Eternity review: This charming comedy is Irish director David Freyne’s best film yetElizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner star as a recently deceased trio who must decide how to spend the rest of timeWed Dec 03 2025 - 05:10
Wham! and the hell of the modern Christmas number oneLast Christmas is odd-on favourite to top the charts again this festive season. It would be a hollow victorySun Nov 30 2025 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: Blue Moon, Christy, Pillion and The Ice TowerEthan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Marion Cotillard and Sydney Sweeney feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 28th, 2025Sun Nov 30 2025 - 05:01
The Movie Quiz: Who was the last character to speak in a James Bond film?Plus: Which beer were they drinking at the end of Ice Cold in Alex?Fri Nov 28 2025 - 04:58
Pillion review: Think Norman Wisdom as a gay motorcyclist’s plaything and you’re halfway thereIn Harry Lighton’s impressive debut feature, a very English class of reasonableness brushes against an equally English interest in hierarchical kinkThu Nov 27 2025 - 05:12
Christy review: Sydney Sweeney packs a punch as seminal figure in women’s boxingBegrudgers have made much of the film’s underperformance at the box office, but few could find realistic fault in Sydney Sweeney’s performanceWed Nov 26 2025 - 05:10
The Kate Clanchy affair: Was the ‘posh do-gooder’ ever really cancelled?The still-bubbling controversy around Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me is the subject of a fine BBC podcastSun Nov 23 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Wicked – For Good, Testimony, Jay Kelly, The Thing With FeathersAriana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Benedict Cumberbatch feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 21st, 2025Sun Nov 23 2025 - 04:59
A Christmas Carol review: Gate’s imaginative, deeply spooky take works new magic on Dickens classicIs this Christmas Carol suitable for smaller children? The tiny me would have savoured the horror as much as the joyful denouementSat Nov 22 2025 - 09:34
‘I knew she was going to pull this off’: Sean Baker takes a back seat to Shih-Ching Tsou for Left-Handed GirlThe long-time collaborators join up again for a frenetic, characterful, lovely tale set in the night markets of TaipeiSat Nov 22 2025 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many Rocky franchise films did Sylvester Stallone direct?Plus: Who is the only person to have directed sequels to two best picture winners?Fri Nov 21 2025 - 05:02
Testimony: Aoife Kelleher persuasively makes case for further airing of Magdalene injusticesGardaí often returned escapees to the laundries as if the women, who had committed no offence, were on the runThu Nov 20 2025 - 05:10
Wicked: For Good review – Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo almost save this deflated prequelWith weak songs and uninvolving storytelling, there’s no way to reinvigorate the Wicked story a full year after part oneTue Nov 18 2025 - 18:09
Shining scars: The 10 best Stephen King movies, in reverse orderWith four new King adaptations released this year alone, it’s a good time to chart the best from the past 50 yearsMon Nov 17 2025 - 05:22
Hi-yah! Miss Piggy was one of my most hostile interviewees. Now she’s in line for the Barbie treatmentJennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are joining forces on a porcine production. Expect a postmodern jamboree peopled by the industry’s slickest and shiniestSun Nov 16 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Nuremberg, Born That Way, Alpha and Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution Russell Crowe, Remi Malek and Patrick and Gladys Lydon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 14th, 2025Sun Nov 16 2025 - 04:57
The Movie Quiz: Which is not an early Francis Ford Coppola film?Plus: Do you know which character actor is Tom Cruise’s cousin?Fri Nov 14 2025 - 05:01
Alpha review: Ignore the sniffy reception at Cannes. This is awesomeFew will endure Julia Ducournau’s follow-up to Titane without admitting they’ve sat through something out of the ordinaryThu Nov 13 2025 - 05:12
Born That Way review: A moving, beautiful documentary about a gentle Irish heroPatrick Lydon moved from Massachusetts to Ireland in the 1970s and established a unique communityWed Nov 12 2025 - 05:10
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics fearedSun Nov 09 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Anemone, Abode, Die My Love and Train DreamsDaniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 7thSun Nov 09 2025 - 04:55
Pauline Collins: The actor whose most celebrated roles held a sense of sly intelligenceCollins was part of Killarney’s New Irish Players in the 1960s before going on to earn her Oscar nominationFri Nov 07 2025 - 14:15
The Movie Quiz: How many films have featured Hannibal Lecter?Plus: Who was the last person to direct a Die Hard film?Fri Nov 07 2025 - 04:58
Abode review: A sincere Irish Christmas movie about home and the absence of itLiam O Mochain’s film is alert to tragedies of being unhoused but remains open to reassuring sentimentalityThu Nov 06 2025 - 05:11
Anemone review: This grandiose, inventively operatic project starring Daniel Day-Lewis is no ordinary filmExhaustingly morose debut feature from Ronan Day-Lewis has unquestionable evidence of talentWed Nov 05 2025 - 05:12
