The Irish Times

Son: Gothic parental horrors in the American south

Irish director Ivan Kavanagh anchors his ambiguous horror in believable trauma

Fri Jul 02 2021 - 05:00

Pandemic movie wins top award at Dublin International Film Festival

Best film winner Apples will be presented as an artefact of the Covid era in years to come

Mon Mar 15 2021 - 09:42

20 great travel movies to take you around the world while you’re stuck at home

From city breaks to train trips, Rome to the Amazon, these are all on streaming services

Mon Mar 30 2020 - 10:48

Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards

From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry

Mon Sept 02 2019 - 05:00

Never Grow Old: John Cusack shines in gripping western filmed in Connemara

Review: Ivan Kavanagh’s film is impressively filthy and studded with convincing violence

Fri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00

Emile Hirsch on remorse, Bono's daughter and shooting an Irish western

In 2015, the actor was convicted of assaulting a movie executive at Sundance. His quiet rehabilitation continues with a role in Tarantino’s new film and, oddly, a new Irish western

Fri Aug 16 2019 - 05:00

Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood review: Exhilarating and infuriating

The film isn’t about the murder of Sharon Tate and friends in 1969. It’s about the end of eras

Tue Aug 13 2019 - 10:00

Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’

There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival

Mon Jul 15 2019 - 10:10

Galway Film Fleadh: Which Irish films will be a breakout success?

Prestigious festival provides point of reference for for the very best of new Irish cinema

Mon Jul 08 2019 - 05:00

The Autopsy of Jane Doe: darker, nastier and smarter that your average horror

Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox are father-and-son coroners having a very weird night at the morgue

Thu Mar 30 2017 - 12:26

Lone Survivor

Get past the dubious, gung-ho imperialism and this is a gripping, gruelling thriller

Fri Jan 31 2014 - 13:33

Lone Survivor Peter Berg talks grunts and gunfights

He is best known for the overblown ‘Battleship’, but Peter Berg’s latest movie , ‘Lone Survivor’, is a far rarer Hollywood beast – a politically nuanced war movie. And it also contains what may be the greatest gunfight ever filmed

Fri Jan 31 2014 - 00:00