‘For a few weeks, the reliable machinery of suburban life shut down. There was no milk, no petrol, often no electricity’During the dramatic two-week Ulster Workers’ Council strike in 1974, there was a sense of societal collapseSat May 11 2024 - 06:00
Fiona Shaw on Ireland: ‘It is one of the most successful countries in the world. It wasn’t when I left it’Four decades after leaving Rada, the Cork actor retains an apparently insatiable appetite for workSat May 11 2024 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many Scream films have a number in the title?Plus: Who won this year’s Oscar for best supporting actress?Fri May 10 2024 - 05:00
Much Ado about Dying: A vital film about an extraordinary, infuriating human beingThe singular subject of this documentary is like a character from Harold Pinter but, despite the abundant pressures, kinder and sunnierThu May 09 2024 - 05:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review: A gripping story that rattles along towards an intriguing codaDespite the linguistic atrocity of the title, the film is good enough to deserve the sequels it gestures towardsWed May 08 2024 - 16:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Director Wes Ball on despotic leaders, the war on truth and ‘the soup we’re all swimming in’Drawn from a 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle, the Planet of the Apes franchise has forever worked with two interwoven metaphorsMon May 06 2024 - 05:00
Jerry Seinfeld is this week’s guest star of It Was Better in the Old DaysDonald Clarke: Humans over a certain age have been whinging about the imagined collapse of society since we were worshipping turnipsSun May 05 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLove Lies Bleeding, The Fall Guy, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, UnfrostedSun May 05 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which classic is not celebrating its golden anniversary?Plus: Into whose shoes does Ryan Gosling now step?Fri May 03 2024 - 05:00
Unfrosted review: Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart brandopic is yet another unwelcome addition to the genreThis scattershot approach to the origins of the Kellogg’s breakfast snack relies on cartoonish fantasy and terrible humourFri May 03 2024 - 03:00
Love Lies Bleeding review: The best grubby, bloody lesbian thriller of the seasonKristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian’s fiery, gut-clenched romance keeps Rose Glass’s slice of Americana tickingWed May 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekChallengers, That They May Face the Rising Sun, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, ISSSun Apr 28 2024 - 05:00
Punched on TV by an Irish toff: how criticism worked before Taylor Swift, Morrissey and OasisDonald Clarke: We’ve reached a bad place if reviewers can’t openly express mixed feelings about a singer’s epic evisceration of recently discarded boyfriendsSun Apr 28 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who precisely played Priscilla Presley in Priscilla?Plus: Which 1960s ledgend gave their name to a handbag?Fri Apr 26 2024 - 05:00
Quashing of 2020 conviction for sex crimes a notable victory for Harvey Weinstein Film-maker remains in jail as separate 2022 conviction for rape from Los Angeles court still standsThu Apr 25 2024 - 21:24
ISS review: Nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Up in space, can the Americans thwart the Russians?Oscar winner Ariana DeBose’s charisma and physical presence are of value in this uncomfortable scenarioThu Apr 25 2024 - 05:00
Challengers review: Zendaya is at her gimlet-eyed best in this stonking tennis entertainmentThis is an exercise in sustained, mid-level erotic tension: sex is everywhere and nowhereWed Apr 24 2024 - 05:00
Making John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun into a movie: ‘I remember joking that it’s almost unfilmable’Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novelSun Apr 21 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekThe Book of Clarence, All You Need Is Death, The Sweet East, AbigailSun Apr 21 2024 - 05:00
There’s nothing the Irish enjoy more than exaggerating their differences Taoiseach Simon Harris wants people at the top of the island and those farther down to get to know each other betterSun Apr 21 2024 - 05:00
Ifta awards: Cillian Murphy and That They May Face the Rising Sun take home top prizesLies We Tell claims most awards of the night, including best actress for Agnes O’Casey, as Paul Mescal wins best supporting actor for All of Us StrangersSat Apr 20 2024 - 23:00
Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpahTheatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members boredFri Apr 19 2024 - 08:31
The Movie Quiz: Which Irish seaside town features a statue of Richard Harris?Plus: Which actor has been credited in the most Star Wars films?Fri Apr 19 2024 - 05:00
All You Need Is Death review: Singular Irish horror is a symphony of weirdnessIn Paul Duane’s film, the growing sense of being lost in a Celtic variation on Hieronymus Bosch is stirring in the most creatively disagreeable wayThu Apr 18 2024 - 05:00
Pierce Brosnan to play Irish boxing trainer Brendan Ingle in new film Actor will star in Giant, an upcoming biopic of British fighter Prince Naseem HamedWed Apr 17 2024 - 08:31
The Sweet East review: Smart and dumb. Fascinating and frustrating. An absolute blastSean Price Williams’s directorial debut is like nothing else out thereWed Apr 17 2024 - 05:00
