What U2 knew about the United States that some quintessentially English stars didn’tBetter Man, the new Robbie Williams biopic, has been baffling Americans. Hitting a wall in the US really can be to do with being just a little too foreignSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, We Live in Time, BeezelSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she saysSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
50 people to watch in 2025: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreAs a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things upSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
Bafta longlists 2025: Kneecap in running for seven awards as Saoirse Ronan named on best actress listPortia A Buckley’s Irish drama Clodagh is one of the 10 titles listed for best British short filmFri Jan 03 2025 - 14:07
The Movie Quiz: Which film has the most nominations at this weekend’s Golden Globes 2025?Plus: Wings of Desire, The Proposal and Blonde share a connection with which great post-punk band?Fri Jan 03 2025 - 05:00
Beezel review: This queasy horror set in an impressively creepy Massachusetts house is pulp as pulp should beFilm feels oddly of its moment, taking place in a similar space from which Longlegs emergedThu Jan 02 2025 - 05:00
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘One of the references I have when I talk about Nickel Boys is the Magadelene laundry mothers in Ireland’Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor missed out on an Oscar for her role in King Richard. It will be no surprise if she’s nominated again for RaMell Ross’s acclaimed new filmMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
We Live in Time review: Is there is a word for a manipulative drama that isn’t up to the task?Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield seem to have emerged from Richard Curtis Posho Factory in John Crowley’s drippily insubstantial filmMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in the cinema this week Clever Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and gripping Christmas shocker Terrifier 3, plus How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies and Sonic the Hedgehog 3Sun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: In 1975, Dylan, Patti Smith, Bowie and Marley woke up a cosseted music culture2025 marks the golden jubilee of some fine records, to be sure, but also of a time when punk came to sack rock’s citadel and popular music began to go in new directionsSun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the only 2024 film in the box office top 10 that’s not a sequel?Plus: How many films titled for Marvel characters were released in cinemas this year?Fri Dec 27 2024 - 04:57
Better Man review: Robbie Williams as a monkey is a surprising look at the ego-driven’s star’s lifeGenuinely challenging critique is an impressive juggling act between celebration and self-deprecationMon Dec 23 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse orderThe 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:30
The Oscars aren’t fair. Just look at what’s happening to Cillian MurphyThe actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:00
Dolphin Boy review: What in the name of bejaysus are we looking at here?The animation is horrible. The voice work is annoying. The plot can be hard to followFri Dec 20 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of everyone’s second-favourite Christmas film?Plus: Who has the very first line in holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life?Fri Dec 20 2024 - 05:00
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winnersCritics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning AnoraThu Dec 19 2024 - 15:08
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: A hunk of good honest rubbish for the festive seasonJim Carrey’s antic madness is just what the Sonic films needed. He hardly seemed more committed in his give-me-an-Oscar periodWed Dec 18 2024 - 14:00
Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original songTwo Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, land spots in the shortlist for best live-action shortTue Dec 17 2024 - 19:29
Mufasa: The Lion King review – This follow-up has a hungry cash-box where its soul should beNever mind Disney’s classic cartoons. Its dull origin story of Simba’s father is closer to those pseudo-storytelling live-action TV shows from the 1960sTue Dec 17 2024 - 17:00
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy ChristmasMon Dec 16 2024 - 05:45
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four QuartetsThe likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024Sun Dec 15 2024 - 21:34
What kind of Christmas songs are Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland? Funny you should askIt’s a swizz: both belong to a large class of winter songs that have been shuffled cynically on to the Christmas playlistSun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLord of the Rings anime prequel is violent fun for fans, but Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a vacuous disappointment. Plus documentaries The Bibi Files and Chasing the LightSun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays by Mark Cousins: A generous, playful and unpretentious collectionThe self-confessed ‘altar boy in the church of cinema’ propels the reader comfortably from one argument to the nextSat Dec 14 2024 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: Hackman, Spacey, Eisenberg: Who has played Lex Luthor the most often?Plus: Which is the only Bond film to feature the singer of the theme song in an acting role?Fri Dec 13 2024 - 05:00
