Oscar Wilde Awards: Green carpet and ‘Kerrygold Ice Cream’The sort-of-Irish Oscar Wilde bash is now a key pre-Academy Awards eventFri Mar 02 2018 - 16:08
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Deadly games are played to hilarious effect in Game NightFri Mar 02 2018 - 06:00
A Fantastic Woman: A funny, wry, inspiring film of its timeReview: It’s the favourite to win best foreign language picture at the 2018 OscarsFri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00
Golden Raspberry Awards must go back to cutting roomDonald Clarke: Playing to ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ film aesthetic became boring 40 years agoFri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00
Game Night: At last, a screwball comedy that actually worksAll the cast are funny in this mad murder mystery, but Sharon Horgan is funniestFri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00
Monster Family: A thrown-together animation. I give upReview: Why is an animated film set in Brooklyn voiced entirely by British actors?Fri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00
‘There’s still very few trans people who work outside ‘the night’. Or hairdressing’Daniela Vega, a Chilean trans actor, is sensational in ‘A Fantastic Woman’ and is helping nudge trans issues into the mainstreamThu Mar 01 2018 - 05:00
Straight to Netflix: Another week, another dud movieNetflix, now a film-maker, has released a series of weak science-fiction moviesMon Feb 26 2018 - 11:20
Dublin International Film Festival: the best films to seeThe likes of ‘Custody’, ‘Sweet Country’ and ‘The Third Murder’ are worth seeking outSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Mute: A Berlin-set Bowie tribute that says nothing at allReview: Duncan Jones’s latest film is a nod his late father, David Bowie, but it feels weirdly threadbare. It’s not disastrous – just senseless and lacking a plotFri Feb 23 2018 - 09:00
The movie quiz: Get rolling with an insultingly easy Bond villain questionAlso: Black Panther’s home town, an Ifta winner, and will the early Oscar nominee catch the worm?Fri Feb 23 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Saoirse Ronan shines in the hilarious and touching Lady Bird, while I, Tonya is an edgy, only-in-America blastFri Feb 23 2018 - 06:00
This time it really is the end of the world. And who’s to blame? The young.You young know nothing as my generation has the monopoly on wisdomFri Feb 23 2018 - 05:00
The Ice King review: The gay skater who become the best in the worldJohn Curry is brought to life in James Erskine’s excellent documentaryThu Feb 22 2018 - 06:01
Working with Weinstein: What happened in IrelandAlleged misbehaviour after ‘Into the West’ filming probed by Channel 4 documentaryTue Feb 20 2018 - 23:05
Lady Bird: Flawless Saoirse Ronan in a wholly wonderful filmReview: The film’s genius is its ability to root us in Lady Bird’s perspective. But it does moreTue Feb 20 2018 - 10:08
Black 47: The Famine on film – it’s only taken 170 years‘Black 47’, Lance Daly’s film that addresses one of the most traumatic periods in Irish history, is a story that has barely registered on the big screen beforeTue Feb 20 2018 - 06:00
Baftas 2018: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ wins five awardsOscar-favourite Frances McDormand named best actress ahead of Saoirse RonanSun Feb 18 2018 - 22:18
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t know where I am from. I’m just Irish’The three-time Oscar nominee on fame, Hollywood scandals, and the abortion referendumSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Black 47: First clips of Famine movie revealedFilm premieres tonight at the prestigious Berlin Film FestivalFri Feb 16 2018 - 13:46
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Shape of Water is a fish-meets-female fantasy that dives deep into romanceFri Feb 16 2018 - 06:00
Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakesThe news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?Fri Feb 16 2018 - 06:00
Heartstone review: Sensitive, slightly over-extended debutDespite a surfeit of gay coming-of-age cliches, this Icelandic drama is surging with potentialFri Feb 16 2018 - 05:00
Iftas 2018: ‘I’m a Traveller, I can’t get an agent, but this is still a huge moment for me’John Connors’ best actor acceptance speech got a noisy standing ovation at the IftasThu Feb 15 2018 - 22:20
Saoirse Ronan will win actress Ifta – unless a meteorite hits DublinThursday’s Irish Film and Television Awards mark a strong year for Irish cinemaWed Feb 14 2018 - 11:48
