The Vigil: Demonic horror set among Hasidic Jews deserves a franchiseReview: A long, creepy night of the souls makes excellent use of its settingFri Jul 31 2020 - 00:00
Last and First Men: An extraordinary, engrossing and moving piece of cinemaReview: The first and last film by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who died in 2018Wed Jul 29 2020 - 05:00
‘Our film says you can be both: a good mother and a good astronaut’Alice Winocour’s Proxima challenges the male monopoly on space travel storiesTue Jul 28 2020 - 05:00
Paddy Slattery: ‘Film could be poetic. It could be spiritual’Film-maker's cherished Broken Law makes it to cinema – with awards already wonSat Jul 25 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekendSaint Frances, Stage Mother on release, Last and First Men, The Traitor streamingFri Jul 24 2020 - 06:00
Stage Mother: Glittery, old-fashioned and big-heartedReview: There’s nothing novel in the plot or characterisation, but plenty that’s campFri Jul 24 2020 - 05:00
Demi Isaac Oviawe of Young Offenders: ‘I naturally have a resting bitch face’The Young Offenders star on race in Ireland, being tall and juggling acting with schoolSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendClemency, The Night Eats the World, Landless, Come as You AreFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
The Night Eats the World: A new kind of zombie hits our screensReview: Non-vocal zombies make for a fine and creepy innovation – not a rampaging horde in sightFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
Landless: Capturing the stamina required for political changeReview: Film chronicles life of 600 families occupying property owned by indebted sugarcane plantFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
Finding the Way Back: A career-best performance from Ben AffleckReview: He marries hulking physicality and internal demons with grief and addictionThu Jul 09 2020 - 07:53
Scoob! Scooby-Doo adaptation has hideous animation and a useless plotFrustratingly, there are some good jokes and ideas buried in the displeasing filmThu Jul 09 2020 - 07:47
‘There is a class of white people that is hearing us for the first time’Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of the Netflix movie The Old Guard, on getting films made as a black woman in HollywoodWed Jul 08 2020 - 06:00
Pierce Brosnan: ‘I was an only child from a fractured family’The Irish actor on ‘growing a beard, going grey, and playing Gerry Adams or Will Farrell’s dad’Sat Jul 04 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendHamilton, Lynn + Lucy, The Booksellers, InheritanceFri Jul 03 2020 - 06:00
Lynn + Lucy: A surefooted, gripping, moving filmReview: The cast are terrific, Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley positively transfixingThu Jul 02 2020 - 05:00
Hamilton the movie soars above its stage-bound originsReview: The cultural event of this troubled season – it might even break the internetWed Jul 01 2020 - 12:32
Hamilton: The Broadway smash that made its way to the White HouseFilm of the musical comes to Disney+ on July 3rd - but what is all the fuss about?Sat Jun 27 2020 - 05:00
Fanny Lye Deliver’d: The dampest spectacle you will see this yearReview: Thomas Clay’s latest film is a home invasion horror with a Cromwellian twistFri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Enjoyable silliness that hits the right notesReview: Pierce Brosnan has not arched his eyebrows this much in yearsFri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00
Charles Dance: ‘The English did not behave very well, I’m afraid’The actor’s new film, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, is set during the turmoil of the English revolutionWed Jun 24 2020 - 05:00
On the Record: A #MeToo documentary about hip-hop producer Russell SimmonsA new film looking at allegations of sexual abuse at Def Jam recordsSat Jun 20 2020 - 05:00
7500: Who will succumb to Stockholm Syndrome first?Review: This clever feature marks a welcome return for Joseph Gordon-LevittFri Jun 19 2020 - 05:00
Joan of Arc: The world’s most unlikely summer franchiseReview: This is not so much a Joan of Arc movie as an anti-Joan of Arc movieFri Jun 19 2020 - 05:00
