ADiff review: Notfilm lets Samuel Beckett speakRoss Lipman’s doc makes interesting connections and assertionsWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26
ADiff review: Black, a tale of star-crossed lovers in violent BrusselsA rivalry between African gangs turns brutal in this adaptation of gritty youth novelsWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:25
Claudia Cardinale: ‘Usually you live only one life. But I have lived 154 lives’The Italian star of such classics as 8½ and Once Upon a Time in the West is now 78 and has just completed her 154th feature. She talks about six decades in filmWed Feb 17 2016 - 06:00
Angela Lansbury: still a star at 90The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary lifeSat Feb 13 2016 - 04:00
Oddball and the Penguins review: lovely, old-fashioned family entertainmentThe penguins are cute, but the big fluffy sheepdog steals the show in this delightful Aussie dramaThu Feb 11 2016 - 15:15
‘Deadpool’: TJ Miller relishes his role as a weasly sidekickThe comic actor, who is famous as Mr Mucus, is happy as long as he’s getting laughsThu Feb 11 2016 - 13:00
The Survivalist review: a lean, thrilling debut from director Stephen FingletonPitiless, economic storytelling from Fingleton is matched by a fantastic performances from Martin McCann, Olwen Fouéré and Mia GothThu Feb 11 2016 - 08:00
Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Road Chip review: gives rodents a bad nameSay your prayers - here comes the fourth instalment of the $1.3 billion and counting Ca$hmunks seriesWed Feb 10 2016 - 17:22
Zoolander 2 review: a really, really, really, ridiculously average sequelSilly jokes and A-list cameos pass the time, but it’s pretty much more of the same from Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and the rest of the gangWed Feb 10 2016 - 14:13
Grímur Hákonarson: from sheep whisperer to Cannes winnerNever mind the sub-zero temperatures and bad light – casting the right type of sheep proved just as tricky for Cannes-winner ‘Rams’ says director Grímur HákonarsonFri Feb 05 2016 - 06:00
Strangerland review: The dust devil is in the detailIrish cinematographer PJ Dillon brews up a terrific storm – literally and figurativelyThu Feb 04 2016 - 20:00
Goosebumps review: Blackly monstrous, good funWill today’s creepypasta kids still enjoy such silly fireside supernaturalism? We do hope soThu Feb 04 2016 - 19:00
Dad’s Army review: perpetrating a bit of a phoney warWhen the film sticks to old jokes, it serves some purpose. But too often we’re stuck in tea shops on dates with Catherine Zeta-JonesThu Feb 04 2016 - 16:40
Point Break review: Adrenaline flunkies defying gravity and logicRelentless action cannot dispel the toxic levels of claptrap that stink up this po-faced, slow-witted remakeThu Feb 04 2016 - 15:13
Michael Keaton: Ireland ahead of the curve on abuse issueKeaton returns to cinemas in Spotlight. He is an Oscar frontrunner, but has a keen eye on BrooklynFri Jan 29 2016 - 06:00
Youth review: a vague, beautiful-looking meditation on . . . well, what exactly?Michael Caine. Harvey Keitel. Jane Fonda. Rachel Weisz. Paul Dano - the great cast ultimately becomes marginalised by the busyness of Paolo Sorrentino’s latest filmThu Jan 28 2016 - 19:10
13 Hours review: Michael Bay shoots first, doesn’t ask questions laterThe director turns to the political sphere with this mindless actioner about Benghazi - he should stick to the giant robotsThu Jan 28 2016 - 15:56
Capture the flag review: take a trip to the dull side of the moonThis colourful animation tries a little too hard to get down with the kidsThu Jan 28 2016 - 15:25
The Big Short review: nailing the crux of the crashBrilliantly accessible, scathing account of the financial crisis based on the bestselling bookFri Jan 22 2016 - 11:13
Harvey Keitel: from the marines to the screen, from Scorsese to TarantinoThe actor with a five-decade mean streak of a career shows little signs of mellowing. 'I took on the ups and downs," he says. 'Sometimes they won. Sometimes I won'Fri Jan 22 2016 - 06:00
The 5th Wave review: Some decent action between the YA longing and the clichésThink Twilight with aliens. Or Ender’s Game with a girl in the lead. Or Divergent without the non-stopping trains... you get the pointThu Jan 21 2016 - 17:00
Our Brand is Crisis review: Just about makes a drama out of a crisisA constellation of likeable actors is on the case - including Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton - but the dramedy just doesn’t quite come together as it shouldThu Jan 21 2016 - 16:04
Ryan Coogler: ‘Apollo Creed meant everything to African-Americans’In the Rocky offshoot Creed, Ryan Coogler has made a rare boxing film with a black actor as star. The director talks about how he won over Sly, and the cultural importance of Apollo CreedSun Jan 17 2016 - 06:00
Adam McKay: ‘I just wanted people to understand that nothing has changed'The man behind such comedies as Anchorman and Step Brothers has toned down the farce for his latest film, the star-studded multi-Oscar-nominated The Big ShortFri Jan 15 2016 - 09:00
Creed review: a fresh glint in the eye of the tigerCreed firmly overthrows any notions that the Rocky films are trading on an elaborate Great White Hope mythologyThu Jan 14 2016 - 14:00
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I couldn’t bear the idea that I wasn’t the smartest’The brain-box Irish film-maker suddenly finds himself a hot Oscar prospect with his acclaimed fifth feature, which is tearing up the awards trailFri Jan 08 2016 - 06:00
