Gladiator II trailer: Paul Mescal muscles his way in with biff, bang and ouchIrish actor Paul Mescal is all muscle amid the sieges, riots and killer rhinos as he channels Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s epic sequelTue Jul 09 2024 - 19:18
Axel F is a ‘legacy sequel’, apparently. Is this mangling of language to be our legacy?Movie insiders use the term neutrally, but surely few outside the business can say the words with a straight face?Sun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekGripping Irish drama The Sparrow, plus 1980s retread Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, 1980s-set slasher MaXXXine, and strange Japanese anime Blue Lock the Movie: Episode NagiSun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is Donald Trump’s big line in Home Alone 2?Plus: Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins was only nominated for which two Oscars?Fri Jul 05 2024 - 05:00
Blue Lock The Movie: Episode Nagi review – Football reimagined as a heightened form of futuristic warfareStrange deconstruction of beautiful game believes ego is the defining characteristic of a special striker. You don’t get that in Escape to VictoryThu Jul 04 2024 - 05:00
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s comic gifts still in place but this looks to have staggered in from another centuryMurphy reminds us what caused so many heads to laugh themselves off shoulders during his pompWed Jul 03 2024 - 00:01
Cork actor Éanna Hardwicke: ‘There is a shift. Young men are more open’In his new film, The Sparrow, the Bafta nominee plays a character constricted by old-fashioned masculinity. His own generation is less confined, he saysSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:15
Sean Penn and the gay roles debate: We are still negotiating a huge shift in identity politicsAcknowledging once-ignored sensitivities is progress but nuance is preferable to black-and-white binariesSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekA Quiet Place: Day One, A Greyhound of a Girl, Kinds of Kindness, Eternal YouSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who appeared in all three of the Godfathers?Plus: Add Amigos to Samurai and divide by Da Bloods. What do you get?Fri Jun 28 2024 - 05:00
A Quiet Place: Day One – Gnarly prequel is even more sombre than its predecessorsThis film stands out most for its commitment to fleshy humanity, and a memorable sci-fi felineThu Jun 27 2024 - 14:00
Kinds of Kindness review: A pounding headache might be the only reward for your patienceYorgos Lanthimos’s new triptych film features the talented Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and others, but it dissolves into a mess of half-decent ideasWed Jun 26 2024 - 05:00
Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap, Succession star Brian Cox and Mary Robinson documentary top billThe Fleadh forms the summer fulcrum around which the domestic cinematic year swivelsTue Jun 25 2024 - 18:00
Amnesiac: A Memoir by Neil Jordan - zippy, valuable and suitably odd Meandering recollections and thoughts from the film-maker who, along with Jim Sheridan, became a John the Baptist for the cultural revolution that was to overtake Ireland from the mid-1990sMon Jun 24 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Bikeriders, The Exorcism, Green Border, Something in the WaterSun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
Our planeload of furious citizens sniffed and tutted as the music blared. We’re on a highway to hellWe used to complain about people talking too loudly on their mobile phones. Now loudcasting has crossed the generationsSun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos LanthimosIf you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of KindnessSat Jun 22 2024 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: If Titanic is the highest grossing winner of the Best Picture Oscar, what comes second?Plus: An adaptation of which John McGahern novel just won best film at the Iftas?Fri Jun 21 2024 - 05:00
Donald Sutherland was a fearless actor who brought frightening energy to many rolesThe actor, who was born in Canada, never received an Oscar nomination despite starring in groundbreaking filmsThu Jun 20 2024 - 21:00
Something in the Water review: A mercifully short attempt at Bridget Jones with sharksHuge sections are taken up with the characters gossiping in viscera-thick water as they might while queuing for the bathroom at the pubThu Jun 20 2024 - 05:00
The Sugar Wife review: Siobhán Cullen and Chris Walley star in elegant revival of drama loaded with moral quandariesAnnabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitorsWed Jun 19 2024 - 09:07
The Bikeriders review: Jodie Comer ensures you pay attention to this violent, sometimes tragic biker-gang sagaThis flawed, fascinating film, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, resists the hollow allure of cheap tribalismWed Jun 19 2024 - 05:00
The last of the Dunnes: ‘Someone in a bar said, You are like the Kennedys. That really offended me’Actor Griffin Dunne on his Irish-American family, including his father Dominick Dunne and sister Dominique, who was murdered as a young womanMon Jun 17 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe onset of puberty sends Riley around the bend in excellent sequel Inside Out 2, plus offbeat Bigfoot dramedy Sasquatch Sunset, Ama Gloria from France and Hounds from MoroccoSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
