No blasphemy for Flying CircusRather depressingly, Terry Jones, original member of the Monty Python team, has suggested that, with the apparent upsurge in …Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
AlbatrossA SOOTHING aura of competence hangs over this remarkably unremarkable coming-of-age comedy, set in a dull English seaside resort…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
Meaney in the driving seatA man of strong views who might have made a politician, Colm Meaney has nonetheless stayed focused on the acting dream that made…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
Orgy of 1960s remembrance might kill nostalgia stone deadTHERE IS a great deal to ponder in 2011. It is a decade since the attacks of 9/11Sat Oct 8 2011 - 01:00
Put that in your pipe and smoke itRisteard Ó Domhnaill’s The Pipe , that fine documentary on the Corrib gas controversy, continues to gather prizesFri Oct 7 2011 - 01:00
Cut beloved texts at your perilTHE UNEXPECTED box- office success of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has set in motion many fiery debates about the limitations…Fri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
What's Your Number?THERE’S A thorny question at the heart of this troublesome romantic comedyFri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
Penn’s diplomatic pulling powerREEL NEWS: It’s a bit easy to make fun of Sean Penn’s political grandstanding, but it seems that his intervention was genuinely…Fri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
Books we don’t want to readREEL NEWS: The staggeringly unimaginative title of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s upcoming autobiography: Total Recall.Fri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
The DebtTHIS THRILLER from the workmanlike John Madden asks us to swallow a great dealFri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
Oscar clamps down on aggressive campaigningREEL NEWS: It is supposedly change at the OscarsFri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
Lion King roars back in 3DREEL NEWS: What do we make of the fact that The Lion King 3D – still fresh after 17 years — has topped the US box office for…Fri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
Ruby slippers for the price of rubiesREEL NEWS: Hollywood seems to be flogging every precious icon lying beneath its bed.Fri Sep 30 2011 - 01:00
Avatar gets Disney treatmentREEL NE WS: Has anyone noticed the strange way that rival film companies – traditionally at one another’s throats – become best…Fri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
Puzzling Oscar newsREEL NE WS: It has been announced that As If I am Not There , Juanita Wilson’s tale of the Bosnian war, will be Ireland’s entry…Fri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which 1972 film spawned the instrumental hit Duelling Banjos?Fri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
Page One: Inside the New York TimesAT TIME OF writing, it still seemed likely that you will be able to read this review on flattened sheets of wood pulpFri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
Jurassic ParkBY 1993, STEVEN Spielberg had become an institution within the movie industryFri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
As Close as it getsREEL NE WS: In recent years, the Toronto Film Festival’s people’s choice award has had a good record of picking the coming year…Fri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
High cost of high conceptREEL NEWS: High concepts can cause all kinds of problems for movie-makersFri Sep 23 2011 - 01:00
Ongoing wave of love for the oval ball game just isn't cricketWHEN DID we all start giving a fig about filthy rugby? Look, I understand that there has long been a tradition of working-class…Sat Sep 17 2011 - 01:00
All set for a Misérable timeVariety reports that Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe as, respectively, hero Jean Valjean and antagonist Inspector Javert will…Fri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
London lays on a spreadThe programme for the BFI London Film Festival includes such enticing projects as Alexander Payne’s The Descendents , David Cronenberg…Fri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which cranky bald gentleman is often seen hunting “wabbits”?Fri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
The Change-UpIN THE OLDEN days, the body-swap comedy made some effort to explain how its principals ended up in each other’s framesFri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
Knightley takes Karenina roleIn furter casting news, we don’t hold with all this Knightley slagging, but the notion of Keira as Anna Karenina sounds like …Fri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
You InsteadTHIS IS THE sort of funky-legged film you want to like. It’s got a neat central premiseFri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
Joy for Irish in VeniceMichael Fassbender’s soaring status has been confirmed with his award for best actor at last week’s Venice Film FestivalFri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
Guard beats a HangoverThe Guard has been breaking Irish box-office records all summer.Fri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
Gibson’s takes on a Jewish warriorIt looks as if Mel Gibson is overdoing his efforts at rehabilitationFri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00
Still a reluctant hellraiser after all these yearsTHE ACTING profession has a way of turning its young tyros into harmless, tweedy national treasures. We won’t name namesWed Sep 14 2011 - 01:00
Fassbender wins best actor award at Venice Film FestivalMICHAEL FASSBENDER, currently among the busiest of Irish actors, cemented his status by winning best actor at the Venice Film…Mon Sep 12 2011 - 01:00
September 11th attacks had little impact on cultural mainstreamBY THE time one is old enough to remember clearly something that happened 10 years ago, such events will, more often than not…Sat Sep 10 2011 - 01:00
Life in the Fassbender laneWhat’s special about Ireland is that we are steeped in storytelling. That rich involvement has influenced meSat Sep 10 2011 - 01:00
Speech maker feeling misérableHaving won an Oscar for The King’s Speech – and made a surprising amount of money with the film – director Tom Hooper has his…Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Jane EyreCERTAIN NOVELS have become so entrenched in the collective psyche that they have taken on the quality of mythFri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which young Belgian reporter is about to be brought to life by Steven Spielberg?Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Depardieu plumbs his depthsReel News doesn’t condone Gérard Depardieu’s recent decision to urinate in a bottle while travelling from Paris to Dublin, but…Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Dundalk’s Hard directorJohn Moore, the Dundalk- born director of Behind Enemy Lines and The Omen, has been selected to direct the fifth episode in the…Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Irish peacekeepers doc expandsIf you missed Brendan Culleton and Irina Maldea’s fascinating documentary Congo: An Irish Affair at one of the Access Cinema …Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
A Lonely Place to DieCOMING A WEEK after the astonishing jolt of horrific energy that was Kill List, this strange British thriller was – despite frequent…Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Post MortemMORE THAN a few great film- makers have devised their own genre, but many have done so with such rigorous eccentricity as Chilean…Fri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Screen WriterIF YOU DON’T like this column then you might like to arrange a boycott of future editions. You know how such things workFri Sep 9 2011 - 01:00
Self MadeTHE ERSTWHILE Young British Artists are continuing their cautious advance into cinemasFri Sep 2 2011 - 01:00
The Hedgehog/Le HerissonYOU HAVE TO feel queasy about a middlebrow French film that actually introduces a character named Mr OzuFri Sep 2 2011 - 01:00
Congo: An Irish AffairFOR REASONS that hardly need to be stated, this is an appropriate time to release a documentary concerning the United Nations…Fri Sep 2 2011 - 01:00
The Art of Getting ByNO, NO, NO. Is the tortured teenage hero really reading Albert Camus’s L’étranger while listening to the now ubiquitous sounds…Fri Sep 2 2011 - 01:00