Donald Clarke

• Rock 'n' pop.
• November 28, 2009, 01:23

I’m off for a few days holiday, so, though I will still be moderating comments, there may be more delay than usual. Apologies. Hey. Guess where I’m going. Cat got your tongue, Karla? Please keep making your contributions to the …

• Best-of lists
• November 25, 2009, 23:45

  Don’t get your hopes up, girls. 1. My Brother is a Woman. (Tom Shadyac) Pierce Brosnan, an uptight stockbroker who doesn’t have time for his children, discovers that his brother — played with full improvisational incandescence by Robin Williams …

• Rock 'n' pop. Way off topic
• November 24, 2009, 23:17

Have I got your attention? I’m fairly sure I believe this. I’m less sure I believe that the Shoppies version of Always on My Mind is better than the Pogues’ Fairy Tale of New York, but, nonetheless, it is a …

• Oscars Uncategorized
• November 24, 2009, 01:12

Given how much I seem to hate the Oscars, readers could be forgiven for wondering why I keep droning on about them. Well, tough. There’s another three months of pointless gossip to come. The latest outrage involves the recently announced …

• Film of the Week Sherlock Holmes Trailerspotting
• November 20, 2009, 23:49

Insofar as anything so grand as “controversy” can attach attach itself to the trailer-junkie community, some sort of, well, controversy has gathered round the promo for Guy Ritchie‘s upcoming assault on Sherlock Holmes. Recalling the whole Shutter Island furore, the …

• Oscars Uncategorized
• November 17, 2009, 23:59

The zombies who hand out the Oscars can be so knuckle-headed you have to give thanks when somebody who is actually one of the higher primates receives a statuette. Perversely, nothing demonstrates the inadequacy of the awards more effectively than …

• Uncategorized
• November 13, 2009, 15:01

While on the move today in London, I was browsing through The New Yorker (Ooo! Get him!) and encountered this photograph from a recent production of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Who’s the scantily-clad lady being groped by Jonny Lee Miller? Quickly, …

• Uncategorized
• November 11, 2009, 22:03

I was interviewing Michael Haneke the other day (as you do) and, for more than one reason, I began to feel like a bit of a moron. Obviously, most people would feel somewhat dim when sitting opposite the director of …

• The Wolfman Trailerspotting
• November 10, 2009, 01:43

It’s ominous. It’s an evil omen. Wooooo! What’s an evil omen? Being shuffled around the schedule like a veruca patient at an emergency ward during a hideous bus crash. That’s what. If my memory serves me, The Wolfman was originally …

• Film of the Week Oscars
• November 6, 2009, 19:56

So, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are to host the Oscars. Well, that’s almost interesting. Actually, there is something mildly intriguing about the fact that Dr Hfuhruhurr and Mr Conductor are now being flung together as a double act. Note …

• Way off topic
• November 4, 2009, 19:02

Look, I just wanted to start a debate about the Sudetenland. I just want to start a debate about the disingenuous use of the phrase “I just want to start a debate”. I don’t know when this happened, but, at …

• Hell Trailerspotting
• November 3, 2009, 01:43

Well, I say the greatest film of 2010, but that may, in fact, be downplaying the truly staggering potential of Old Dogs. Barely a day goes by when I fail to receive an email asking whether there is any chance …

• 3-D Avatar
• November 1, 2009, 23:55

Now that’s what I call a 3-D movie. There is, sadly, no way around it. The return of 3-D is one of the big  stories of the cinematic decade. Though only around 20 percent of Irish screens showing films available …