Katy Perry: Part Of Me 3DOR YOU could mainline a carton of sherbet fountain while staring furiously at a stack of boiled sweets.Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which director currently has films lodged at No 1 and No 2 in the all-time box office chart?Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Where Do We Go Now?/Et Maintenant On Va Où?ALLOW ME to begin by being most unfair to Nadine Labaki’s often charming, though ultimately rather scattershot follow-up to the…Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Tweet and sour reaction to that bomb 'joke'LET ME tell you a story about something that happened to my cousin’s gardenerSat Jun 30 2012 - 01:00
Dark HorseWE BEGIN with a shot of two people – male and female, though not yet a couple – sitting at a table while staring enigmatically…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Great giveaway for dark comedyThe 10 Days in Dublin Festival, a multidisciplinary event that begins on July 5th, is to include a number of film screeningsFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Movie magic up close forGet ready for the Irish Film Institute’s Family Festival, July 5th until July 8thFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Galway gears up for annual fleadhThe Galway Film Fleadh announced its programme in that fine city earlier this weekFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Alan Partridge makes a dealRadio and TV presenter Alan Partridge has commented publicly on the news that StudioCanal, the Anglo-French production company…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Joyful NoiseABOUT TWO-THIRDS of the way through this cynical effort to repackage Glee for “faith audiences”, we get a faint hint of what …Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Legend of anime comes to townOn Monday, the Japanese Film Festival, in association with Access Cinema, will welcome admired anime director Makoto Shinkai …Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Dhaka doc wins ICCL human rights awardLast night Machine Man/ Hombre Maquina took the top prize at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards Gala…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Ice Age: Continental DriftTO USE an appropriate analogy, one may as well argue against the retreating ice sheets or shifts in the earth’s crust.Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
The particle with the power to answer everything yet nothingEven if the Higgs boson subatomic particle is found, it will not yield a meaning for human lifeSat Jun 23 2012 - 01:00
Lay the favouriteWITH THE best will in the world, you couldn’t describe the inestimable Stephen Frears as reliable.Fri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
The ApartmentWhen considering Billy Wilder’s vast array of classics, cinema watchers often struggle to find a golden threadFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Riding out the big waveSION SONO may have begun life as a poet but, to date, the Japanese film-maker has stayed clear of airy lyricismFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
VictimALEX PILLAI, director of this achingly well-intentioned British street drama, has been unlucky in his timingFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterTHE CONFEDERACY has been overrun by the Undead. The President wields an axe that doubles as a shotgunFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Marriage equality should be a priority for campaignersIt is understandable that gay rights activists would seek the right to marriage on principleSat Jun 16 2012 - 01:00
Biblical – but not much senseWe have great faith on Darren Aronofsky, but his latest venture sounds – even from the director of The Fountain – like a most…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Red LightsYou will struggle to name a more disciplined thriller than Rodrigo Cortés’s terrific BuriedFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Rock of AgesTHERE IS, SURELY, no chance that Rock of Ages could fail to work as a guilty pleasureFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
A Royal AffairHere’s a brief for an obscure film festival nobody would wish to attend: movies about commoners whose closeness to the monarch…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet ManHOLY MARY, mother of Jesus. God be with the days when we were all a little embarrassed by The Quiet ManFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Heavy on the Joyce at pop-upCheck out the film events at the inaugural Dublin Biennial Pop-Up ExhibitionFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Deadline for Film Fleadh awardTake heed, budding scribes. The deadline for the Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award has been extended to June 20thFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Confessions of a fleeting football fanAS THE action begins in this Euro Superball thing, we again take time out to bemoan the vile phenomenon of the post-1990 late…Sat Jun 09 2012 - 01:00
Touching the Fordian heightsThe John Ford Ireland film symposium continues at various venues until Sunday. This evening, at 7Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Look at this showerA WEEK AFTER Paul Laverty, working with regular collaborator Ken Loach, delivered The Angels’ Share, his lightest, least didactic…Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
A film with me in itEveryone knows that Hollywood reacts to the success of any film by throwing a series of imitations into production.Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
A Fantastic Fear of EverythingWELL, HERE’S something you don’t see every day. Thank goodnessFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
The PactBE FRIGHTENED. The debut film from Nicholas McCarthy, derived from his acclaimed short, concerns a young woman who travels home…Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Idol chatterROBERT PATTINSON is taking his first few steps on a long road. You don’t get any sense that he is ashamed of TwilghtFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Edinburgh' s a contenderFollowing several years of decline, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is making an effort to regain its statusFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
The same League as Avengers?Everyone knows that Hollywood reacts to the success of any film by throwing a series of imitations into production.Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Scots crowned chief Brit haters after Ireland cedes throneA YEAR has passed since some posh lady in a hat caused a commotion by staggering her way through a few words of the national …Sat Jun 02 2012 - 01:00
Haneke in Cannes good companySo, as virtually everyone predicted, Michael Haneke won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for the eviscerating AmourFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Dublin gets a little piece of HeavenHeaven’s Gate continues to have an afterlifeFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Klaxon Knightley union imminentApparently, Klaxons, the NME-friendly indie band, still exist and one of their number has become engaged to Keira KnightleyFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Snow White and the HuntsmanYES, YES, YES. The latest adaptation of Snow White – like this year’s feeble Mirror Mirror – is, of course, an outrageous rip…Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Top CatHOORAY! AFTER 50 long years, we, on this side of the Atlantic, are finally able to call Top Cat by his proper name.Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Krahne’s recipe for the absurdIn a worrying development, prominent Spanish artist Javier Krahe faces prosecution for “offending religious feelings” more than…Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00