Last Hijack review: A Somali pirate’s tale that gets a little bit lost at seaTommy Pallotta’s documentary is nicely presented but lacks a coherent narrativeThu Jan 07 2016 - 11:00
Bolshoi Babylon Review: A visceral look inside the famous ballet company“The world of theatre is cruel . . . It looks beautiful from the outside, but inside it's boiling”Wed Jan 06 2016 - 17:02
Alejandro González Iñárritu: survival of the fittest - on set and in HollywoodThere ain’t no mountain tough enough for the Oscar-winning director of wilderness epic The Revenant. ‘I’m just somebody whose vision is clear and I work my ass off to realise it’Fri Jan 01 2016 - 10:10
The Danish Girl review: a marriage in transformationEddie Redmayne plays the pioneering transgender painter Einar ‘Lili’ Wegener in this interesting if overly tame biopic from the director of ‘The King’s Speech’Thu Dec 31 2015 - 07:00
Reissue of the week: Le Mépris - Godard’s grand allusionsHere’s one ‘Contempt’ that has stood the test of time: sex bomb Brigitte Bardot and Hollywood hard man Jack Palance star in this 1963 Italian drama about marriage, the movies and selling outWed Dec 30 2015 - 11:00
In the Heart of the Sea review: they messed with the wrong whaleAmid all the swashbuckling, derring-do and mild ecological messages, Ron Howard delivers a delightfully old-fashioned high-seas adventureThu Dec 24 2015 - 07:00
The Danish Girl: ‘It’s only now that the world has embraced the trans cause’Tom Hooper’s film about a transgender woman born in 1882 has hit the zeitgeistMon Dec 21 2015 - 06:00
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Move review: Gets the flavour just rightWe’re delighted to report that: you’re a good movie, Charlie BrownFri Dec 18 2015 - 14:09
Cillian Murphy: ‘I like going to extremes’Cillian Murphy’s latest film In the Heart of the Sea finds him shipping pounds of weight while shooting far out on the ocean - and he relishes the challenges of difficult workFri Dec 18 2015 - 07:26
The Forbidden Room review: All the phantasmagoria you can handleThe Forbidden Room began life as a wildly ambitious and proudly cuckoo project at the Centre Georges Pompidou in ParisThu Dec 17 2015 - 17:00
There’s no one quite like grandma: Lily Tomlin speaks her mindLily Tomlin is great in Grandma as a foul-mouthed lesbian poet, a part that was written for her. She talks about abortion, feminism and why Jane Fonda owes herMon Dec 14 2015 - 17:00
Grandma review: clever, consistently funny, surprisingly affectingLily Tomlin turns in one of the year’s best performances in this bittersweet crisis-pregnancy comedyFri Dec 11 2015 - 10:10
Sisters review: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler get caught up in some risky businessSparks fly between longtime sparring partners Fey and Poehler in this otherwise predictable comedyFri Dec 11 2015 - 06:10
Young, gifted and black: the new acting force behind The Force AwakensReboot king JJ Abrams is diversifying the Star Wars universe... Gwendoline Christie, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega on finding new hope in a galaxy far, far awayThu Dec 10 2015 - 05:45
Bargaintown review: a loving snapshot of a Dublin long since disappearedDavid Jazay and Judith Klinger’s restored 1988 documentary is a fascinating record of the capital in the years before the Celtic TigerFri Dec 04 2015 - 11:22
Agyness Deyn: “I never intended to be a model. I didn’t have a clue about it"As her new movie Sunset Song opens in cinemas, the accidental-model-turned-actress explains her journey from fish-and-chip shops to the catwalk to the big screenFri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
The Ticket Awards 2015: FilmFranchises were creaky (though a certain space opera has yet to land); the best films were strange beasts; and the locals came good. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady on the best and worst of film in 2015Fri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
Krampus review: This is what happens to naughty kids at ChristmasTrick ’r Treat director Mike Dougherty’s seasonal horror is fun, and with a super cast, but gets bogged down in family pyscho-dramaThu Dec 03 2015 - 23:59
The Lesson review: Debt-related stress has seldom seemed so entertainingSteely heroine takes on Kafkaesque bank bureaucracy in attempt to save her homeThu Dec 03 2015 - 19:00
Christmas with the Coopers review: A starry cast can’t save this seasonal storyMake way for a blitzkreig of Christmasiness – and a terrible waste of a talented ensembleMon Nov 30 2015 - 11:00
AP McCoy: 'I’d love to be out there... I miss torturing myself'In a stellar career, Tony McCoy never relinquished his grip on the jockeys’ championship. So how will he cope with being out of the saddle?Fri Nov 27 2015 - 06:00
The Good Dinosaur review: Yabba-dabba-do time? Not quiteThe premise – What if dinosaurs were dirt-farmers? – doesn’t have quite the appealing ring as Toy Story’s what if toys were alive?Thu Nov 26 2015 - 17:01
Hand Gestures review: slow cinema set brilliantly in bronzeThere are layers of craft in evidence in Francesco Clerici’s detailed study of an historic Italian bronze foundryMon Nov 23 2015 - 16:09
Being AP review: Thrills, spills and dry dour witBeing AP has more in common with a rehab movie than it does with the average sports docMon Nov 23 2015 - 11:00
