Owen Wilson: He’s charming. He’s relaxed. And he talks . . . real . . . slowThe ‘No Escape’ star can come across as a stereotypical Texan. But with a career that spans both indie favourites and Hollywood blockbusters, this actor has always had more than one string to his bowSat Sept 05 2015 - 07:00
Donald Clarke: Pity the rich and their wealth of first-world problems‘I’m betting people like me are immune to this class of wealth-generated depression’Sat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
No Escape review: the least likely action cast of all timeWilson! Bell! Brosnan! Some unlikely action heroes handle the politically incorrect absurdities of this suspenseful thriller rather wellThu Sept 03 2015 - 23:00
The Transporter Refuelled review: a criminally appalling rebootA hard sell in every way, including the vodka in every second sceneThu Sept 03 2015 - 22:00
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl review: a teenagers’ guide to deathThis seductive, wholly original drama may overplay its characters’ quirks, but its emotional honesty is as refreshing as it is uncommonThu Sept 03 2015 - 18:00
Closed Curtain review: a forbidding narrative exercise from the pioneer of Iranian new waveThe film intersperses moment of great humour and power with indulgent follies that will strain the patience of all but the most resilient viewersThu Sept 03 2015 - 17:00
Donald Clarke: One man and his cat – the purrfect coupleOne individual actually titled her blog: ‘I Don’t Like Men Who Own Cats’Fri Aug 28 2015 - 22:06
Ed Skrein: Hoodlum, swimming coach, rapper, artist and movie starEd Skrein, who takes over from hardman Jason Statham in the Transporter franchise, explains his unusual career pathFri Aug 28 2015 - 05:00
Hitman Agent 47 review: fires and missesA film is dealing in faint praise when its location manager is singled for commendationThu Aug 27 2015 - 21:00
An Klondike review: Improbable film of the month – in a good wayComparisons with the late lamented ‘Deadwood’ are unavoidable in Dathaí Keane’s new featureThu Aug 27 2015 - 19:00
We Are Your Friends review: Boogie Nights with big beatsWe Are Your Friends resembles nothing so much as one of Hollywood’s efforts to address surf culture 40 years agoThu Aug 27 2015 - 18:00
Straight Outta Compton review: a pulsating if somewhat airbrushed biopicIce Cube has produced a celebratory account of his influential 1980s rap group NWA. The result is pulsating if somewhat airbrushed biopicThu Aug 27 2015 - 16:00
The Wolfpack review: a militantly odd hymn to the resilience of the human spiritThis documentary shows how the seven Angulo siblings, contained for years in a New York apartment, developed their own strange microcultureSat Aug 22 2015 - 11:58
Donald Clarke: A sentimental journey to ‘The West Wing’Aaron Sorkin’s series is implausible, corny and irony-free . . . and yet I’m still watchingSat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Zac Efron is a slave to the music in Max Joseph’s feature debutThe director of ‘We Are Your Friends’ tells how a small story about dance music became a big filmFri Aug 21 2015 - 06:00
Vacation review: Holliers – the next generationThe family are terrific in this ‘remake, sequel and reboot’ of a classic comedyThu Aug 20 2015 - 18:00
Sinister 2 review: eerie, supernatural and boringIrish director Ciarán Foy does his best with the atmospherics, but can do little with Sinister 2’s cluttered, tonally deranged mess of a scriptThu Aug 20 2015 - 17:28
Paper Towns review: Not just another teen movieA very effective teen entertainment that feels more honest and less contrived than Fault in Our StarsSun Aug 16 2015 - 13:00
Donald Clarke: Time to abolish ‘political correctness’Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock no longer to play colleges as students just too sensitiveSat Aug 15 2015 - 01:00
Mistress America review: queen of the Big AppleGreta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach reteam for another New York-set dramedy, a compact marvel that will repay repeated viewingsFri Aug 14 2015 - 06:00
Henry Cavill goes undercover in The Man from U.N.C.L.EWhen not saving the universe, the British actor likes a quiet pint down his local pubFri Aug 14 2015 - 06:00
Trainwreck review: Amy Schumer stays on the railsThe proto-femi-satirist teams up with monogamy-mad Judd Apatow for an amusing if overlong and weirdly reactionary romcomThu Aug 13 2015 - 14:18
Donald Clarke: Why Jeremy Corbyn could win the Labour leadership battle‘Peter Mandelson would never have let that happen’Sat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Tadhg O’Sullivan on Europe's border crisis: 'This has been going on for a long time''There was Calais. Then there was also what’s happening to democracy in Greece. There were a few days when I thought the film might become irrelevant.'Fri Aug 07 2015 - 06:00
Max review: a canine ‘American Sniper’The most brutally violent family film put before audiences since The Ten CommandmentsThu Aug 06 2015 - 20:00
