Donald Clarke: Shock and awe over Stephen Fry’s ‘God’ comments with Gay Byrne‘Asked by Gay to imagine what he might say if a Christian God existed, Stephen made it clear that, were such an impossible situation to occur, he’d give this fellow a jolly big piece of his not inconsiderable mind’Sat Feb 07 2015 - 01:01
Peter Strickland: “Anything to do with sex can fall on its face. All of us were cautious”Peter Strickland's latest, ‘The Duke of Burgundy’, is a tale of sado-masochism and romance featuring no men and plenty of humour. “I want people to laugh, but not at the characters,” he tells Donald ClarkeFri Feb 06 2015 - 11:22
Amour Fou review: love in a time of deathJustin Hausner’s austere follow-up to ‘Lourdes’ is so contained it feels a little like an overextended short filmFri Feb 06 2015 - 06:02
Selma review: a film fuelled by impressive reservoirs of righteous angerDirector Ava DuVernay admirable film focuses on a key moment in the US civil rights struggle, and in the process brings to light many larger truthsThu Feb 05 2015 - 17:27
Patrick’s Day review: a fascinating collision of psychiatric drama and state-of-the nation addressGrim sincerity and singularity of voice set this psychiatric drama apartThu Feb 05 2015 - 17:23
Jack Reynor wins Sundance prize for Gerard Barrett’s GlasslandReynor first attracted attention as the star of Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard DidMon Feb 02 2015 - 01:00
Irish actor Jack Reynor wins at Sundance for GlasslandActor awarded special jury prize for acting for role in film set in TallaghtSun Feb 01 2015 - 12:47
Winston Churchill: one of his era’s great boozers‘On balance, though politics is more boring when carried out by sober people, it is likely to be more efficient, less abusive and more civilised’Sat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
Son of a Gun review: Ewan McGregor generates some HeatA skilfully staged Aussie crime drama where men growl at other men and women stay largely out of the wayFri Jan 30 2015 - 10:27
Paul Thomas Anderson on adapting Pynchon, directing Day-Lewis and keeping the melancholy at bayThe director of ‘Inherent Vice’ sits down with Donald Clarke to discuss the pressure of being called ‘America’s greatest film-maker’Fri Jan 30 2015 - 06:34
Kingsman: The Secret Service review: We expect you to die, James Bond spoof genreThough well acted and lushly upholstered, this childish ‘caper’ is let down by bold-type ironyThu Jan 29 2015 - 17:22
Au revoir les Enfants review: a welcome reissue for Louis Malle’s masterful wartime storyMalle’s semi-autobiographical film reminds us that tragedy often has as much to do with mishap as it has with malignityThu Jan 29 2015 - 15:25
Rave reviews for ‘Brooklyn’ at Sundance Film FestivalSaoirse Ronan says she ‘gets very emotional’ talking about Tóibín adaptationTue Jan 27 2015 - 21:15
Film rights acquired to new fantasy novel ‘Darkmouth’Alcon Entertainment involved in ‘six-figure’ deal to put Shane Hegarty’s series on to the big screenTue Jan 27 2015 - 21:00
Mortdecai review: Johnny Depp reaches an irreversible tipping point of awfulnessDepp, along with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor, offer the sort of gross caricature of Englishness you would expect to encounter from Celtic supporters at closing timeMon Jan 26 2015 - 12:33
The Page 3 cover-up that never was‘We have no alternative but to summon up one of the Sun’s greatest linguistic innovations. Gotcha!’Sat Jan 24 2015 - 01:01
Brie Larson: ‘Just because eating potatoes in the shower doesn’t work for you, that doesn’t mean it won’t work for me’After 25 films and a music career, is 25-year-old Brie Larson finally in danger of becoming a movie star?Fri Jan 23 2015 - 07:45
Ex Machina review: intelligent by designAlex Garland’s directorial debut is a gorgeously constructed, elegant distillation of familiar notions about artificial intelligenceFri Jan 23 2015 - 00:00
A Most Violent Year review: a movie that’s too good for the OscarsJC Chandor’s contemporary classic relocates Faust to early 1980s New York, a place where souls are salami-sliced into gradual extinctionThu Jan 22 2015 - 16:23
‘I am making A Most Violent Year in response to violence in films’Oscars be damned: JC Chandor has taken a minor business transaction and turned it into one of the first great films of 2015. And the director has plenty more he wants to talk aboutWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: So what if some of ‘Charlie’ is made up?Dramatic distortions always risk being mistaken for historical truths, writes Donald ClarkeSun Jan 18 2015 - 19:00