In film, depictions of death by robot are everywhere. The perils of midlife redundancy by AI, not so muchIt’s too dull for Hollywood to portray, but we can already identify with being put out of a job by a characterless sliver of softwareSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Those Bad Boys are back again. But back where? Plus: Those Bad Boys are back again. But back where?Fri Jun 14 2024 - 05:00
Hounds review: Ingenious thriller with a streak of anthracite-black humourA father and son must dispose of a corpse before morning in lean thriller set in contemporary CasablancaThu Jun 13 2024 - 05:00
Inside Out 2 review: Will Pixar’s new movie trigger a diplomatic incident? Either way, it deserves to be seenAdèle Exarchopoulos as the dark, heavily fringed, polo-necked embodiment of Ennui is borderline geniusWed Jun 12 2024 - 20:00
Sade Malone: ‘We had lots of conversations about the characters’ black Irishness. That’s something really relevant now, to be black and Irish’The unstoppable young actor on her flourishing career, leading John B Keane’s Sive and being cast in Twig, a new film set in a dystopian, gang-run DublinSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:15
Hollywood is at death’s door again. Twitchy movie-industry analysts have found a fall guy Less than a year since Barbenheimer, The Fall Guy and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga have been box-office dudsSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekProto-feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, plus witty true-life Hit Man, period French drama Rosalie, and another big-boom Bad Boys sequelSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which film has made the most money so far in 2024?Plus: Where do the fadas go in the title of the all-conquering Irish film An Cailin Ciuin?Fri Jun 07 2024 - 05:00
Rosalie review: attractive period drama about ‘the original bearded lady’Clémentine Delait strives to shake off rural prejudice in early-19th-century FranceThu Jun 06 2024 - 05:00
Bad Boys: Ride or Die – Will Smith, in his first big film since the Oscars slap, can still twinkle. Martin Lawrence puffs and wheezesAdil & Bilall’s follow-up to Bad Boys for Life is a muddle of set pieces, some impressive but most unintelligibleTue Jun 04 2024 - 21:00
Amid a quasi-reinvention, this is Jeremy Clarkson’s best show yetDonald Clarke: Clarkson’s Farm deserves more than grudging respectSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRediscovered Irish folk horror The Outcasts, plus Sting, The Beast and Gasoline RainbowSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
The Beast: One can only nod in agreement when Léa Seydoux shouts ‘what the f*** are you talking about?’This insanely knotty art house brain-botherer is worth worrying atFri May 31 2024 - 05:10
The Movie Quiz: Who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024?What comes after Bride, Son, Ghost and a meeting with the Wolfman?Fri May 31 2024 - 05:00
Sting: a horribly diverting creature feature of which the late Roger Corman would surely have approvedEnjoyable yarn about giant spider eating everything that moves is fun for all the family (aged 16 and over)Fri May 31 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024 felt like a dud. But then the Palme d’Or race took off – and a great new talent arrivedA volley of superb late entrants, including Anora and All We Imagine as Light, created one of the closest races in decadesMon May 27 2024 - 05:15
Demi Moore has just made one of the great film comebacks. How did that happen?Donald Clarke: Cannes film festival has gone wild for the biggest star of 1995. Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?Sun May 26 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekFerocious Furiosa is the craziest show on Earth. Plus Irish documentaries on Charlie Bird and Chinese music competitors, and an eerie Pakistani social horrorSun May 26 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s screwball comedy Anora wins Palme d’OrKinds of Kindness, latest collaboration between Dublin’s Element Pictures and Yorgos Lanthimos, scoops award for Jesse Plemons’s performanceSat May 25 2024 - 20:57
The Movie Quiz: How many Stephen King adaptations have won an Oscar?Plus: Which iconic old-timer shares his name with the doomed protagonist of Psycho?Fri May 24 2024 - 05:00
Ransom ’79 review: Charlie Bird and the £5m plot to blackmail the Irish governmentMuch-loved RTÉ journalist left a fascinating piece of semi-finished business when he died earlier this yearThu May 23 2024 - 05:15
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy has barely any lines. The plot is irrelevant. The mayhem is operaticA good three-quarters of the screenplay might read ‘automotive hell breaks out’Wed May 22 2024 - 05:00
Sardines, trawlers and ‘sympathising a little bit with Hitler’: The agony of the press conference Donald Clarke: At Cannes, be prepared for often humdrum occasions to turn into the most surreal and uncomfortable eventsSun May 19 2024 - 05:00
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth goingFri May 17 2024 - 13:36
Cannes 2024: Bird review – Barry Keoghan excels as a likeable dad geezerFilm showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elementsFri May 17 2024 - 09:06
Cannes 2024 Movie Quiz Special: How many women have won the Palme d’Or for directing?Test your movie mastery with our 2024 Cannes film festival special quizFri May 17 2024 - 06:00
