How to Train Your Dragon star Mason Thames: ‘My driver, Niall, would tell me the craziest stories about growing up in Belfast’The young Texan actor got daily history lessons about Northern Ireland while making what’s set to be one of the summer’s biggest filmsMon Jun 09 2025 - 12:38
The Encampments director Kei Pritsker: ‘The students risked a lot to stand with the people of Gaza. That’s tremendous’Documenting the protests at Columbia University in solidarity with Palestinians, Pritsker did not think he would end up making a filmSat Jun 07 2025 - 05:13
Sydney Sweeney is selling her bathwater. What has become of us?Euphoria actor Sydney Sweeney is selling traces of her bathwater to panting fansFri Jun 06 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the last Pixar film to win the animated feature Oscar?Plus: Who soon succeed James Whale, Terence Fisher and Kenneth Branagh?Fri Jun 06 2025 - 05:00
Juliet & Romeo review: Never was a story more woefulBogart brothers’ variation on Shakespeare’s play is dull, bland and full of dreary sub-boyband balladsThu Jun 05 2025 - 05:02
The Encampments review: Taut, disciplined documentary about Palestine protests at Columbia UniversityKei Pritsker and Michael Workman’s film may win over few hostile to the college occupations, but it offers an important record of how the campaign developedWed Jun 04 2025 - 05:02
25 films to check out in summer 2025: From Liam Neeson in Naked Gun to Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: RebirthAmid a summer of remakes and sequels, there are some smaller gems to seek outMon Jun 02 2025 - 05:12
Four new films to see this weekSundance hit The Ballad of Wallis Island is a cult comedy fave in the making. Plus a strong French melodrama, a troubled British couple on the move, and another routine Karate Kid retoolingSun Jun 01 2025 - 05:00
Why Natasha Lyonne’s Poker Face is the new ColumboLike Peter Falk’s character, Natasha Lyonne’s inverts the whodunit structure of the traditional detective story Sun Jun 01 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film...ever?Plus: Which 1970s TV show is, apparently, currently in cinemas?Fri May 30 2025 - 05:00
Along Came Love review: Diverting melodrama just about delivers on early promise of knotty personal dramaDirector Katell Quillévéré’s saga of wavering emotional dynamics is easy on the eye but doesn’t tax the brainThu May 29 2025 - 05:02
The Salt Path review: Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson go on a very English journey of self-discoveryA homeless couple gain wisdom through walking 1,000km of the West Country in a gently amusing if one-paced rambleWed May 28 2025 - 05:00
Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltzThe French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprisesMon May 26 2025 - 05:02
Mission impossible: If you want to see how desperate Hollywood is, just look at what happens to movie titlesHollywood’s serial chopping and changing of franchise movie titles shows the studios will go to any lenghts to Anything to grab audiences’ attentionSun May 25 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Phoenician Scheme, The Flats, When the Light BreaksSun May 25 2025 - 04:45
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an AccidentHarry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard sectionSat May 24 2025 - 20:22
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest filmSat May 24 2025 - 05:28
The Movie Quiz: How long has Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise gone on for?Plus: Which was the first film in colour to win best picture at the Oscars?Fri May 23 2025 - 07:50
The Flats: Excellent post-Troubles documentary that illuminates how trauma can nag away for decadesMost of Alessandra Celesia’s film focuses on a man who finds it hard to set aside the old unhappinessFri May 23 2025 - 05:00
No popcorn, no phones, no buckets of fast food: you realise how bad Irish cinemas are when you see films in ideal surroundingsGoing to the movies was never so idyllic as old bores pretend. But handheld devices and noisy food have made it so much worseSun May 18 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekExcellent performances in harrowing thriller Hallow Road. Plus an enjoyably nasty comic horror sequel, a low-key coming of age drama and a scattershot satire of Americans abroadSun May 18 2025 - 05:00
Bono at Cannes: ‘You wrote this story. The Edge wrote this story. Adam and Larry wrote this story. McGuinness wrote this story’The film version of the singer’s stage show Stories of Surrender received a seven-minute standing ovationSat May 17 2025 - 10:12
Cannes 2025: Tom Cruise’s death-defying wing-walking, and the festival’s ban on an actor accused of assaultCannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Sound of Falling, The Left-Handed Girl, and Two ProsecutorsFri May 16 2025 - 09:11
Cannes film festival 2025 quiz: What is the Palme d’Or-winning film on this year’s poster?To tie into the 78th edition of the festival, a special all-Cannes queryFri May 16 2025 - 05:00
First Look: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise gets all sentimental amid some suave mayhemMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at Cannes film festival: the closing film in the Tom Cruise series takes itself far too seriouslyWed May 14 2025 - 21:00
Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudityCannes Diary: French film festival’s opening day contends with news from Gérard Depardieu’s sexual-assault trialWed May 14 2025 - 10:08
