The Wild Robot review: This superb family film could become a classicLupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal star in what is the best feature cartoon from a major studio in yearsThu Oct 17 2024 - 05:00
The Apprentice film review: Ivana Trump taunts Donald for his orangeness. Then this drama’s most disturbing moment happensDonald Trump’s moments of outright villainy get extra level of unease from flatness of his portrayal elsewhere in Ali Abbasi’s filmWed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekA homage and critique of Hong Kong action cinema in elegiac Stuntman, plus evocative Irish drama King Frankie, sci-fi romcom Timestalker, and a bland return to Stephen King’s ’Salem’s LotSun Oct 13 2024 - 05:00
Toxic fandoms are increasingly out of control. Just ask Amandla Stenberg about what happened to The AcolyteDownvoting and discriminatory language have only become more vigorous in the age of franchise streaming showsSun Oct 13 2024 - 05:00
Find Your Eyes: ‘Oh Lord, will it be like this all the way through?’ we ask at first. But this tricky piece rewards surrenderDublin Theatre Festival 2024: In this unclassifiable performance piece, Benji Reid creates a seductive amalgam of theatre, choreography and photographyFri Oct 11 2024 - 09:04
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first former SNL regular to win an acting Oscar?Who belongs with fellow authors JG Ballard, Patrick McGrath, Stephen King and William S Burroughs?Fri Oct 11 2024 - 05:00
King Frankie: An intriguing reminder of the Celtic Tiger delusions that hung around Ireland for decadesPeter Coonan works hard at creating two believable versions of the same troubled personalityThu Oct 10 2024 - 05:00
Blitz first look: Could Saoirse Ronan be on track for a double Oscar nomination with her new film?In Steve McQueen’s movie, the Irish star plays a distraught mother during the Luftwaffe’s raids on London during the second World WarWed Oct 09 2024 - 19:30
’Salem’s Lot: An ominous foreboding precedes this Stephen King adaptation – for all the wrong reasonsFrom the perfunctory scene-setting to the dull, formless mess of generic action-horror that follows, little new is addedWed Oct 09 2024 - 05:00
‘The studios have become more intrusive. They are not letting the film-makers tell the stories’Hollywood producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, whose new movie is the family-friendly Transformers One, on film-industry pressuresMon Oct 07 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekTurgid Joker: Folie à Deux falls flat, despite Phoenix and Gaga. Plus singular dark comedy A Different Man, West Bank-set drama The Teacher, and deadpan horror comedy Humanist Vampire...Sun Oct 06 2024 - 05:00
‘I want to be alone’: Greta Garbo, sure. Daniel Day-Lewis, maybe not so much after allThe unconvincing retirement has history as a promotional tool in show business. Nobody believes that’s what’s going on with Day-LewisSun Oct 06 2024 - 05:00
Guest Host Stranger Ghost: A genuinely original high concept gets its first outing Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This nomadic play’s use of other productions’ sets mirrors the insecure tenures so many young people are forced to put up withFri Oct 04 2024 - 10:05
The Movie Quiz: How Many James Bond films have ‘gold’ somewhere in the title? Plus: Which is not a late-era Francis Ford Coppola film?Fri Oct 04 2024 - 05:00
A Different Man: Impressively original comedy that turns ideas of beauty and ugliness on their headsSebastian Stan plays a man with a disfiguring condition alongside Adam Pearson, who actually has that same conditionThu Oct 03 2024 - 05:00
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel revival features fine performances and elegant stagingDublin Theatre Festival 2024: Andrew Flynn’s production, with Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Denis Conway and Manus Halligan, makes up for play’s slight staticnessWed Oct 02 2024 - 10:02
Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth itEven if this proposition didn’t work out, it would be the right sort of failureWed Oct 02 2024 - 09:00
Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s filmThree-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowroteWed Oct 02 2024 - 06:39
Four new films to see this weekSaoirse Ronan shows new strengths as a recovering alcoholic in The Outrun. Plus sweet and sensitive My Old Ass, kindly road movie Will & Harper, and Francis Coppola’s ambitious folly MegalopolisSun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff? That’s not the real story about Emerald Fennell’s new filmWas Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights a person of colour? He might just as well have been IrishSun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
Edward Burns: ‘I think our level of celebrity was in a sane and manageable place’The actor and director talks about his debut novel, its relation to his Irish-American roots, and using family stories as inspirationSat Sept 28 2024 - 05:00
Maggie Smith, with a voice as unmistakable as Churchill’s, was a star for six decadesDame Maggie Smith, who has died in London at the age of 89, was a singular talent on stage and screenFri Sept 27 2024 - 19:11
The Movie Quiz: Which of these films wasn’t even partially shot in Ireland?Plus: Who was the first Canadian citizen to win a best actor Oscar?Fri Sept 27 2024 - 05:00
Will & Harper review: Will Ferrell reconnects with trans friend in this feel-good odyssey Road trip documentary could be seen as the anti-Top Gear special. Nicer, warmer, militantly tolerantThu Sept 26 2024 - 05:00
