Licorice Pizza: A blast of a movie starring Seymour Hoffman’s sonReview: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocativeFri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00
Live or let die? How James Bond can survive beyond the Daniel Craig eraThe future for the 007 brand is uncertain, but a full reboot is looking increasingly likelyWed Dec 29 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Tragedy of Macbeth, Lola and the Sea, The King’s Man, Being the RicardosMon Dec 27 2021 - 06:00
The Matrix Resurrections review: Another clunky sequel, trapped in the last centuryLana Wachowski fails to dream up any new moves for this tired and dated sequelTue Dec 21 2021 - 16:00
Best films of 2021: Irish critics name their favouritesJane Campion’s The Power of the Dog dominated, scooping several awardsTue Dec 21 2021 - 10:25
The 12 Days of Christmas Bumper Movie QuizFrom a certain gabby partridge to a four hens on the batter to one genuine piperTue Dec 21 2021 - 10:00
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish PlayJoel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed dramaTue Dec 21 2021 - 05:00
The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchisePush the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdityTue Dec 21 2021 - 00:00
Four new films to see this weekSpider-Man: No Way Home, Swan Song, The Lost Daughter, The Story of Film: A New GenerationSun Dec 19 2021 - 06:00
The 50 best films of 2021 – in reverse orderAmid sequels and superhero flicks, there were films worth going back into theatres forSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: It’s a Wonderful Life has been dogging my nightmares since my youthAlternative reality is so wretched it’s a wonder anyone hangs around for the happy endingSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who is the last person born in Ireland to win an acting Oscar?Plus: What was the supposed inspiration for Bazmark ‘Baz’ Luhrmann’s forename?Fri Dec 17 2021 - 06:00
The Story of Film: A New Generation – there’s hope for cinema yetMark Cousins offers an optimistic view of the contemporary cinema landscapeFri Dec 17 2021 - 05:00
Spider-Man No Way Home film review: Oh no, it’s for the fansThe latest outing is still lighter on its feet than most of the Marvel Comic UniverseWed Dec 15 2021 - 10:00
Golden Globes 2022: Belfast leads the nominations for controversial awardsKenneth Branagh’s Belfast gets seven nods. Ruth Negga is also nominated for PassingMon Dec 13 2021 - 15:30
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWest Side Story, Don’t Look Up, Lamb, Clifford the Big Red DogSun Dec 12 2021 - 06:00
West Side Story's Ariana DeBose: ‘I was enamoured with Rita Moreno’The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remakeSat Dec 11 2021 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Cash is dying, and who will mourn the euro banknote?Think the current notes are bland? The new ones will be the work of an ‘advisory group’Sat Dec 11 2021 - 05:00
Top cultural spots to visit and gifts for the festive season‘For all the joys of the virtual world ... there is still a special pleasure in opening up a big box full of goodies’Sat Dec 11 2021 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: The lyrics of which early 007 theme do not begin with its title?Plus: Whose eventful life did not generate an Oscar-winning performance?Fri Dec 10 2021 - 06:00
Don’t Look Up: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence’s new film misses its targetThere are decent jokes but Adam McKay’s comedy feels overstuffedThu Dec 09 2021 - 05:00
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movieReview: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screenWed Dec 08 2021 - 05:00
Will by Will Smith: Extraordinary story of Hollywood’s Fresh PrinceBook review: Actor’s self-help memoir could make Napoleon feel unmotivatedTue Dec 07 2021 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekJoaquin Phoenix in C’mon C’mon, The Hand of God, Final Account, Blue BayouSun Dec 05 2021 - 06:00
Please stop going on about ‘problematic’ Christmas songsDonald Clarke: Another season of Fairytale argy-bargy would be too much to bearSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
