Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ‘For the Dublin production they said give us everything you have. And we did’Broadway veterans Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on the complex process of writing new songs for Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s Christmas showWed Nov 22 2023 - 14:12
Joanna Hogg: ‘In some ways Martin Scorsese has a much greater insight into what I’m doing than I do’The great English film-maker on her most famous champion, her ‘joyful alliance’ with Tilda Swinton and her hopes that her films transcend their upper-middle-class milieuSat Nov 18 2023 - 05:30
Daliland: An entertaining if disappointingly formulaic entry into the Harron canonSquabbling scenes between Kingsley and Sukowa make the enterprise worthwhileFri Nov 17 2023 - 05:00
May December: Todd Haynes’s new film is brilliant. But should you really be enjoying it?Todd Haynes plays wicked games with our appetite for the tabloid cycle in one of the best films of 2023Thu Nov 16 2023 - 05:00
The story of a 26-year-old evangelical Christian’s fatal trip to convert an ‘uncontacted’ tribeThe Mission: The film, which is tipped as an Oscars favourite, is a corrective to the cruel jokes that circulated in the weeks after John Chau’s deathTue Nov 14 2023 - 13:55
Emerald Fennell: We needed somebody as enigmatic and sexy as Barry KeoghanOscar winner’s new film stars Keoghan as a rough-hewn Oxford scholarship student who becomes an unlikely guest of a blue-blooded familySat Nov 11 2023 - 05:15
Ó Bhéal: A lovely documentary about the emergence of a truly indigenous subgenreCiara Nic Chormaic’s documentary traces a line between Irish oral tradition and contemporary rapFri Nov 10 2023 - 05:00
Anatomy of a Fall: An unlikable widow goes on trial in a fascinating, knotty courtroom thrillerIt is often observed that no one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it, but in Justine Triet’s film that number may be too highThu Nov 09 2023 - 05:15
Laura Moss: I took a long time to realise my film was a mash-up of Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s lifeThemes of monstrosity and creation continue to inspire movies such as Re-Animator and Birth/RebirthWed Nov 08 2023 - 05:00
Palme d’Or winner Justine Triet: ‘You could take my film, decide I’m obsessed with killing men and use it against me’The director of the remarkable Anatomy of a Fall likes to work on the boundary where fact and fiction blur into one anotherSat Nov 04 2023 - 05:15
Golden Bear-winner Nicolas Philibert: ‘My starting point is that I’m open to everything. Anything is possible’For On the Adamant, the French documentarymaker spent months aboard a floating mental-heath day centre on the Seine in ParisFri Nov 03 2023 - 05:15
How to Have Sex film review: The limitations of consent under a cascade of vodka and peer pressureMolly Manning Walker’s nail-biting debut feature was a deserving winner at CannesFri Nov 03 2023 - 05:00
The Royal Hotel: Outback holiday from hell makes for a tense watchFilm review: Kitty Green puts a feminist spin on the remote Aussie nightmare of Wake in FrightFri Nov 03 2023 - 05:00
‘We should all be talking about Annette Bening and Jodie Foster’s extraordinary performances’: Nyad director Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarring Annette Bening as marathon swimmer Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as her best friend and coach, Nyad is becoming an Oscars favouriteMon Oct 30 2023 - 05:00
The Killer: Michael Fassbender elevates David Fincher’s sleek, hollow entertainmentThe director leans into his chilly gifts for genre without too much exertionFri Oct 27 2023 - 06:00
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren on casting for a trans child role: ‘We looked all over... We met girls and trans girls’The director of the Silver Bear-winning 20,000 Species of Bees was painstaking in her approach to telling the story of a transgender childFri Oct 27 2023 - 05:15
Pain Hustlers: Spitballing and shimmying through the US opioid crisisAlthough it’s mostly fun, the film is ultimately torn between raucous satire and social conscienceFri Oct 27 2023 - 05:00
‘Rock Hudson and James Dean were fighting over Elizabeth Taylor – who’s her best favourite gay boyfriend?’ A new documentary, Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, explores the strange dynamics of Hudson’s closeted queerness in pre-Stonewall HollywoodMon Oct 23 2023 - 05:15
The Pigeon Tunnel: Seasoned interrogators John le Carré and Errol Morris lock horns, with fascinating results‘I’ve lived through a world of endless betrayal,’ the great spy writer tells the celebrated documentarian in his final testament on cameraThu Oct 19 2023 - 05:00
Nyad: Punch-the-air marathon swimmer biopic from Free Solo’s Oscar-winnersAnnette Bening’s fierce performance is work that trumpets the arrival of awards seasonTue Oct 17 2023 - 16:23
Martin Scorsese: ‘One has to take chances. At this age, what else can I do?’The veteran director wants Killers of the Flower Moon to show not just the trail of killings at the heart of its story but also the rich culture of the Osage NationSat Oct 14 2023 - 02:00
The Burial: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones buddy up for a fun 1990s courtroom throwbackWatching this energetic drama, it is almost hard to believe this is inspired by a true storyFri Oct 13 2023 - 05:30
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood: Sweating out the pain in a safe, feminine spaceShot over five years, Anna Hint’s film is an intangible marvel, punctuated by ritualsFri Oct 13 2023 - 05:00
BlackBerry: A tech tale heading from 50m units a year via betrayal to zero market share Cult director Matt Johnson recreates the Crackberry days with this compelling tale of tech hubrisFri Oct 06 2023 - 12:03
