Focus review: too smooth for its own goodWill Smith keeps it on auto-pilot; Margot Robbie looks like she wants to fleeThu Feb 26 2015 - 17:15
Jack Reynor back on home turf for Dublin film festival launchKenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews and Russell Crowe lined up as part of festival billWed Feb 25 2015 - 20:09
The Boy Next Door review: J-Lo's eye for an appalling script remains faultlessJennifer Lopez makes an ill-judged return as an English teacher who makes friends with hunk-next-door/total psychopath Ryan GuzmanWed Feb 25 2015 - 09:40
Oscars 2015: And the Oscar for best predictions goes to . . .‘Birdman’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ each take four awards at 87th ceremonyMon Feb 23 2015 - 15:53
‘Birdman’ wins Oscar for best pictureAlejandro González Iñárritu’s satire and Grand Budapest Hotel both receive four awardsMon Feb 23 2015 - 15:43
Oscars 2015: Red carpet laid for battle of Boyhood and BirdmanNeil Patrick Harris expected to bring technological savvy and old-school showbiz oomphSun Feb 22 2015 - 13:35
Donald Clarke: My Oscars predictionsBirdman for best picture, Julianne Moore for best actress. Let’s see if we get them all right againSat Feb 21 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's crystal ball: What should win and what will win the OscarsLast year The Irish Times called every award correctly. Fingers crossed for 2015Sat Feb 21 2015 - 06:00
Decline of ‘NME’ shows danger of giving readers what they wantThe once-influential ‘indie’ music magazine could now end up as a freesheetSat Feb 21 2015 - 01:00
The Duke of Burgundy review: a wholly magnificent work of high exoticaThis paean to erotic Italian cinema arrives with cheeky timing and boasts pleasures that don’t bypass the brain, writes Donald ClarkeFri Feb 20 2015 - 17:44
Project Almanac review: A complete waste of time travelTeens find time machine in the attic, and the rest is found-footage historyFri Feb 20 2015 - 07:46
Bill Nighy on success, ambition and the box-office the appeal of older actorsUntil ‘Love Actually’, you might have seen Bill Nighy on the street and thought he was your dentist – not any more. “Look, there are no downsides to this,” he tells Donald ClarkeFri Feb 20 2015 - 06:00
Julie Andrews to attend Jameson Dublin Film FestivalIconic actress who played Mary Poppins to attend gala screening of The Sound Of MusicThu Feb 19 2015 - 14:07
The Wedding Ringer review: buddy-buddy vomit larks from beginning to endYet another useless movie in which an uptight nerd has his inner funk loosed by an African-American firecrackerThu Feb 19 2015 - 13:04
Alfred Molina on playing a wonderfully crusty old gay manThe actor plays one half of an ageing gay couple in his new film. It’s great if it contributes to the Irish referendum debate, he says – but unintendedMon Feb 16 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: spring – the time of year when I recall how much I hate natureAs a metaphor for the pointlessness of existence, ‘going for a walk’ can scarcely be betteredSat Feb 14 2015 - 01:01
A Philadelphia Story review: A very different romantic punch-upAs ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ hits cinemas Hepburn and Grant offer a Valentine’s classicFri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Fifty Shades of Grey: a disgusting reverence for indulgencePart of the problem with Sam Taylor-Johnson’s film is that it’s not quite bad enoughThu Feb 12 2015 - 17:31
Baftas 2015: Boyhood takes best film prize at awardsEddie Redmayne scoops best actor award while Julianne Moore duly wins best actressMon Feb 09 2015 - 09:15
‘Boyhood’ takes the plaudits at film awardsThe awards season enters its final lap as ‘Boyhood’ edges ahead of ‘Birdman’Mon Feb 09 2015 - 01:00
Donald Clarke: Shock and awe over Stephen Fry’s ‘God’ comments with Gay Byrne‘Asked by Gay to imagine what he might say if a Christian God existed, Stephen made it clear that, were such an impossible situation to occur, he’d give this fellow a jolly big piece of his not inconsiderable mind’Sat Feb 07 2015 - 01:01
Peter Strickland: “Anything to do with sex can fall on its face. All of us were cautious”Peter Strickland's latest, ‘The Duke of Burgundy’, is a tale of sado-masochism and romance featuring no men and plenty of humour. “I want people to laugh, but not at the characters,” he tells Donald ClarkeFri Feb 06 2015 - 11:22
Amour Fou review: love in a time of deathJustin Hausner’s austere follow-up to ‘Lourdes’ is so contained it feels a little like an overextended short filmFri Feb 06 2015 - 06:02
Selma review: a film fuelled by impressive reservoirs of righteous angerDirector Ava DuVernay admirable film focuses on a key moment in the US civil rights struggle, and in the process brings to light many larger truthsThu Feb 05 2015 - 17:27