Adam McKay: ‘An Oscar? How the f**k did that happen?’Oscar-winning filmaker Adam McKay has a new film about the end of the worldSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: For which film did Stephen Sondheim win his only Oscar?Plus: What year comes next: 1999, 2002, 2005, 1977, 1980, 1983?Fri Dec 03 2021 - 06:00
The Hand of God: Paolo Sorrentino’s love letter to NaplesMovie has tragedy at its heart but more than anything else it is one of the great ‘city films’Fri Dec 03 2021 - 05:00
Blue Bayou: Too much melo in this dramaA worthwhile subject is undermined by everyone involved trying too hardFri Dec 03 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHouse of Gucci, Encanto and JFK Revisited in cinemas, Bruised on NetflixSun Nov 28 2021 - 06:00
Aidan Gillen: ‘I am trying my best to be as unhealthy as I can’The actor on filling Donal McCann's shoes in Faith Healer and staying off social mediaSat Nov 27 2021 - 05:00
Film-makers remain innovative but something has gone wrong in the engine roomDonald Clarke: Audiences have got out of the habit of seeing grown-up films in auditoriumsSat Nov 27 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Spot the character who has not been recast in the MCUPlus: Translate a popular movie that was not directed by the great François TruffautFri Nov 26 2021 - 06:00
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass – Fatiguing and pernicketyOliver Stone’s documentary unsurprisingly holds tight to conspiracy orthodoxyFri Nov 26 2021 - 05:00
Bruised film review: Halle Berry directs a sputum-flecked fight flickThe epic closing fight scene makes this Netflix film worth sticking withThu Nov 25 2021 - 05:00
Five new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Power of the Dog, King Richard, Petite Maman, Drive My Car, Ghostbusters: AfterlifeSun Nov 21 2021 - 06:00
Subtitles are in vogue. Let us all embrace the new lucidityDonald Clarke: Four out of five young people say they regularly watch subtitled contentSat Nov 20 2021 - 05:00
Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘I do know what it is like to be a struggling songwriter’The Hamilton creator reflects on his career and his debut film, Tick, Tick… Boom!Sat Nov 20 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many of John Ford’s four Oscars were for westerns?Plus: What was the notorious 2nd line in the ‘opening crawl’ of The Phantom Menace?Fri Nov 19 2021 - 06:00
The Power of the Dog: Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst in a gripping psycho-westernFilm review: Jane Campion teases an impressive cast towards their best work yetFri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00
King Richard: Will Smith is suave and arrogant as Venus and Serena Williams’s fatherFilm review: Will Smith works hard for the Oscar he will almost certainly winFri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00
Alan Cumming on abuse: ‘I am better, but it is like a wound that is never going to go away’The actor’s second memoir is neither tell-all nor reckoning. But it contains multitudes nonethelessTue Nov 16 2021 - 05:00
Three new films to see this weekClint Eastwood in Cry Macho, plus Tick, Tick...Boom! and Natural LightSun Nov 14 2021 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Never mind Ted Cruz, Big Bird is all that is best about the USA larg yellow bird's vaccination has been caught up in the culture wars – it’s mad, TedSat Nov 13 2021 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What toppled The Sound of Music as biggest moneymaker ever?Plus: Who might belong with Charlie Parker, J Edgar Hoover and Frankie Valli?Fri Nov 12 2021 - 06:00
Tick, Tick... Boom! Asks a lot of even the most indulgent audienceLin-Manuel Miranda’s first film as director requires certain leaps of faithFri Nov 12 2021 - 05:33
Cry Macho: Clint the old cowboy sings one more swansongThe 91-year-old's gift for expressing everything by doing almost nothing gets better with ageFri Nov 12 2021 - 05:00
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish manPeople Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthedThu Nov 11 2021 - 13:12
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSpencer, The Card Counter, Love Yourself Today, EternalsSun Nov 07 2021 - 06:00
Damien Dempsey: I was slagged off for singing in a Dublin accent – in the media, in the streetThe artist on stubbornness, living in a changed Ireland and his new Abbey showSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:00
