Ali Soozandeh: tackling the taboos of setting a film in TehranTo shoot ‘Tehran Taboo’, a story of sex and corruption in a theocratic society, the director chose rotoscope animation. ‘A city cannot be faked. It always has its own look,’ he saysThu Oct 04 2018 - 05:00
The Simpsons, series 30: After 640 episodes it feels as out of date as The FlintstonesThe show no longer reaches the heights of the 1990s. Maybe it should slip into retirementThu Oct 04 2018 - 05:00
Venom: Tom Hardy is so over the top, the film never gets boringReview: Tom Hardy comes across like Marlon Brando playing Animal from the MuppetsWed Oct 03 2018 - 10:00
A Star Is Born: Lady Gaga is exotic when she’s ordinary and rooted when she’s fantasticReview: The first hour is as funny and romantic as any mainstream film this decadeTue Oct 02 2018 - 05:00
A Star is Born: Bradley Cooper’s film is the third – arguably fourth – remake of the same movieWill the new Lady Gaga film make as much cash as the Barbra Streisand version?Mon Oct 01 2018 - 06:00
Multiverse review: A delightful exercise in creative torqueDublin Theatre Festival: Louis Vanhaverbeke shows off his staggeringly precise skillsFri Sept 28 2018 - 08:40
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Wife, Nureyev, The MeetingFri Sept 28 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Will the real Sherlock Holmes please stand up?Also: 007’s first American director and who has not hosted the Golden Globes?Fri Sept 28 2018 - 05:55
The Meeting: Real-life rape story is uncomfortable viewingReview: This unusual film is powerful and unsettling, but what are we watching?Fri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00
Everyone’s talking about ‘Saturday Night Live’, but who’s laughing?Saoirse Ronan’s Aer Lingus sketch shows SNL’s humour is trapped in a liberal-elite bubbleFri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00
Night School: As idiotic as you’d expect a Kevin Hart film to beReview: This would be hilarious if didn’t play out with such depressing inevitabilityFri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 28 2018 - 00:00
James Bond: How a potentially radical film became a far safer movieSwapping Danny Boyle for Cary Fukunaga looks like a cautious move by the producersMon Sept 24 2018 - 00:04
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage rebootCorn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom largeSat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Little Stranger, Climax, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, M.I.AFri Sept 21 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: God help us with this religious stumperAlso: The Rolling Stones on film, adapted by Hitchcock, and with Gable at the very endFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:55
Advice for college: never forget that social media never forgetsDonald Clarke: Choose your friends, clothes and politics wisely. They’ll come back to haunt youFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea for Peace – a nostalgic popemobile tripReview: This creaky documentary links the pope’s 1979 visit with the peace processFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
Mile 22: Mark Wahlberg in an underwhelming glob of generic pulpReview: The fight scenes are bruising and jaw-rattling. The rest of the film in rubbishFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 21 2018 - 00:00
For Saoirse review: Well worth travelling up Dublin’s Champs-Élysées to seeDublin Fringe Festival: Colm Keegan’s Ballymun odyssey rarely takes an expected turnThu Sept 20 2018 - 11:56
The Little Stranger: Ghosts in the big house are not scary partReview: Lenny Abrahamson’s impressively clammy follow-up to the all-conquering 'Room'Thu Sept 20 2018 - 06:00
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistolMon Sept 17 2018 - 12:03
Toronto may not have the Cannes kudos, but the gap is closingAudience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometerMon Sept 17 2018 - 11:22
Float like a Butterfly: Film about Irish Traveller girl boxer wins in Toronto“In Ireland, to have a young female Irish Traveller at the centre of a film ... is unthinkable”Sun Sept 16 2018 - 20:42
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matterToronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stampSat Sept 15 2018 - 11:00
The Sky Is Falling: Muddled and a bit barmyBook review: Peter Biskind struggles to explain superheroes’ link to US extremismSat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little StrangerSat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentaryToronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinemaFri Sept 14 2018 - 11:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Rider, Crazy Rich Asians, Lucky, A Mother Takes Her Son to Be ShotFri Sept 14 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which is the odd Terminator out?Also: Bond villains, Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and pious ties to a new horror filmFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:55
In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nationAs everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other seasonFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot: It’s still grim up NorthReview: Sinead O’Shea’s film documents a bandit-controlled Northern Irish communityFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00
King of Thieves: Three films rolled into a single heist movieReview: With Michael Caine, Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon, it couldn’t be boringFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 14 2018 - 00:00
Toronto film festival: Oscar contenders ‘Roma’ and ‘Beale Street’ impressAcademy Award talk is a tradition in Toronto, and this year’s festival is no differentThu Sept 13 2018 - 11:00
The Rider: Cowboys and injuriesReview: Study of a damaged rodeo rider is a hugely impressive slice of prairie naturalismThu Sept 13 2018 - 06:00
‘The Favourite’ takes two awards at Venice Film FestivalOlivia Colman wins best actress for performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Irish productionSat Sept 08 2018 - 20:43
Michael Caine: Still willing to blow the bloody doors offThe 85-year-old actor’s opinions may veer as wildly as his six-decade career, but who cares?Sat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
‘Rosie’ may be an ‘issue film’, but it is charged with raw emotionFilm tackling homelessness crisis premieres at Toronto International Film FestivalSat Sept 08 2018 - 03:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Black 47, PuzzleFri Sept 07 2018 - 06:00
The weekly movie quiz: Do you know your Nelson Mandela actors?Also: Which chiropteric superhero has not been the subject of a 2018 film?Fri Sept 07 2018 - 05:55
The Nun: stupid, confusing and scary – but not sexyReview: A likable cast is the only saving grace for this incoherent horror flickFri Sept 07 2018 - 05:00
Puzzle: A winning film to soften the heart of a rattlesnakeReview: An apparently ordinary mother finds fulfilment in competitive jigsaw-puzzlingFri Sept 07 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 07 2018 - 00:00
Burt Reynolds, once the most popular star on planet, has died aged 82Deliverance star earned an Academy Award nomination for Boogie NightsThu Sept 06 2018 - 21:14
Black ’47: Brain-twitching Great Irish Famine revenge thrillerReview: Lance Daly’s movie rattles along at the pace of a hungry dog pursuing a healthy rabbitWed Sept 05 2018 - 05:00
Barry Keoghan: ‘My mother would be pretty proud. And surprised’Actor on making Famine film Black 47, becoming American and Dublin's sweet smellSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Forget Bresson; the geeks have inherited the earthEthan Hawke doesn’t equate superhero movies with French auteurs. Is this heresy?Fri Aug 31 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew to the screen this week: Cold War, Searching, I Dolours, C’est la Vie, UpgradeFri Aug 31 2018 - 06:00
