High cost of high conceptREEL NEWS: High concepts can cause all kinds of problems for movie-makersFri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Jurassic ParkBY 1993, STEVEN Spielberg had become an institution within the movie industryFri Sept 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 Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which 1972 film spawned the instrumental hit Duelling Banjos?Fri Sept 23 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 Sept 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 Sept 17 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 Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1. Which cranky bald gentleman is often seen hunting “wabbits”?Fri Sept 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 Sept 16 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 Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Guard beats a HangoverThe Guard has been breaking Irish box-office records all summer.Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Gibson’s takes on a Jewish warriorIt looks as if Mel Gibson is overdoing his efforts at rehabilitationFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
You InsteadTHIS IS THE sort of funky-legged film you want to like. It’s got a neat central premiseFri Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 10 2011 - 01:00
Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which young Belgian reporter is about to be brought to life by Steven Spielberg?Fri Sept 09 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Jane EyreCERTAIN NOVELS have become so entrenched in the collective psyche that they have taken on the quality of mythFri Sept 09 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Self MadeTHE ERSTWHILE Young British Artists are continuing their cautious advance into cinemasFri Sept 02 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 Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
The Hedgehog/Le HerissonYOU HAVE TO feel queasy about a middlebrow French film that actually introduces a character named Mr OzuFri Sept 02 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 Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Wild boasts of being very bad at maths just don't add upYou don’t go around proclaiming ignorance of literature. Why then revel in innumeracy?Sat Aug 27 2011 - 01:00
Untitled projects from their brainsAnimation fans, used to worshipping the great god Pixar were rendered a little jumpy by the underwhelming quality of the recent…Fri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Final Destination 5Reviewing a Final Destination film is a little like assessing an engineering projectFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Threat to Auntie's cultSMALL PRINT: CAN THERE be such a thing a cult TV channel? If so, could that beast emerge from an Establishment body such as …Tue Aug 23 2011 - 01:00
Annual medieval pageant in Tralee does not come up rosesSOME TRULY gruesome phenomena just refuse to go awaySat Aug 20 2011 - 01:00
Myers gets his mojo backREEL NEWS: The rumours that Mike Myers is planning a fourth Austin Powers film are a little less secureFri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Bigelow refutes Bin Laden claimsREEL NEWS: US congressman Peter King – long a campaigner on Irish issues – has suggested that President Obama has jeopardised…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Porno for FrancoREEL NEWS: What’s James Franco up to this week? After writing a sub-beatnik novel, appearing in General Hospital as part of …Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
The Inbetweeners MovieOH, NO. The characters in a popular TV show are going on holidayFri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
North bods for Norse gods?REEL NEWS: Here’s a strange one. It seems somebody has decided that only Northern Irishmen should direct Thor filmsFri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Double Trouble for EisenbergThis week sees the release of another film – The Devil’s Double – in which an actor manfully plays against himselfFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
What’s the scéal at TG4?Another excellent initiative has been announced for film-makers eager to work in the national tongueFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
