The Big PicturePEDRO ALMODÓVAR’S Live Flesh. Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One. Chris Marker’s Sans SoleilFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Lights go out on The Dark TowerREEL NEWS: Who could have guessed that Universal Pictures would finally pull the plug on Ron Howard’s bizarre and epic plans…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Comic geek and sci-fi nerd nirvanaREEL NEWS: If you’re sitting at home cursing the Comic-Con ticket-holders who get to see exclusive footage from Steven Spielberg…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Just Do ItThere is a strange incongruity at the heart of Emily James’s entertaining portrait of direct environmental activism in the UK…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Chairman Mao hits the big screenREEL NEWS: No space robots until you’ve watched the tender historical portrait of MaoFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
An inconvenient superhero is backREEL NEWS: Just when you thought you’d heard the final scraping at the bottom of the superhero barrel, along comes the announcement…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Hobo with a ShotgunIT MAY NOT have set the box office on fire, but the Tarantino-Rodriguez Grindhouse portmanteau has left an indelibly grimy imprint…Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Cell 211/Celda 211IT’S JUAN Oliver’s first day on the job, and he’s looking neat as a pin as he kisses his heavily pregnant wife goodbyeFri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Holy RollersHEARD THE ONE about the drug-smuggling rabbi? If Holy Rollers weren’t ripped from a series of 1989 headlines, it could be the…Fri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
Film SocialismeSLOGANS AHOY. “AIDS tool for killing blacks.” “strange thing Hollywood Jews invented it.” “nocrime, nobloodFri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
The ConspiratorONE OF cinema’s most mercurial and influential talents, Robert Redford is an awfully difficult fellow to pin down.Fri Jul 01 2011 - 01:00
Countdown to zeroIT’S A LITTLE late in the day to be manufacturing a defence of Bush and Blair’s WMD thesis but that hasn’t prevented former Oscar…Fri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
IncendiesIN MONTREAL, a twin brother and sister are called in to hear the reading of their mother’s last will and testamentFri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
'Less of the grand dame, please'Catherine Deneuve may had made her first film more than half a century ago, but don’t think of calling her or an ‘icon’ – and…Fri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
Green LanternIT’S COME to this. It took two decades of flops – The Phantom , anyone? – for the superhero movie to come good at the box office…Fri Jun 17 2011 - 01:00
PoticheIT’S 1977 and trophy wife Suzanne Pujol (Deneuve) is busy keeping house, keeping herself pretty and keeping up bourgeois appearances…Fri Jun 17 2011 - 01:00
Point Blank / À Bout PortantPAY ATTENTION. This sleek French thriller from the team behind Anything for Her doesn’t hang aboutFri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
Mother’s DayTIMES HAVE changed since Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day , a bottom-shelf slasher comedy, was first spewed out by the Troma imprint…Fri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
KaboomLESBIAN WITCHCRAFT. Nuclear apocalypse. Omnisexual humping. A doomsday cult. It can only be a Gregg Araki joint.Fri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
Vidal Sassoon: The MovieWATCHING THIS gushing hagiography, it is impossible not to feel a little bemused when various wags and pundits describe superstar…Fri Jun 03 2011 - 01:00
Build Something ModernSTILL FILMS, the impossibly hip Irish boutique imprint founded in 2006 by film-makers Maya Derrington, Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley…Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Roderic RulesFEW 10-YEAR-OLDS will need an introduction to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney’s knockabout chronicles of pre-teen angst.Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Le Quattro VolteAN ELDERLY shepherd struggles with a nagging cough high in the hills of Calabria.Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
The Hangover Part II‘IT’S HAPPENED again,” cries a panicked Bradley Cooper. Too right it has.Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Red HillWILL CITY cop Shane Cooper (True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten) survive the transfer to Aussie outpost Red Hill? The remote one-horse …Fri May 20 2011 - 01:00
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: a lacklustre improvementIt is far-fetched but Pirates 4 is a lacklustre improvementFri May 20 2011 - 01:00
Blitz“YOU’RE all right for a poofter,” vigilante cop Jason Statham tells his gay colleague during one of Blitz’s more pastoral moments…Fri May 20 2011 - 01:00
Take Me Home TonightLIKE A VIRGIN is in the shops, NWA is on the stereo and yuppies roam the earthFri May 13 2011 - 01:00
A Screaming Man/Un Homme Qui CrieYOU WAIT AN age for a film in which a swimming pool stands as a metaphor for national decline, then two arrive in as many weeks…Fri May 13 2011 - 01:00
Love Like Poison/Un Poison ViolentANNA IS A blossoming 14-year-old suffering through an awkward summer in BrittanyFri May 13 2011 - 01:00
Taxi zum Klo‘DON’T BE afraid if I take you along to public restrooms or the baths,” warns the hero of Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet ). …Fri May 06 2011 - 01:00
13 AssassinsIT’S THE mid-1900s. As feudal Japan splutters towards an end, the samurai classes are in crisisFri May 06 2011 - 01:00
Priest 3DIN AN alternate CGI universe, humans and vampires have been at war for centuriesFri May 06 2011 - 01:00
One hundred morningsIN THE WEEKS following an unspecified societal collapse, two young couples – Jonathan (Ciaran McMenamin) and Hannah (Alex Reid…Fri May 06 2011 - 01:00
Insidious“A PARASITE! She befriended your Astro body and lured you into the FurtherFri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
Cedar RapidsWHEN THE top dog at Brownstar Insurance dies in an erotic asphyxiation accident, it falls to naive underling Tim Lippe (Helms…Fri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
The Extraordinary Advenutres of Adèle Blanc-Sec/ Les Aventures Extraordinaires de Adèle Blanc-SecWHIMSY ahoy!Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
Fast & Furious 5WE CAN’T stop thinking about that joke in American Dad: “That’s 2 Fast 2 Furious! Which means you’ve already seen the first one…Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
TT3D: Closer to the EdgeDirected by Richard De Aragues 15A cert, gen release, 103 min ****Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
PinaDirected by Wim Wenders. Featuring Regina Advento, Pina Bausch G cert, Cineworld/IFI, Dublin release, 104 min ***Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
Little White Lies/Les Petits MouchoirsRETURNING HOME from a club in the wee hours, coked-up party animal Ludo (Jean Dujardin) is blindsided by a truck and confined…Fri Apr 15 2011 - 01:00
Meek's CutoffIT’S 1845, post-buffalo but pre-transcontinental railroad, and three families in a wagon train are slowly making their way over…Fri Apr 15 2011 - 01:00
Winnie the PoohDARKER, MOODIER, tortured; the new Winnie the Pooh was never going to make any concessions to such grown-up thingsFri Apr 15 2011 - 01:00
Revenge is a fish best served rawMILD-MANNERED fish-store owner Shamoto can’t catch a break at homeFri Apr 08 2011 - 01:00
Before the Revolution/Prima Della RivoluzioneDirected by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli Club, IFI, Dublin, 112 min irishfilm.ieFri Apr 08 2011 - 01:00
Ground control to Major MomBUT MOMS evidently don’t need Mars Needs Moms. With a price tag of $180 million plus and an opening US weekend take of $6Fri Apr 08 2011 - 01:00
Essential KillingTHREE WESTERN soldiers stop for a smoke in an unnamed Middle Eastern territoryFri Apr 01 2011 - 01:00
