Almost Christmas review: Danny Glover's getting too old for this sh*tA family finds itself rudderless after granny passes in this comic soap opera. Grandpa, unfortunately, plays it straightThu Nov 24 2016 - 11:09
Allied review: Pitt and Cotillard battle the Nazis and fall preposterously in loveMore than a few old-school war-movie cliches get a pummelling, but Robert Zemeckis doesn’t quite recover his old movie-making mojoTue Nov 22 2016 - 13:30
Donald Clarke: Is it too early for a review of this terrible year?Trump, Marine Le Pen, Syria: nothing makes sense as Utopian ambition crumbles into atavistic nationalismSun Nov 20 2016 - 08:15
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - JK Rowling’s tale is a magical delightThe beasts are here, the Potter lore is here, but what sets this apart is its fantastic visuals, well-drawn characters and brilliant performancesFri Nov 18 2016 - 09:33
Gimme Danger review: Iggy Pop is the last Stooge standingPop steals the limelight (as usual) in Jim Jarmusch’s witty, warm tribute to proto-punk rockers The StoogesFri Nov 18 2016 - 09:29
Fantastic Beasts star Dan Fogler ready to cast a new spell on Harry Potter fansFogler was plucked from relative obscurity for JK Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - but is he ready for the franchise juggernaut that's now coming?Tue Nov 15 2016 - 07:37
Mess with Toblerone at your perilFrom Oatfield Emeralds and Club Milks to Milk Duds and ‘Luxury Mountain Bars’, our taste for sweets says a great deal about who we areSat Nov 12 2016 - 07:00
Arrival review: plausible and intriguing - one of the year's best releasesDenis Villeneuve’s stunning follow-up to Sicario sees Amy Adams' damaged linguist trying to reach understanding with visiting aliensFri Nov 11 2016 - 10:21
Amy Adams: ‘Don’t follow your fears’Amy Adams chooses her roles with a studious eye - she currently stars in two of this year’s best films, Tom Ford’s extraordinary Nocturnal Animals and Denis Villeneuve’s even better ArrivalFri Nov 11 2016 - 05:49
Moscow Never Sleeps review: portrait of city buzzes with sombre intelligenceIrish director Johnny O’Reilly’s drama takes place on a single day in his adopted homeThu Nov 10 2016 - 11:00
Plenty of rancid horrors to be savoured at the Cork Film FestivalThis year's fest features many treats for cinephiles include I Am Not A Serial Killer and The Love WitchWed Nov 09 2016 - 06:00
Bono, the most hated woman in IrelandBono has been made a woman of the year. It’s not enough to make Irish people like himSat Nov 05 2016 - 07:00
A Street Cat Named Bob review: the cat gets the cream of the jestLuke Treadaway is convincingly fidgety as the drug addict in need of help, but Bob the cat is the real hero of the pieceFri Nov 04 2016 - 10:27
The Accountant review: Ben Affleck, autistic superhero? No thanksAffleck, doing his constipated act again, stars as an accountant with a diagnosis in this crass, idiotic thrillerThu Nov 03 2016 - 17:12
The Light Between Oceans review: beautifully, bafflingly unrealisticAlicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender struggle to keep it real in this fanciful adaptation of ML Stedman’s high-end airport novelTue Nov 01 2016 - 19:46
The trouble with ‘girls’ stuff’ on TV‘Gilmore Girls’ exemplifies taste-makers’ neglect of shows aimed at young womenSat Oct 29 2016 - 07:00
Michael Fassbender: ‘I’m glad fame came to me at a later stage’The Kerry actor’s professionalism and discerning eye have kept him on the big screenSat Oct 29 2016 - 05:00
Ten Netflix horrors to give you a fright this weekendLock the doors and windows, check under the bed and check out the 10 best scares on Netflix right nowFri Oct 28 2016 - 13:40
Mads Mikkelsen: ‘It’s always great fun to play the villain’Does anyone do a stone-cold psychopath better than Mads Mikkelsen? He discusses Danish film, gymnastics and beating up Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor StrangeThu Oct 27 2016 - 18:11
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World review - Herzog doesn't despairWerner Herzog’s latest documentary is full interesting turns and provocative questions, but not nearly enough Werner HerzogThu Oct 27 2016 - 16:30
Wild Goose Lodge review: a too-pristine slice of Irish historyThis tale of an arson attack in Co Louth in 1816 is a commendable exercise in community co-operationThu Oct 27 2016 - 16:00
31 review: Rob Zombie lets loose a fresh batch of killer clownsCircus freaks, animal masks, dissection... Zombie sticks to his gruesome aesthetic – but where are the brains?Thu Oct 27 2016 - 12:52
Sonita review: Afghan teen escapes arranged marriage to become a rapperRokhsareh Ghaemmaghami’s delightful documentary also has plenty to say about the trials of being a woman in the most aggressively patriarchal societiesThu Oct 27 2016 - 11:00
A beautiful bald dome beats a hairy head any day. I should know‘The comb-over is a testament to man’s inexhaustible capacity for self-delusion’Sat Oct 22 2016 - 07:00
Further Beyond review: a labyrinthine journey well worth takingChristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor of Desperate Optimists have made a thoroughly engaging film about Ambrose O’Higgins - or have they?Thu Oct 20 2016 - 14:08
