Rothar review: A playful show that transcends language and nationalityDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Both actors are equally impressive in this all-ages offering from Galway’s BranarThu Sept 28 2023 - 13:52
Film-maker Carol Morley: ‘Manchester was terrible for women... it was a working-class, white, boys’ town’The director on her native city, ‘invisible women’, and her fifth feature, Typist Artist Pirate King, about the late outsider artist Audrey AmissWed Sept 27 2023 - 05:00
The Dan Daw Show review: A miraculous piece of theatreDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much moreSat Sept 23 2023 - 12:45
Wes Anderson on his new Roald Dahl film: ‘No one who is not the author should be modifying somebody else’s book’Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel star in the director’s faithfully scripted new film of The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarSat Sept 23 2023 - 05:30
Ballywalter review: Painfully honest drama sees Patrick Kielty perform the worst stand-up routinesSeána Kerslake brings an edge and unpredictability that animates a carefully shaded storyFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:30
RMN: Urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama from a modern masterRomanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu dissects European hypocrisies and contradictions in this film based on a real-life xenophobic eventFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:15
RMN: Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu on his powerful Transylvanian tale of migrants and bears‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’Thu Sept 21 2023 - 05:00
Ken Loach: ‘Ireland has always been wonderful... even though the police in the North chased us out’The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87Sun Sept 17 2023 - 05:15
Cassandro: An impressive cast leaves the impression of being part of a celebrationThe flamboyant Mexican luchador gets the fabulous biopic he deservesFri Sept 15 2023 - 05:00
‘I don’t think the role of movies is to punish people. A movie isn’t a court’Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it isWed Sept 13 2023 - 05:00
El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horrorA deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film FestivalTue Sept 12 2023 - 21:03
A Symbiotic Symphonic Movement review: A triptych of experimental compositions casts a spellDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Inside Teak House, some attendees bow their heads in a liminal trance. Others lie down and absorb the noiseSun Sept 10 2023 - 10:17
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3: The mounting Hellenic horrors include a flabby story, damp jokes and an occasional goatThe Vardalos family are back for a messy, pointless second sequel to the cheery originalFri Sept 08 2023 - 00:01
Angelheaded Hipster: This Marc Bolan documentary is at its best when it lets the T Rex frontman do the talkingDespite pedestrian contributions by the likes of U2, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett and others, Bolan’s electric warrior spirit shines throughThu Sept 07 2023 - 05:00
A Life on the Farm: ‘Getting Koo Stark in the film was the weirdest conversation ever’ Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend is an unexpected contributor to Oscar Harding’s quirky film about outsider artist Charles CarsonTue Sept 05 2023 - 05:00
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Uganda’s charismatic ‘president of the ghetto’ under pressureThe former pop star’s professional swerve into politics has come at great personal costFri Sept 01 2023 - 05:00
Sound of Freedom: Ignore the huffing and puffing about this film. It’s not such a holy show after allJim Caziezel puts in his fiercest turn since The Passion of the ChristWed Aug 30 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe charming, hilarious send-up Theater Camp, the entertaining The Blackening, Christian Petzold’s singular Afire, and the knockabout ScrapperSun Aug 27 2023 - 05:00
‘We didn’t have an intimacy co-ordinator. We decided to build this thing together and trust one another’Passages actor Franz Rogowski on charming psychopathy and creating convincing relationships with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben WhishawSat Aug 26 2023 - 05:00
Afire: This entertaining, masterly, genre-defying comedy rightly took home Berlin’s Silver Bear German master Christian Petzold deftly weaves ecological catastrophe, sexual capering and a portrait of beta masculinity into something extraordinaryFri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Scrapper: Charlotte Regan’s surefooted debut is as plucky as its title suggestsThe tricky father-daughter relationship at this film’s heart makes it a poppier, knockabout cousin of AftersunFri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Afire: Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker didn’t realise how funny – and revealing – his new movie isChristian Petzold, Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker, didn’t realise how funny – and possibly revealing – his new movie isTue Aug 22 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLatino culture celebrated in enjoyable DC yarn Blue Beetle, plus chilly AI drama T.I.M., unfunny adult doggy tale Strays, and Desperate Optimists in thoughtful The Future TenseSun Aug 20 2023 - 05:00
The Future Tense: Desperate Optimists take a pleasingly meandering look at relations between Ireland and its nearest neighbourAlthough not everything in their documentary comes off, artists Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor make for great companyThu Aug 17 2023 - 05:00