The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in orderIs Jamie Dornan better than Donal McCann? Ruth Negga superior to Brenda Fricker?Sat Jun 13 2020 - 05:00
Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee’s implausible pot-of-gold adventureReview: Director, nonetheless, manages to mine a compelling parallel political narrativeFri Jun 12 2020 - 05:00
Virus Tropical: Delightful, monochrome screen adaptation of a graphic novelReview: Power Paola’s latest offering is a breezy, heartfelt coming-of-age taleFri Jun 12 2020 - 05:00
Judd Apatow: ‘When people tell stories about being horrible, it’s always hilarious’Comedy’s fairy godfather goes serious for his new film, The King of Staten IslandThu Jun 11 2020 - 05:00
Kenneth Branagh: ‘It’s a challenge, Irishness in cinema’The Belfast-born director has, at last, put Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl on the screenSun Jun 07 2020 - 05:00
A Rainy Day in New York: Unfunny, anachronistic, unmarketableWoody Allen’s latest is dated and slipshod with flimsy one-liners and storyFri Jun 05 2020 - 05:00
MS Slavic 7: Well-crafted inquiry into an unknowable relationshipCo-directors examine decades of letters between Polish refugees revealing ‘fantasy of love’Fri Jun 05 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendDating Amber, A Rainy Day in New York, Miss Slavic 7, Echo in the CanyonFri Jun 05 2020 - 00:00
The Vast of Night: Ingenious sci-fi on a microbudgetReview: Multiple prize winner wears its TV influences on its sleeve but is altogether freshFri May 29 2020 - 13:50
The High Note: Moments of greatness but a few out-of-tune bitsReview: Music snob Dakota Johnson strikes up a friendship with a washed-up superstarFri May 29 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendThe Vast of Night, Mike Wallace Is Here, Only the Animals, and The High NoteFri May 29 2020 - 00:00
Antonia Campbell-Hughes: ‘I like hard graft. That’s what I believe in’The actor returns to Donegal to get behind the camera for the first but not the last timeTue May 26 2020 - 05:00
‘After Waves I needed to get therapy and I needed to do a rom-com’Kelvin Harrison Jr on the excitement of working on a movie about strong womenSat May 23 2020 - 05:00
Take Me Somewhere Nice: Spirited sexual awakening dramedyReview: A Dutch-raised teen returns to Bosnia for an eventful and surreal adventureFri May 22 2020 - 05:00
The County: A spiky, lopsided Icelandic hymn to individualismReview: There’s an uncomfortable Randian dimension to the gritty protagonistFri May 22 2020 - 05:00
Film-maker Pedro Costa: ‘There is no Beckett or Joyce in cinema’The Portuguese director on finding the story for his award-winning film Vitalina VarelaTue May 19 2020 - 05:00
Vitalina Varela: The most unfortunate casualty of cinema closuresReview: Nobody makes cinema quite like Pedro Costa. This is a movie to wash over youFri May 15 2020 - 05:00
Cassandro, The Exotico!: Handmade, heartfelt and against the grainReview: Marie Losier’s one-woman crew follows gay luchador Saúl ArmendárizFri May 15 2020 - 05:00
Eliza Hittman: ‘How can you talk about abortion and not politics?’Never Rarely Sometimes Always avoids the cuddly approach to reproductive issuesTue May 12 2020 - 05:00
Films to stream right now: 10 great crime movies on Netflix and beyondFrom Goodfellas to Gone Girl, gripping films to watch on Netflix, Amazon and Apple TVFri May 08 2020 - 06:00
Ginghina’s thoughts on football are more than thoughts about footballFilm review: We are shown a complicated knot of regrets, ambitions, contrariness and personal philosophyFri May 08 2020 - 05:00
Romantic Comedy: History of the genre tracked from the 1930sReview: Writer-director Elizabeth Sankey delivers note-perfect riffs on rom-com genreFri May 08 2020 - 05:00
Corneliu Porumboiu: From a whistle to a screenThe Romanian director’s thriller The Whistlers was inspired by a unique languageWed May 06 2020 - 05:00
Movies to stream right now: 10 great romantic comediesNetflix, Google and Apple have some of the headiest screen rom-coms of all timeMon May 04 2020 - 11:00
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in orderDonald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprisesSat May 02 2020 - 05:00
Gael García Bernal: ‘All couples are weird’The Mexican actor’s daring, brilliant new film, Ema, offers a different concept of familySat May 02 2020 - 05:00