I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach at his most moving - and most vitalLoach weaves many moments of quiet brilliance into his Palme D’Or-winning polemic about the UK’s Kafkaesque welfare systemThu Oct 20 2016 - 13:18
Jack Reacher review: Tom Cruise returns as cinema’s most boring homeless personCruise, this time resembling a narcoleptic Simon Cowell, stumbles into an own-brand conspiracy plucked from the shelves of Hollywood’s least adventurous plot shopThu Oct 20 2016 - 12:01
Donald where’s your Oscar? Trump’s TV and film cameosThe supposedly liberal entertainment industry has happily given a platform to this ‘bozo’, ‘punk’, ‘mutt’Wed Oct 19 2016 - 15:45
Call me a kook, but this ‘killer clowns’ craze gives me the creepsRecent events confirm that the circus clown is among the most unsettling creations in popular cultureSat Oct 15 2016 - 07:00
Bob Dylan the poet: songs and lyrics that delivered Nobel prizeFrom the apocalyptic vision of A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall to the complex meditations of Ain’t Talkin’, Dylan delivers poetry in emotionThu Oct 13 2016 - 18:45
American Honey review: United States of grace under pressureFish Tank director Arnold Arnold further refines her taste for the poetry of grime with a stunning, sprawling American road movieThu Oct 13 2016 - 16:40
The Flag review: Pat Shortt gets one over the BritsThis broad Irish comedy needs only a few leprechauns and beefeaters to be completeThu Oct 13 2016 - 11:00
Inferno review: Hell is another Dan Brown movieThe third godawful Brown/Hanks/Howard team-up is, mercifully, the shortest of the seriesThu Oct 13 2016 - 10:41
Andrea Arnold: ‘You can be at a festival and 80-90% of the films are by men’With ‘American Honey’, the versatile UK director has made her biggest swerve yetWed Oct 12 2016 - 13:22
Pat Shortt: ‘There are mad f**kers out there’The Ex-D’Unbelieavable has gotten used to being treated as a natural treasureWed Oct 12 2016 - 06:00
Curious George Hook and the HPV jabThe Newstalk host argues for link between Gardasil and side effects despite no evidenceSat Oct 08 2016 - 07:00
Mattress Men review: All heart and bounce, if a little bit too springyThere is much humanity, and a great many laughs in Colm Quinn’s charming film about the legendary Dublin divan floggerThu Oct 06 2016 - 16:01
The Girl on the Train review: Emily Blunt overpowers in more ways than onePaula Hawkins voyeuristic drunk murder-mystery gets an unevenly faithful big-screen makeoverTue Oct 04 2016 - 13:08
Supersonic review: nothing innovative, surprising or quirky - just like Oasis, reallyMat Whitecross's doc doesn’t look back in anger (or in any useful detail) at the rise of the Gallagher brothers - though Noel proves himself worth the price of admissionMon Oct 03 2016 - 15:56
Want to bring emigrants home? Repeal the 8thWheeze to give high-rolling returnees a tax break was, indeed, ‘unfair and discriminatory’Sat Oct 01 2016 - 12:15
Baden Baden review: subtly beguiling movie, superb central performanceDirector Rachel Lang's feature debut is an impressive character study of a quiet, odd heroine, played with great assurance by Samomé RichardFri Sept 30 2016 - 14:55
Crisis Meeting review: plenty of off-kilter pleasures to be had hereDublin Theatre Festival: experimental Icelandic company stick to the central conceit of a funding applicationFri Sept 30 2016 - 12:30
Free State of Jones review: McConaughey misses the mark in MississippiThe cast are admirable throughout, but Gary Ross’s dour tale of the US Civil War gets lost in a jumble of competing narrativesThu Sept 29 2016 - 17:02
Deepwater Horizon review: Mark Wahlberg bravely tries to keep a lid on itPeter Berg takes us lucidly through the dynamics of the notorious BP oil spill, but the film begins to falls apart when disaster strikesThu Sept 29 2016 - 16:14
Swiss Army Man review: possibly the best farting corpse movie you'll ever seeDaniel Radcliffe (mostly dead) and Paul Dano (marooned) are best bros in a sentimental comedy that’s not nearly as weird as it pretends to beThu Sept 29 2016 - 15:30
Eva Green: ‘It’s great to go bonkers. You are not able to do that in real life’The Penny Dreadful star takes a break from psychic meltdowns as the eponymous lead in Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenWed Sept 28 2016 - 12:02
Why Ireland won’t ‘ban’ Louis Theroux’s Scientology filmA speculative media story has suggested a new documentary ‘might’ be banned under Ireland’s blasphemy laws. It won’tTue Sept 27 2016 - 16:00
Mark Strong as Conor Cruise O’Brien: another screen-Irish accentFake Irish accents can be atrocious, like Tom Cruise’s, or brilliant, like Kate Hudson’s. But why not just give Irish actors the roles?Sat Sept 24 2016 - 07:00
Dare to Be Wild review: Horticultural ho-humThis aggressively ‘heart-warming’ Irish film wants to be ‘Calendar Girls’ in the gardenThu Sept 22 2016 - 17:31
The Magnificent Seven review: Denzel steals the show in unremarkable remakeThis time a more racially diverse seven ride out, and the film does hint at contemporary political concerns, but in the end, it all adds up to not muchThu Sept 22 2016 - 16:00