Paul Duane: ‘I sold one of my vineyards. It gave me a bit of comfort to see Coppola was doing the same thing’Irish director Paul Duane has financed All You Need Is Death largely out of his own pocket. Now the horror film is generating a lot of buzzWed Apr 17 2024 - 05:00
It’s hard to say goodbye: What Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale got right, and what others get wrongDonald Clarke: What Larry David did with the ending of his comedy feels unique in the troubled history of televisual valedictionsSun Apr 14 2024 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekBack to Black, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, Close Your EyesSun Apr 14 2024 - 05:00
Civil War director Alex Garland: ‘Journalists are seen with contempt by a lot of people now. I really object to that’Kirsten Dunst leads a posse of gallant reporters in the film-maker’s dystopian adventure set in a divided United StatesSat Apr 13 2024 - 05:15
The Blues Brothers by Daniel de Visé – Diverting celebration of a puzzling US comedy phenomenonHow did the blokeish creation of supernova-hot comics John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd become a cultural marker?Sat Apr 13 2024 - 00:00
The Movie Quiz: Film legend Orson Welles made his professional stage debut at which Irish theatre?Plus: Who comes after Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli, Harrison Ford...?Fri Apr 12 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024: Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at festivalThree Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’OrThu Apr 11 2024 - 13:43
The Pull of the Stars review: Sincere and sharply performed adaptation of Emma Donoghue novelPlay breaks little ground theatrically, but few will emerge unmoved or uninterestedThu Apr 11 2024 - 09:37
Civil War review: Kirsten Dunst has never been better than in Alex Garland’s action stormer The director’s latest offering imagines a dystopian America through a carefully ambiguous lensWed Apr 10 2024 - 09:00
Back to Black review: Don’t write off this Amy Winehouse film. It makes a bet that pays offSam Taylor-Johnson does a decent job of making a tight drama from a tragic yarnWed Apr 10 2024 - 05:00
‘When my grandad arrived he was illiterate, and now his grandson is earning this country an Oscar nomination’The Teachers’ Lounge director Ilker Çatak on his tense, multilayered film about attempts to identify a thief in a multicultural German schoolTue Apr 09 2024 - 05:00
Sydney Sweeney’s rise: Hollywood finally has an old-school movie star on its hands, and it has no idea what to doDonald Clarke: The embrace of Sydney Sweeney as a new Elizabeth Taylor is one thing. Whether the movie industry is set for a reboot is quite anotherSun Apr 07 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe First Omen, Evil Does Not Exist, Girls State, Io CapitanoSun Apr 07 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What was the first 007 extravaganza not to take its title from Ian Fleming’s writings?Plus: When was Singin’ in the Rain first heard in a film?Fri Apr 05 2024 - 05:00
The First Omen review: Horror prequel is much better than it needs to beExpect gynaecological macabre and the tearing of bodies cleanly in halfThu Apr 04 2024 - 17:00
Evil Does Not Exist review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi turns down the volume to more aggressively embrace the obliqueThere is, perhaps, no puzzle here to be solved. Just an enigma to be frowned atThu Apr 04 2024 - 05:00
One Night in Millstreet review: Entertaining documentary of Collins-Eubank clash a real triumphColourful cast of characters makes for an epic yarn told in compelling style by Andrew Gallimore’s captivating documentary One Night in MillstreetWed Apr 03 2024 - 15:36
Four new films to see this weekAnne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain show their lacquered claws in Mothers’ Instinct, plus Bill Nighy in feel-good sports tale The Beautiful Game, Kung Fu Panda back for a fourth go, and arty Euro drama Disco BoySun Mar 31 2024 - 05:00
Alan Titchmarsh’s gardening trousers’ totally justified brush with North Korean censorsDonald Clarke: North Korea is right. Denim has become degenerateSun Mar 31 2024 - 05:00
Dev Patel: ‘I thought: what would young Dev want to see on screen? I created a movie for that guy’The star is on both sides of the camera in his directorial debut Monkey Man, an action movie that is really a ‘Trojan horse’ for more serious themesSat Mar 30 2024 - 05:30
Mothers’ Instinct: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain excel in psychodrama that’s either ludicrous on purpose or just by accidentIf the costumes in this confusing film about two glamorous 1960s housewives were any more heightened, you’d demand a song and dance numberFri Mar 29 2024 - 05:30
The Beautiful Game: Hoary sporting cliches are given new life in a charmingly acted Homeless World Cup dramaTo be clear, there are no depictions of the desperate challenges homeless people face when not participating in an international soccer competitionFri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who has yet to play the title character in a Marvel Cinematic Universe feature?Plus: Who has never held the record as the oldest ever winner of best actor Oscar?Fri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Conor McGregor in Road House, Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil and The DelinquentsGyllenhaal and McGregor brawl on Amazon in Road House, plus class horror films Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil, and epic Argentine crime drama The DelinquentsSun Mar 24 2024 - 05:00
