The Movie Quiz: Who has not played the title character in a John Boorman film?Plus: What’s missing: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink, Brown?Fri Apr 17 2026 - 04:59
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy review: This nauseating Irish horror film is an absolute blastTalented Dublin director of the title is proving to be a master prankster of the genreThu Apr 16 2026 - 14:00
A Greenland shark is the sort of chap you could go for a pint withSligo stranding of creature that can live for 500 years a reminder of how we foolishly imagine ourselves divinely engineered superbeingsThu Apr 16 2026 - 13:10
Kiss of the Spider Woman review: Jennifer Lopez brings the house down. But it’s not quite enoughJ-Lo makes the best of latest musical adaptation of 1976 novel but much about production feels underpowered and poorly thought throughThu Apr 16 2026 - 05:12
Cannes 2026: Barry Keoghan, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew films win prestige slotsButterfly Jam and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning to screen in Directors’ Fortnight. Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle announced for Critics’ WeekWed Apr 15 2026 - 04:59
Ciarán Hinds: ‘Liam Neeson wanted a go at being a film star. I didn’t have that in my DNA’As his new film, The Three Urns, arrives, the actor talks on-set reunions, ‘proper adventures’ and his Belfast upbringing free from ‘awareness of the huge tribal divide’Sun Apr 12 2026 - 05:17
The Z-factor: Zendaya and the secret of The Drama’s successDid film’s crafty marketing campaign work or are people queuing up to see movie stars again?Sun Apr 12 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Father Mother Sister Brother, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany, The StrangerTom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Halle Bailey, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 10th, 2026Sun Apr 12 2026 - 04:55
The Stranger review: eerily beautiful, psychologically acute Camus adaptationFrançois Ozon’s project, though touched with adjacent misery, represents a desirable sort of existenceFri Apr 10 2026 - 05:10
The Movie Quiz: The Maltese Falcon ends with a slight misquote from what play?Plus: What film just broke the all-time record for the most losses at the Oscars?Fri Apr 10 2026 - 04:53
Cannes 2026: John Travolta and Barbra Streisand set to walk red carpet as film festival announces official selectionCould Irish stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew feature in Directors Fortnight?Thu Apr 09 2026 - 15:31
You, Me & Tuscany review: another patronising Hollywood comedy replete with thumping stereotypesA dazzled and bemused Halle Bailey leads this rattlebrained romcom from Kat CoiroThu Apr 09 2026 - 05:00
Aer Lingus has begun its free in-flight wifi. Bang goes a rare oasis of tranquillitySoon the only place a person will get free of online badgering is when under general anaestheticSun Apr 05 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Fuze, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, AmélieAaron Taylor-Johnson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kim Novak and Audrey Tautou feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 3rd, 2026Sun Apr 05 2026 - 04:57
James McAvoy: ‘I’m 75% Donegal. We’re so similar yet so different. I think the difference is independence’The actor and California Schemin’ director on accents, X-Men and the thorniest issue in Scottish politicsFri Apr 03 2026 - 05:17
The Movie Quiz: Who missed out at this year’s Oscars?Plus: Which class of Italian professional lands back in cinemas this week?Fri Apr 03 2026 - 04:52
Kim Novak’s Vertigo review: Fascinating conversation with still astute and connected starFocus of Alexandre O Philippe documentary changed from Hitchcock’s Vertigo to 93-year-old Novak’s life and extraordinary careerThu Apr 02 2026 - 05:10
Fuze review: Bomb disposal thriller opens with suspense but struggles to sustain the blastAaron Taylor-Johnson leads a starry cast in David Mackenzie’s London-set thrillerWed Apr 01 2026 - 05:12
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: What did Mario do to offend Bob Hoskins? Plus nine other key questions about the film’s starBy 1990, Nintendo’s dungaree-wearing plumber was already bigger than Mickey Mouse. Even Salman Rushdie was a fanMon Mar 30 2026 - 05:18
‘Who the f**k is Moby?’ How The Kinks’ musical spat blew upLola, which the New York musician took issue with, came out 56 years ago. That’s a long time in pop music and a geologic aeon in gender politicsSun Mar 29 2026 - 17:01
Four new films to see this week: Four Prosecutors, DJ Ahmet, Orwell 2+2=5 and Below the CloudsAleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Arif Jakup and Agush Agushev feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 27, 2026Sun Mar 29 2026 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which film does not feature a briefish Harrison Ford performance?Plus: Who, apart from the director himself, has appeared in the most Woody Allen films?Fri Mar 27 2026 - 04:59
DJ Ahmet review: Beats and bleats in a hugely lively coming-of-age dramaGeorgi M Unkovski’s energetically scored romp features an array of awkward oddballs for the agesThu Mar 26 2026 - 05:10
Two Prosecutors: depicting totalitarianism as a boringly efficient mechanismGreat Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa weaves absurd theatre with historical inspirations from Soviet purges of the 1930sWed Mar 25 2026 - 05:12
