Difret review: a one-girl revolutionThis is the first Ethiopian film to get a theatrical release in Ireland. Do try to get along so that it won’t be the lastFri Mar 06 2015 - 16:00
White Bird in a Blizzard review: Pitch perfect and finely craftedHow is that a film by a director as significant as Gregg Araki ends up with such a tiny release? And an excellent film, at that?Fri Mar 06 2015 - 14:00
Still Alice review: as moving a film as you will see this quarterVeteran Julianne Moore gets across the cruelly gradual nature of the illness and holds firm to a character that remains tangible through the mist of forgetfulnessFri Mar 06 2015 - 07:00
Catch Me Daddy review: a ripping Yorkshire thrillerA landscape of monstrous beauty finds new voice in brothers Daniel and Matthew Wolfe’s tremendous tale of doomed romanceFri Feb 27 2015 - 07:00
Maika Monroe: from world-class kiteboarder to accidental movie starMonroe shines in new chiller It Follows, a psychological horror about a sexually transmitted murderous ghostFri Feb 27 2015 - 06:00
White God review: enormous verve, brooding menace and impressive sincerityDisney meets Hitchcock in Kornél Mundruczó's beautifully calibrated, immaculately acted Cannes winnerThu Feb 26 2015 - 17:13
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of review – boys to men via therapyIn the 1990s, the Backstreet Boys toured non-stop, burned out and developed various addictions. Now they’re older, wiser and ready to open upThu Feb 26 2015 - 13:30
Stolen millions, rehab and redemption: AJ McLean tells his Backstreet storyMcLean joins fellow Backstreet Boys Howie, Nick, Kevin and Brian in new tell-all documentary Show ‘Em What You’re Made OfThu Feb 26 2015 - 13:23
The Tales of Hoffmann review: Powell and Pressburger’s otherworldly take on OffenbachThu Feb 26 2015 - 10:00
Kevin Hart: ‘People love a broad comedy’The world’s biggest-grossing comedian is everywhere at the moment. He talks about new film The Wedding Ringer, ‘the knack’ of success and growing up in a tough part of PhiladelphiaWed Feb 25 2015 - 06:00
Blackhat review: Michael Mann delivers a daft but delightful-looking hacker yarnThe action is entertaining, crunchingly violent and handsomely done, but Mann’s usual pyrotechnics are demeaned by an idiotic plot and the worst screen love interest since Gene Wilder fell in love with a sheepMon Feb 23 2015 - 09:20
Cake review: Jennifer Aniston lets it all hang outLook! It’s Rachel from ‘Friends’ with scars and no make-up. Sadly for Aniston, however, she can’t have her cake and an Oscar tooFri Feb 20 2015 - 10:34
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter review: A very impressive, singular piece of workDirectors David and Nathan Zellner take an eccentric road trip into Coen countryFri Feb 20 2015 - 07:00
An Oscar 12 years in the making - here’s a man worth shouting for on Sunday nightShane F Kelly, from Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone, worked with Richard Linklater on Boyhood from the beginning – “I think only Rick [Linklater] and the producer had any idea how it would turn out”Thu Feb 19 2015 - 17:10
Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades: ‘Christian not my kind of guy’From male model to leading man: Dornan seems unfazed by all the shrieking attention as he attends to various Grey mattersFri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Inherent Vice review: Thomas Pynchon’s own mother wouldn’t recognise itJoaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin do some magical ideological head-butting in Paul Thomas Anderson’s bravura attempt to stencilise Pynchon into celluloid formFri Feb 06 2015 - 10:23
Duck Soup review: Top Marx for one of the greatest comedies ever madeMovies don’t get more sublimely subversive than this 1933 caper from the Marx BrothersFri Feb 06 2015 - 07:12
Jupiter Ascending review: Channing and Mila swoon in spaceThis colourful, vacuous ‘Flash Gordon’ wannabe from the makers of ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Cloud Atlas’ is bizarrely, almost defiantly retroFri Feb 06 2015 - 06:44
Moe Dunford: 'Patrick spoke to me. I know Patrick very well''I was that way myself growing up. I thought there was something wrong with me' – Moe Dunford on why the lead role in ‘Patrick’s Day’ was one he felt he had to playFri Feb 06 2015 - 06:00
Shaun the Sheep Movie review: baa da bing!Aardman animation fans will be flocking to this delicious lamb chopThu Feb 05 2015 - 17:48
The Interview review: dumb and dumber along the DMZKim Jong-un needn’t have worried, North Korea has little to fear from this toothless comedyThu Feb 05 2015 - 14:56