The Shape of Water: Most Oscar nominated movie is a lovely thingReview: The favourite for best picture Oscar is a happy rom-com starring a B-movie creatureTue Feb 13 2018 - 11:35
‘Black Panther’: sparking a revolution in black cultureLatest chapter in Marvel cinematic universe more than another superhero filmTue Feb 13 2018 - 06:00
The weekly movie quiz: Which was bigger, Frozen or Twilight?Donald Clarke tests your knowledge of Hitchcock, Bond and Matthew McCona-somethingFri Feb 09 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Loveless offers a grimly brilliant portrayal of Russia today, Black Panther is an enjoyable Marvel of a different hueFri Feb 09 2018 - 06:00
Why John Mahoney is an inspiration to late bloomers everywhereChanging lanes in later life and following your muse isn’t easy, but it can be doneFri Feb 09 2018 - 05:00
Lover For a Day: The most French film you’ll see this yearReview: Lecturer beds student. Characters talk a lot about love and sex. In black and whiteThu Feb 08 2018 - 05:00
Loveless review: From Russia, but definitely not with loveAlexey Zvyagintsev’s powerful movie is deservedly up for the best foreign film OscarWed Feb 07 2018 - 17:00
Quentin Tarantino has questions to answer about his Roman Polanski rape commentsOver the last few weeks a mass of interwoven accusations have pushed the movie director into an increasingly uncomfortable placeWed Feb 07 2018 - 16:15
Black Panther: This film is revolutionary. Just not that goodReview: It features a black superhero, but the CGI is suffocating and the plot is weakWed Feb 07 2018 - 10:27
Andrey Zvyagintsev: ‘With Russia’s re-Stalinsation, there are negative tendencies’Film director Andrey Zvyagintsev is viewed as one of the greatest film-makers but in his native Russia the acclaim is not so universalWed Feb 07 2018 - 05:00
Fifty Shades Freed: Last gasp of a decrepit phenomenonFifty Shades of Grey, part 3 is out this week – a stinky post-Weinstein anachronismMon Feb 05 2018 - 10:39
Virtual reality: Even better than the real thing?Virtual reality is coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival with a two-day conference on ‘immersive entertainment’Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendDaniel Day-Lewis goes out in haute style, and Gerard Butler channels his inner BlackbeardFri Feb 02 2018 - 06:00
James Bond has always been a misogynist dinosaur. Now he has to changeThere is something unsettling about a video, compiled in the wake of the #MeToo movement, detailing Bond’s repeated, casual mistreatment of womenFri Feb 02 2018 - 05:00
Journey’s End: A serious version of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’Review: Long camera takes give a sense of the claustrophobia of life in the trenchesThu Feb 01 2018 - 12:00
Roman J Israel, Esq: Colin Farrell is fine. The film is a total messReview: This Oscar-nominated film starring Farrell and Denzel Washington just doesn’t feel ready for release.Thu Feb 01 2018 - 09:42
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final filmReview: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around himWed Jan 31 2018 - 11:52
‘The Post’, ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘I, Tonya’ are full of errors. So what?A film isn’t a history class. Clever audiences bring a healthy scepticism to the moviesTue Jan 30 2018 - 06:00
The Young Offenders: Breaking into the English MarketThe runaway success of the film has led to a BBC series and a new level of attention in CorkSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
The movie quiz: How mad did Max 2 get in the US?Also: Star family dynasties, putting the Good in Fellas and acting to the Vronsky beatFri Jan 26 2018 - 07:00
Five of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Early Man is a primitive hoot, Last Flag Flying sombrely channels The Last Detail, and Downsizing proves the law of diminishing returnsFri Jan 26 2018 - 06:00
Bryan Cranston: ‘I was going to become a police officer’Bryan Cranston had a solid career as a jobbing actor for three decades, then ‘Breaking Bad’ happenedFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
‘Three Billboards’ is not suffering a backlash: some people just didn’t like itFilm’s failure to score a Best Director Oscar nomination for Martin McDonagh is not necessarily a reactionFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Third and (thank heavens!) final Maze Runner filmFantasy-sequence finale is so generic it has given up pretending to be a real movieThu Jan 25 2018 - 05:00
