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- Doing Cannes, Midlands style
Tue, May 22, 2012DARN YOU, Chris O’Dowd. You’ve brought the midlands weather with you. I meet the actor and comic – a native of Boyle, Co Roscommon – in a beachside tent that is struggling to resist a torrential downpour. Waves crash mean-spiritedly on the shore. Wind worries the tent-flaps. This is not how Cannes looks on the postcards. - Haneke's monster feeds the beast
Mon, May 21, 2012Michael Haneke doesn’t want to make a scene, Nick Cave mulls over moonshiners, and Danes get hysterical at Cannes 2012 - Lost in spaceSat, May 19, 2012Was Uhura a spaceship's officer or a 23rd-century switchboard operator? The pop-culture portrayal of women in space - grounded in suburban homes but capable of crossing the galaxy in the blink of an eye - is perplexing, writes
JOHN BYRNE
- Are we in Cannes - or Andersonland?
Fri, May 18, 2012 CANNES 2012: Wes Anderson returns, Jacques Audiard keeps things classy, and an Egyptian docu-drama based around events in Tahrir Square tries to find its feet amid the hustle and bustle of Cannes 2012, writes
DONALD CLARKE - Crash, bang, wallop
Fri, May 18, 2012Breakthrough thriller The Raid is directed by Welshman Gareth Evans who grew up on Jackie Chan. It’s a dream come true, he tells
DONALD CLARKE - Hey Jayne
Fri, May 18, 2012She’s played the ‘nice girl’ opposite Johnny Depp and The Inbetweeners but in a new Irish comedy, A Kiss For Jed, Jayne Wisener gets to show her wild side, she tells
TARA BRADY - The brutal and the beautiful at Cannes
Wed, May 16, 2012A FEW YEARS ago, I encountered the British film producer Stephen Woolley. We had both just returned from certain festivities in the south of France. Neil Jordan’s right-hand man was still bubbling. “If you don’t love Cannes then you don’t love cinema,” he told me. - 'I hate the idea of sexiness'
Fri, May 11, 2012French writer, director, musician and actress Julie Delpy returns to our screens with her second culture-clash comedy, 2 Days in New York. She talks to
TARA BRADY - Vulture Ireland
Fri, May 11, 2012Charlie Casanova is a hardcore tale of a post-Celtic-Tiger sociopath. ‘We’ve had profoundly extreme responses,’ writer- director Terry McMahon tells
TARA BRADY - Five stars? I don't f*****g think so
Sat, May 5, 2012On a bus near you, a
DONALD CLARKE quote is selling'Charlie Casanova. The problem? He didn't like the film and he really doesn't like the ads - Leader of the pack
Fri, May 4, 2012IN 2010, Sylvester Stallone instituted a sort of honours system for contemporary action heroes. If you were offered a role in The Expendables you could reasonably regard yourself as having been inducted into kick-ass royalty. You may now enter the pantheon and sit alongside Baron Dolph Lundgren, Lord Bruce Willis and Earl Jet Li. - The Stifmeister is back
Fri, May 4, 2012APPARENTLY, Seann William Scott loves my hair and my tattoos and everything about me. Oh, SWS, you old card. If only I hadn’t heard you say all the same things to my esteemed colleague from the Star half an hour ago. - Split screen: If we're embracing digital, why are we so nostalgic about the old ways?
Sat, Apr 28, 2012Much of the music we listen to, films we watch and photographs we look at are now created digitally. It should mean sharper images and clearer sound: progress, in other words. But that’s not how some artists – and, it seems, many of us – feel, writes
UNA MULLALLY - More than a funny girl
Sat, Apr 28, 2012 INTERVIEW: Actress and commedienne Jennifer Coolidge is best known as Stifler’s Mom from the ‘American Pie’ films, but there is much more to her than that, finds
DONALD CLARKE - 'I'm not anything like her...'
Fri, Apr 27, 2012The director wanted to get away from “that sexualised thing” for Scarlett Johansson’s character in Marvel Avengers Assemble. They put her in a catsuit. She talks to
TARA BRADY - Hollywood lives
Fri, Apr 27, 2012As the Dream Factory approaches its 100th birthday,
LIAM BURKE takes a tour around Tinseltown to find out how the old place is holding up - Sci-fi epics in an average Dublin office
Tue, Apr 24, 2012IF YOU WERE told that two new Irish filmmakers had put together something called Lockout as their debut feature, you might well be expecting a worthy but dull drama about trade unions and Jim Larkin. - Papa don't preachFri, Apr 20, 2012HAPPILY, I see no reason to say anything nasty about Jaime Winstone. She comes across as a bright, unpretentious Londoner.
- Campus capers
Fri, Apr 20, 2012JULIE BURCHILL, during her early-1990s stint as a film critic, once offered a remarkably sage piece of movie advice. If, during a screening of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, a prospective romantic partner looks wavy-mouthed or fidgety or unimpressed, it’s time for them to leave. Like, right away.
