Cork Film festival gets set for a week of cine-blissNow nicely positioned in an international festival lull,the Corona Cork Film Festival is gently easing into its 57th editionFri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
Dalle to rekindle a million old flamesThis year’s French Film Festival at the Irish Film Institute features a more than usually starry list of attendeesFri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
Here Comes The BoomKEVIN JAMES is back. Over the past few years the portly actor has emerged as the acceptable face of bad comedyFri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
Eccentricities from the European foldThe nominations for the European Film Awards, which take place in Malta on December 1st, have been announced and – as ever – …Fri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
GrassrootsCOULD THERE BE a more bizarre time to release a film about US politics? With the presidential election just ended, this is rather…Fri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
One more Solo run for HarrisonNo, no, no, no! We are – because we can’t help ourselves – going to be filling this space with gossip about Star Wars for the…Fri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
Fifty more shades of grey poundConfirmation that the grey pound wields real power comes with the news that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a surprise hit on…Fri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
People like UsTHERE IS A particular type of bad movie that could only be made in AmericaFri Nov 9 2012 - 00:00
Obama may be no messiah but second coming is still desirableThe Obama cult is a mass delusion but the Republicans offer only a menacing alternativeSat Nov 3 2012 - 00:00
Disney brings bank balance to the forceThere’s no question what the big business news was this weekFri Nov 2 2012 - 00:00
ElenaIs it too soon to name Andrei Zvyagintsev as a Russian master to rank alongside Elem Klimov, Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Tarkovksy…Fri Nov 2 2012 - 00:00
For a good time call...Yuck! If there’s one thing more annoying than the dumb mainstream sex comedy, it’s the dumb mainstream sex comedy that has aspirations…Fri Nov 2 2012 - 00:00
The Disney empire strikes backDisney reviving the ‘Star Wars’ franchise is as inevitable as a Death Star theme park – but there is still one man who can bring…Thu Nov 1 2012 - 00:00
Creepy horror of commercial HalloweenScream as the zombies totter towards you! Thrill at being scared! Race to protect your kids from seasonal fear!Sat Oct 27 2012 - 01:00
Tony Scott cancer rumour scotchedThe coroner’s report on Tony Scott’s death has put one rumour to bed.Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Room 237IF YOU HOLD this newspaper to the light, a faint image of the Masonic compasses can be glimpsed in the upper right-hand corner…Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Halloween horror old and newIt’s Halloween. Time to close the curtains, turn off the lights and refuse entry to children lest they attempt to eat your Maltesers…Fri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Weaving and Bay clash Colts over TransformersWith all this grim news in the papers, it’s nice to have something to laugh aboutFri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
The Great Flood kicks off CorkThe 57th Corona Cork Film Festival is open for bookingFri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
StitchesTHE LATEST horror from Irish blood-fiend Conor McMahon features a scary clownFri Oct 26 2012 - 01:00
Queens of the big screamIt’s a role as old as storytelling itself and one that cinema has taken to spine-chilling lengthsSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
Misogyny in Australia no longer what it used to beThere is something irritating about semantic shifts in the meaning of wordsSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
Dustin gets the gang together for one last warbleTO THE BFI London Film Festival for an orgy of culture and cheap celebrity spottingFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Ginger and RosaMIGHT THE PRESENCE of Christina Hendricks in this superficially gorgeous period piece be intended as a joke? The top- heavy star…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Oh, the horror, the horrorAs mentioned elsewhere in these pages, the annual Horrorthon festival is on at the Irish Film Institute next weekendFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
BarakaIF YOU WERE determined to dislike the whole Ron Fricke experience, you could try arguing that his films form one continuous mass…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Time to take off to ClonesIt’s time to hit the north (more specifically the southern bit of the north)Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Gervais out of Golden GlobesRicky Gervais’s reign as cheeky ringmaster at the Golden Globes has endedFri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
Dreamtime, RevisitedJulius Ziz and Dónal Ó Céilleachair have made a transcendentally beautiful film of their appropriately eccentric musing on the…Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
He’s got some Force with himWhat better way to spend the evening that to watch one man act out all the parts in the original Star Wars trilogy?Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Gaff over China’s Looper takeawayA bizarre error triggered much confusion in the trade papers last week.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Stars in Dublin for premieresTwo tantalising films will be premiering at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema over the next week.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Mobile film fest crosses KerryThe Kerry Film Festival has begun its race across that KingdomFri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Hit & RunOH, LOOK. IT’S one of those genres they just don’t bother with any moreFri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
No shades of grey in Ellis rant over film directorApparently, to increase readership, all we need to do is print the words “fifty shades of grey” over and over again.Fri Oct 12 2012 - 01:00
Public image no longer hides private actionsCynicism about priests, politicians, pop stars and the rest of the establishment has set us free from destructive obsequiousness…Sat Oct 6 2012 - 01:00
How did that nice Liam Neeson become a psychopathic killing machine?YOU WILL BE familiar with the stock scene, more often parodied than it is staged sincerely, that finds the plain secretary pulling…Sat Oct 6 2012 - 01:00
Dame Judi tries out Irish accentStephen Frears, director of two Roddy Doyle adaptations, savours any opportunity to work in IrelandFri Oct 5 2012 - 01:00
Oscars choose the GuyBy now you will have heard that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and the recent smash Ted, is to host next year’s Oscars…Fri Oct 5 2012 - 01:00
SinisterTHE SET-UP couldn’t be more cliched if the hero were actually moving into a house where a grisly murder once took placeFri Oct 5 2012 - 01:00
The faculty fatheadIT IS QUITE an achievement to build a film around insular, self-absorbed literary twits – the sorts who bond over David Foster…Fri Oct 5 2012 - 01:00
IFI screens Lenny’s oeuvreTo celebrate the release of Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did (see review, page 12), the Irish Film Institute will host a season…Fri Oct 5 2012 - 01:00
Actors Guild blocks big BeastsAccept our apologies for already filling these pages with awards season news, but a controversy has bubbled up in relation to…Fri Oct 5 2012 - 01:00
We've swallowed Guinness festival hook, line and sinkerHow could we have been taken in by this level of corporate manipulation?Sat Sep 29 2012 - 01:00
Rage of Innocence: Iran snubs OscarsThe Innocence of Muslims controversy continuesFri Sep 28 2012 - 01:00
The CampaignTHIS VERY agreeable, slightly scattershot comedy arrives at a somewhat unfortunate point in the political calendarFri Sep 28 2012 - 01:00