Double takeJOHAN GRIMONPREZ has come up with a wonderful idea. Scratch that. Johan Grimonprez has come up with a dozen wonderful ideas.Fri Apr 02 2010 - 01:00
LourdesTHIS SLOW, ritualistic, but undeniably fascinating French drama concerning pilgrims to the shrine at Lourdes is, ultimately, …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
Lion's Den/LeoneraRECEIVING ITS Cannes premiere a full 12 months before A Prophet , this skull-judderingly well acted, incongruously good-looking…Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
StormIF YOU were feeling mean, you could point out that this fascinating courtroom thriller – a rare cinematic attempt to address …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
No One Knows About Persian Cats/Kasi Az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar NadarehWHEN BAHMAN Ghobadi, director of such recent Iranian gems as A Time for Drunken Horses and Turtles Can Fly , set out to make…Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
The Bounty HunterTHERE COMES a point in almost everyone’s career when the novelty of the job wears out and work becomes an appallingly tedious…Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00
The Scouting Book for BoysHEARING THAT this English coming-of-age drama involves the writer of the lubricious TV show Skins , the frail reader could be…Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00
Occupational hazardsYOU COULD see Paul Greengrass’s latest film (very, very loosely inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s book Imperial Life in the …Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
Knocking At death's doorIVAN KAVANAGH’S story is one of the odder ones in Irish filmFri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
The year of the dragonFANS OF the late Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful Millennium trilogy will be adept at dissembling misinformation and, …Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
Few surprises on Bigelow's big night‘ The Hurt Locker ’ – and Irishman Richie Baneham – were winners in an Oscar night of mostly agreeably dignified speeches and…Tue Mar 09 2010 - 00:00
Case 39THERE’S NO mystery about the fact that this ropey scary-stary child horror has remained in unreleased limbo for the past two-…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
OndineGLANCE AT most directors’ oeuvres and you will spot a few films that, rather than standing as major opuses, comes across as casual…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Exit through the gift shopYOU COULD be forgiven for approaching the first film by Banksy with a can of petrol and a blowtorchFri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Father of My ChildrenHERE’S ONE of those films that is almost impossible to review without revealing a significant, distinctly surprising plot development…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
LegionIF THE US really is as uniformly Christian as editorials in liberal newspapers argue, then Legion would surely have been driven…Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
Ireland's art films, fag ash and allThe Irish films at this year's JDIFF show that works of variety and originality can get to the screen without Hollywood-scale…Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
Everybody's fineHAVE YOU noticed how Robert De Niro and his old pal Al Pacino appear to be travelling in opposite directions along the creative…Fri Feb 26 2010 - 00:00
Leap YearAS IT’S awards season, we really should invent some sort of gong for the makers of this cosmically atrocious romcomFri Feb 26 2010 - 00:00
How cinema got its groove backJAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: THE MUSICAL never quite diesWed Feb 24 2010 - 00:00
What's wrong with Irish film?JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: THE CURRENT Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has, of course, been dedicated…Tue Feb 23 2010 - 00:00
From mainstream to cutting edgeJAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL : Opening weekend at JDIFF had directors, actors and crew all lining up to hear audience…Mon Feb 22 2010 - 00:00
Michael Dwyer remembered as annual Dublin filmfest gets under wayTHE JAMESON Dublin International Film Festival kicked off last night at the Savoy cinema with a screening of Neil Jordan’s new…Fri Feb 19 2010 - 00:00
Deliverance's duelling banjos were a budget cutJohn Boorman, the Wicklow-based maverick director who receives a lifetime achievement award this week from Ifta, casts his mind…Wed Feb 17 2010 - 00:00
A Single ManIMAGINE YOU were dragged off the street, plonked before this extraordinary film and asked to identify the celebrity – hitherto…Fri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
PonyoWHEN THE Oscar nominations were announced last week, the biggest surprise was, surely, the inclusion of Tomm Moore’s lovely The…Fri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
The WolfmanTHIS RAMBUNCTIOUS variation on Universal’s 1941 werewolf classic has been knocked around the release schedules for so long it…Fri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
Percy Jackson & The Lightning ThiefCHRIS COLUMBUS, director of the first two Harry Potter films, offers us an entertainment about an ordinary boy who, after discovering…Fri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
Out-takes from a film critic's reel lifeBOOK OF THE DAY: It’s Only a Movie By Mark Kermode, Random House, 344pp, £11.99Wed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
A right Freudian carry onArts : The debut feature by Cork director Margaret Corkery, with its elements of the Oedipus complex, borrows from Europe’s …Mon Feb 08 2010 - 00:00
The catcher in the rawCD Payne's Youth in Revolt novels have, it seems, a committed following among American readersFri Feb 05 2010 - 00:00
EamonAFTER A recent run of dire Irish releases, it’s a pleasure to welcome this highly original and tonally assured, if somewhat slight…Fri Feb 05 2010 - 00:00
Youth in revoltCD Payne’s Youth in Revolt novels have, it seems, a committed following among American readersFri Feb 05 2010 - 00:00
The Princess and the FrogWHEN THE motorcar came along, I daresay there were a great many editorials in the papers bemoaning the loss of the slower, more…Fri Feb 05 2010 - 00:00
Cameron vs Bigelow for Oscar goldWith a whopping nine nominations each for their films Avatar and The Hurt Locker , former husband and wife film directors James…Wed Feb 03 2010 - 00:00
Late founder Dwyer to have reel presence at Dublin film festivalBRENDAN GLEESON and Nora Jane Noone, two Irish actors from different generations, were on hand last night to publicise the programme…Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
A cock & bull storyTHE PUBLICITY material for this extraordinary Irish film claims that test screenings “have left some audiences speechless”. I…Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
Just what it says on the tinA FEW weeks after its British opening, Mat Whitecross’s unruly biopic of Ian Dury – the William Hogarth of post-punk – finally…Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
