Withnail at Monty’s gaffFancy a trip to a “horrible little shack” in a remote part of Cumbria? It sounds like the sort of the thing that might be free…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Brilliant Davies brings a shine to DarklightThe regular jamboree of film that calls itself Darklight is currently up and running at various venues throughout the capital…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
The WatchTHIS IS, you may remember, the film that, following the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, was forced to drop the word “neighbourhood…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Director who helped invent 1980sObituary: Tony Scott, who has apparently killed himself at the age of 68, could be credited (or blamed) for helping to invent…Mon Aug 20 2012 - 01:00
Batch of assorted canes beats up British comic strip heroesThe post-war world of the ‘Beano’ and ‘Dandy’ prevailed for decades but no longer enchantsSat Aug 18 2012 - 01:00
My BrothersYOU COULD reasonably argue that Ireland is too small a country to host a road movieFri Aug 17 2012 - 01:00
The Expendables 2WHEN SYLVESTER Stallone released the first Expendables two years ago, one sensed the world nodding tolerantly, as if at an elderly…Fri Aug 17 2012 - 01:00
Taylor success triggers bout of below-the-belt stereotypingWE LEARNED a lot about what the world thought of us this week.Sat Aug 11 2012 - 01:00
The Forgiveness of BloodJOSHUA MARSTON, the American director of Maria Full of Grace, makes another journey overseas with this tense, clammy drama set…Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Screen WriterNOTING THE amount of popular culture that oozed into the ether during the 1960s, we have already come to accept that the current…Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
The Bourne LegacyYOU REMEMBER all those men who used to read Playboy “for the articles”Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Jackpot/Arme RiddereTHE USUAL caricature of Nordic crime drama involves some grey middle-aged man (or sombre woman in a jumper) moping unhappily …Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
O death, there is thy StingOne of the great masters of the smooth movie melody passed away earlier in the weekFri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
360WOULD IT BE indulging in oxymoron to describe a film as “grandiosely superficial”? All right thenFri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Gasps as Gatsby lives up to his reclusive imageOne can read too much into news of shifting release dates, but the information that Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby has been …Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
She's got some bottleTHERE ARE plenty of reasons to recommend Jon Wright’s new Irish comedy-horror, GrabbersFri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Should we be dizzy at Vertigo's rise to the top?The Hitchcock film has topped the only poll that matters – ‘Sight & Sound’ – a list that offers a strong argument for the…Sat Aug 04 2012 - 01:00
Brand battles brand in slack Olympic idealDon’t mention that soft drink. And blank out the name plate of the hand dryer manufacturerSat Aug 04 2012 - 01:00
If a boycott falls in the forest...The threatened boycott of the Venice Film Festival by the Iranian cultural ministry will, most likely, have a relatively slight…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
This kid's not all right, he's a dripONE MAY as well lie down in front of a rampaging rhino as attempt to halt the advance of the Wimpy Kid filmsFri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
Eames: The Arcitect and the PainterONE MUST BE grateful that nobody stoops to calling Charles or Ray Eames “the Steve Jobs of their day” in this diverting documentary…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
Strange daze heading our wayKeep your calendar free for the Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival, which kicks off at the Irish Film Institute on August…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
Director laid down the marker for iconoclastsOne of the oddest, most influential and most elusive film-makers died earlier this weekFri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
There and back again... and againBy now you will have heard the bizarre news that Peter Jackson has decided to stretch his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
'Citizen Kane' toppled by 'Vertigo' after 50 years at the top of critics' listThe world’s cinema experts have chosen the Hitchcock classic over Welles’s major dramaThu Aug 02 2012 - 01:00
Hitch’s Hedren headin’ to BelfastOur good friends at Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast are set to beam a legend into their space next monthFri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Netflix goes up, then goes downDoes anybody know what’s going on with the home entertainment business? Netflix, the online video supplier, recently reported…Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Searching for SugarmanIMAGINE THE story of Nick Drake – that mournful English singer who died in underserved obscurity – with a happy ending and you…Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
The Man InsideOH DEAR, OH DEAR. Spare us another cluttered film concerning the travails of troubled inner-city English youthsFri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
El Bulli: Cooking in ProgressOften voted the best restaurant in the world, elBulli, the Catalan domain of master chef Ferran Adrià, ended up offering two …Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Academy has ‘zero love’ for DKRAs you may recall, many members of the “online film community” fell into hyper-shock when, in 2008, The Dark Knight failed to…Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Yeats boys on the big screenIt’s still festival a go-go out there. The Tread SoftlyFri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Pout and about in Cork’s TriskelBe reminded that (heavens, the formatting on these things) POUTfest 2012, in association with Cork LGBT and Peccadillo Pictures…Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Clackers were the internet of the bad old good old daysThe latest outbreak of hysteria about the web is another example of old-fogey nostalgiaSat Jul 21 2012 - 01:00
In Your Hands/Contre ToiANOTHER DAY, another French movie starring Kristin Scott ThomasFri Jul 20 2012 - 01:00
Dr Seuss’ The LoraxWAY BACK in early spring, when this tolerable family animation was released in the US, certain right- wing lunatics complained…Fri Jul 20 2012 - 01:00
My Galway Film Fleadh horrorNOBODY NEED PLACE a mirror over the mouth of the Irish film industry. Times are certainly hardTue Jul 17 2012 - 01:00
'Good Vibrations' picks up fleadh prizeTHE 24TH Galway Film Fleadh, the year’s most significant celebration of new Irish cinema, closed last night with a screening …Mon Jul 16 2012 - 01:00
Magpie Peashooter? Zoltan the Magnificent? That's my boy!The lists of top names for boys and girls betray the shifting sands of tasteSat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
DetachmentTONY KAYE, director of American History X, various commercials and this cluster of derangement, is now in his late 50s, but he…Fri Jul 13 2012 - 01:00
Year of the grisly at Galway Film FleadhThe fleadh always seeks to highlight fresh domestic cinema, and this is the year of the Irish horror as rural sea monsters, Dublin…Wed Jul 11 2012 - 01:00
Tabloid gossip frenzy feeds broadsheet recycling industryHigh-minded critiques of tabloid excess give broadsheet readers their vicarious thrillsSat Jul 07 2012 - 01:00
Katy Perry: Part Of Me 3DOR YOU could mainline a carton of sherbet fountain while staring furiously at a stack of boiled sweets.Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Weekly Movie Quiz1 Which director currently has films lodged at No 1 and No 2 in the all-time box office chart?Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Where Do We Go Now?/Et Maintenant On Va Où?ALLOW ME to begin by being most unfair to Nadine Labaki’s often charming, though ultimately rather scattershot follow-up to the…Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Tweet and sour reaction to that bomb 'joke'LET ME tell you a story about something that happened to my cousin’s gardenerSat Jun 30 2012 - 01:00
Galway gears up for annual fleadhThe Galway Film Fleadh announced its programme in that fine city earlier this weekFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
