Donald Clarke

Mirren takes a shot at Mendes and sexism in Hollywood

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• March 26, 2013, 00:53

Helen Mirren expreses disappointment that Sam Mendes failed to include any women in his list of influences.

Bradley Cooper is the new Matthew McConaughey

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• March 24, 2013, 15:15

The star of The Hangover has crossed over to respectability with some aplomb.

Barack Obama is not the Devil

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• March 18, 2013, 23:03

An American TV show presents a version of the Devil that looks eerily like the current US president. It’s a conspiracy.

All celebrate π Day

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• March 13, 2013, 22:30

Hooray! It’s the day we celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. That’s C/d or π or 3.14159 26535 89793 23846…. (and so forth).

Have you seen my D***?

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• February 27, 2013, 19:20

Rude Dadaists stick “dicks” where no “dick” should go

The DFCC deliberates at JDIFF

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• February 23, 2013, 14:46

Is that enough letters? After a busy week, the good people at the Dublin Film Critics Circle are coming to their final conclusions as to the best films performances and so forth at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Should …

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• February 15, 2013, 12:31

The 11th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival kicked off last night with a screening of Rufus Norris’s fine Broken. The film has taken a while to get to us. It played in Cannes last year to some applause and then …

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• February 11, 2013, 11:55

Argo continued its run. Hathaway and Day Lewis remain unbeatable. What else is there to say? It is, perhaps, slightly insulting to view the British Academy’s awards as nothing more than a vast tipster’s guide to the Oscars. When, however, …