Golden Globes 2017: Irish talent racks up the nominationsColin Farrell, Ruth Negga, Caitriona Balfe and ‘Sing Street’ all in the runningMon Dec 12 2016 - 18:20
Have yourself a very Merry Christmas – but only if you are whiteThe festive meatheads are circling after a mall in Minnesota employs a black Santa ClausSat Dec 10 2016 - 07:00
Happy birthday Kirk Douglas, 100 years not outA survivor of the Great Depression, two World Wars, McCarthyism and a stroke, it looks as if they haven’t built the condition that can destroy Kirk DouglasFri Dec 09 2016 - 16:49
Dead Along the Way review: A dead ringer for Tarantino - in a good wayIrish director Maurice O’Carroll's thriller wears its influences on its sleeve, and proves to be a reasonably effective exercise in cinematic ventriloquismThu Dec 08 2016 - 15:50
Snowden review: a Stone-cold liberal treatOliver Stone nails his political colours to the mast early on, and delivers his most entertaining film in yearsThu Dec 08 2016 - 13:00
Christopher Lloyd: Another ‘Back to the Future’ in his future?From ‘Taxi’ to Irish horror ‘I Am Not a Serial Killer’, Doc Brown’s maxim is: ‘I like to work’Thu Dec 08 2016 - 05:00
Office Christmas Party review: Jennifer Aniston is the bitch who stole ChristmasAniston is sublime, but the rest of the film is as much fun as a family row at ChristmasWed Dec 07 2016 - 18:39
Donald Clarke: Why shouldn’t Kate Bush admire Theresa May?Bush, the cool face of prog rock, has always gone her own way. But the Tories? C’monSat Dec 03 2016 - 06:00
What were the best films of 2016? Here are our top 10The Ticket Awards 2016: Our film writers select their favourite movies of 2016Fri Dec 02 2016 - 06:30
The Ticket Awards 2016 - and the Film nominees are...Irish film puts in another quality shift of work; women are way out in front in the acting stakes; and animation is getting beyond the family film ghettoFri Dec 02 2016 - 06:00
Crash and Burn review: Tommy Byrne - Far beyond drivenRubber meets the road in this sterling Irish documentary about one-time Irish Formula One driver Tommy ByrneThu Dec 01 2016 - 14:02
Moana review: If it walks like a Disney princess . . .The songs are great but the girl power a bit confused in this enjoyable animated adventureThu Dec 01 2016 - 11:00
Chi-Raq review: Spike Lee’s call to make love not gang warA gorgeous, fall-blast take on ancient Greek classic ‘Lysistrata’ updates the action to violence-plagued ChicagoThu Dec 01 2016 - 06:10
Dog Eat Dog review: Paul Schrader out-Tarantinos QuentinNicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe are truly unhinged in this defiantly barmy thrillerWed Nov 30 2016 - 10:41
Donald Clarke: Yes, of course it’s another column about Trump‘We shall henceforth refer to the shock election feat as the Orange Toxic Event’Sat Nov 26 2016 - 07:00
Dardenne brothers: “We felt the rhythm of the film was wrong”The Palme d’Or-winning directors explain why they decided to re-cut new film The Unknown Girl after its Cannes showingFri Nov 25 2016 - 06:45
Mum’s List review: An incoherent attempt at tear-jerkingA mother with breast cancer draws up inspiring lists for her husband to follow after her passingThu Nov 24 2016 - 12:22
In Pursuit of Silence review: a bit too noisy for a quiet metitationPatrick Shen crowd-funded film wonders what silence and asks whether we can find it in the modern worldThu Nov 24 2016 - 11:10
Almost Christmas review: Danny Glover's getting too old for this sh*tA family finds itself rudderless after granny passes in this comic soap opera. Grandpa, unfortunately, plays it straightThu Nov 24 2016 - 11:09
Allied review: Pitt and Cotillard battle the Nazis and fall preposterously in loveMore than a few old-school war-movie cliches get a pummelling, but Robert Zemeckis doesn’t quite recover his old movie-making mojoTue Nov 22 2016 - 13:30
Donald Clarke: Is it too early for a review of this terrible year?Trump, Marine Le Pen, Syria: nothing makes sense as Utopian ambition crumbles into atavistic nationalismSun Nov 20 2016 - 08:15
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - JK Rowling’s tale is a magical delightThe beasts are here, the Potter lore is here, but what sets this apart is its fantastic visuals, well-drawn characters and brilliant performancesFri Nov 18 2016 - 09:33
Gimme Danger review: Iggy Pop is the last Stooge standingPop steals the limelight (as usual) in Jim Jarmusch’s witty, warm tribute to proto-punk rockers The StoogesFri Nov 18 2016 - 09:29
Fantastic Beasts star Dan Fogler ready to cast a new spell on Harry Potter fansFogler was plucked from relative obscurity for JK Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - but is he ready for the franchise juggernaut that's now coming?Tue Nov 15 2016 - 07:37
Mess with Toblerone at your perilFrom Oatfield Emeralds and Club Milks to Milk Duds and ‘Luxury Mountain Bars’, our taste for sweets says a great deal about who we areSat Nov 12 2016 - 07:00
Arrival review: plausible and intriguing - one of the year's best releasesDenis Villeneuve’s stunning follow-up to Sicario sees Amy Adams' damaged linguist trying to reach understanding with visiting aliensFri Nov 11 2016 - 10:21
