The Miracle Club: Not as deranged as Wild Mountain Thyme and not that much funWhat is this film doing here in 2023? It’s not full-on Oirish, but it’s not far from it despite some great home talent on showThu Oct 12 2023 - 06:10
Jimmy Savile: A thorough lambasting for a Reckoning so far unseenDonald Clarke: Some documentaries stand accused as offering up sex abuse victims’ stories as ‘entertainment’ - but nobody is suggesting these films are funSun Oct 8 2023 - 06:15
Agnes O’Casey: ‘It’s just been so easy to hate women, no matter the period. And that is terrifying’The great-granddaughter of the playwright Seán O’Casey is doing the family name proud, starring in two new films, Lies We Tell and The Miracle ClubSat Oct 7 2023 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many films has George Lucas directed outside the Star Wars universe?Plus: What was the last film for which Meryl Streep gained an Oscar nomination?Fri Oct 6 2023 - 06:00
The Exorcist: Believer - What possessed them?The devil might have all the best tunes, but his record on horror franchises is patchy at bestFri Oct 6 2023 - 05:10
Tarrac: Irish-language sports movie pulls its weightTale of a Kerry naomhóg rowing team shrugs off a layer of cliche and propels us towards the back-breaking denouementFri Oct 6 2023 - 05:00
Quake review: An ingeniously staged argument for the value of community in a world of individualsDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Janet Moran’s play takes place in a Quaker meeting house on the point of being swept away by developersThu Oct 5 2023 - 11:19
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers: Two of Ireland’s best-loved actors get down to some notably explicit couplingFirst-look review: It’s almost as vulgar to mention that, with his performance in Andrew Haigh’s film, Scott looks set for an Oscar nominationThu Oct 5 2023 - 10:19
Lorcan Cranitch: ‘Irish actors are not rewarded for their international work’The actor is proud of the work he and his colleagues do, including in Tarrac, his latest film. Irish actors deserve far more recognition, he saysWed Oct 4 2023 - 05:15
The Dead House review: A funeral, a community and a precise, imposing Martin Beanz WardeDublin Theatre Festival 2023: The charismatic polymath’s ability to occupy the stage is what really establishes his debut play as a piece of theatreSun Oct 1 2023 - 10:13
How can Eve Hewson play a working-class single mother? ‘We decided to completely stay away from social realism’John Carney, the director of Flora and Son, on creating a universe for his new film, an urban musical in the winning style of Once and Sing StreetSun Oct 1 2023 - 05:15
The beleaguered Golden Globes want to claw back a little attention. It’s a lesson in how not to do itDonald Clarke: The success of Oppenheimer is little short of a miracle. So its almost certain double Golden Globes recognition must mean ... something?Sun Oct 1 2023 - 05:15
The Saviour review: A showcase for Marie Mullen’s room-filling stagecraftDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Deirdre Kinahan’s fine two-hander groans with dramatic commentary on where the nation has been and where it has ended upSat Sep 30 2023 - 11:32
The Movie Quiz: What do you often see at the start of Pixar films?Plus: Cage on a bike. Whitaker in Jarmusch. A Bill Cosby flop. An Oscar-winning role for whom?Fri Sep 29 2023 - 15:03
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: A delightful amuse-bouche that reunites Wes Anderson and Roald DahlThree more adaptations featuring the same team will arrive on Netflix in coming daysFri Sep 29 2023 - 05:00
Michael Gambon: Actor was both a cult icon and national treasure, on both sides of the Irish SeaThe Irish actor was capable of threat and pathos, with the ability to boom and to shrink into his large frameThu Sep 28 2023 - 17:21
The Creator: This cracking AI yarn deserves to be a smashA strong, pulpy – if shallow – narrative never lets up in paceThu Sep 28 2023 - 06:00
Is it just matter of time before we see a TD dressed like a member of Limp Bizkit? Donald Clarke: If senators can dress like members of Limp Bizkit then the chaps serving them coffee should be allowed to do the sameSun Sep 24 2023 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: The crew in Alien travelled in a tribute to whom?Plus: What message appeared at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me when it first screened?Fri Sep 22 2023 - 08:00
Flora and Son: Eve Hewson just about convinces as an inner-city mumOnce again John Carney uses music as redemption, but though this gossamer romance is lacking in big moments, it does have a sizeable heartFri Sep 22 2023 - 06:00
Dumb Money review: Undeniable if shallow pleasuresCraig Gillespie frames the GameStop stock controversy divide in us-and-them termsFri Sep 22 2023 - 05:19
Dumb Money: GameStop short-squeeze film will have you shouting ‘Sell, for God’s sake!’ at the screenDirector Craig Gillespie was inspired by his own son’s involvement in the strange Covid-era financial phenomenonWed Sep 20 2023 - 05:00
It’s not Yeats on the Dublin Marathon medal. It’s Marge Simpson. And you can quote me on thatI disapprove of erroneously attributed quotations, but I will defend to the death your right to erroneously attribute them, as Voltaire definitely saidSat Sep 16 2023 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: What is the highest grossing film ever in Ireland?Plus: What just won the Golden Lion?Fri Sep 15 2023 - 08:00
