-anniversary re-release of Neil Jordan’s hugely successful film Michael Collins, the director reflects on the ‘unique opportunity’ he got to make itThu Mar 17 2016 - 06:00
The Boy review: pleasingly ridiculous, high-concept old-school horror fareEventually, The Boy gets too damned silly for its own good, but is nevertheless nicely orchestrated and powered along by good performancesWed Mar 16 2016 - 23:15
Iftas: My Name is Emily, Room and Sing Street sweep 2016 nominationsLiam Neeson to receive award in recognition of his ‘outstanding contribution to cinema’Mon Mar 14 2016 - 11:24
Anomalisa review: Charlie Kaufman dissects the anatomy of lonlinessStrange, off-putting, sour and meticulous - this stop-motion animation is perhaps the most Kaufman-esque thing Charlie Kaufman’s ever doneThu Mar 10 2016 - 22:19
Kung Fu Panda 3: Jack Black bounces back in this warm, big-hearted sequelAfter a wayward second instalment, this busy follow-up restores some lustre to the mammoth franchiseThu Mar 10 2016 - 14:30
Shailene Woodley: ‘I like having to fight for a job’She might have spent two decades in front of a camera, but Divergent star Shailene Woodley insists that she isn’t cut out for ‘this industry’Thu Mar 10 2016 - 06:00
Fifty Shades of Black review: not great, but still 50 times better than the originalThe Wayans approach to comedy might be simple, but there’s still fun to be had seeing the execrable Fifty Shades of Grey get a good whippingWed Mar 09 2016 - 11:00
Goodnight Mommy review: Horror has just birthed some new terrifying twinsPreferring unease to jump-scares and psychosis to spooks, this astute psychological horror is an example of the genre at its very bestFri Mar 04 2016 - 16:40
Truth review: nowhere near the journalistic thriller it should have beenCate Blanchett and Robert Redford deliver starry performances, but the narrative focus remains fuzzy throughout this true-life taleFri Mar 04 2016 - 09:17
Hey dudes! The Coens on George Clooney, Hollywood and that Lebowski sequelBrothers Joel and Ethan Coen have teamed up with George Clooney for a fourth part in their ‘knucklehead’ trilogy - and there’s not a single Lebowski in sightFri Mar 04 2016 - 06:00
Time Out of Mind Review: Richard Gere excels in this meditation on homelessnessThe disenfranchised are seldom acknowledged in US cinema - Oren Moverman’s thoughtful drama achieves such a feat with considerable styleThu Mar 03 2016 - 17:22
King Jack review: a stunning, evocative American coming-of-age taleWith a beautifully poised script, King Jack delivers an honest depiction of adolescent sexuality and a terrifying depiction of teen violenceWed Mar 02 2016 - 13:37
Roger Allam: 'I can do posh'Roger Allam’s patrician roles on big screen made him go-to guy for lead role in film of David Park’s novel, writes Tara BradyFri Feb 26 2016 - 06:00
The Truth Commissioner review: Ouch, the Truth does hurtShallow characters, sketchy plotting and loud, clanging allusions bring down this fictional account of Northern IrelandThu Feb 25 2016 - 18:00
The Propaganda Game review: as frustrating as it is intriguingRather than exposing any truths, Alvaro Longoria’s handsomely-shot video diary merely adds to the riddle of North KoreaWed Feb 24 2016 - 17:33
ADiff review: Risteard O’Domhnaill fights ‘big oil’ in AtlanticCommentators, fishermen, politicians and scientists collectively scratch their heads over Ireland’s disregard for its own watersMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:55
ADiff review: Laurie Anderson’s five-star dogumentaryAnderson’s late dog Lolabelle recorded a ‘pretty good’ Christmas album and learned to paint and sculpt in her later yearsMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:54
ADiff review: Polish vampire mermaids cause chaos in The LureA defiantly odd reworking of The Little Mermaid is frequently more discombobulating than entertainingMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:40
ADiff review: Monica Bellucci impresses in Ville-MarieAn ingenious film that dresses tropes and plot lines from soap as verisimilitudeMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:29
Ellen Page: “I’m hoping that this is the moment where change actually happens”Tara Brady talks to the 26-year-old actress about coming out to the film industry and having the world at her feetSat Feb 20 2016 - 10:00
ADiff review: Oedipal goings-on in MammalDirector Rebecca Daly has a knack for carnality in a film punctuated by wailing, nocturnal tomcats and outbreaks of violenceThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:49
The Finest Hours review: the waves crash hard, but the derring-do doesn’tCasey Affleck brings colour to his most-able seaman, but Chris Pine can do little to animate the dull do-gooder hero of this Disney-at-sea action flickThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:40
Bone Tomahawk review: Kurt Russell's on top form in a way-out western with biteThe film is sly enough to function equally well as an old-fashioned shoot-‘em-up: or rather, shoot, if they’re luckyThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:32
Freeheld review: an elaborate game of hide and weepFlat, and lacking the archly deadened attributes of Todd Haynes’ Carol, a quartet of World’s Greatest Actors work hard to animate a timid movieThu Feb 18 2016 - 21:00
ADiff review: A posthumous victory for Hubert ButlerThe late essayist, once denounced by a papal nuncio as a dangerous communist, has the last laughThu Feb 18 2016 - 18:14
ADiff review: A spooky possession in PolandWhen likeable Piotr starts behaving oddly and talking Yiddish, there can only be one explanation . . .Thu Feb 18 2016 - 18:11
'Journalism is in a lot of trouble right now' - Mary Mapes on the road to TruthFired from her job after running a piece about George W Bush, former CBS producer Mary Mapes’ story is now a major film starring Cate Blanchett and Robert RedfordThu Feb 18 2016 - 17:00
ADiff review: Mustang is a coming-of-age tale that turns into a thrillerOscar-nominated Turkish drama is both brilliant and maddeningWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:27
ADiff review: Evolution’s strange sci-fi will blow your mindLucile Hadzihalilovic’s new film is an unsettling nightmarish masterpieceWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:27
ADiff review: Notfilm lets Samuel Beckett speakRoss Lipman’s doc makes interesting connections and assertionsWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26
ADiff review: Black, a tale of star-crossed lovers in violent BrusselsA rivalry between African gangs turns brutal in this adaptation of gritty youth novelsWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:25
Claudia Cardinale: ‘Usually you live only one life. But I have lived 154 lives’The Italian star of such classics as 8½ and Once Upon a Time in the West is now 78 and has just completed her 154th feature. She talks about six decades in filmWed Feb 17 2016 - 06:00
Angela Lansbury: still a star at 90The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary lifeSat Feb 13 2016 - 04:00
Oddball and the Penguins review: lovely, old-fashioned family entertainmentThe penguins are cute, but the big fluffy sheepdog steals the show in this delightful Aussie dramaThu Feb 11 2016 - 15:15
‘Deadpool’: TJ Miller relishes his role as a weasly sidekickThe comic actor, who is famous as Mr Mucus, is happy as long as he’s getting laughsThu Feb 11 2016 - 13:00
The Survivalist review: a lean, thrilling debut from director Stephen FingletonPitiless, economic storytelling from Fingleton is matched by a fantastic performances from Martin McCann, Olwen Fouéré and Mia GothThu Feb 11 2016 - 08:00
Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Road Chip review: gives rodents a bad nameSay your prayers - here comes the fourth instalment of the $1.3 billion and counting Ca$hmunks seriesWed Feb 10 2016 - 17:22