Donald Clarke: Jimmy Kimmel was very polite about his recent Irish trip. But he is mistaken I’m glad the TV host had a good time here but Irish people are no more polite or generous than his fellow citizens back homeSun Nov 02 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Kontinental 25, Kenny Dalglish, Bugonia and Palestine 36Hiam Abbass, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and Eszter Tompa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 31st, 2025Sun Nov 02 2025 - 04:54
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons on Bugonia: ‘I forget all the time that I won best actor at Cannes’Yorgos Lanthimos’s careering, unsettling film lets Stone demonstrate her range, as her character tries every trick to win over Plemons’s twitching lunaticSat Nov 01 2025 - 05:18
Bugonia review: Mid-ranking Yorgosia that just about justifies its many indulgencesTaut, fabulous-looking chamber piece starring Emma Stone could survive staging in a pub theatreFri Oct 31 2025 - 05:12
Palestine 36 review: ‘We don’t want another Ireland on our hands’This film, set during the 1936 Arab Revolt, confirms our worst suspicions about the British colonial experience in the Holy LandFri Oct 31 2025 - 05:10
The Halloween Movie Quiz: Which ghastly character is someone else?Plus: What was the first Stephen King adaptation to make it into cinemas?Fri Oct 31 2025 - 04:59
From Saipan to John Boorman: 10 events to catch at the 70th Cork International Film FestivalYou can also catch Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, Richard Linklater’s acclaimed Blue Moon and talks with Ed Guiney of Element Pictures and producer David PuttnamThu Oct 30 2025 - 06:00
Prunella Scales as Sybil Fawlty is immortal, but she enjoyed a distinguished acting careerScales predicted there was no getting away from Sybil, who first emerged 50 years ago in Fawlty Towers as a harridan for the agesTue Oct 28 2025 - 14:58
Halloween films: 10 great horrors to stream for a fright this Samhain Our pick of the most arresting horror films on Netflix, Prime Video and Paramount+Sun Oct 26 2025 - 05:19
Two films about sexual assault. One a small masterpiece. The other a clattering disgraceYou’ve probably heard of After the Hunt, with Ayo Edebiri and Julia Roberts. Make time instead for Sorry, Baby Sun Oct 26 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Regretting You, and FrankensteinJosh O’Connor, Jeremy Allen White, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 24th, 2025Sun Oct 26 2025 - 05:00
From Alien to The Zone of Interest: 50 of the best movies to stream right now – with no extra rental feesThe most arresting, entertaining films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+Sat Oct 25 2025 - 05:20
The Mastermind review: Josh O’Connor’s understated heist film leaves intriguing unanswered questionsJosh O’Connor reinforces his status as an enigma of the era in role of titular plotterFri Oct 24 2025 - 05:12
The Movie Quiz: What was the fourth Star Wars film to be theatrically released?Plus: What was the fourth Star Wars film to be theatrically released?Fri Oct 24 2025 - 05:01
Regretting You review: Nothing shatters monotony in this dull fantasy of perfect AmericaAdaptation of Colleen Hoover bestseller lacks knowing ironic touch of David LynchWed Oct 22 2025 - 18:01
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma. Sun Oct 19 2025 - 06:00
Jessie Buckley is unbeatable at the Oscars. Unless this happensAcademy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actorsSun Oct 19 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: After the Hunt, Ballad of a Small Player, Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man, and Souleymane’s StoryJulia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 17th, 2025Sun Oct 19 2025 - 04:57
Woody Allen's compromised, though diverting, debut novel is a queasy disappointmentAllen’s flat prose serves as a mechanism to take us from one lengthy dialogue sequence to the nextSat Oct 18 2025 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which is not a rule of Fight Club?Plus: What was the first James Bond theme to win the Oscar for best song?Fri Oct 17 2025 - 04:47
After the Hunt review: This campus drama makes ill use of some very fine actorsLuca Guadagnino’s latest film involves an accusation of rape against a gay student of colourThu Oct 16 2025 - 05:09
Colin Farrell happily embraces his inner loser like no other leading man everBallad of a Small Player review: The Irish actor plays the most doomed addict since Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las VegasWed Oct 15 2025 - 05:11
Dr No Gun: Is this what they mean by woke gone mad?Prime Video took James Bond’s pistol out of the hands of Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan and Sean ConnerySun Oct 12 2025 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: I Swear, Good Boy, A Want in Her and Tron: AresRobert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Jared Leto and Greta Lee feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 10th, 2025Sun Oct 12 2025 - 05:03
Charming, eccentric and likeable, no star had energy quite like Diane KeatonLaid-back Californian built a 60-year career unlike any other, from Annie Hall to The GodfatherSat Oct 11 2025 - 22:30
