Four new films to see this week: Iron Maiden – Burning Ambition, Trad, The Sheep Detectives, and Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The TourBruce Dickinson, Megan Nic Fhionnghaile, Hugh Jackman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 8, 2026Sun May 10 2026 - 04:54
Chris O’Dowd and Jane Fonda to play Niall O’Dowd and Jean Kennedy Smith in peace process dramaCiarán Hinds and John C Reilly also to star in Ceasefire, from In the Name of the Father writer Terry GeorgeFri May 08 2026 - 09:52
The Movie Quiz: Who has not directed a Fast & Furious title?Plus: Which golfer makes a celebrity cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2?Fri May 08 2026 - 04:58
Trad review: Hats off to any film that can leave audiences on such a highLance Daly’s Irish road trip hits high notes with a star turn from Megan Nic FhionnghaileThu May 07 2026 - 05:12
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition review – Tight pants, greasy leather and a very excited Javier BardemThis decent documentary about the English heavy metal band is maybe a little short on humourWed May 06 2026 - 05:10
Gary Lydon’s sudden death comes before release of film in which he took a rare leading role Lydon’s death comes before the release of a film in which he took a rare leading roleSun May 03 2026 - 14:48
Derry Girls actor Kathy Kiera Clarke: ‘I feel like everything I did before doesn’t exist in many ways’Actor Kathy Kiera Clarke, best known as Derry Girls’ Aunt Sarah, on how the Troubles shaped her early lifeSun May 03 2026 - 06:00
Talk of New York-Jersey World Cup trek fuels one of history’s longest-running conflictsUS authorities have warned against soccer fans walking 15km to the MetLife Stadium but train tickets reportedly cost $150Sun May 03 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Song Cycle, Hokum, Reflection in a Dead DiamondMeryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Adam Scott and Nick Kelly feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 1st, 2026Sun May 03 2026 - 04:53
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played title character in a Francis Ford Coppola film?Plus: What sort of beans did Hannibal Lecter like with his liver?Fri May 01 2026 - 04:57
The Song Cycle review: Lovely film from an Irish original makes the most of a simple ideaMusician Nick Kelly decides to cycle from Dublin to Glastonbury, on a trip that becomes a meditation on his passage through lifeThu Apr 30 2026 - 05:10
The Devil Wears Prada 2 review: Lovely clothes. Savage quips. And a cameo by a celebrated Irish golferMeryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly in this extended, kindly, good-looking exercise in fan serviceWed Apr 29 2026 - 17:00
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt on making The Devil Wears Prada 2The film revisits Miranda Priestly’s empire as print, power and prestige face digital disruptionTue Apr 28 2026 - 06:00
‘It’s run by a bunch of sanctimonious bloody Americans’: The weird world of the Rock & Roll Hall of FameUS citizens seem to secretly yearn for the honours system they abandoned in 1776Sun Apr 26 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Mother Mary, Rose of Nevada, Michael, Exit 8Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, George MacKay, Callum Turner and Michael Jackson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 24th, 2026Sun Apr 26 2026 - 04:49
Think the new Michael Jackson film is bad? Meet the curse of the musical biopicThe musical biopic has, over the past few years, proved irresistible to risk-aversive HollywoodFri Apr 24 2026 - 05:14
The Movie Quiz: How many Christopher Nolan features have just one word as a title?Plus: Who has not written a novel that became an Oscar best-picture winner?Fri Apr 24 2026 - 04:51
Rose of Nevada review: Mark Jenkin explores the slipperiness of time in this extraordinary filmThe Cornwall filmmaker’s most orthodox work yet concerns fisherman who travel back in time while aboard a vessel that seemed to have vanished decades earlierThu Apr 23 2026 - 05:10
Anne Hathaway gives her best performance yet in Mother Mary: Approach with an open mindDavid Lowery’s latest movie blends pop spectacle with psychological unease in a stylised but opaque dramaWed Apr 22 2026 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Wizard of the Kremlin, The Blue TrailJack Reynor, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jude Law feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 16th, 2026Sun Apr 19 2026 - 04:58
Mark Jenkin on his bigger-budget film Rose of Nevada: ‘You don’t want to be luxuriating too much’The singular Cornish film-maker’s latest eerie maritime flick centres on a timeslip back to ancient 1993Fri Apr 17 2026 - 05:15
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