A Haunting in Venice: Kenneth Branagh dishes up a Doge’s dinnerGrand ambition to marry horror and cosy murder mystery dishes up sausages on ice creamFri Sep 15 2023 - 05:05
Love Life: A complex film about family disharmony that will repay rewatchingThe real drama in Koji Fukada’s humanist film is crackling behind the eyes of troubled charactersFri Sep 15 2023 - 05:00
Once in a Lifetime review: What are we like? This lively four-hander assesses contemporary IrelandDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The drama may never escape one half-built room, but it covers a huge number of squabbling pointsSun Sep 10 2023 - 10:05
Burning Man’s tech bros, earth poets and mime artists: Go on, admit you laughed about the mud Donald Clarke: What matters in life is not how high you get but how much higher you get than anyone elseSun Sep 10 2023 - 05:15
Venice film festival: Irish-produced Poor Things wins top Golden Lion awardPoor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden LionSat Sep 9 2023 - 20:54
Pablo Larraín on his Pinochet film: ‘It’s a vampire movie. It’s also a farce. It deals with horrific, horrific people’The Chilean director whose previous films include Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana, turns his attention to the dictator who ruled his country for 17 yearsSat Sep 9 2023 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many films share the all-time record for most Oscar wins?Plus: Which does not feature a True Detective?Fri Sep 8 2023 - 16:20
A Life on the Farm: A warm-hearted celebration of an oddity for the agesOscar Harding’s film about the late Somerset farmer Charles Carson is an odd mixFri Sep 8 2023 - 05:00
Past Lives: Beautiful, slyly moving cinematic debut heralds a new star in the firmamentWriter-director Celine Song does the unexpected in this story about emotional and literal distanceThu Sep 7 2023 - 05:00
Venice International Film Festival: An Irish film becomes favourite to win the Golden LionAn opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael FassbenderWed Sep 6 2023 - 10:51
The Killer first-look review: An icy Michael Fassbender stars in David Fincher’s excellent new thrillerVenice International Film Festival 2023: This may be David Fincher’s sleekest and most uncomplicatedly entertaining film in yearsMon Sep 4 2023 - 10:14
Why red carpets still matter even to striking Hollywood starsThere is no more convincing way of assuring your sponsors and patrons what you signify than getting photographs on the front pageSun Sep 3 2023 - 05:15
Past Lives director Celine Song: ‘For an immigrant the Statue of Liberty is a wonderfully romantic place’The director’s semi-autobiographical debut set in New York and Seoul is already creating an Oscars buzzSat Sep 2 2023 - 05:30
Poor Things first-look review: Emma Stone has never been better, and a moustache-twirling Mark Ruffalo has a ballVenice International Film Festival 2023: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film won’t be in Irish cinemas until January. It’ll be well worth the waitFri Sep 1 2023 - 17:45
The Movie Quiz: How many Irish films have won the Golden Lion?Plus: Who won best actor last year at the Venice Film Festival?Fri Sep 1 2023 - 05:00
Apocalypse Clown review: This Irish comedy horror will play forever to beered-up studentsDirector George Kane is a fine craftsman who knows how to get the best out of comic actors in unlikely situationsFri Sep 1 2023 - 05:00
Passages review: Ben Whishaw is a marvel – but you can’t take your eyes off Franz RogowskiA torrid, gripping drama that economically picks apart a doomed ménage à troisThu Aug 31 2023 - 05:00
Venice film festival 2023: Few Hollywood stars but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden LionMon Aug 28 2023 - 05:00
Nicholas Lyndhurst joins Frasier: You’d think it was the risen queen sitting beside Kelsey GrammerDonald Clarke: And whatever you do, don’t call the new series a reboot. We’ve been through this beforeSun Aug 27 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
‘When Denzel Washington is on the screen he’s giving his all. That’s what people love’Star has been a constant force in Antoine Fuqua’s film-directing career. The Equalizer 3 is their fifth collaboration in 22 yearsSat Aug 26 2023 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: Whose nose created some kerfuffle in the last week?Plus: Barbie just passed $1 billion. How many films have now made that much?Fri Aug 25 2023 - 12:31
Theater Camp: A rollicking, endlessly good-natured send-up of musical theatreThe chutzpah of the cast and the inventive jokes constantly distract from the cliched narrativeThu Aug 24 2023 - 05:15
Barbie becomes Ireland’s most successful box office film, ending Avatar’s 14-year recordGreta Gerwig’s smash hit has amassed €8.85m, making it Ireland’s highest-grossing movie, as it continues to break records worldwideWed Aug 23 2023 - 09:51
Louis Garrel: ‘I have a good friend from Ireland. When he speaks I don’t understand a word’The director and star of The Innocent has become one of his nation’s most sought-after actors. But he still enjoys a bit of self-deprecationWed Aug 23 2023 - 05:30
The Blackening: This comedy horror’s a bit of a muddle – but an entertaining oneAre we supposed to be scared or are we supposed to be laughing at the absurdity of it all?Wed Aug 23 2023 - 05:00