9IT MAY seem perverse to describe a film about the end of the world as lacking ambition, but, though nicely designed and often…Fri Oct 30 2009 - 00:00
The CoveWHEN APPROACHING a documentary on an ecological subject, the average punter may feel the need to gird one’s metaphorical loins…Fri Oct 23 2009 - 01:00
Ong Bak: The Beginning/Ong Bak 2Directed by Tony Jaa. Starring Tony Jaa, Sorapong Chatree, Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Nirut SirijunyaFri Oct 16 2009 - 01:00
Katalin VargaDirected by Peter Strickland. Starring Hilda Peter, Tibor Palffy, Norbert Tanko, Melinda Kantor. Club, IFI, Dublin, 82 minFri Oct 16 2009 - 01:00
Je Veux VoirDirected by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Starring Catherine Deneuve, Rabih Mroue Club, Kino, Cork, 75 minFri Oct 16 2009 - 01:00
TriangleDirected by Christopher Smith. Starring Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Rachael Carpani. 16 cert, gen release, 99 min.Fri Oct 16 2009 - 01:00
Goodbye SoloSet in and around the North Carolina city of Winston-Salem, Goodbye Solo is a decent middle-brow exercise in practical humanism…Fri Oct 09 2009 - 01:00
Love HappensBEFORE KICKING this useless film in its stupid, fat head, let us pause to, once again, bemoan an infuriating irregularity in …Fri Oct 09 2009 - 01:00
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zeeIF YOU thought Somerstown , Shane Meadows’s brief last film, seemed a tad insubstantial – more of a delightful exercise than …Fri Oct 09 2009 - 01:00
The path of most resistanceTHE ARMY OF CRIME/ L’ARMÉE DU CRIME Directed by Robert GuediguianFri Oct 02 2009 - 01:00
Get off my landBIRDWATCHERS/LA TERRA DEGLI UOMINI ROSSI – BIRDWATCHERS Directed by Marco Bechis Club, Queen’s, Belfast; IFI, Dublin, 108 min…Fri Oct 02 2009 - 01:00
Ricky's first porkyTHE INVENTION OF LYING: Directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew RobinsonFri Oct 02 2009 - 01:00
Guy's game's is still afootWhat do we make of the news that plans are already under way to make a sequel to Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Robert Downey Jr-Jude…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Artists have a close encounter with KubrickThe continuing significance of Stanley Kubrick as an iconic image-maker will be reflected in an intriguing exhibition set to …Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
They've some neckIT IS, TO BE sure, somewhat unconventional for The Ticket to carry reviews of species rather than of movies or records, but the…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
SurrogatesNOW, WHAT’S going on here? Just last week Gamer found poor old Gerard Butler being controlled by a couch-bound video game enthusiast…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Precious picks for Oscar picsYou may fight against the notion, but, despite there still being five months to the ceremony, Oscar-musing season properly begins…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
CheriDirected by Stephen Frears. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates 15 cert **Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Who buried the Body?Having not yet seen Jennifer’s Body , we can’t say whether it’s any good or not, but there’s no denying that it has become one…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
CreationA SLIGHT CHILL does run down your spine in the opening few minutes of this touching, disciplined study of Charles Darwin.Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
The SoloistIF YOU SET out to sketch a one-line pastiche of the sort of sentimental claptrap that studios lay before Oscar voters in late…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Pirates 4 may walk the plankLast week, we moaned about the fact that another Pirates of the Caribbean film looked set to sally forth on to the high seasFri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Gleeson and Walsh lift Emmy awards in Los AngelesTHERE WERE two Irish winners at the primetime Emmys, television’s answer to the Oscars, in Los Angeles on Sunday night.Tue Sept 22 2009 - 01:00
Achieving victory with ChurchillBrendan Gleeson’s Emmy win for his portrayal of Winston Churchill has firmly established him as one of the most admired character…Tue Sept 22 2009 - 01:00
Angels & DemonsThe Pope is dead. Several of the main contenders for the job have been kidnapped and a potentially apocalyptic device has been…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Film treats at arts festivalOver the past few years, the Ranelagh Arts Festival, which begins on Monday, has helped liven up autumn in that leafy corner …Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Crank: high voltageStatham has an artificial heart implanted and must get it charged with electricity every few minutes.Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Oscar honours Bacall and Willis (not Bruce)Is handing out honorary Oscars really such a good idea? True, it means that disgracefully overlooked geniuses (Alfred Hitchcock…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Three miles north of MolkomIF YOU were setting out to make a drama about an annoying hippie commune in Scandinavia, what sort of character would you pick…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Disney projects in the pipelineThere was good news and bad news at the D23 Disney expo in Anaheim last week. Decide for yourself which is which.Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Away we goWE BEGIN IN that bit of contemporary America where most everything is the colour paint manufacturers (don’t really) refer to …Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Redford’s take on Honest AbeDo you remember that year when every film was about Robin Hood? Then every movie seemed to concern Martin CahillFri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
WhiteoutTHIS DISTINCTLY average thriller, based on some comic or other, begins in the 1950s with a Soviet plane crashing spectacularly…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
Sorority RowANY FILM THAT can put a shotgun in the hands of an angry Carrie Fisher and fail to generate any significant camp energy really…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
Miss March: Generation PenetrationAT THE CLOSE of a summer that brought us The Ugly Truth (bleurgh!) and Fired Up (bleurgh! bleurgh!), you’d think that there’d…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
High-end Hammer and thongsLOOKING FOR a serious engagement with Oscar Wilde’s fruitily transgressive novel The Picture of Dorian Gray? Well, there’s little…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
The Yellow Bittern: The life and times of Liam ClancyTO BE 74 years old is no longer to be ancientFri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
AdventurelandA GLANCE AT the synopsis of Adventureland might suggest that Greg Mottola, director of Superbad , has attempted a period remake…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
The September IssueTHE MAKERS of this slick but unsatisfactory documentary have, it says here, gained “unprecedented access” to the activities of…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
Fish TankONCE AGAIN, Andrea Arnold delivers a superb film that, though technically brilliant and absolutely sure of its own voice, will…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
There's no Hangover for Hollywood hereREEL NEWS: Break out the party-poppers. Find a canal of champagne on which to float your gondolaFri Sept 04 2009 - 01:00
BROKEN EMBRACES/LOS ABRAZOS ROTOSTHE PREDICTABLY engaging new film from Pedro Almodóvar does not, on paper, seem to have much in common with Quentin Tarantino…Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