Chasing the Light review: This agreeable Irish documentary is all peace and healing. Then something disturbing happensReceiving a limited theatrical release, Chasing the Light is worth seeing on the big screen to savour breathtaking vistas of the Atlantic coastThu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – Enjoyably gory epic is a useful addition to Tolkien loreQuibbles aside, Kenji Kamiyama’s prequel is better than a place-holding animation needed to beWed Dec 11 2024 - 05:00
Daily Mail vs Kneecap: Belfast rap trio’s ‘anti-British’ film has the newspaper up in arms againDaily Mail article headlined ‘Anti-British Irish-language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film gong’ is the latest salvo in the war of words with KneecapTue Dec 10 2024 - 06:00
Golden Globes 2025: Good day for Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott. Bad day for Paul Mescal and Saoirse RonanColin Farrell and Andrew Scott compete against each other villainously in the race for best actor in a TV movie or limited seriesMon Dec 09 2024 - 17:00
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of themWe gave you the best films, now here’s the worst. Is it a surprise half of these are sequels?Sun Dec 08 2024 - 05:30
The rise and rise of Moana 2: How the Disney film is conquering the world Dollar signs are lighting up eyes all over Hollywood after Moana 2 - yes, you read that right - blew Thanksgiving apartSun Dec 08 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the yearWe reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 07 2024 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 06 2024 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: Barbie director Greta Gerwig is to adapt which series of novels for Netflix?Plus: How many of the Alien films has Sigourney Weaver appeared in?Fri Dec 06 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024: No 30 to No 21We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearThu Dec 05 2024 - 05:30
Grand Theft Hamlet: Slings, arrows and outrageous fortune as Shakespeare meets gameplayReview: This innovative lockdown film stages a production of Hamlet within the online version of Grand Theft Auto VThu Dec 05 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31 The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’Wed Dec 04 2024 - 05:30
Nightbitch: Amy Adams gives it her all, but the close of the film feels like a malign deceptionConventional drama drops in on book’s key premise when bored by its own lacklustre comedyWed Dec 04 2024 - 05:00
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s emotional love-ins take publicity to another levelThe Wicked stars’ sentimental gush lachrymose interviews have surely helped drive the film to an enormous opening in US cinemasSun Dec 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekVatican thriller Conclave is gripping hokum. Plus poetic Mumbai drama All We Imagine as Light, mild and pleasant Disney sequel Moana 2, and ho-ho-hum Christmas romcom Our Little SecretSun Dec 01 2024 - 05:00
Emma review: Agreeably quirky take on Austen shakes the story’s structure a little too vigorouslyTheatre: Toni O’Rourke plays Emma with gusto, and Hannah Mamalis is hilarious as Harriet. Despite some narrative overreaching, you’ll probably leave happyFri Nov 29 2024 - 10:01
The Movie Quiz: Paul Mescal has not featured in a film by one of these directors Plus: What is the current Irish pick for the best international film Oscar?Fri Nov 29 2024 - 05:00
Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneeringThis heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelationThu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00
All We Imagine as Light: Swooningly poetic film marks Payal Kapadia as a voice for the futureThe Indian director’s Mumbai-set second feature is, like Wings of Desire, one of the great city filmsThu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00
The Dead review: James Joyce’s tragicomedy wraps around the audience in a hugely engaging, immensely accomplished eveningTheatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners storyTue Nov 26 2024 - 23:54
Box Office Poison by Tim Robey: Cinematic flops that defined the industry, from Colin Farrell in Alexander to Tom Hooper’s creepy CatsThe Daily Telegraph reviewer certainly has fun with his catastrophes, but the book has a more serious purposeTue Nov 26 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMovie of smash-hit musical Wicked is well-cast and spectacular. Plus moving and evocative Irish documentary Housewife of the Year, solid IVF drama Joy, and fascinating feminist doc WitchesSun Nov 24 2024 - 05:00
Paul Mescal’s response to meeting King Charles was a masterclass in diplomacyGladiator II star said meeting the English king at the film’s British premiere was ‘not on the list of priorities’Sun Nov 24 2024 - 05:00
