The Movie Quiz: Who has been in every Star Wars film (spinoffs excluded)?Plus: Edward, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Emmet. Which clan?Fri Aug 12 2022 - 06:00
Nope: Daniel Kaluuya moves through the increasingly bizarre action with a rocky stoicismFilm review: Although not perfect, it is so elegantly carried off one scarcely feels the impulse to complainFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:00
Hole in the Head: An imaginative and infuriating cut from the edge of Irish cinemaFilm review: Experimentalist film-maker Dean Kavanagh takes an oblique approach to a family mysteryFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:00
Olivia Newton-John: Nothing could dampen the affection she generated among the watching publicDonald Clarke: Newton-John’s sunny positivity paved the way for the British infatuation with AustraliaTue Aug 9 2022 - 15:47
Four new films to see this week ... One of them is a lean, exhilarating thrillerThirteen Live and Prey streaming, Bullet Train and Maisie in cinemasSun Aug 7 2022 - 06:00
Dean Kavanagh on getting his ‘bloody weird’ film into cinemasDean Kavanagh’s latest work shows there’s space in national cinema for the avant-garde despite franchisesSat Aug 6 2022 - 18:36
Death of a movie: Who killed Batgirl and why? Donald Clarke: The superhero movie is set to join a select list of titles that never saw the light of daySat Aug 6 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Spot the ‘Andy Warhol film’ actually directed by Andy WarholPlus: Who are the only siblings to both win lead acting Oscars?Fri Aug 5 2022 - 06:00
Bullet Train film review: Brad Pitt’s action epic never leaves the stationIt’s big, it’s brash, it should be great, but sadly this Brad Pitt vehicle never leaves the stationFri Aug 5 2022 - 05:00
Thirteen Lives: A solid drama of the old schoolRon Howard’s dramatisation of the Thai cave rescue is his best film in yearsFri Aug 5 2022 - 05:00
Is For All Mankind the most overlooked series on TV?The show hasn’t a single Emmy nomination, yet it’s conceived on a scale that makes evangelical devotees of its regular viewersThu Aug 4 2022 - 05:07
Hit Irish-language film An Cailín Ciúin selected as Ireland’s Oscars entry Colm Bairéad’s movie has strong chance of progressing to the 2023 Academy Awards longlist for best international featureWed Aug 3 2022 - 08:26
Colin Farrell’s canny journey from ‘hell-raiser’ to star of prestige cinemaThe Castleknock Brando went up like a rocket two decades ago and could have come down like a stick. It didn’t happenMon Aug 1 2022 - 05:20
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekHit the Road, Joyride, Fire of Love, The Deer KingSun Jul 31 2022 - 06:00
Exuberant Indian epic RRR reaches new audiencesAnti-colonial extravaganza lands with the energy of a meteor strikeSat Jul 30 2022 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Steven Spielberg’s production company?Plus: Who might belong with Ian McEwan, Alice Sebold, Stephenie Meyer, Colm Tóibín and Anton Chekhov?Fri Jul 29 2022 - 06:00
Joyride: Irish road movie of the old schoolOlivia Colman stars in a drama that never quite achieves its objectivesFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Hit the Road: An almost flawless Iranian comic dramaPanah Panahi’s cunning, funny first feature is latest in a long tradition of car-set filmsFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Brad Pitt, 43rd highest-grossing movie star ever, gets mired in a whitewashing controversyHis new film Bullet Train is the latest to be accused of casting white actors in non-white rolesWed Jul 27 2022 - 08:32
In Bruges team of Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Martin McDonagh reunite in VeniceThe Banshees of Inisherin is Martin McDonagh's first film since Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriTue Jul 26 2022 - 15:49
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWhere the Crawdads Sing on general release, Robust, Notre Dame on Fire and Kurt Vonnegut: Unstock in Time on limited releaseSun Jul 24 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Despite the doom-mongers, linear TV is still hanging onYes, our viewing habits are changing, but not as fast as some predictSat Jul 23 2022 - 05:57
The Movie Quiz: If Liam is Thor, then who is Loki?Plus: Which Jane Austen character follows on from Melanie Daniels and Tess McGill?Fri Jul 22 2022 - 06:00
Robust: Utterly charming, ultimately sad debut from Constance MeyerReview: Film’s refusal to wheel out familiar tropes may ultimately leave some viewers disappointedFri Jul 22 2022 - 05:30
Toby Jones: ‘Anything that takes Beckett out of the university and puts him in the world is to be encouraged’Over the last few decades, no actor has spread himself more generously – or more productively – over so many diverse modes and genres as JonesThu Jul 21 2022 - 09:00
