Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: a lacklustre improvementIt is far-fetched but Pirates 4 is a lacklustre improvementFri May 20 2011 - 01:00
A Screaming Man/Un Homme Qui CrieYOU WAIT AN age for a film in which a swimming pool stands as a metaphor for national decline, then two arrive in as many weeks…Fri May 13 2011 - 01:00
Love Like Poison/Un Poison ViolentANNA IS A blossoming 14-year-old suffering through an awkward summer in BrittanyFri May 13 2011 - 01:00
Take Me Home TonightLIKE A VIRGIN is in the shops, NWA is on the stereo and yuppies roam the earthFri May 13 2011 - 01:00
One hundred morningsIN THE WEEKS following an unspecified societal collapse, two young couples – Jonathan (Ciaran McMenamin) and Hannah (Alex Reid…Fri May 06 2011 - 01:00
Taxi zum Klo‘DON’T BE afraid if I take you along to public restrooms or the baths,” warns the hero of Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet ). …Fri May 06 2011 - 01:00
13 AssassinsIT’S THE mid-1900s. As feudal Japan splutters towards an end, the samurai classes are in crisisFri May 06 2011 - 01:00
Priest 3DIN AN alternate CGI universe, humans and vampires have been at war for centuriesFri May 06 2011 - 01:00
Cedar RapidsWHEN THE top dog at Brownstar Insurance dies in an erotic asphyxiation accident, it falls to naive underling Tim Lippe (Helms…Fri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
Insidious“A PARASITE! She befriended your Astro body and lured you into the FurtherFri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
The Extraordinary Advenutres of Adèle Blanc-Sec/ Les Aventures Extraordinaires de Adèle Blanc-SecWHIMSY ahoy!Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
Fast & Furious 5WE CAN’T stop thinking about that joke in American Dad: “That’s 2 Fast 2 Furious! Which means you’ve already seen the first one…Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
TT3D: Closer to the EdgeDirected by Richard De Aragues 15A cert, gen release, 103 min ****Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
PinaDirected by Wim Wenders. Featuring Regina Advento, Pina Bausch G cert, Cineworld/IFI, Dublin release, 104 min ***Fri Apr 22 2011 - 01:00
Meek's CutoffIT’S 1845, post-buffalo but pre-transcontinental railroad, and three families in a wagon train are slowly making their way over…Fri Apr 15 2011 - 01:00
Winnie the PoohDARKER, MOODIER, tortured; the new Winnie the Pooh was never going to make any concessions to such grown-up thingsFri Apr 15 2011 - 01:00
Little White Lies/Les Petits MouchoirsRETURNING HOME from a club in the wee hours, coked-up party animal Ludo (Jean Dujardin) is blindsided by a truck and confined…Fri Apr 15 2011 - 01:00
Ground control to Major MomBUT MOMS evidently don’t need Mars Needs Moms. With a price tag of $180 million plus and an opening US weekend take of $6Fri Apr 08 2011 - 01:00
Revenge is a fish best served rawMILD-MANNERED fish-store owner Shamoto can’t catch a break at homeFri Apr 08 2011 - 01:00
Before the Revolution/Prima Della RivoluzioneDirected by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli Club, IFI, Dublin, 112 min irishfilm.ieFri Apr 08 2011 - 01:00
Essential KillingTHREE WESTERN soldiers stop for a smoke in an unnamed Middle Eastern territoryFri Apr 01 2011 - 01:00
Benda Bilili!A WINNER OF the audience award at the recent Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, this French documentary brings street…Fri Mar 18 2011 - 00:00
Route IrishYOU WOULDN’T be out of line if you described the latest Ken Loach film as a thrillerFri Mar 18 2011 - 00:00
Battle, Los AngelesThe following is composed from actual dialogue and incidents in Battle, Los Angeles. For realFri Mar 11 2011 - 00:00
Norwegian Wood / Noruwei No MoriIT’S THE swinging ’60s and Japanese youth are taking the streets while embracing free love and each otherFri Mar 11 2011 - 00:00
Man of AranPIONEERING film-maker Robert J Flaherty was the son of an Irish prospector, a biographical detail that told throughout the director…Fri Mar 11 2011 - 00:00
UnknownTICKING UNEXPLODED bomb? Check. Mysterious villains? Check. Amnesia? CheckFri Mar 04 2011 - 00:00
Carmen in 3DWE KNOW THAT, for all its technological might, the public stayed away from Sanctum (formerly James Cameron’s Sanctum ) in their…Fri Mar 04 2011 - 00:00
Silken Skin/ La Peau DouceTHE OUTLOOK FOR Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) is gloomy from the startFri Mar 04 2011 - 00:00
Waste LandTHE LATEST documentary from Lucy Walker, the wunderkind behind such fine films as Devil’s Playground and Blindsight , sounds …Fri Feb 25 2011 - 00:00
Our man in MoscowJAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Johnny O’Reilly is the latest Irish director to make it big overseas, but this time…Fri Feb 25 2011 - 00:00
I Am Number FourLIFE SURE SUCKS when you’re an alien teen slumming it and hiding out in an inferior galaxy far, far away.Fri Feb 25 2011 - 00:00
Creation and the end of the rock'n'roll worldBACK DURING the Great Doc Renaissance of 2005, audiences were happy to queue for Some Kind of Monster , an intimate look at Metallica…Thu Feb 24 2011 - 00:00
Sanctum 3D“JAMES CAMERON’S SANCTUM” trumpets the publicity for this half-arsed potholing adventureFri Feb 04 2011 - 00:00
The Ballroom / Chega de SaudadeNIGHT FALLS ON São Paulo and it’s all kicking off at the gafieiraFri Feb 04 2011 - 00:00
NénetteAFTER THREE husbands and four kids, 40-something Nénette has come to terms with widowhoodFri Feb 04 2011 - 00:00
Barney's VersionLIFE HASN’T always been kind to philandering hockey fan Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti)Fri Jan 28 2011 - 00:00
The DilemmaCONFIRMED BFs Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) have been madly in love since college, a boy-crush they express through…Fri Jan 21 2011 - 00:00
Do the crime, now comes Oscar timeIN 1983, BETTY Anne Waters, a young working-class mum from Massachusetts, was devastated when her hotheaded older brother Kenny…Fri Jan 14 2011 - 00:00
It’s Kind of a Funny StoryFUNNY, MOVING and just a little cutsey-pie, nobody is going to mistake the latest dramedy from the makers of Half Nelson and …Fri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
Easier with Practice‘YOU CAN buy my collection of short stories from my brother,” says Davy Mitchell (Brian Geraghty), a self-published author hawking…Fri Jan 07 2011 - 00:00
Loose Cannons/ Mine VagantiTOMMASO Cantone, the youngest son in a pasta-manufacturing dynasty, plans to drop several bombshells at his homecoming family…Thu Dec 23 2010 - 00:00
Gulliver's TravelsWHERE have all the Houyhnhnms gone? Was a stint in Laputa too much to ask for? Avert your eyes, literature fans, from the year…Thu Dec 23 2010 - 00:00
It's a Wonderful LifeFRANK CAPRA, according to folk song and legend, was a cornball merchant par excellence who reigned at the US box-office throughout…Fri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
CatfishA SUNDANCE winner and something of a water-cooler sensation, this highly suspect documentary is certainly not short on talking…Fri Dec 17 2010 - 00:00