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan gives a forceful performance as an alcoholic in white-knuckle recoveryThere is much to recommend this addiction dram directed by Nora Fingscheidt and co-produced by Ronan, who also excels in her first present-day film role in nearly a decadeWed Sept 25 2024 - 05:00
Fair dues to Nicole Kidman. But who the heck is watching all the telly she’s in?With so many services, nobody can absorb this much comedy, drama, reality, documentary, news, sport and movies – or even grasp what’s availableSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBad dream horrors The Substance and Strange Darling are instant cult classics. Plus ‘tragically familiar’ Canadian abuse documentary Sugarcane and tense French drama The Goldman CaseSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan: ‘Going out and getting wrecked ... I’m careful about when and where I do that’The 30-year-old star has already navigated nearly 20 years in the film industry. As The Outrun arrives, she talks about the challenges and what comes nextSat Sept 21 2024 - 05:30
Autumn culture preview 2024: The biggest films, TV shows, books, music, theatre and exhibitions to catchFrom Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer to Nick Cave at 3Arena and Brian Maguire at the Hugh LaneSat Sept 21 2024 - 05:15
Saoirse Ronan in Dublin: ‘I always like being able to come home and share whatever I’ve been working on’Actor takes to the red carpet at the Light House cinema for Irish premiere of Nora Fingscheidt’s latest film, The OutrunFri Sept 20 2024 - 20:04
An Evening With Wee Daniel: A cute, charming portrayal of growing up nonbinary in Daniel O’Donnell’s DonegalDublin Fringe Festival 2024: Aoife Sweeney O’Connor, an impressive raconteur, intersperses personal narrative with confidently warbled original songsFri Sept 20 2024 - 09:22
The Movie Quiz: A refrain from which Bond film features on Robbie Williams’s No1 hit, Millennium?Plus: Arthur Fleck and the last X-Men prequel suggest which Harry Potter film?Fri Sept 20 2024 - 05:00
The Goldman Case: This real-life courtroom drama is thrillingly, claustrophobically tenseThe murder trial of an irascible intellectual touches on a huge array of French discontents from the past couple of centuriesThu Sept 19 2024 - 05:00
The Substance: Demi Moore’s spectacularly disgusting body horror is a two-finger rebuke to the beauty industryThis hugely entertaining spasm favours full-frontal attack on the targets of its incensed satireWed Sept 18 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpeak No Evil, The Critic, My Favourite Cake, LeeSun Sept 15 2024 - 12:14
Morrissey’s at it again. This time it’s ‘vapourised’ Ariana Grande fans and a plot to ‘silence’ the Smiths singer The Smiths frontman believes his most recent album is being suppressed. It’s a reminder of how interesting his former band once wereSun Sept 15 2024 - 05:00
Irish boxing movie Swing Bout: ‘Kellie Harrington did us a great favour. We couldn’t have timed it better’Kellie Harrington’s Olympic win did Irish boxing feature Swing Bout a big favour, admits producer and actor Sinéad O’RiordanSat Sept 14 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: When did Brad Pitt win his first Oscar?Plus: What just won the Golden Lion?Fri Sept 13 2024 - 05:00
The Critic: Only Ian McKellen could roll these insults around his tongue with such after-dinner relishThe cast save Anand Tucker’s film, which goes from Noël Coward lite to murderous melodramaThu Sept 12 2024 - 05:00
Speak No Evil: Aisling Franciosi and James McAvoy are cracking in this bracingly uneasy horror remakeEnglish-language remake of the European film features four first-rate performances, while the shift in nationalities adds other interesting anglesTue Sept 10 2024 - 17:00
James Earl Jones: It was as if no screen was wide enough to contain him or his voiceThe acclaimed stage and screen actor, voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, has diedTue Sept 10 2024 - 09:27
Afterwards review: Impeccable performances and crackling dialogue in a play with an unmistakable purposeDublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinicTue Sept 10 2024 - 09:06
The name’s Bond ... Jamie Bond: What’s happened to 007 – and will the films ever return?It’s already three years since No Time to Die came out. And we may not see the next film in the franchise until 2026Sun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekTim Burton’s chaotic Beetlejuice sequel feels desperate, plus slow-burn folkie horror Starve Acre, superior Netflix drama Rebel Ridge, and striking Alzheimer’s doc Don’t Forget to RememberSun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion at Venice International Film FestivalSpanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first timeSat Sept 07 2024 - 20:53
The Movie Quiz: Who was not a fellow nominee when Daniel Day-Lewis won one of his Oscars?Plus: How many feature films has Barbra Streisand directed?Fri Sept 06 2024 - 05:00
Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly loseThu Sept 05 2024 - 16:14
Don’t Forget to Remember review: A fine collaboration on the struggle to live with Alzheimer’s diseaseRoss Killeen follows artist Asbestos’s family as his mother struggles to stay connected with the worldThu Sept 05 2024 - 05:00
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Fun? I nearly laughed myself awakeReal hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plotsWed Sept 04 2024 - 05:00
Starve Acre: Daniel Kokotajlo on making one of the best horror films of 2024Seven years on from his debut film The Apostasy, over which he still receives hate mail, the director follows up with an adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s much admired novelTue Sept 03 2024 - 05:15
