The ancient art of rhetoric can still thrive in a hostile climateOpinion: The public oration was at its most powerful before the arrival of mass literacySat Feb 08 2014 - 00:01
Robocop's other half Abbie Cornish keeps it countryThe Australian has come a long way, from lauded turns in arthouse hits to the new Robocop. Donald Clarke talks to the star – if only he can get a word in over the puppies and parakeetsFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
Homophobia in focus: Dallas Buyers Club reviewAn obnoxious homophobe becomes a most unlikely hero in the fight against Aids in this stirring true-life dramaFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
Philip Seymour Hoffman: a strange kind of movie starRather than being bullied into adoration by tub-thumping promotion, filmgoers felt they had discovered Hoffman all on their ownMon Feb 03 2014 - 17:43
Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in New YorkOscar-winning actor (46) dies from an apparent drug overdose in his apartmentMon Feb 03 2014 - 10:26
The appeal of Garth Brooks is destined to remain a mystery to people like usOpinion: The tapenade-eaters are always going to remain immune to the charms of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’Sat Feb 01 2014 - 00:01
Lone SurvivorGet past the dubious, gung-ho imperialism and this is a gripping, gruelling thrillerFri Jan 31 2014 - 13:33
Matthew McConaughey's hunk evolutionHe was once known primarily as a mahogany beefcake, but a series of thrilling performances has seen Matthew McConaughey’s critical star rise to the very top. The Oscar nominee talks reinvention, rom-coms and running the gauntlet of awards seasonFri Jan 31 2014 - 00:00
Why is it that spoilers seem to make so many people lose the plot?Opinion: If Dr Johnson could get by without issuing spoiler warnings surely the rest of us canSun Jan 26 2014 - 00:01
JDIFF 2014: A fest for the sensesFrom the flicks to the deliberations, Donald Clarke’s 10 must-sees, must-hears for this year’s Dublin film festivalFri Jan 24 2014 - 12:20
Hugh O’Conor: the long road from Young Poisoner to reluctant stagHugh O’Conor’s brilliant childhood performances are seared into our collective memory – and as his grown-up self gets a big-screen outing in new Irish comedy The Stag, he sits down with Donald Clarke to talk early success, turning 40 and everything in betweenFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
The Wolf of Wall StreetMartin Scorsese’s study of Wall Street excess is beautifully made but madly over the topThu Jan 23 2014 - 16:11
Programme for 12th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival revealedThis year’s guests include actors Richard Dreyfuss, Terry Gilliam, John Hurt and Jason PriestleyTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:01
A contrast in press cultures as Hollande affair leaves French press unmovedOpinion: There is something unsettling about the apparent Gallic belief that deceit in marriage is a sign of sophisticationSat Jan 18 2014 - 00:01
‘Gravity’ and ‘American Hustle’ lead field in nominations for three-horse Oscar raceFassbender in the running for best supporting actorFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:01
12 Years a Slave causes cranky critical contrarianismUS film critic Armond White lobs opinionated dynamiteFri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac on folk, film and working with catsAn anti-hero like only the Coens could create, downtrodden folk singer Llewyn Davis has been described as one of the biggest a**holes ever put on film. Oscar Isaac sees it differently, however. "He’s not all that selfish. He spends almost the whole movie trying to take care of this f**king cat”Fri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
American Hustle and Gravity get 10 Oscar nodsMichael Fassbender and U2 make Oscar nominationsThu Jan 16 2014 - 17:07
American HustleThere are pleasures to be had in this brash, '70s-set comic thriller, even if it's all one big bogus boogie nightThu Jan 16 2014 - 15:37
12 Years a SlaveSteve McQueen’s scorching drama exposes the evil behind that ‘peculiar institution’Thu Jan 16 2014 - 15:36
Your annual epic Oscar-nomination napBefore today’s announcement, we make a stab at predicting who is going to figureThu Jan 16 2014 - 09:45
American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave win big at Golden GlobesU2’s ‘Ordinary Love’ recorded for Nelson Mandela biopic wins best original song awardMon Jan 13 2014 - 14:12
Richard Dreyfuss set for Dublin film festivalOscar-winning star of Jaws to attend Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in FebruarySun Jan 12 2014 - 21:00
Just because we can’t stand it doesn’t mean we have to make it illegalOpinion: The female midriff remained an indecent zone until someone invented the bikiniSat Jan 11 2014 - 00:01
War babyBritish actor Jeremy Irvine got his break early in Spielberg’s War Horse and stars in the moving second-World War drama The Railway Man. He talks to Donald Clarke about trauma, forgiveness – and fameFri Jan 10 2014 - 00:00
All eyes on film: the Big Movie Preview 2014Donald Clarke and Tara Brady cast eyes towards the coming year’s cinematic treatsFri Jan 03 2014 - 02:00
Singing hymns at atheist services makes as much sense as celebrating one’s elbowOpinion: Not believing in a deity does not involve subscribing to any particuclar moral viewpointSat Dec 28 2013 - 00:01
So who tops the Hollywood A-list for 2013?There were many contenders, but Jennifer Lawrence is the undisputed boss of 2013Fri Dec 27 2013 - 18:46
Film review: All Is LostOne-man show Robert Redford is superbly cast in this daring, intense tale of survivalFri Dec 27 2013 - 00:00
Capturing the magic of Christmas past‘Baby Jesus may have kicked off this Christmas business, but it was John Logie Baird who introduced harmony to the festive season’Wed Dec 25 2013 - 01:00
It’s hard to believe in the ‘white Santa’ promoted by Fox NewsThe notion that kids will be ‘confused’ if Father Christmas sometimes looks black, Chinese or Turkish is absurdSat Dec 21 2013 - 00:01
The Ticket Awards: FilmThe strong showing of 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' suggests erudite Ticket readers just can’t get enough Franco-Tunisian neo-realism, writes Donald ClarkeFri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
Film review: Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesBlow-dried blowhard Ron Burgundy and his crew are back in a fitfully funny media satireFri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00
Actor of incomparable charisma Peter O’Toole dies aged 81Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ brought new style of theatrical weight to cinemaMon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
