The Monkey review: Good old-fashioned disgusting fun. You’ll have a blastBased on the Stephen King story, Osgood Perkins’s new film delivers spectacularly gruesome beheadings, eviscerations and disembowelmentThu Feb 20 2025 - 11:12
I’m Still Here: This tale of survival is doing Barbie business in Irish cinemasWalter Salles’ Oscar-nominated film chronicles the abduction of Rubens Paiva and its aftermath during Brazil’s dictatorshipTue Feb 18 2025 - 14:01
What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and moreAs the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy AwardsSun Feb 16 2025 - 22:13
The Irish Sea is to be renamed the British Sea – and from now on underwear will be worn on the outsideA few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of AmericaSun Feb 16 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLatest Bridget Jones is both properly funny and unexpectedly poignant. Plus: drama of rootless Palestinians in Greece, eccentric adults-only Aussie animation, and Fugazi crowd-sourced concert docSun Feb 16 2025 - 05:00
Twiggy looks back: ‘You’ve got to remember I was 16. It was bloomin’ exciting. I was travelling the world. I was getting paid’Twiggy arrived like a pocket cyclone in 1966. A charming new documentary by Sadie Frost charts the rise, success and fears that came with such attentionSat Feb 15 2025 - 05:27
Iftas: Small Things Like These beats Kneecap to win best film awardCillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongsFri Feb 14 2025 - 22:24
The Movie Quiz: Which is the only Bridget Jones film not based on a Helen Fielding novel?Plus: From Which romcom is Get Him to the Greek a spinoff?Fri Feb 14 2025 - 05:00
To a Land Unknown review: This uncomfortable film about Palestinian refugees adrift in Athens sweeps you along in its momentumThe two leads invite great empathy for characters too often forced into desperate decisionsThu Feb 13 2025 - 05:00
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – Lifestyle porn? Check. Cackling friends? Check. Easily the best film in the series? CheckThe latest episode is connected to the greater sadnesses of life, not to mention properly funnyWed Feb 12 2025 - 09:00
More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane AustenThirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successorSun Feb 09 2025 - 05:30
Four new films to see this weekEngrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopicSun Feb 09 2025 - 05:00
Harrison Ford interview: ‘I always want to be involved with people who are ambitious’‘I always want to be involved with people who are ambitious,’ says veteran actorSat Feb 08 2025 - 05:20
The Movie Quiz: Which city is depicted burned to the ground in Gone With the Wind?Plus: Two of the actresses up for an Oscar have been previously nominated. Which two?Fri Feb 07 2025 - 05:00
Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season? Thu Feb 06 2025 - 05:00
The Seed of the Sacred Fig review: An odd, special, important film A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regimeThu Feb 06 2025 - 05:00
Bring Them Down review: Barry Keoghan’s new film should be called Bring Me the Head of Alfred O’Garcia Christopher Andrews’s odd debut counts as one of too many films that long to be considered displaced westernsTue Feb 04 2025 - 19:00
Peter Sarsgaard: ‘I was around all these professional actors – Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne... They all acted pretty crazy’ The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich OlympicsTue Feb 04 2025 - 06:15
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has architects up in arms – but they’re missing the pointIgnore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with furySun Feb 02 2025 - 05:45
Four new films to see this weekMike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from JapanSun Feb 02 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Stars from which TV series are going head-to-head for an Oscar?Plus: Which movie star directed Saoirse Ronan in a 2014 featureFri Jan 31 2025 - 05:00
Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north LondonThis study of a perpetually sad and pathologically abrasive woman is a rough-hewn marvelWed Jan 29 2025 - 05:30
Harry Potter hyperfans will be putting their faith in the new TV reboot. But be careful what you wish for Warner Bros has shown restraint in waiting so long to resurrect JK Rowling’s stories. Potterites will be counting on a word-perfect adaptationSun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAstonishing epic The Brutalist practically groans with ambition. Plus lo-fi spooker Presence, heartfelt indie drama Parachute, and affectionate Naples portrait Posso Entrare?Sun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
Saturday Night Live: ‘You can take the temperature of America by watching that show’Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episodeSat Jan 25 2025 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: Which James Bond has something in common with Donald Trump?Plus: Who’s the host of this year’s Oscars?Fri Jan 24 2025 - 05:00
