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
Inferno review: Hell is another Dan Brown movieThe third godawful Brown/Hanks/Howard team-up is, mercifully, the shortest of the seriesThu Oct 13 2016 - 10:41
Andrea Arnold: ‘You can be at a festival and 80-90% of the films are by men’With ‘American Honey’, the versatile UK director has made her biggest swerve yetWed Oct 12 2016 - 13:22
Pat Shortt: ‘There are mad f**kers out there’The Ex-D’Unbelieavable has gotten used to being treated as a natural treasureWed Oct 12 2016 - 06:00
Curious George Hook and the HPV jabThe Newstalk host argues for link between Gardasil and side effects despite no evidenceSat Oct 08 2016 - 07:00
Mattress Men review: All heart and bounce, if a little bit too springyThere is much humanity, and a great many laughs in Colm Quinn’s charming film about the legendary Dublin divan floggerThu Oct 06 2016 - 16:01
The Girl on the Train review: Emily Blunt overpowers in more ways than onePaula Hawkins voyeuristic drunk murder-mystery gets an unevenly faithful big-screen makeoverTue Oct 04 2016 - 13:08
Supersonic review: nothing innovative, surprising or quirky - just like Oasis, reallyMat Whitecross's doc doesn’t look back in anger (or in any useful detail) at the rise of the Gallagher brothers - though Noel proves himself worth the price of admissionMon Oct 03 2016 - 15:56
Want to bring emigrants home? Repeal the 8thWheeze to give high-rolling returnees a tax break was, indeed, ‘unfair and discriminatory’Sat Oct 01 2016 - 12:15
Baden Baden review: subtly beguiling movie, superb central performanceDirector Rachel Lang's feature debut is an impressive character study of a quiet, odd heroine, played with great assurance by Samomé RichardFri Sept 30 2016 - 14:55
Crisis Meeting review: plenty of off-kilter pleasures to be had hereDublin Theatre Festival: experimental Icelandic company stick to the central conceit of a funding applicationFri Sept 30 2016 - 12:30
Free State of Jones review: McConaughey misses the mark in MississippiThe cast are admirable throughout, but Gary Ross’s dour tale of the US Civil War gets lost in a jumble of competing narrativesThu Sept 29 2016 - 17:02
Deepwater Horizon review: Mark Wahlberg bravely tries to keep a lid on itPeter Berg takes us lucidly through the dynamics of the notorious BP oil spill, but the film begins to falls apart when disaster strikesThu Sept 29 2016 - 16:14
Swiss Army Man review: possibly the best farting corpse movie you'll ever seeDaniel Radcliffe (mostly dead) and Paul Dano (marooned) are best bros in a sentimental comedy that’s not nearly as weird as it pretends to beThu Sept 29 2016 - 15:30
Eva Green: ‘It’s great to go bonkers. You are not able to do that in real life’The Penny Dreadful star takes a break from psychic meltdowns as the eponymous lead in Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenWed Sept 28 2016 - 12:02
Why Ireland won’t ‘ban’ Louis Theroux’s Scientology filmA speculative media story has suggested a new documentary ‘might’ be banned under Ireland’s blasphemy laws. It won’tTue Sept 27 2016 - 16:00
Mark Strong as Conor Cruise O’Brien: another screen-Irish accentFake Irish accents can be atrocious, like Tom Cruise’s, or brilliant, like Kate Hudson’s. But why not just give Irish actors the roles?Sat Sept 24 2016 - 07:00
Dare to Be Wild review: Horticultural ho-humThis aggressively ‘heart-warming’ Irish film wants to be ‘Calendar Girls’ in the gardenThu Sept 22 2016 - 17:31
The Magnificent Seven review: Denzel steals the show in unremarkable remakeThis time a more racially diverse seven ride out, and the film does hint at contemporary political concerns, but in the end, it all adds up to not muchThu Sept 22 2016 - 16:00
Dublin Fringe reviews: Gays Against the Free State! BlackCatfishMusketeer, Traitor and TrystThe anarchic clatter of agit-prop has many things to say about the position of LGBT people in Irish society...Thu Sept 22 2016 - 12:30
Mel Gibson and Sean Penn to star in film shot in DublinEight-week shoot in capital for film about dictionary editor and eccentric contributorWed Sept 21 2016 - 01:00
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will be busy splitting $400m fortuneJolie has reportedly requested custody of their six childrenTue Sept 20 2016 - 21:52
Siege of Jadotville review: suave, brave acting by Jamie DornanJamie Dornan is in hero mode, while Mark Strong plays Conor Cruise O'Brien in Richie Smyth's gripping war film set in 1961 CongoMon Sept 19 2016 - 17:36
