Benjamin Cleary: ‘I keep thinking I’ll wake up and discover this isn’t real’In any other year, Oscar nominee Benjamin Cleary would be the name on everyone’s lips – but he’s delighted to be in the race with Room and BrooklynThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
Natalie Dormer: ‘I'm the one carrying King’s Crisps and Lyons leaving Dublin’Between ‘The Tudors’ and ‘Game of Thrones’, Dormer has become the go-to star for cool, unflappable TV royaltyThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literatureLenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand traditionWed Feb 24 2016 - 06:00
ADiff review: The Misplaced World plays like a chewy soap operaWhat was director Margarethe Von Trotta striving for?Mon Feb 22 2016 - 18:08
ADiff review: Drag acts and dusty glamour in Paddy Breathnach’s VivaA beautiful, funny drama filmed in Havana that surges with rough humanityMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:48
ADiff review: Victoria is a breathlessly exciting German dramaThe ‘continuous shot’ gimmick fits seamlessly into a hurtling storyMon Feb 22 2016 - 17:33
Where did it all go right? The secret of Irish cinema’s successGlobal acclaim and a fistful of Oscar nominations: we ask four industry heavy hitters what is going onMon Feb 22 2016 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Wittering recreational outrage is bad for the digestion‘In 2016, a vast mob of the easily annoyed prowls the digital outlands in search of bile generators. You need a hobby, I suppose’Sat Feb 20 2016 - 07:00
Chiwetel Ejiofor: ‘Weapons and tactics are a way of entering a guy psychologically’The actor has done plenty of serious roles. Will anyone begrudge him a crime caper?Sat Feb 20 2016 - 05:45
Chronic review: unfolds like the most elegant of jigsaw puzzlesMichel Franco’s latest is problematic, but features the finest performance in many years from Tim Roth, an actor who's often tempted to nibble at the sceneryThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:31
How To Be Single review: a film that dearly needs a good, stern talking toThe lewd Wilson and the faltering Johnson form a gorgeous complementary partnership that causes one to long for them to be cast in a better movieThu Feb 18 2016 - 23:27
Triple 9 review: bursting at the seams with criminal intentDirector John Hillcoat is a master of macho posture, and with the help of Kate Winslet, he lays it on thick in this indecently thrilling, star-studded heist movieThu Feb 18 2016 - 22:39
ADiff review: Portrait of a charismatic eccentric in We Are MovingClaire Dix’s study of Joan Denise Moriarty, founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, is a touching, lucid workThu Feb 18 2016 - 18:20
ADiff review: John Carney brings the musical magic in Sing StreetThe director even manages to sell an absurdly romantic endingWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:37
ADiff review: ‘Brothers’ is the home movie to end them allThis Norwegian documentary presents a tender portrayal of boyhoodWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26
ADiff review: Further Beyond explores the life of Ambrose O’HigginsA discursive meditation on the Sligo man who became captain general of Chile in the 18th centuryWed Feb 17 2016 - 16:25
Brooklyn celebrates Bafta win but Saoirse loses out to BrieBest film goes to The Revenant – tale of survival from 19th century US frontierSun Feb 14 2016 - 23:03
Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone and the elusive OscarEnnio Morricone revolutionised cinema music but has never won an Oscar for one of his scores. He’s up again, for ‘The Hateful Eight’. Does he care? Just a littleSat Feb 13 2016 - 05:00
Jeremy Corbyn is Margaret Thatcher’s successor. In a wayThe Iron Lady was the closest the UK will ever get to its own Lenin or Atatürk. The new Labour leader is similarly at home to ideologySat Feb 13 2016 - 05:00
Concussion review: often drab and occasionally useless true-life dramaBrain-damage whistleblower Will Smith comes across as a naive, holy fool, while the overall vibe is less The Insider and more Quincy METhu Feb 11 2016 - 17:17
Martin McCann “You learn how to look for trespassers, how to start a fire”Martin McCann survived The Pacific, Ripper Street and ‘71 and Shadow Dancer, and has really been put through the ringer for his latest The SurvivalistThu Feb 11 2016 - 14:00
Deadpool review: cheap, exploitative, unreconstructed rubbishThe endless ironic nods and winks do little to soften the squalor and misogyny of this latest contribution to the sweary, 16-cert po-mo superhero genreThu Feb 11 2016 - 13:06
A Bigger Splash review: hugely attractive, frustratingly evasiveDeriLuca Guadagnino’s four-hander is awash with cultural recycling - but unhinged enthusiasm from Ralph Fiennes outdoes almost everything else on displayWed Feb 10 2016 - 18:00
Jem and the Holograms review: truly outrageous that this even got madeJuliette Lewis and Molly Ringwald (we feel your pain) turn up as the elder generation in this horrendous reboot of a 1980s cartoonWed Feb 10 2016 - 15:54