Amy Adams: ‘Don’t follow your fears’Amy Adams chooses her roles with a studious eye - she currently stars in two of this year’s best films, Tom Ford’s extraordinary Nocturnal Animals and Denis Villeneuve’s even better ArrivalFri Nov 11 2016 - 05:49
Moscow Never Sleeps review: portrait of city buzzes with sombre intelligenceIrish director Johnny O’Reilly’s drama takes place on a single day in his adopted homeThu Nov 10 2016 - 11:00
Plenty of rancid horrors to be savoured at the Cork Film FestivalThis year's fest features many treats for cinephiles include I Am Not A Serial Killer and The Love WitchWed Nov 09 2016 - 06:00
Bono, the most hated woman in IrelandBono has been made a woman of the year. It’s not enough to make Irish people like himSat Nov 05 2016 - 07:00
A Street Cat Named Bob review: the cat gets the cream of the jestLuke Treadaway is convincingly fidgety as the drug addict in need of help, but Bob the cat is the real hero of the pieceFri Nov 04 2016 - 10:27
The Accountant review: Ben Affleck, autistic superhero? No thanksAffleck, doing his constipated act again, stars as an accountant with a diagnosis in this crass, idiotic thrillerThu Nov 03 2016 - 17:12
The Light Between Oceans review: beautifully, bafflingly unrealisticAlicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender struggle to keep it real in this fanciful adaptation of ML Stedman’s high-end airport novelTue Nov 01 2016 - 19:46
The trouble with ‘girls’ stuff’ on TV‘Gilmore Girls’ exemplifies taste-makers’ neglect of shows aimed at young womenSat Oct 29 2016 - 07:00
Michael Fassbender: ‘I’m glad fame came to me at a later stage’The Kerry actor’s professionalism and discerning eye have kept him on the big screenSat Oct 29 2016 - 05:00
Ten Netflix horrors to give you a fright this weekendLock the doors and windows, check under the bed and check out the 10 best scares on Netflix right nowFri Oct 28 2016 - 13:40
Mads Mikkelsen: ‘It’s always great fun to play the villain’Does anyone do a stone-cold psychopath better than Mads Mikkelsen? He discusses Danish film, gymnastics and beating up Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor StrangeThu Oct 27 2016 - 18:11
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World review - Herzog doesn't despairWerner Herzog’s latest documentary is full interesting turns and provocative questions, but not nearly enough Werner HerzogThu Oct 27 2016 - 16:30
Wild Goose Lodge review: a too-pristine slice of Irish historyThis tale of an arson attack in Co Louth in 1816 is a commendable exercise in community co-operationThu Oct 27 2016 - 16:00
31 review: Rob Zombie lets loose a fresh batch of killer clownsCircus freaks, animal masks, dissection... Zombie sticks to his gruesome aesthetic – but where are the brains?Thu Oct 27 2016 - 12:52
Sonita review: Afghan teen escapes arranged marriage to become a rapperRokhsareh Ghaemmaghami’s delightful documentary also has plenty to say about the trials of being a woman in the most aggressively patriarchal societiesThu Oct 27 2016 - 11:00
A beautiful bald dome beats a hairy head any day. I should know‘The comb-over is a testament to man’s inexhaustible capacity for self-delusion’Sat Oct 22 2016 - 07:00
Further Beyond review: a labyrinthine journey well worth takingChristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor of Desperate Optimists have made a thoroughly engaging film about Ambrose O’Higgins - or have they?Thu Oct 20 2016 - 14:08
I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach at his most moving - and most vitalLoach weaves many moments of quiet brilliance into his Palme D’Or-winning polemic about the UK’s Kafkaesque welfare systemThu Oct 20 2016 - 13:18
Jack Reacher review: Tom Cruise returns as cinema’s most boring homeless personCruise, this time resembling a narcoleptic Simon Cowell, stumbles into an own-brand conspiracy plucked from the shelves of Hollywood’s least adventurous plot shopThu Oct 20 2016 - 12:01
Donald where’s your Oscar? Trump’s TV and film cameosThe supposedly liberal entertainment industry has happily given a platform to this ‘bozo’, ‘punk’, ‘mutt’Wed Oct 19 2016 - 15:45
Call me a kook, but this ‘killer clowns’ craze gives me the creepsRecent events confirm that the circus clown is among the most unsettling creations in popular cultureSat Oct 15 2016 - 07:00
Bob Dylan the poet: songs and lyrics that delivered Nobel prizeFrom the apocalyptic vision of A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall to the complex meditations of Ain’t Talkin’, Dylan delivers poetry in emotionThu Oct 13 2016 - 18:45
American Honey review: United States of grace under pressureFish Tank director Arnold Arnold further refines her taste for the poetry of grime with a stunning, sprawling American road movieThu Oct 13 2016 - 16:40
The Flag review: Pat Shortt gets one over the BritsThis broad Irish comedy needs only a few leprechauns and beefeaters to be completeThu Oct 13 2016 - 11:00