Dublin Fringe reviews: RIOT is the festival's most exhilarating spectacleRIOT - Can a great night out also count as a political act?Mon Sept 19 2016 - 16:05
The Siege of Jadotville: How Ireland almost had its own AlamoNew film tells the story of an Irish batallion that defended a Congo town from rebel attacks in 1961Mon Sept 19 2016 - 14:01
The British ‘Bake Off’ is off. That’s not great‘The Great British Bake Off’ is a terrible idea for a series. But it’s already an institution. Now it’s off to Channel 4 is the cream set to curdle?Sat Sept 17 2016 - 07:00
Adam Wingard, the man who brought the Blair Witch back from the deadAt 16, Adam Wingard watched The Blair Witch Project six times when it came out. Now, at 33, he is the ideal person to steer the sequelFri Sept 16 2016 - 06:24
Dublin Fringe reviews: ‘Save yourself. Leave Troy. Found Rome’The festival continues with an ebullient take on an epic and unsettling dance theatreFri Sept 16 2016 - 00:00
The Young Offenders review: hugely funny, genuinely sweet Irish comedyChris Walley and Alex Murphy create a magnificent comic partnership as two idiots on the hunt for a missing suitcase of cocaine in Peter Foott’s charming debutThu Sept 15 2016 - 17:25
Dublin Fringe reviews: “A brilliant show I never want to suffer through again”The latest Dublin Fringe festival reviews, featuring Release the Baboons, The Humours of Bandon and To Hell in a HandbagThu Sept 15 2016 - 12:00
New IFI Player: Never seen Bob Geldof’s ‘phone wreckers’ ad? Now you canThe Irish Film Institute has just made 1,200 minutes of Irish cinema, documentary and public information films available onlineWed Sept 14 2016 - 12:30
Dublin Fringe reviews: Penny Arcade leaves us longing for more'Hope Hunt'/'Wrongheaded' double bill dissects effects of patriarchy as 'Megalomaniac' shows vaulting ambitionTue Sept 13 2016 - 14:00
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week review - fresh insights, five decades onRon Howard delivers a straight-up rockumentary that finds new dimensions to the well-told story of the Fab FourTue Sept 13 2016 - 12:39
Bridget Jones's Baby review: still bonking after all these yearsAfter a decade in the emotional wilderness, everyone's favourite neurotic singleton is backMon Sept 12 2016 - 17:27
‘The Siege of Jadotville’ to receive limited cinema releaseRichie Smyth’s film depicts the Irish soldiers who fought in UN’s 1961 Congo interventionMon Sept 12 2016 - 15:42
Who hasn’t looked back on college and wished they’d had less sex?Starting college? Then don’t drink too much and don’t touch prohibited drugs. ReallySat Sept 10 2016 - 07:00
Jamie Dornan: Out of Shades’ shadowThe Irish actor has taken ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, his bonkbuster breakthrough, in his stride. The fundamentals of your life don’t change, he saysSat Sept 10 2016 - 05:30
The Blue Room review: a short but intense burst of atmosphereThe pounding paranoia is well maintained in actor /director Mathieu Amalric fourth feature, but the film feels more like a sketch than the full pictureFri Sept 09 2016 - 11:35
A rape – and race – scandal in HollywoodNate Parker’s film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ was a hot tip for a 2017 Oscar until the story of his trial – and acquittal – on rape charges while he was at Penn State resurfacedFri Sept 09 2016 - 08:00
Don’t Breathe review: See no evil? They wishA blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its headThu Sept 08 2016 - 16:59
The Man Who Fell to Earth review: Bowie and Roeg at the height of their powersIn Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi singularity, David Bowie is perfectly cast as a distant alien, unable to properly connect, who sinks into a moneyed, paranoid abyssThu Sept 08 2016 - 16:05
Hell or High Water review: Chris Pine ups the neo-western anteDavid Mackenzie evokes the spirit of Peckinpah in a thriller about hard men from the old schoolThu Sept 08 2016 - 14:07
Hello! Is it me you’re looking for?Dan Bacon has advice if you want to chat up a woman who’s wearing headphones – but nothing on what to do if she kicks you in your tiny, useless testicles in responseSat Sept 03 2016 - 07:00
No golden ticket to movie successThough well-liked, Steven Spielberg’s ‘The BFG’ struggled at the box office – just the latest in the chequered history of Roald Dahl film adaptationsSat Sept 03 2016 - 04:00