Where the Crawdads Sing: Daisy Edgar-Jones does her best in a mostly terrible filmThe storytelling veers between soap-opera cheese and middle-brow literary pufferyThu Jul 21 2022 - 06:00
Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, wanted for questioning over real-life killingThe bestselling book, now a major movie, echoes a death in Africa in 1995Wed Jul 20 2022 - 05:00
Death of Tom Collins, a crucial figure in the growth of Irish cinema, announcedThe writer and director’s films included Bogwoman, Teenage Kicks, Kings, and the Oscars-considered An BronntanasTue Jul 19 2022 - 15:54
Four new films to see this weekPersuasion and The Gray Man streaming, The Railway Children Return and McEnroe on cinema releaseSun Jul 17 2022 - 06:00
Tipping point of idiocy as anti-wokery edges into the Tory leadership campaign Donald Clarke: Preposterous phenomenon could well have grim repercussions for some minoritiesSat Jul 16 2022 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Which 007 film ends rather than begins with ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’?Plus: Who has shared roles with both Rex Harrison and Jerry Lewis?Fri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Persuasion: An honourable effort for all the bellyachingFilm review: A spirited adaptation of Jane Austen’s most intricate novelFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Railway Children Return: A plodding affair that seems to annoy the right peopleReview: A film more characterised more by fastidious set dressing than by narrative tension and clunky plottingFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Michael Flatley’s spy film Blackbird finally comes to Irish cinemas after four-year waitLord of the Dance legend stars as 007-style agent in self-financed thriller which was made in 2018 and has since achieved semi-mythical statusThu Jul 14 2022 - 19:26
Natalie Portman: From child star to mother of two — ‘I keep pinching myself’Oscar winner talks about the changes in film, being cast as a superhero and the rise of streamers and TV seriesTue Jul 12 2022 - 05:00
Sinéad O’Connor’s viral SNL moment generates cheers and applause at 34th Galway Film FleadhNew documentary confirms singer dismissed in Ireland for speaking uncomfortable truths — most conspicuously those concerning the Catholic Church — that are now little disputedMon Jul 11 2022 - 13:53
Four new films to see this weekThe Sea Beast streaming, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles and Futura on cinema releaseSun Jul 10 2022 - 06:00
Jenny Agutter: ‘I have Irish ancestry on my mother’s side’ As The Railway Children Return rolls into a station near you, the former child star and Call the Midwife actor embodies clear-headed EnglishnessSat Jul 9 2022 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Let’s hear it for the GentleminionsMinion lovers in suits? Screaming at Spider-Man? These are vital signs of a vibrant artformSat Jul 9 2022 - 05:51
The Movie Quiz: The opening of Easy Rider suggests which German writer?Plus: Which are not among Maria’s favourite things?Fri Jul 8 2022 - 06:00
The Sea Beast: Netflix comes good with a lavish, funny, playful adventureFilm review: Streaming giant undercuts the studios with an epic whose worthwhile lessons are tainted only slightly by preachinessFri Jul 8 2022 - 06:00
James Caan: The butcher’s sensitive son with a gift for explosive violence Caan, who has died aged 82, had his breakout role as Sonny Corleone in The GodfatherThu Jul 7 2022 - 20:44
Joyride: Olivia Colman and her slightly undisciplined Irish accent open Galway Film FleadhThe 34th Galway Film Fleadh features the world premiere of Emer Reynolds’s road movieTue Jul 5 2022 - 23:00
Thor: Love and Thunder is a strange, strange film. And not always in a good wayFilm review: The movie makes no effort to take the Marvel Cinematic Universe seriouslyTue Jul 5 2022 - 14:00
From Communard to clergyman: ‘I was consumed with envy of Jimmy Somerville’ The retired Church of England clergyman and former member of The Communards on his new crime novel, Murder Before EvensongMon Jul 4 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNitram, The Princess, Pompo: The Cinephile, Minions: The Rise of GruSun Jul 3 2022 - 06:00
Ah, Wimbledon ... lawn tennis, strawberries, women having to wear white during their periodsDonald Clarke: We can safely assume the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club did not discuss periodsSat Jul 2 2022 - 06:00
Nitram: A chilling study of solipsism at its most destructiveFilm review: Psychologically nuanced film based on the man responsible for a 1996 massacre in TasmaniaFri Jul 1 2022 - 06:00
The Princess: Diana documentary that makes an all-too-familiar story feel fresh With no voiceover, captions or contemporary talking heads, Ed Perkins seamlessly weaves archive footage to tell the tragic taleFri Jul 1 2022 - 00:00