Fair Play: Slinky corporate thriller is brimming with toxic masculinityChloe Domont’s debut feature stars Bridgerton’s Phoebe DynevorFri Oct 06 2023 - 05:00
BlackBerry director Matt Johnson: ‘We had to shoot secretly as we were making the film without the company’s participation’Canadian filmmaker’s new movie is a brilliant tech saga about the smartphone that fuelled the CrackBerry crazeThu Oct 05 2023 - 05:00
Warrior review: A heartfelt, poignant Star Trek-tinted cancer-survivor musicalDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen Egan’s experiences, which form the spine of the show, are relayed to poignant effectWed Oct 04 2023 - 10:04
Shoshana first-look review: Michael Winterbottom’s new film offers a warning from history as it evokes a frenzied eraDinard Film Festival 2023: David Holmes’s score is emblematic of a film that is trying to do too muchSun Oct 01 2023 - 13:57
The Old Oak: Ken Loach’s last orders deliver a generous roundA little solidarity goes a long way in the great film-maker’s final offeringFri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00
Other People’s Children: A very French marriage of realism and eroticaRebecca Zlotowski’s heartfelt drama is powered by Virginie Efira’s performanceFri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00
Rothar review: A playful show that transcends language and nationalityDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Both actors are equally impressive in this all-ages offering from Galway’s BranarThu Sept 28 2023 - 13:52
Film-maker Carol Morley: ‘Manchester was terrible for women... it was a working-class, white, boys’ town’The director on her native city, ‘invisible women’, and her fifth feature, Typist Artist Pirate King, about the late outsider artist Audrey AmissWed Sept 27 2023 - 05:00
The Dan Daw Show review: A miraculous piece of theatreDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much moreSat Sept 23 2023 - 12:45
Wes Anderson on his new Roald Dahl film: ‘No one who is not the author should be modifying somebody else’s book’Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel star in the director’s faithfully scripted new film of The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarSat Sept 23 2023 - 05:30
Ballywalter review: Painfully honest drama sees Patrick Kielty perform the worst stand-up routinesSeána Kerslake brings an edge and unpredictability that animates a carefully shaded storyFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:30
RMN: Urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama from a modern masterRomanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu dissects European hypocrisies and contradictions in this film based on a real-life xenophobic eventFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:15
RMN: Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu on his powerful Transylvanian tale of migrants and bears‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’Thu Sept 21 2023 - 05:00
Ken Loach: ‘Ireland has always been wonderful... even though the police in the North chased us out’The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87Sun Sept 17 2023 - 05:15
Cassandro: An impressive cast leaves the impression of being part of a celebrationThe flamboyant Mexican luchador gets the fabulous biopic he deservesFri Sept 15 2023 - 05:00
‘I don’t think the role of movies is to punish people. A movie isn’t a court’Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it isWed Sept 13 2023 - 05:00
El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horrorA deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film FestivalTue Sept 12 2023 - 21:03
A Symbiotic Symphonic Movement review: A triptych of experimental compositions casts a spellDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Inside Teak House, some attendees bow their heads in a liminal trance. Others lie down and absorb the noiseSun Sept 10 2023 - 10:17
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3: The mounting Hellenic horrors include a flabby story, damp jokes and an occasional goatThe Vardalos family are back for a messy, pointless second sequel to the cheery originalFri Sept 08 2023 - 00:01
Angelheaded Hipster: This Marc Bolan documentary is at its best when it lets the T Rex frontman do the talkingDespite pedestrian contributions by the likes of U2, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett and others, Bolan’s electric warrior spirit shines throughThu Sept 07 2023 - 05:00
A Life on the Farm: ‘Getting Koo Stark in the film was the weirdest conversation ever’ Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend is an unexpected contributor to Oscar Harding’s quirky film about outsider artist Charles CarsonTue Sept 05 2023 - 05:00
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Uganda’s charismatic ‘president of the ghetto’ under pressureThe former pop star’s professional swerve into politics has come at great personal costFri Sept 01 2023 - 05:00
Sound of Freedom: Ignore the huffing and puffing about this film. It’s not such a holy show after allJim Caziezel puts in his fiercest turn since The Passion of the ChristWed Aug 30 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe charming, hilarious send-up Theater Camp, the entertaining The Blackening, Christian Petzold’s singular Afire, and the knockabout ScrapperSun Aug 27 2023 - 05:00
‘We didn’t have an intimacy co-ordinator. We decided to build this thing together and trust one another’Passages actor Franz Rogowski on charming psychopathy and creating convincing relationships with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben WhishawSat Aug 26 2023 - 05:00
Scrapper: Charlotte Regan’s surefooted debut is as plucky as its title suggestsThe tricky father-daughter relationship at this film’s heart makes it a poppier, knockabout cousin of AftersunFri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