Ten great movie bromancesButch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genreWed Feb 10 2016 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: ‘The Donald’ is ruining a good namePushing Donald Trump as the deified avatar of Donaldishness is unfair on the restSat Feb 06 2016 - 01:01
Toby Jones: 'My job depends on being a citizen’Few actors bring more character to a role than Toby Jones. It’s all in the subtlety and the everyday actions, he tells Donald ClarkeFri Feb 05 2016 - 06:00
Rams review: The horns of a family dilemmaHere is a most unusual comic drama from Iceland that plays some very clever games with toneThu Feb 04 2016 - 19:00
Trumbo review: from pedestrian to ludicrous to indecently entertainingBryan Cranston has fun as the lead, but the silly fizz of mid-century Hollywood eventually steals the show - and not in a good wayThu Feb 04 2016 - 15:18
Janis: Little Girl Blue review - Drawing a line under an unfinished lifeAmy Berg film on Janis Joplin tells the story of a raw, explosive talent that couldn’t escape her ultimately fatal addiction to heroinWed Feb 03 2016 - 15:19
Donald Clarke: ‘Dad’s Army’ wins war of the starsThe British sitcom has such durability there is no wonder it has been made into a filmSat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00
Bryan Cranston: from ‘Breaking Bad’ to playing ‘Trumbo’Fame came late for the actor, now up for an Oscar – and he’s happy it didFri Jan 29 2016 - 06:00
Spotlight review: top-notch drama about journalism at its dogged bestThe pen is ultimately mightier than the cardinal in this dramatisation of the Boston Globe’s investigation into sex abuse by Catholic churchThu Jan 28 2016 - 20:30
Dublin International Film Festival programme is launched‘February feels right. It’s gloomy and dark and that’s a good time to go to the cinema,’ says directorThu Jan 28 2016 - 19:04
The 33 review: A worthy take, undermined by some dodgy casting decisionsClaustrophobic tension and unexpectrd anglo-saxon appearances abound in this film about the 2010 Chilean mining accidentThu Jan 28 2016 - 18:22
Bad Grandpa review: Sweary De Niro takes yet another turn for the worseThe once-unassailable actor swears and bludgeons his way through a comedy that is indeed bad, but in a defiantly odd wayTue Jan 26 2016 - 16:42
Irish films go down a storm at SundanceSing Street, Love & Friendship and Mammal earn rave reviews at independent festivalMon Jan 25 2016 - 14:30
Donald Clarke: Trump gets the laughs while Ted scares the establishmentIn Ted Cruz, the Tea Party finally has a candidate with a chance of seizing powerSat Jan 23 2016 - 01:00
The 33: ‘In another week they would have begun to die’The Chilean mining disaster is now a film, and the fact that 33 people came out alive is one of the great survival stories of our time, Héctor Tobar tells Donald ClarkeFri Jan 22 2016 - 06:00
The Assassin review: Tang tale and the Tao of techniqueThis visually ravishing historical martial arts film may be just a little too in love with its own artistryThu Jan 21 2016 - 21:00
Ride Along 2 review: Ice Cube returns in a sequel barely believable in its awfulnessOpening here this Friday, this is the film that finally knocked Star Wars: The Force Awakens off the top of the US box-office charts - go figureThu Jan 21 2016 - 15:44
Donald Clarke: Irish Oscar nods were due to great expectationsIrish success at Academy Awards shows the value of both cultural planning and self-beliefSat Jan 16 2016 - 01:00
Domhnall Gleeson: The Force is strong in this oneWith roles in ‘Frank’, ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, and a star turn in ‘The Revenant’, Gleeson’s career has gone stellarFri Jan 15 2016 - 14:00
Irish Oscar nominations exceed all expectationsPundits underestimated films’ potential ahead of Academy Awards announcementFri Jan 15 2016 - 08:04
Alan Rickman: acclaimed performer who became a hero with a villain’s mannerDonald Clarke on the late actor, a funny, warm man in person, who could never quite shake the whiff of brimstone on screenThu Jan 14 2016 - 16:45
Room review: home is where the room isThe walls close in on a mother and child in Lenny Abrahamson’s moving, harrowing adapation of the acclaimed novelThu Jan 14 2016 - 14:19
Irish talent front and centre in the 2016 Oscar nominationsSaoirse Ronan and Michael Fassbender get acting nominations, while ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Room’ both make the Best Picture listThu Jan 14 2016 - 14:11
The Revenant review: Beautiful but grisly exercise in suffering‘The Revenant’ is short on dialogue and thin on characterisation; however the misery is well worth enduringThu Jan 14 2016 - 13:45
Oscars 2016: Donald Clarke predicts the nominationsThere are more mysteries and imponderables this year than over the past decadeWed Jan 13 2016 - 09:20
Golden Globes 2016: Full list of winnersAlejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’ takes three awards in Los AngelesMon Jan 11 2016 - 10:30