Donald Clarke: Republican free-for-all is the converse of 1970’s situationMitt Romney and Jeb Bush have emerged to save the party from its immoderate urgesSat Jan 17 2015 - 01:00
Whiplash review: JK Simmons’s jazz drumming drill sergeant deserves acclaimDamien Chazelle’s bravura debut treats the drumkit as a theatre of warFri Jan 16 2015 - 10:00
‘Wild’ review: a pretty, well-acted reverie of Cheryl Strayed’s popular bookReese Witherspoon works hard in Jean-Marc Vallée’s self-help epicFri Jan 16 2015 - 06:00
Everything awesome as Irish animation beats Lego movie to Oscar shortlistLinklater’s ‘Boyhood’ is odds-on favourite for best pictureFri Jan 16 2015 - 01:00
Oscars 2015: Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea gets nodSurprise as Irish nomination comes at expense of The Lego MovieThu Jan 15 2015 - 16:55
Future of Irish Film and Television Academy Awards unclearIrish Film Board confirms it has no firm plans to fund the IftasWed Jan 14 2015 - 20:09
‘Boyhood’ wins Best Drama at Golden GlobesRichard Linklater takes top prize for coming of age film at Beverly Hills awards ceremonyMon Jan 12 2015 - 12:11
Hugh Travers’s ‘Hungry’ should be allowed to airComedy set in Famine times does not necessarily ‘make light’ of the tragedySat Jan 10 2015 - 15:05
Foxcatcher review: Carell makes a passive aggressive Nero of John Du PontBennett Miller’s murky tale of the corrupting power of wealth is his best true-life story yetFri Jan 09 2015 - 11:00
A Tale of Samurai Cooking review: martial arts munchiesShort-order shogun trains her husband to be a kitchen Kurosawa in this tasty Japanese dramaFri Jan 09 2015 - 08:00
James Corden: out of the woods and well down the garden pathThe charismatic character actor from High Wycombe has recently hit the jackpot: acting with Meryl Streep in Into the Woods and taking over as host of American telly talker The Late Late ShowFri Jan 09 2015 - 06:00
Into the Woods review: Meryl Streep cackles, James Corden bustles, Emily Blunt saves the dayAll’s well that ends pretty well in Disney’s enjoyable film of Stephen Sondheim’s popular fairy-tale mash-upThu Jan 08 2015 - 14:08
Nigel Farage the Briton of the Year? They might just be rightVirtually no political commentator imagined that Ukip would advance quite so farSat Jan 03 2015 - 01:02
The silver screen in 2015: fasten your seatbeltsWe're about to witness the "Biggest ever year for cinema". Tara Brady takes a look at what's aheadFri Jan 02 2015 - 13:00
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) review: Keaton in flight againCinematically dazzling and brimming with drama, ’Birdman’ walks a fine line between pretentious and brilliantFri Jan 02 2015 - 12:00
Exodus: Gods and Kings review: Swords, sandals and snoozesRidley Scott’s heart-stoppingly sober take on the Book of Exodus badly needs an injection of campFri Jan 02 2015 - 11:00
‘Foxcatcher’: Steve Carrell as you’ve never seen himDirector Bennett Miller on his latest film, in which the likeable actor gets malevolent as doomed chemical heir John Du PontFri Jan 02 2015 - 00:00
Donald Clarke’s cultural highs and lows of 2014The Irish films of 2014 were ’Out of Here’ and ’Frank’Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Boredom: a force for good in the worldOpinion: too much entertainment could be more dangerous than the Black DeathSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Forget the real news, what about the top trivia of 2014?There is now so much pop-cultural balderdash about the place that the conscious uncoupling sort of non-story can pass through the complete cycle – in the time it used to take for one journalist to file one diaphanous reportThu Dec 25 2014 - 06:01
Unbroken review: Bravery in search of a personalityAngelina Jolie’s wartime epic has everything going for it – except character and plotWed Dec 24 2014 - 12:00
Donald Clarke's Christmas moviesOur movie reviewer's selection of films not to miss on the small screen this ChristmasWed Dec 24 2014 - 08:00
Donald Clarke: My great expectations for ChristmasThe Brontës were a force and Jane Austen mattered, but . . . Dickens still leads the waySat Dec 20 2014 - 12:01
Netflix’s top 50 seriesWhether it's a Netflix original like Orange Is The New Black, a British comedy like Peep Show or just completely addictive like Breaking Bad; we've listed and categorised the very best Netflix boxsets for you to enjoy.Fri Dec 19 2014 - 12:00
Secret of the Tomb review: London gallingThe ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise limps into Bloomsbury: it should go no furtherFri Dec 19 2014 - 11:00
