The Irish Times

Six Minutes to Midnight: Who do you think you are kidding, Eddie Izzard?

Not even Judi Dench can save writer and star Izzard’s prewar romp from drab mediocrity

Fri Mar 26 2021 - 05:00

King of Thieves: Three films rolled into a single heist movie

Review: With Michael Caine, Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon, it couldn’t be boring

Fri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00

Black ’47: Brain-twitching Great Irish Famine revenge thriller

Review: Lance Daly’s movie rattles along at the pace of a hungry dog pursuing a healthy rabbit

Wed Sept 05 2018 - 05:00

Anthony Hopkins: ‘I’m happy I’m an alcoholic. It’s a great gift’

Alcoholism and ambition fuelled the actor’s rise

Mon May 28 2018 - 09:04

Seven of the best TV shows to watch this week

Anthony Hopkins plays Lear, Gay Byrne takes a trip down memory lane and Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope comes to a friendship-wrecking close

Sun May 27 2018 - 06:00

Mary and the Witch’s Flower review: We are not in Hogwarts anymore, Toto

This tale of spells and broomsticks in the Studio Ghibli spirit will sweep you away

Fri May 04 2018 - 05:00

‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’

Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry

Wed Apr 25 2018 - 05:00

Game of Thrones, episode 2: Bloody, brutal and lovely to watch

Who can you trust these days in war-torn, backstabbing, deeply divided Westeros?

Mon Jul 24 2017 - 22:00

Ozark review: A show with plenty of ideas, none of them original

Jason Bateman plays a straitlaced man who turns to crime in desperate times. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before ...

Fri Jul 21 2017 - 14:00

The Sense of an Ending review: A smart piece of translation

Julian Barnes’s dryly comic Booker winner is nimbly adapted to suit the demands of mainstream cinema

Wed Apr 12 2017 - 06:00

Television: Undercover in London, behind bars in Dublin

Review: ‘London Spy’, ‘The Joy’, ‘Ballyfin’, ‘Downton Abbey’

Fri Nov 13 2015 - 14:00

Get Santa review: Santy in the slammer

Jim Broadbent stars as Santa Claus in this somewhat strange holiday kids movie

Fri Dec 05 2014 - 06:00

‘Downton Abbey’ star Hugh Bonneville on working with Paddington

Tara Brady talks to the English actor about going from lord of the manor to friend of the bear

Fri Nov 28 2014 - 06:00

Philomena stars nominated for British Independent Film awards

Saoirse Ronan is also shortlisted for the Best Actress awards in London next month

Mon Nov 11 2013 - 15:43

Closed Circuit

Fri Oct 25 2013 - 12:44

Le Week-End

This provocative but smug dramedy – about a couple on a dirty old weekend – is not your mum’s usual geezer pleaser

Fri Oct 11 2013 - 00:00

Filth

Thu Oct 10 2013 - 13:11

Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview

What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year

Fri Sept 20 2013 - 00:00