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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Self MadeTHE ERSTWHILE Young British Artists are continuing their cautious advance into cinemasFri 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
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
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
Berry wins LA director awardCongratulations to Frank Berry, director of the excellent Ballymun Lullaby , for winning the prestigious Directors Finders Series…Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Beautiful Lies/De Vrais MensongesOH, SPARE US. Some maniac has decided that Audrey Tautou is one of the few French stars who can draw anglophone audiences to …Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Teen kicks off awards seasonOne suspects that any teenager worth his or her salt would spurn something called the Teen Choice AwardsFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The Devil's DoubleIT’S ABOUT time some bright film-maker offered us a serious study of the outrages that went on in the court of Saddam Hussein…Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The little guys suffer as London stock burnsWHILE travelling across London on Tuesday, this correspondent managed to avoid being set on fire or torn to shreds by angry rioters…Fri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Monroe film fake fails to sellA sordid “stag film” purporting to show Marilyn Monroe in pornographic action has failed to sell at auction in Argentina.Fri Aug 12 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
Do we need to elect a largely powerless president at all?THE ONGOING race for the presidency has, as I understand it, stirred up some controversy this weekSat Aug 06 2011 - 01:00
Sarah's Key/Elle S'Appelait SarahTHE HOLOCAUST was, surely, sufficiently catastrophic to require little melodramatic enhancementFri Aug 05 2011 - 01:00
Taking a bare-knuckle rideIt took 10 years to capture the blood, sweat and punches that make up ‘Knuckle’, a gripping documentary about Travellers and …Wed Aug 03 2011 - 01:00