A brief history of the big-screen teenFrom Jimmy Dean to Molly Ringwald, teenagers have been skulking around cinema for many decades, but it was in the 1990s that things got really hormonal, ‘Beyond Clueless’ director Charlie Lyne tells Tara BradyWed Feb 04 2015 - 14:04
‘Somebody has to play Martin Luther King. Why not me ?’ asks David OyelowoDavid Oyelowo, a familiar face from film and TV, had to transform himself to play Martin Luther King jnr in ‘Selma’. Now, with backing from Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt, the film has propelled the British actor into the limelight with the role of a lifetimeSat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
Big Hero 6 review: all the hip and zip of Pixar, with added warmth and gentle sorrowWalt Disney Animation follows up Frozen with exactly the right sort of project – something completely differentFri Jan 30 2015 - 14:37
Trash review: Rio rubbish dump romp comes up a bit too cleanDirector Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Richard Curtis combine to create a pleasing diversion, but with no clear audienceFri Jan 30 2015 - 07:03
The Dance of Reality review: another spectacular flourish from the psycho-magicianAlejandro Jodorowsky returns after 25-year absence, and his magical-surrealist lens is as sharply focused as everThu Jan 29 2015 - 22:38
Don’t eat the mala! How Aardman Studios create cinema magic one step at a timeIt takes four days to produce six seconds of film, dozens of directors to finish one movie, and the stars will only wash with baby wipes. Yet Aardman Animations is still the best in the businessFri Jan 23 2015 - 08:00
Beyond Clueless review: The kids are just as dazed and confused as everFrom ‘Mean Girls’ to ‘Slap Her, She’s French’, Guardian Charlie Lyne’s documentary takes an elegiac look at what makes a teen movieFri Jan 23 2015 - 07:12
American Sniper review: Clint Eastwood misses his markWhether as a straight-up piece of US flag-waving or a disturbing psychological study, director Clint Eastwood's latest is a complete muddleFri Jan 16 2015 - 07:00
Wild: Reese Witherspoon’s other sideAnnoyed with a lack of roles worth acting, Witherspoon optioned the rights to Cheryl Strayed’s best-seller ‘Wild’ and produced the movie herself. Smart woman: filming was gruelling, but her performance is an Oscar-worthy revelationFri Jan 16 2015 - 06:00
Apples of the Golan review: Arab fruit on the HeightsInteresting documentary about Arab villagers who survive by exporting their apples to war-torn SyriaThu Jan 15 2015 - 16:57
National Gallery review: Drawing in viewers slowly but surelyFrederick Wiseman’s latest offering is a long, close look at the National Gallery in LondonFri Jan 09 2015 - 10:00
Taken 3 review: I will find you and I will, er, knock you around someBallymena man Liam Neeson is back snapping nasty necks in this dopey, enjoyably bloodless bloodbathFri Jan 09 2015 - 09:00
JK Simmons: the arch nut jobOz’s Vernon Schillinger; Spidey- hater JJ Jameson: the arch nut job is a JK Simmons speciality. But for his latest role, he had to forget all his techniquesFri Jan 09 2015 - 07:00
Frederick Wiseman and the art of the non-fiction filmmaker‘National Gallery’, the octogenarian’s 41st feature film, is receiving rapturous noticesMon Jan 05 2015 - 01:00
Eddie Redmayne’s theory of acting Stephen HawkingEddie Redmayne put in prodigious efforts to play Stephen Hawking, from months working on particular muscles to getting to grips with relativity – is an Oscar in the bag?Sun Jan 04 2015 - 11:00
The silver screen in 2015: fasten your seatbeltsWe're about to witness the "Biggest ever year for cinema". Tara Brady takes a look at what's aheadFri Jan 02 2015 - 13:00
The Theory of Everything review: A brief history of loveThis love story is as complex and deep as any of the physics covered in Stephen Hawking’s booksFri Jan 02 2015 - 10:00
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death review: Back to the old houseThe ghost lady of the house is back with even more scares in this none-more-sequelFri Jan 02 2015 - 07:00
Big Eyes review: Deception painted with a skilful handDirector Tim Burton’s new film is a terrific story based on an artistic swindleWed Dec 24 2014 - 10:00
Netflix’s top 50 seriesWhether it's a Netflix original like Orange Is The New Black, a British comedy like Peep Show or just completely addictive like Breaking Bad; we've listed and categorised the very best Netflix boxsets for you to enjoy.Fri Dec 19 2014 - 12:00
Joe Swanberg: still the maestro of mumblecoreThe indie workhorse may be directing bigger names on more generous budgets, but his lo-fi auteur sensibility remains firmly in placeFri Dec 19 2014 - 10:00
The Circle review: circle of trustThis award-winning Swiss docudrama chronicles the establishment of a pioneering LGBT group and its erotic sister publicationFri Dec 12 2014 - 07:00