Patrick’s Day review: a fascinating collision of psychiatric drama and state-of-the nation addressGrim sincerity and singularity of voice set this psychiatric drama apartThu Feb 05 2015 - 17:23
Jack Reynor wins Sundance prize for Gerard Barrett’s GlasslandReynor first attracted attention as the star of Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard DidMon Feb 02 2015 - 01:00
Irish actor Jack Reynor wins at Sundance for GlasslandActor awarded special jury prize for acting for role in film set in TallaghtSun Feb 01 2015 - 12:47
Winston Churchill: one of his era’s great boozers‘On balance, though politics is more boring when carried out by sober people, it is likely to be more efficient, less abusive and more civilised’Sat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
Son of a Gun review: Ewan McGregor generates some HeatA skilfully staged Aussie crime drama where men growl at other men and women stay largely out of the wayFri Jan 30 2015 - 10:27
Paul Thomas Anderson on adapting Pynchon, directing Day-Lewis and keeping the melancholy at bayThe director of ‘Inherent Vice’ sits down with Donald Clarke to discuss the pressure of being called ‘America’s greatest film-maker’Fri Jan 30 2015 - 06:34
Kingsman: The Secret Service review: We expect you to die, James Bond spoof genreThough well acted and lushly upholstered, this childish ‘caper’ is let down by bold-type ironyThu Jan 29 2015 - 17:22
Au revoir les Enfants review: a welcome reissue for Louis Malle’s masterful wartime storyMalle’s semi-autobiographical film reminds us that tragedy often has as much to do with mishap as it has with malignityThu Jan 29 2015 - 15:25
Rave reviews for ‘Brooklyn’ at Sundance Film FestivalSaoirse Ronan says she ‘gets very emotional’ talking about Tóibín adaptationTue Jan 27 2015 - 21:15
Film rights acquired to new fantasy novel ‘Darkmouth’Alcon Entertainment involved in ‘six-figure’ deal to put Shane Hegarty’s series on to the big screenTue Jan 27 2015 - 21:00
Mortdecai review: Johnny Depp reaches an irreversible tipping point of awfulnessDepp, along with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor, offer the sort of gross caricature of Englishness you would expect to encounter from Celtic supporters at closing timeMon Jan 26 2015 - 12:33
The Page 3 cover-up that never was‘We have no alternative but to summon up one of the Sun’s greatest linguistic innovations. Gotcha!’Sat Jan 24 2015 - 01:01
Brie Larson: ‘Just because eating potatoes in the shower doesn’t work for you, that doesn’t mean it won’t work for me’After 25 films and a music career, is 25-year-old Brie Larson finally in danger of becoming a movie star?Fri Jan 23 2015 - 07:45
Ex Machina review: intelligent by designAlex Garland’s directorial debut is a gorgeously constructed, elegant distillation of familiar notions about artificial intelligenceFri Jan 23 2015 - 00:00
A Most Violent Year review: a movie that’s too good for the OscarsJC Chandor’s contemporary classic relocates Faust to early 1980s New York, a place where souls are salami-sliced into gradual extinctionThu Jan 22 2015 - 16:23
‘I am making A Most Violent Year in response to violence in films’Oscars be damned: JC Chandor has taken a minor business transaction and turned it into one of the first great films of 2015. And the director has plenty more he wants to talk aboutWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: So what if some of ‘Charlie’ is made up?Dramatic distortions always risk being mistaken for historical truths, writes Donald ClarkeSun Jan 18 2015 - 19:00
Donald Clarke: Republican free-for-all is the converse of 1970’s situationMitt Romney and Jeb Bush have emerged to save the party from its immoderate urgesSat Jan 17 2015 - 01:00
Whiplash review: JK Simmons’s jazz drumming drill sergeant deserves acclaimDamien Chazelle’s bravura debut treats the drumkit as a theatre of warFri Jan 16 2015 - 10:00
‘Wild’ review: a pretty, well-acted reverie of Cheryl Strayed’s popular bookReese Witherspoon works hard in Jean-Marc Vallée’s self-help epicFri Jan 16 2015 - 06:00
Everything awesome as Irish animation beats Lego movie to Oscar shortlistLinklater’s ‘Boyhood’ is odds-on favourite for best pictureFri Jan 16 2015 - 01:00
Oscars 2015: Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea gets nodSurprise as Irish nomination comes at expense of The Lego MovieThu Jan 15 2015 - 16:55
Future of Irish Film and Television Academy Awards unclearIrish Film Board confirms it has no firm plans to fund the IftasWed Jan 14 2015 - 20:09
‘Boyhood’ wins Best Drama at Golden GlobesRichard Linklater takes top prize for coming of age film at Beverly Hills awards ceremonyMon Jan 12 2015 - 12:11
Hugh Travers’s ‘Hungry’ should be allowed to airComedy set in Famine times does not necessarily ‘make light’ of the tragedySat Jan 10 2015 - 15:05