Tim: What happens when a creepy robot assistant takes over your home? Here’s a cautionary taleA couple move into a high-tech home with a machine manservant, and you don’t need AI to tell you how that all works outWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Victor Belmondo: ‘At the end of the movie my grandfather is shot. I was a kid and I was crying’It’s hard to follow in the footsteps of an icon, but Jean-Paul Belmondo’s grandson is quietly becoming a screen star in his own rightWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Craig Revel Horwood: ‘My life was better before Strictly Come Dancing’The director, choreographer and Strictly star returns to Dublin with an electrifying turn as Miss Hannigan in AnnieSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekA fun cast can’t save Disney’s limp Haunted Mansion. Plus sensitive Trouble documentary Face Down, true-life video game tale Gran Turismo, and Penélope Cruz in Italian transgender drama L’immensitàSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
A charismatic Penélope Cruz anchors this charming transgender coming-of-age drama in L’ImmensitàImmensity of film’s title refers to the complications of growing up, compounded by gender identity, precarious mental health and the disintegration of a marriageFri Aug 11 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo: The real-life story of Jann Mardenborough has heart and speedArchie Madekwe is hugely likable as the Cardiff bedroom gamer who makes it big on the racetrackWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo’s Jann Mardenborough: ‘It was the darkest moment of my personal and professional life’The racing driver was keen for the tragedy of a crash that killed a spectator to be included in the exhilarating new film based on his careerWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekInclusive new TMNT animation is excellent family fun. Plus vital transgender doc Kokomo City, French Bataclan drama Paris Memories, and weakly whimsical murder mystery Maggie Moore(s)Sun Aug 06 2023 - 05:00
Paris Memories: Delicate, affecting drama explores life after a terrorist attackDrawing from her brother’s experiences at the Bataclan in 2015, director Alice Winocour brings nuanced performances from her stars Virginie Efira and Benoît MagimelFri Aug 04 2023 - 05:00
Maggie Moore(s): What are Jon Hamm and Tina Fey doing in this ill-advised murder comedy?Director John Slattery cannot reconcile the cacophony of incongruous tones in this tale of two namesake murder victimsThu Aug 03 2023 - 05:00
Kokomo City is a landmark in trans representation on screenKokomo City, the former music producer’s Sundance-winning film, is a landmark in trans representation on screenMon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Everybody Loves Jeanne: Tart romcom with a revelatory turn from stand-up comic Blanche GardinThis charming film is a great debut for film-maker Céline DevauxFri Jul 28 2023 - 05:00
The Beanie Bubble review: Creepy-cute Zach Galifianakis is brilliant as the elusive Beanie Babies billionaireThe cuddliest critique of capitalist greed and workplace sexism of the yearThu Jul 27 2023 - 04:00
A secret gay history of UK espionage: ‘The skill-set of homosexuals and spies overlapped’Huw Lemmey, a novelist and host of the Bad Gays podcast, has made the intriguing spy film UngentleMon Jul 24 2023 - 06:05
Nicole Holofcener: ‘It’s shocking the way money is thrown around on a big-budget movie’ Director will continue making films about shrinks, television producers and theatre practitioners who remain poignantly and amusingly human, even when they do awful thingsSat Jul 22 2023 - 06:15
They Cloned Tyrone: Squint and this sci-fi comedy satire could be a blaxploitation classicDirector Juel Taylor channels 1974′s Foxy Brown and 2017 horror hit Get Out in this race-conscious story of a two-bit drug dealer who is shot dead and brought back to lifeFri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
Oppenheimer review: Cillian Murphy gives a commanding turn. But why is Florence Pugh reduced to Crazy Naked Chick?Not unlike its subject, the father of the atomic bomb, Christopher Nolan’s 12th feature is deeply flawed but brilliantWed Jul 19 2023 - 18:23
How exactly did Barbie get her groove back?: ‘Anything and everything you wanted her to be’Inspired by a German ‘exhibitionist and floozy’ and reviled by generations of feminists, Barbie now synonymises more than a child’s dollSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Puffin Rock and the New Friends: Chris O’Dowd at his charming best in a world-conquering Irish animationThere’s enough jeopardy to keep small humans riveted in this first big-screen outing, but nothing too scaryFri Jul 14 2023 - 07:00
Medusa: Consistently trippy satirical art-house horror takes aim at Brazil’s evangelical cultsThe film’s ideas about women as religious enforcers, complicit in their own subjugation, are fascinatingFri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00
‘Freediving was like nothing I’d ever seen’: breathtaking Irish film about a deeply dangerous sport garners early awards buzzKildare filmmaker Laura McGann’s documentary The Deepest Breath centres on the mysterious bond between an Italian competitor and her Irish safety diverMon Jul 10 2023 - 05:30
Simon Pegg: ‘We’re at a tipping point, and people are getting upset because so and so isn’t playing Spider-Man’The nerdy obsessive behind Shaun of the Dead and Spaced has come such a long way that Tom Cruise even has a nickname for himSun Jul 09 2023 - 06:30
Four new films to see this weekCruise & co firing on all cylinders in latest Mission: Impossible, plus Pierce Brosnan in fun caper comedy The Out-Laws, French satire Smoking Causes Coughing, and Morocco-set drama The Damned Don’t CrySun Jul 09 2023 - 05:00
The Damned Don’t Cry: ‘After a few days of being shy, the cast was like: my character would never, ever say that’Fyzal Boulifa on learning to trust the non-professional cast of his Morocco-set second feature, The Damned Don’t CrySat Jul 08 2023 - 05:15
Smoking Causes Coughing: Vive les super-herosSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has a worthy rival in this French Power Rangers spoofFri Jul 07 2023 - 05:00
The Damned Don’t Cry: Brilliant Moroccan melodrama offsets tragedy with beautyFyzal Boulifa’s muscular second feature is about a mother and son’s achingly human need for security and belongingThu Jul 06 2023 - 05:00
