Steven Soderbergh

50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited

Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan

Sat Dec 28 2024 - 05:30

Magic Mike’s Last Dance: If you want Channing Tatum to grind his crotch in your face, best look elsewhere

The final part of Steven Soderbergh’s male-stripper trilogy may be the most chaste sequel of the year

Fri Feb 10 2023 - 05:15

Juliet Stevenson: ‘My agent said: Go to Hollywood. I thought: I just can’t do this sh*t’

She comes to Galway next month (kind of) in an adaptation of José Saramago’s Blindness

Sat Aug 21 2021 - 05:00

Library reopening: ‘It’s one of the last great sanctuaries’

Reopening Culture: In the latest in our series, Carlow librarian John Shortall and his team are ready to go libraries adapted

Mon May 24 2021 - 05:00

Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf

It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale

Mon Apr 26 2021 - 16:10

Maureen Dowd: Hollywood’s bleak conveyor belt obscures the dream factory

This year’s Oscar contenders are less about escapism and more about our sad reality

Sun Apr 25 2021 - 14:49

A vaccine strategy inspired by the movie ‘Contagion’? Not Britain’s worst idea

Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan

Sat Feb 06 2021 - 07:00

Dublin Smartphone Film Festival shows quality phone filmmaking is on the rise

This year’s festival attracts 200 entries from 25 countries with 82 film screenings

Sat Jan 30 2021 - 20:17

The Masque of the Red Death – Rediscovering Poe through prism of Covid-19

Restoration of 1964 Corman adaptation confirms continuing relevance of film and source

Thu Jan 21 2021 - 05:00

George Clooney: ‘I’d kill for some loneliness right now’

The actor-director on his new film, Covid-19 and why he’s not allowed to ride a motorcycle

Sat Dec 19 2020 - 05:00

‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley

The actor on drugs, his fiery marriage, and being reviewed by Groucho Marx and Muhammad Ali

Tue Apr 21 2020 - 06:00

Covid-19 has proved worse than the film-makers imagined

It’s hard, in 100 minutes, to convey the slow terror of a virus that kills in low percentages

Mon Apr 06 2020 - 06:00

The Report: 20 shades of gloom in the search for a troubling truth

Review: Adam Driver intense as investigator who uncovered CIA’s torture methods

Fri Nov 15 2019 - 05:00

Netflix has revealed its most-watched content. You might be surprised

The streaming giant’s most popular films and TV series show where it might go next

Wed Oct 23 2019 - 13:11

Netflix: The 10 best new shows and films to watch in October

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Living With Yourself, The Laundromat and Big Mouth season 3

Mon Sept 30 2019 - 06:00

The Laundromat: Meryl Streep is no Erin Brockovich

Review: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling down

Fri Sept 27 2019 - 05:00

Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Fri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00

Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dad

Peter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent Hollywood

Mon Aug 19 2019 - 17:11

Matt Bomer: ‘After two days in Galway, I thought: I’ll just do another lap around the town’

The actor on Los Angeles, being authentic and returning to ‘huge’ Galway

Fri Jun 07 2019 - 09:35

How Brad Pitt’s death scene went viral

The sudden interest in Meet Joe Black brings back an overlooked oddity from 1998

Tue Apr 16 2019 - 06:30

Bill & Ted Face The Music: third movie is totally on the way, dude

Stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter announce details of Bill & Ted Face the Music, which will hit screens next year

Thu Mar 21 2019 - 08:39

Harvey Weinstein sex charges: Court battle enters a new phase

The former film mogul, facing a landmark trial, has recruited a tough new legal team

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 05:59

Netflix: The 10 best new shows and films to watch in February

Nightflyers, Russian Doll, Dirty John, ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke

Fri Feb 01 2019 - 06:00

Sundance Film Festival welcomes ‘a sinister Irish film that really digs its claws in’

The Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland hailed as a ‘true-life horror movie’

Mon Jan 28 2019 - 14:08

Tag: John Hamm's ironic raised eyebrows the star attraction

Review: There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality

Thu Jun 28 2018 - 09:39

‘Hereditary’ is a critical success, a box office smash. But do people actually like it?

Cinema-goers are flocking to the art-horror film ... then giving out about it afterwards

Thu Jun 14 2018 - 19:20

Cannes 2018: walkouts galore at von Trier screening

Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage

Tue May 15 2018 - 13:15

'Right now, speaking as an American, we are lacking compassion'

Too much fame, too young, that has been a problem for young actors too – but the articulate, polite Charlie Plummer is unlikely to spin off the rail

Tue May 01 2018 - 05:00

Unsane: A mental-health movie with a split personality

Review: Shot on an iPhone, Steven Soderbergh's movie starts well but ends badly

Thu Mar 22 2018 - 09:54

Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’

Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel

Sat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00

Adam Driver: ‘There’s a double standard for men and women’

The ‘Star Wars’ actor on leaving the marines, filming nude and getting to know his dark side

Mon Dec 11 2017 - 09:07

Donald Clarke: Are we living in a time of Trump-era cinema?

Hollywood has a habit of capturing the political mood before it has emerged

Fri Nov 17 2017 - 05:00

The best shows on Netflix and Amazon in October

There are scares aplenty in store next month

Wed Sept 27 2017 - 14:00

Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’

The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 00:00