Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth itEven if this proposition didn’t work out, it would be the right sort of failureWed Oct 02 2024 - 09:00
Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s filmThree-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowroteWed Oct 02 2024 - 06:39
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff? That’s not the real story about Emerald Fennell’s new filmWas Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights a person of colour? He might just as well have been IrishSun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSaoirse Ronan shows new strengths as a recovering alcoholic in The Outrun. Plus sweet and sensitive My Old Ass, kindly road movie Will & Harper, and Francis Coppola’s ambitious folly MegalopolisSun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
Edward Burns: ‘I think our level of celebrity was in a sane and manageable place’The actor and director talks about his debut novel, its relation to his Irish-American roots, and using family stories as inspirationSat Sept 28 2024 - 05:00
Maggie Smith, with a voice as unmistakable as Churchill’s, was a star for six decadesDame Maggie Smith, who has died in London at the age of 89, was a singular talent on stage and screenFri Sept 27 2024 - 19:11
The Movie Quiz: Which of these films wasn’t even partially shot in Ireland?Plus: Who was the first Canadian citizen to win a best actor Oscar?Fri Sept 27 2024 - 05:00
Will & Harper review: Will Ferrell reconnects with trans friend in this feel-good odyssey Road trip documentary could be seen as the anti-Top Gear special. Nicer, warmer, militantly tolerantThu Sept 26 2024 - 05:00
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan gives a forceful performance as an alcoholic in white-knuckle recoveryThere is much to recommend this addiction dram directed by Nora Fingscheidt and co-produced by Ronan, who also excels in her first present-day film role in nearly a decadeWed Sept 25 2024 - 05:00
Fair dues to Nicole Kidman. But who the heck is watching all the telly she’s in?With so many services, nobody can absorb this much comedy, drama, reality, documentary, news, sport and movies – or even grasp what’s availableSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBad dream horrors The Substance and Strange Darling are instant cult classics. Plus ‘tragically familiar’ Canadian abuse documentary Sugarcane and tense French drama The Goldman CaseSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan: ‘Going out and getting wrecked ... I’m careful about when and where I do that’The 30-year-old star has already navigated nearly 20 years in the film industry. As The Outrun arrives, she talks about the challenges and what comes nextSat Sept 21 2024 - 05:30
Autumn culture preview 2024: The biggest films, TV shows, books, music, theatre and exhibitions to catchFrom Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer to Nick Cave at 3Arena and Brian Maguire at the Hugh LaneSat Sept 21 2024 - 05:15
Saoirse Ronan in Dublin: ‘I always like being able to come home and share whatever I’ve been working on’Actor takes to the red carpet at the Light House cinema for Irish premiere of Nora Fingscheidt’s latest film, The OutrunFri Sept 20 2024 - 20:04
An Evening With Wee Daniel: A cute, charming portrayal of growing up nonbinary in Daniel O’Donnell’s DonegalDublin Fringe Festival 2024: Aoife Sweeney O’Connor, an impressive raconteur, intersperses personal narrative with confidently warbled original songsFri Sept 20 2024 - 09:22
The Movie Quiz: A refrain from which Bond film features on Robbie Williams’s No1 hit, Millennium?Plus: Arthur Fleck and the last X-Men prequel suggest which Harry Potter film?Fri Sept 20 2024 - 05:00
The Goldman Case: This real-life courtroom drama is thrillingly, claustrophobically tenseThe murder trial of an irascible intellectual touches on a huge array of French discontents from the past couple of centuriesThu Sept 19 2024 - 05:00
The Substance: Demi Moore’s spectacularly disgusting body horror is a two-finger rebuke to the beauty industryThis hugely entertaining spasm favours full-frontal attack on the targets of its incensed satireWed Sept 18 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpeak No Evil, The Critic, My Favourite Cake, LeeSun Sept 15 2024 - 12:14
Morrissey’s at it again. This time it’s ‘vapourised’ Ariana Grande fans and a plot to ‘silence’ the Smiths singer The Smiths frontman believes his most recent album is being suppressed. It’s a reminder of how interesting his former band once wereSun Sept 15 2024 - 05:00
Irish boxing movie Swing Bout: ‘Kellie Harrington did us a great favour. We couldn’t have timed it better’Kellie Harrington’s Olympic win did Irish boxing feature Swing Bout a big favour, admits producer and actor Sinéad O’RiordanSat Sept 14 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: When did Brad Pitt win his first Oscar?Plus: What just won the Golden Lion?Fri Sept 13 2024 - 05:00
The Critic: Only Ian McKellen could roll these insults around his tongue with such after-dinner relishThe cast save Anand Tucker’s film, which goes from Noël Coward lite to murderous melodramaThu Sept 12 2024 - 05:00
Speak No Evil: Aisling Franciosi and James McAvoy are cracking in this bracingly uneasy horror remakeEnglish-language remake of the European film features four first-rate performances, while the shift in nationalities adds other interesting anglesTue Sept 10 2024 - 17:00
