Coming Home JDiff review: Touching documentary about a man who spent 13 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commitThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Phoenix JDiff review: This postwar melodrama is almost ludicrous but raw performances make for a slice of seductive Berlin noirThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Ifta Awards to be broadcast on TV3 after split into two ceremoniesFilm and Drama Awards in May will not be screened live after technical issues last yearWed Mar 18 2015 - 19:54
Eddie Marsan: ‘I can’t wait till I’m famous so I can be a right pain in the arse’The London actor, one of the best in the business, views acting as a trade and feels strongly about the lack of working-class representationMon Mar 16 2015 - 05:45
Donald Clarke: Apple Watch launch marks a tipping pointTim Cook’s presentation of Apple watch invited the assumption it might cure leprosySat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Run All Night review: Neeson gets to be Neeson and others get to be shotThe amazing reversal here is that, for once, Liam is the avenged rather than the avengerFri Mar 13 2015 - 13:00
Goodbye to Language review: Godard speaking in tonguesThe loopy French iconoclast is as nouvelle vague as ever, but it must be said that his latest shouty diatribe is also bracingly cinematicFri Mar 13 2015 - 10:00
In a House That Ceased to Be review: Christina Noble doc is moving – and hard-hittingAs well as offering an unforgiving denunciation of the poisonous symbiosis that once existed between Catholic Church and Irish State, In a House That Ceased to Be also manages an argument for common decencyThu Mar 12 2015 - 20:00
The truth behind that ‘quality of life’ ranking of global cities‘There was some moaning about Dublin’s relatively unimpressive position’Sat Mar 07 2015 - 01:01
Appropriate Behaviour review: Satirical jaundice and naked delight in all things bohemianAppropriate Behaviour is not particularly good-looking or innovative, but warm laughter abounds throughoutFri Mar 06 2015 - 12:00
Kill the Messenger review: A lesser ‘All the President’s Men’Michael Cuesta’s film lacks conviction in telling Gary Webb’s cover-up storyFri Mar 06 2015 - 09:00
Dreamcatcher review: a story full of courage and decency, resilience and humourDocumentarian Kim Longinotto turns her lens to the sex workers of Chicago and discovers that too many have the same story to tellThu Mar 05 2015 - 17:39
Chappie review: unintentionally funny, occasionally offensive, truly awfulAs well as being derivative and casually rascist, Neil Blomkamp’s latest also manages to be chaotic, discordant, sentimental and downright uglyThu Mar 05 2015 - 13:33
Julianne Moore: super trooperJulianne Moore is the army brat who became a soap opera star and the doyenne of independent film. Now she’s won a best actress Oscar for ‘Still Alice’, will she finally be recognised as one of cinema’s finest actors?Thu Mar 05 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: MP says doctors should examine heavenly bodiesConservative MP David Tredinnick complains about BBC promoting ‘the science perspective’Sat Feb 28 2015 - 05:00
‘White God’ director Kornél Mundruczó: “It’s a fairy tale, like Walt Disney or the Grimm brothers”The dogs of Budapest rebel against their human oppressors in Mundruczó prize-winning featureFri Feb 27 2015 - 13:17
It Follows review: a brilliantly unsettling, determinedly awkward jump-shockerDavid Robert Mitchell’s low-budget horror nods to the genre’s greats while being entirely originalFri Feb 27 2015 - 10:12
The Second Best Marigold Hotel review: a ramshackle affairMaggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and other nice people amble through a plot culled from a 1970s sitcomFri Feb 27 2015 - 07:51
Focus review: too smooth for its own goodWill Smith keeps it on auto-pilot; Margot Robbie looks like she wants to fleeThu Feb 26 2015 - 17:15
Jack Reynor back on home turf for Dublin film festival launchKenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews and Russell Crowe lined up as part of festival billWed Feb 25 2015 - 20:09
The Boy Next Door review: J-Lo's eye for an appalling script remains faultlessJennifer Lopez makes an ill-judged return as an English teacher who makes friends with hunk-next-door/total psychopath Ryan GuzmanWed Feb 25 2015 - 09:40
Oscars 2015: And the Oscar for best predictions goes to . . .‘Birdman’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ each take four awards at 87th ceremonyMon Feb 23 2015 - 15:53
‘Birdman’ wins Oscar for best pictureAlejandro González Iñárritu’s satire and Grand Budapest Hotel both receive four awardsMon Feb 23 2015 - 15:43
Oscars 2015: Red carpet laid for battle of Boyhood and BirdmanNeil Patrick Harris expected to bring technological savvy and old-school showbiz oomphSun Feb 22 2015 - 13:35
Donald Clarke: My Oscars predictionsBirdman for best picture, Julianne Moore for best actress. Let’s see if we get them all right againSat Feb 21 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's crystal ball: What should win and what will win the OscarsLast year The Irish Times called every award correctly. Fingers crossed for 2015Sat Feb 21 2015 - 06:00
Decline of ‘NME’ shows danger of giving readers what they wantThe once-influential ‘indie’ music magazine could now end up as a freesheetSat Feb 21 2015 - 01:00
The Duke of Burgundy review: a wholly magnificent work of high exoticaThis paean to erotic Italian cinema arrives with cheeky timing and boasts pleasures that don’t bypass the brain, writes Donald ClarkeFri Feb 20 2015 - 17:44
Project Almanac review: A complete waste of time travelTeens find time machine in the attic, and the rest is found-footage historyFri Feb 20 2015 - 07:46
Bill Nighy on success, ambition and the box-office the appeal of older actorsUntil ‘Love Actually’, you might have seen Bill Nighy on the street and thought he was your dentist – not any more. “Look, there are no downsides to this,” he tells Donald ClarkeFri Feb 20 2015 - 06:00
Julie Andrews to attend Jameson Dublin Film FestivalIconic actress who played Mary Poppins to attend gala screening of The Sound Of MusicThu Feb 19 2015 - 14:07
The Wedding Ringer review: buddy-buddy vomit larks from beginning to endYet another useless movie in which an uptight nerd has his inner funk loosed by an African-American firecrackerThu Feb 19 2015 - 13:04
Alfred Molina on playing a wonderfully crusty old gay manThe actor plays one half of an ageing gay couple in his new film. It’s great if it contributes to the Irish referendum debate, he says – but unintendedMon Feb 16 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: spring – the time of year when I recall how much I hate natureAs a metaphor for the pointlessness of existence, ‘going for a walk’ can scarcely be betteredSat Feb 14 2015 - 01:01
A Philadelphia Story review: A very different romantic punch-upAs ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ hits cinemas Hepburn and Grant offer a Valentine’s classicFri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Fifty Shades of Grey: a disgusting reverence for indulgencePart of the problem with Sam Taylor-Johnson’s film is that it’s not quite bad enoughThu Feb 12 2015 - 17:31
Baftas 2015: Boyhood takes best film prize at awardsEddie Redmayne scoops best actor award while Julianne Moore duly wins best actressMon Feb 09 2015 - 09:15
‘Boyhood’ takes the plaudits at film awardsThe awards season enters its final lap as ‘Boyhood’ edges ahead of ‘Birdman’Mon Feb 09 2015 - 01:00
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