Hallow Road review: You can’t deny the chutzpah of this filmed-in-a-car minor classic Few so economical features have had such unsettling fun in the dark, dark woodsWed May 14 2025 - 05:06
Final Destination: Bloodlines review – The same running gag, but not quite as much inventionIt’s astonishing just how bloodthirsty the film-makers can be in what is essentially a comedyWed May 14 2025 - 05:02
Is this the end for Gérard Depardieu? Polite society in France may argue otherwiseDepardieu’s sexual assault convictions will challenge those intent on finding his dissolution charmingTue May 13 2025 - 16:43
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questionsThe Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars successMon May 12 2025 - 05:30
Donald Trump says the US is in danger of ‘messaging and propaganda’ from international cinema. Pull the other oneWhen Donald Trump proposed slapping a 100% tariff on movies produced overseas, he left film-makers scratching their headsSun May 11 2025 - 05:30
Four new films to see this weekPortrait of the Nazi movie propagandist Leni Riefenstahl still outrages. Plus a fascinatingly freaky Nicolas Cage vehicle, David Attenborough’s voyage to the bottom of the sea, and a so-so remake of Ang Lee’s one-time indie hit The Wedding BanquetSun May 11 2025 - 05:00
‘Sometimes the reality is more Spinal Tap than Spinal Tap’: Philly Byrne of Gama Bomb on Irish thrash metal and the band’s new filmThe lead singer riffs on friendship, Newry and guitar-shaped swimming poolsSat May 10 2025 - 05:17
The Movie Quiz: Ronan, Farrell, Gleeson, Keoghan – who has yet to be directed by Neil Jordan?Which film earned Meryl Streep the most recent of her 21 Oscar nominations?Fri May 09 2025 - 05:00
Riefenstahl review: Unrepentant propagandist will make you want to yell at the screen, but this fine film gets her in the endAndres Veiel focuses on the film-maker’s tireless efforts to distance herself from Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regimeThu May 08 2025 - 05:05
The Surfer review: Nicolas Cage, after too many wipeouts, catches a great waveThe Irish director Lorcan Finnegan has made a fascinating, weird, freaky dramaWed May 07 2025 - 05:03
‘We would go to motels to have sex. In Brazil, as in every Catholic country, there’s a huge degree of hypocrisy’Film-maker Aïnouz talks about Berlin parties, taking back Brazil from the military and coming to see cinema as an artform that can change the worldMon May 05 2025 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: The hottest TV show you’ve never seen could land in Ireland next year. Are these people insane?Noah Wyle's new medical drama is taking its time getting to the Old WorldSun May 04 2025 - 05:45
Four new films to see this weekThunderbolts*, Amongst the Wolves, Screamboat and Parthenope among film highlightsSun May 04 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which is the only Bridget Jones not to feature Hugh Grant?Plus: What is the highest grossing English-language film of 2025? Fri May 02 2025 - 05:00
Amongst the Wolves review: This Irish drug dealer is in debt to a villain played by Aidan Gillen. That never bodes wellLuke McQuillan makes the most of a breakthrough lead in this grim survey of stubborn urban discontentsWed Apr 30 2025 - 08:22
Thunderbolts* review: Florence Pugh stars in the least bad of Marvel’s trilogy of obscure team-up flicksFlorence Pugh and David Harbour star in jokey romp at home to tolerable quips amid mounting chaosTue Apr 29 2025 - 17:26
Magic movies: The 25 best comedies of the past 25 years – in reverse orderFrom Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 yearsMon Apr 28 2025 - 05:19
John Murry on being abused: ‘Those experiences as a teenager made me angry and they made me write. They gave me a lot of rage’Singular US musician and former resident of Ireland is the subject of a fine documentary, The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John MurryMon Apr 28 2025 - 04:59
No, I didn’t watch Sinners all the way through before giving it five starsRyan Coogler’s terrific film has a post-credits sequence that adds important plot points. What the hell’s going on?Sun Apr 27 2025 - 05:30
Four new films to see this weekFréwaka is an eerie, subtle delve into Celtic mythology. Plus a gruesome Norwegian reworking of Cinderella, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in a gentle story of friendship, and a thoroughly original drama from GeorgiaSun Apr 27 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many times have DiCaprio and Scorsese worked together?Plus: Who’s playing Ringo in the upcoming Beatles tetralogy?Fri Apr 25 2025 - 05:00
‘I couldn’t sit through it’: New Oscars rule requires members to watch all films before votingDonald Clarke: There has been speculation that this is good news for low-budget titles, but expect no seismic shiftThu Apr 24 2025 - 11:18
April review: This five-star film is difficult and abrasive, but it’s also cinematic poetryDea Kulumbegashvili’s sprawling meditation on gynaecological morality is unlike anything else in cinemasThu Apr 24 2025 - 05:00
The Friend review: Bill Murray and Naomi Watts are genuinely touching in this lovely New York fantasy The newcomer Bing is full of charm as the dog whose presence causes Watts’s character to confront what’s missing in her lifeWed Apr 23 2025 - 05:00
