The Irish Times

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Sharon Horgan is funny, Nic Cage is himself

Review: Cage plays a version of himself, similar to his Wild at Heart character

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00

Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘There was a time when my biggest roles were to do with my sexuality’

‘Once they parodied me on Saturday Night Live! Now I get a lifetime-achievement award’

Mon Oct 18 2021 - 06:00

Film-maker Jim Cummings: The Hollywood that built Harvey Weinstein is still there

Cummings’s breakthrough style he calls ‘backyard Pixar’ is shaking up the film industry

Wed Oct 13 2021 - 05:00

Directing Halloween Kills: ‘It’s not just a fan-service type of movie’

David Gordon Green on taking up the blood-soaked baton of the slasher film franchise

Wed Oct 13 2021 - 05:00

Son: Gothic parental horrors in the American south

Irish director Ivan Kavanagh anchors his ambiguous horror in believable trauma

Fri Jul 02 2021 - 05:00

Jake Gyllenhaal never better in moving Boston marathon drama

Stronger review: The true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing avoids the clichés of the genre

Wed Dec 06 2017 - 05:00

Zoe Kazan: ‘Look at the numbers. It’s getting worse for women’

Zoe Kazan is evolving from writer to actor and is hoping to subvert rom-com stereotypes with ‘The Big Sick’

Fri Jul 21 2017 - 05:45

Our Brand is Crisis review: Just about makes a drama out of a crisis

A constellation of likeable actors is on the case - including Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton - but the dramedy just doesn’t quite come together as it should

Thu Jan 21 2016 - 16:04

Review: Hide Your Smiling Faces

Fri Aug 01 2014 - 01:00

Highs and lows: David Gordon Green walks a fine line

The award-winning director is best known for stoner hits Pineapple Express and Your Highness, but he also does a fine line in quality – and is always eager to sort out the stoner farce from the high art

Fri Oct 11 2013 - 00:00