The Diary of a Teenage Girl review: sex and the singular girlMarielle Heller’s 1970s drama, based on a popular graphic novel, is a gutsy film that engages with its period and tells a few truths for the agesThu Aug 06 2015 - 18:00
Marshlands review: death in a post-dictatorshipThis edgy, atmospheric Spanish detective drama has much in common with Hollywood noir but can stand entirely on its ownThu Aug 06 2015 - 16:00
Fantastic Four review: After all the hype, it’s both better and worse than expectedThe first half of Josh Trank's reboot is perfectly serviceable as a summer seat-filler. Then it descends into a bendy, transparent, lumpy, flaming catastropheWed Aug 05 2015 - 22:15
Donald Clarke: From Walter the Dentist to Conan the BarbarianFurore over killing of Cecil the lion a sharp reminder of hypocrisy on animal crueltySat Aug 01 2015 - 11:44
The greatest Irish war hero you've never heard of - Aidan MacCarthyThe film directed by Gary Lennon traces the story of the doctor during his time with the British air force in Europe, Singapore and JapanFri Jul 31 2015 - 05:00
13 Minutes review: Hitler assassination tale fails to igniteHirschbiegel’s film captures the period well but we are left asking the wrong questionsFri Jul 31 2015 - 00:00
Hot Pursuit review: You know almost every punchline alreadyThis buddy comedy is useless but its loud, brash heart is in roughly the right placeThu Jul 30 2015 - 23:00
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation review: Your mission - to stay awakeSimon Pegg quips; Ving Rhames rumbles; Jeremy Renner snoozes and Tom Cruise continues to leap, bound and defy the ageing process - if only the franchise was bearing up as wellThu Jul 30 2015 - 17:10
Outrage! over tabloids’ Elizabeth Nazi salute storyThe words 'Queen filmed doing Hitler salute' are so indecently delicious no tabloid could fail to run itSun Jul 26 2015 - 08:45
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson review: a rhythm in his bluesJulian Temple’s documentary on the influential and dying Dr Feelgood guitarist is affectionate and eccentric in all the right waysFri Jul 24 2015 - 12:44
How did Amy Poehler become Hollywood’s favourite person?She’s got an acerbic wit, frequently speaks her mind, and has burned almost everyone at the Golden Globes: so how did Amy Poehler become Hollywood’s most-loved?Fri Jul 24 2015 - 05:00
Aidan Gillen: chasing character at the top of his gameThe ‘Game of Thrones’ star has had an extraordinary career but still likes to do low-budget Irish filmsFri Jul 24 2015 - 04:00
Best of Enemies review: Buckley v VidalThe animosity between a pair of US political pundits makes for a diverting documentaryFri Jul 24 2015 - 02:00
Inside Out review: emotion in constant motionPixar’s comedy, set in the wildly seesawing brain of a child, is funny, moving and clever enough to overcome way too much extraneous plotThu Jul 23 2015 - 16:00
Donald Clarke: Cultural heritage does not excuse excesses of the ‘Twelfth’‘Culture’ seems to be defined as an atavistic force that compels uncivilised behaviourSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:01
What British punk band the Damned did nextWes Orshoski’s new film about the Damned is a consistently funny take on the music industryFri Jul 17 2015 - 11:15
The Salt of the Earth review: the sky above, the muddy image belowWim Wenders’s Oscar-nominated study of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado makes for riveting viewing, though larger issues of the artist’s aesthetics are conspicuously absentFri Jul 17 2015 - 04:00
True Story review: Lies, damned lies, and HollywoodAs a study of journalistic ethics, ‘True Story’ is laughably overheated, though it works well enough as a pretty good thrillerThu Jul 16 2015 - 19:29
Name of Irish Film Board to be changed to Screen IrelandDecision recognises Bord Scannán na hÉireann’s increasing interests beyond world of cinemaTue Jul 14 2015 - 19:07
Omar Sharif, one of the last matinee idolsEgyptian screen legend was as much a vision of romantic possibilities as he was an actorSat Jul 11 2015 - 09:50
We can assume Beckett didn’t mean: try hard and you can win the French Open‘Fail better’ another blood-boiling example of need to extract life lessons from literatureSat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
Documentary flair makes for a Fleadh to savourIrish road movies, documentaries and even a Western ensured that this year’s rainy but characterful Galway Film Fleadh was as full of interesting surprises as everFri Jul 10 2015 - 12:20
Song of the Sea review: A lot of pretty ghosts in the machineOld-fashioned artistry sets Tomm Moore’s second feature apart from the digital mobFri Jul 10 2015 - 08:59
Kathy Bates: an actor with plenty of characterDonald Clarke talks to the actor about sexism, ageism, cancer and the joy of ‘Misery’Fri Jul 10 2015 - 05:00
The Reunion review: a film that realises the dream of every harassed schoolyard outsiderDirector and star Anna Odell does a brilliant job of layering mysteries between enigmas and dosing them in concentrated uncertaintiesThu Jul 09 2015 - 16:33