Harry Styles looks to be here for the duration. He deserves to beThe One Direction singer has mutated into a perfectly modulated star for a generation at home with all sorts of ambiguitySun Mar 22 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Project Hail Mary, Dead Man’s Wire, Midwinter Break and La GraziaRyan Gosling, Bill Skarsgard, Al Pacino, Lesley Manville, Ciarán Hinds and Toni Servillo feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 20th, 2026Sun Mar 22 2026 - 05:00
House of Guinness actor Danielle Galligan: ‘People say I choose interesting roles. Choose? I’m begging people to hire me!’The Spilt Milk, Walsh Sisters and House of Guinness star on experimental theatre, moving to London and working with Marian KeyesSat Mar 21 2026 - 05:17
Chuck Norris was unique among movie stars for being tough as characters he playedBy the 1980s, he was a new kind of celebrity – among the first stars to profit from the rise of home videoFri Mar 20 2026 - 17:07
The Movie Quiz: Who has not provided the source for a Hitchcock film?Plus: Oscar Levant’s famous quote ‘I knew her before she was a virgin’, was about whom?Fri Mar 20 2026 - 04:59
Midwinter Break review: Suppressed emotions and gentle ambiguitiesCiarán Hinds and Lesley Manville play an Irish couple in this adaptation of Bernard MacLaverty’s novel Thu Mar 19 2026 - 05:10
Oscars 2027: Which films will be up for best picture? Donald Clarke predicts the nomineesFrom Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, a look at next year’s potential best-picture contendersTue Mar 17 2026 - 05:11
Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley finishes a job started by three other Irish starsThe Hamnet star, winner of the Academy Award for best actress, had seemed unstoppable for monthsMon Mar 16 2026 - 05:50
Jessie Buckley to her husband: ‘Fred, I love you. I want 20,000 more babies with you’The Irish star, picking up the Academy Award for best actress for her heart-rending turn in Hamnet, is one of two Irish winnersMon Mar 16 2026 - 05:03
Film-maker Neil Jordan: ‘I go to my local cinema ... normally sitting in a totally empty hall’Jordan, who started out as a writer, has rarely gone longer than three years without releasing a filmSun Mar 15 2026 - 06:00
Comfort viewing: Is Gilmore Girls the ultimate feel-better TV?Amy Sherman-Palladino’s comedy-drama came into its own in the streaming era, moving ahead of Friends on NetflixSun Mar 15 2026 - 05:15
Oscars 2026: How to watch, which races to stay glued to and everything else you need to knowIrish Academy Award nominees Jessie Buckley, Richard Baneham, John Kelly and Andrew Freedman will all be at Sunday night’s ceremony Sun Mar 15 2026 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: One Last Deal, Resurrection, Scarlet and A Pale View of HillsDanny Dyer, Jackson Yee, Suzu Hirose and Yoh Yoshida feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 13th, 2026Sun Mar 15 2026 - 05:00
Oscars 2026: Is Jessie Buckley really a cert? We predict who will win and who should winUnless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy AwardSat Mar 14 2026 - 06:00
Oscars 2026: All of Ireland’s Academy Award wins, including two doubles and a tripleIf Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winnersFri Mar 13 2026 - 05:16
The Movie Quiz: Which film is nominated for the most Oscars this year?Plus: Who claimed that the Oscar was so named as she had noted its backside resembled that of her uncle Oscar?Fri Mar 13 2026 - 04:55
Resurrection review: Stories combine into gorgeous knot, never fully untiedShot with extravagant beauty by Dong Jingsong, Resurrection makes more sense on first viewing than the director perhaps allowsThu Mar 12 2026 - 05:12
One Last Deal review: Danny Dyer delivers frantic football agent performanceIrish director Brendan Muldowney’s drama brings tension and claustrophobia to a single office settingWed Mar 11 2026 - 05:10
Project Hail Mary review: Galaxy-spanning blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling is a sentimental treatPhil Lord and Christopher Miller’s film is old-school American can-do at its most inventive and humaneTue Mar 10 2026 - 13:00
Not convinced by The Bride!? Try James Whale’s imperishable Bride of Frankenstein insteadNew film starring Jessie Buckley, a giant riff on Whale’s horror, might send audiences back to 1935 classicSun Mar 08 2026 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar?Plus: Which of these stars has worked with the most female directors?Fri Mar 06 2026 - 05:00
Actor Dave Franco: ‘My idea of an exciting night is dinner with my wife, a documentary, then asleep by 9.30pm’Although the younger Franco brother plays himself in Seth Rogan’s The Studio, it turns out to be a ‘turned up to 11’ versionThu Mar 05 2026 - 05:14
Jessie Buckley’s brash new Bride of Frankenstein film leaves no artery unslicedMaggie Gyllenhaal’s sincerely intended but slightly rickety The Bride! just about gets by on suave style and committed performancesWed Mar 04 2026 - 20:00
Sound of Falling: Forbidding film that richly rewards audiencesMascha Schilinski’s second feature employs a comprehensive cinematic arsenal to tell a tale of abuse, unease and alienationWed Mar 04 2026 - 05:10
Actor Awards: Jessie Buckley wins again with best actress award for HamnetSinners and Michael B Jordan are big winners at the former SAG (Screen Actors Guild) awards; Paul Mescal loses out to Sean Penn for best supporting actor Mon Mar 02 2026 - 06:47
Actor Amanda Seyfried: ‘My husband and I both love Ireland so much’Star of The Testament of Ann Lee has taken some unlikely career swerves. It makes it easier to disappear into roles, she saysSun Mar 01 2026 - 05:23
