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
Rebecca Miller: ‘Daniel’s heart is in Ireland, so we go as much as possible’The director behind documentary Mr Scorsese on her relationship with the giant of cinema, his early sense of being an outsider, and life with the Day-LewisesSat Oct 11 2025 - 05:17
The Movie Quiz: Who never directed Marlene Dietrich?Plus: Which of these Disney songs is sang by a human?Fri Oct 10 2025 - 04:59
Good Boy: Meet Indy, the adorable canine star of this creepy horror filmSuperb debut from Ben Leonberg tells a scary haunted-house story from the perspective of the occupier’s dogThu Oct 09 2025 - 05:09
I Swear review: Robert Aramayo’s new film had hardened critics sobbing like infantsEnglish actor best known for Game of Thrones displays deep empathy and understanding of Tourette syndrome in his latest roleWed Oct 08 2025 - 05:12
Bán, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a brave, brilliantly acted ensemble pieceDublin Theatre Festival 2025: The gifted Carys D Coburn reworks The House of Bernarda Alba in grim 1980s IrelandTue Oct 07 2025 - 10:03
Tilly Norwood, the AI actor with a hint of Meghan Markle Reaction from industry professionals demonstrates how enormously jumpy everyone is about the threatSun Oct 05 2025 - 05:10
Four new films to see this week: A House of Dynamite, Re-Creation, The Smashing Machine and UrchinIdris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Vicky Krieps, Aidan Gillen and Emily Blunt feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 3rd, 2025Sun Oct 05 2025 - 04:54
Poor, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a show destined to keep returning and keep selling outDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Katriona O’Sullivan’s memoir becomes a crowd-pleasing play starring Aisling O’Mara and Hollie LawlorFri Oct 03 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: From which horror classic did the Ramones borrow a famous chant?Plus: Test your knowledge of obscure tracks from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrackFri Oct 03 2025 - 04:37
A House of Dynamite review: Kathryn Bigelow’s stressful film brings home perils of nuclear strikePeople will shiver at realisation that when a response to nuclear attack is needed, it is too lateThu Oct 02 2025 - 05:14
Re-Creation review: An odd, uneasy engagement with the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murderThere is forever a sense of a thumb being placed on the scales in this interesting oddityWed Oct 01 2025 - 05:10
We all have more Alan Partridge in us than we would care to admit Triumph of Steve Coogan’s great comedy character rests on his slow evolution, moments of pathos and the canny avoidance of low-hanging fruit (Brexit)Sun Sept 28 2025 - 05:05
Four new films to see this week: One Battle After Another, Sunphlowers, The Lost Bus and Brides Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 26th, 2025Sun Sept 28 2025 - 04:53
Ruff justice: is Shakespeare being cancelled?Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving CertSat Sept 27 2025 - 06:00
This Hamlet, the opening show of Dublin Theatre Festival 2025, is both deeply serious and a riot of funDublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Teatro La Plaza’s questioning production is performed by a cast with Down syndromeFri Sept 26 2025 - 09:39
The Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Quiz: Who is not on the Boogie Nights soundtrack?Plus: Which is the longest Paul Thomas Anderson film?Fri Sept 26 2025 - 04:36
One Battle After Another review: Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn face off in Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrilling epicMovie hailed as one of Anderson’s finest works excels in its unapologetic grandeurWed Sept 24 2025 - 05:16
The Lost Bus review: Matthew McConaughey drives classic 1970s-style disaster movieDirector Paul Greengrass, action maestro behind the Bourne films, shoots with kinetic fervourTue Sept 23 2025 - 14:38