James Earl Jones: It was as if no screen was wide enough to contain him or his voiceThe acclaimed stage and screen actor, voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, has diedTue Sept 10 2024 - 09:27
Afterwards review: Impeccable performances and crackling dialogue in a play with an unmistakable purposeDublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinicTue Sept 10 2024 - 09:06
Four new films to see this weekTim Burton’s chaotic Beetlejuice sequel feels desperate, plus slow-burn folkie horror Starve Acre, superior Netflix drama Rebel Ridge, and striking Alzheimer’s doc Don’t Forget to RememberSun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
The name’s Bond ... Jamie Bond: What’s happened to 007 – and will the films ever return?It’s already three years since No Time to Die came out. And we may not see the next film in the franchise until 2026Sun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion at Venice International Film FestivalSpanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first timeSat Sept 07 2024 - 20:53
The Movie Quiz: Who was not a fellow nominee when Daniel Day-Lewis won one of his Oscars?Plus: How many feature films has Barbra Streisand directed?Fri Sept 06 2024 - 05:00
Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly loseThu Sept 05 2024 - 16:14
Don’t Forget to Remember review: A fine collaboration on the struggle to live with Alzheimer’s diseaseRoss Killeen follows artist Asbestos’s family as his mother struggles to stay connected with the worldThu Sept 05 2024 - 05:00
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Fun? I nearly laughed myself awakeReal hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plotsWed Sept 04 2024 - 05:00
Starve Acre: Daniel Kokotajlo on making one of the best horror films of 2024Seven years on from his debut film The Apostasy, over which he still receives hate mail, the director follows up with an adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s much admired novelTue Sept 03 2024 - 05:15
First Look: George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Wolfs – Too sleek, too chiselled, too Nespresso adVenice International Film Festival 2024: Tolerable buddy comedy might better suit actors who shoulder their age less lightlySun Sept 01 2024 - 21:45
Four new films to see this weekHaunting, old-school Irish horror Oddity, plus prison-set biopic Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo, transitioned Elliot Page in tailor-made Close to You, and social-realist Swedish drama Paradise Is BurningSun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett are all at the Venice film festival. What’s odd is why some of them are hereThey’re not in the main competition. None is opening the Italian festival. Why? Because they’re all here with television seriesSun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
Mackenzie Davis: ‘I’m aware of social embarrassment. But most things that feel high stakes are actually low stakes’The Canadian actor stars in Speak No Evil, which plays excruciatingly on tensions in the interaction between ostensibly similar culturesSat Aug 31 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: Who was the last Irish actor to take home a prize from the Venice Film Festival?A special head-scratcher on all things to do with the world’s oldest film festival, now in its 81st yearFri Aug 30 2024 - 05:00
First Look: As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie finally has the starring role she deservesVenice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo LarraínThu Aug 29 2024 - 18:45
Paradise Is Burning: Bianca Delbravo is a revelation in Mika Gustafson’s fine debut dramaImmaculately made film keeps viewers uneasily gripped throughoutThu Aug 29 2024 - 05:00
Sing Sing: Colman Domingo deserves another Oscar nod for this magnetic performanceA drama about a theatre group in a New York prison gamely resists redemptive clichesWed Aug 28 2024 - 05:00
Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festivalAmong the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language filmTue Aug 27 2024 - 05:00
How did the Road Safety Authority’s ‘Lose your licence. Lose your independence’ TV ad become a continent-shifting outrage?Some of us regard not driving as one of our greatest achievements in life. But there are less trivial issues at playSun Aug 25 2024 - 05:00
Life in Hollywood: Golden-age photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and moreA two-volume collection drawn from the Life magazine archive features outstanding portraits of many of the biggest names in American cinemaSat Aug 24 2024 - 05:15
Colman Domingo: ‘I was noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, and I thought, what?’Actor looks to be on track for another Oscar nomination for imminent prison drama Sing SingSat Aug 24 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: When did James Bond first get behind the wheel of his Aston Martin DB5?Plus: Who is the youngest person to ever win two Academy Awards?Fri Aug 23 2024 - 05:00
Blink Twice: Glossy attempt to cross The White Lotus with Get OutZoë Kravitz’s ambitious directorial debut features an impressively starry castThu Aug 22 2024 - 05:00
Mrs Robinson: An admiring portrait of Ireland’s first woman president rather than a penetrating critical studyThere is nothing so wrong about a nicely made good-news documentaryWed Aug 21 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAlien: Romulus has strong action, the same old plot. Plus atmospheric Chinese noir Only the River Flows, absorbing Canadian ballet doc Swan Song, and bland Netflix thriller The UnionSun Aug 18 2024 - 05:00