Oscars 2025: Kneecap’s failure to get a nomination is a genuine upsetBiopic of the West Belfast rap trio lost out on Oscar nomination for best international picture and best original songThu Jan 23 2025 - 16:58
Oscars 2025 nominations today: What are the chances for Kneecap, Saoirse Ronan and Cillian Murphy? Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nodThu Jan 23 2025 - 06:30
Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples review: Trudie Styler’s documentary offers brutal truths and blissful sunlit escapeThe core interview is with the stoical writer Roberto Saviano, who regrets publishing his 2006 novel, GomorrahThu Jan 23 2025 - 05:00
The Brutalist review: Adrien Brody’s Jewish refugee mud-wrestles American capitalism in this astonishing filmBrady Corbet’s cold-eyed third film allows the possibilities of the United States while admitting the Faustian costsWed Jan 22 2025 - 05:00
John Sayles: ‘For the last 25 years it’s been hard for me to get screenwriting work, much less actually get a movie made’The one-time darling of independent cinema is keeping busy, most recently with Save the Man, a novel about exploitation of Native AmericansWed Jan 22 2025 - 04:22
The Traitors makes no sense. Its logic is flimsy, its flaws obvious. So why do I happily yell through three episodes a week?Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviouslySun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMuch trumpeted Bob Dylan biopic is pleasant but bland hagiography. Plus surprisingly original monster mash The Wolf Man, moving speculative documentary Pepe, and slick but decidedly unerotic remake of ‘70s softcore sensation EmmanuelleSun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Cameron Diaz: ‘I left movies because I wanted to live my life differently. We started our family, and that was all I wanted to do’The 1990s megastar is back on screen alongside Jamie Foxx in Netflix thriller Back in ActionSat Jan 18 2025 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: Pick the actor who was not in Saving Private Ryan?Plus: How many Terminator films are there?Fri Jan 17 2025 - 05:00
David Lynch: the surrealist who combined depravity with wholesome iconography of small-town USADeath of film-maker David Lynch: With Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart it seemed, for a brief magic moment, as if Lynch’s version of the avant-garde could really sit at the centre of mainstream culture. It was not to beThu Jan 16 2025 - 21:00
A Complete Unknown review: As Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet works his wee nasal cavity to deathJames Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fansThu Jan 16 2025 - 05:00
Wolf Man review: Shocker finds new ways of turning the stomach as it honours the great werewolf tradition Leigh Whannell’s focus on the psychological over the physical may alienate some gorehounds, but it makes for an original take with subtexts that lingerWed Jan 15 2025 - 17:00
‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language filmBaftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chanceWed Jan 15 2025 - 15:30
Kneecap film and Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These lead Ifta nominationsIrish Film and Television Academy awards: Say Nothing and Bad Sisters among other nomineesTue Jan 14 2025 - 08:00
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-makingSun Jan 12 2025 - 05:15
Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I’ve seen’ is big win for the churchThe conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accuratelySun Jan 12 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who wears the balaclava in Kneecap? Plus: Who wears the balaclava in Kneecap?Fri Jan 10 2025 - 05:00
Maria review: Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera starPablo Larraín’s film attempts to grasp the real human while wallowing in the gorgeousness of it allThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
A Real Pain review: Kieran Culkin could be on an unstoppable run to an Oscar for this touching, funny dramaJesse Eisenberg’s light-fingered second directorial effort is a touching, funny drama that allows truths to emerge subtly and sometimes ambiguouslyWed Jan 08 2025 - 05:00
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoorsWhat to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and moreTue Jan 07 2025 - 10:32
Golden Globes 2025: Colin Farrell wins award for The Penguin as Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist triumphAdrien Brody and Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres win main acting awards at a lively Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles that delivered a few surprisesMon Jan 06 2025 - 05:52
Four new films to see this week Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, We Live in Time, BeezelSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
What U2 knew about the United States that some quintessentially English stars didn’tBetter Man, the new Robbie Williams biopic, has been baffling Americans. Hitting a wall in the US really can be to do with being just a little too foreignSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she saysSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
