Barry Keoghan: Ireland’s next superstar actor
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- November 4, 2017, 05:00
He first came to prominence in TV crime drama Love/Hate. Now he’s making movies with Christopher Nolan, Nicole Kidman and Colin Fa(...)
Donald Clarke's Movie Quiz: Are you (a) smooth like Cary Grant or (b) a bit of a Borat?
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- November 3, 2017, 08:00
Also: Bogie’s great last line, Liz Taylor’s men and the toughest Oscar question yet
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- November 3, 2017, 06:00
Colin Farrell reunites with his Lobster director for the Killing of a Sacred Deer, a moving Holocaust documentary and a lesbian pu(...)
Johnny Depp and Judi Dench can't save Murder on the Orient Express
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- November 3, 2017, 05:00
This starry Kenneth Branagh remake of the Agatha Christie classic is missing vital clues
Bake Off: I was appalled. But I wasn’t going to stop watching
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- November 3, 2017, 05:00
Donald Clarke: No hiding place for ‘Bake Off’s’ poor Prue Leith even in Bhutan
Condemned to Remember: The startling humanity of a Holocaust survivor
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- November 2, 2017, 00:00
Tomi Reichental weeps, expresses disappointment but never seems to lose hope
Conor McGregor Notorious review: Intergalactic bling and bullet-proof braggadocio
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- October 31, 2017, 05:00
There probably are people who will enjoy hearing McGregor refer to three of his cars as ‘a Merc, a BM and a Range’
How damaged is Kevin Spacey after response to abuse allegations?
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- October 30, 2017, 13:26
Suspicions raised that actor timed his coming out as gay to deflect attention from claims
Tom Hanks: The most famous man we know nothing about
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- October 28, 2017, 05:00
The actor has written a book of short stories. Do they contain any clues to the real man?
Simon Fitzmaurice: ‘Inherently stubborn’ film-maker and family man
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- October 27, 2017, 11:22
A crippling disease did not stop him making films or having children. He has died aged 43
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- October 27, 2017, 06:00
New this week: Thor hammers at the funny bone, Andrew Garfield catches his breath, a gay romance and exorcisms
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: are you dumb or just dumber?
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- October 27, 2017, 06:00
Featuring Citizen Kane, a flop from a heart-throb and the oldest living actor Oscar winner
Call Me By Your Name review: sun-dappled romance both delicious and sad
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- October 27, 2017, 05:00
Luca Guadagnino’s hotly-tipped film just about deserves the extravagant praise it is attracting
Breathe: Rippingly old-fashioned tale of love and stoic positivity
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- October 27, 2017, 05:00
Review: Hard to knock account of paralysis in post-war England despite stereotypes
We need more swearing in children’s books
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- October 27, 2017, 05:00
Swearing is one of life’s most joyous and creative releases – we must teach it early
Andrew Garfield: ‘I am a mongrel. I feel English and I don’t’
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- October 27, 2017, 05:00
The actor, who could pick up an Oscar nomination for his role in Andy Serkis’s ‘Breathe’, on working with Mel Gibson, feeling Jewi(...)
Real life tales of exorcisms and those who say they are possessed
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- October 25, 2017, 05:00
Deliver Us review: This documentary is a sobering, serious watch about exorcism and those who claim to be possessed
Dublin Marathon? Try 152 miles, no breaks, no sleep till Sparta
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- October 24, 2017, 21:00
A new documentary follows the annual Spartathlon, the original race from Athens to Sparta
Who will scavenge the flotsam from the Weinstein wreck?
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- October 24, 2017, 12:36
Streaming services are eyeing the disgraced Weinstein Company’s valuable back catalogue
Thor Ragnarok: ‘For anybody who likes the scent of the herb’
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- October 23, 2017, 17:00
Review: A smashing film of inter-galactic significance and of no importance at all
Colin Farrell on film: The five career highs of a home-grown hero
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- October 21, 2017, 05:05
This five-course feast takes us from his debut in Tigerland to the darkly comic The Lobster
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m so ready to step away, to live a little’
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- October 21, 2017, 05:00
The Dubliner wants a break from acting but he's not about to do a Daniel Day-Lewis
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- October 20, 2017, 06:00
Vince Vaughn's bone-crushing return while Armando Iannucci takes on Stalin are among this week's best movies
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Are you popcorn, or are you toast?
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- October 20, 2017, 06:00
Name some famous brothers and spot a Mayo memorial to a star are on this week's cards
Comedy has no barriers – but Corden’s Weinstein jibes were pathetic
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- October 20, 2017, 05:00
Rather than channelling anger at Harvey Weinstein, he giggled like a schoolboy
Geostorm: the second-worst storm you’ll experience this week
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- October 20, 2017, 05:00
Dr Gerard Butler. Let that one sit with you for a while
Doing Trump with a funny voice, the danger is he just becomes a clown
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- October 20, 2017, 05:00
Armando Iannucci, one of the most feared satirist's in the business, takes on Stalin in a comedy of terrors
Marshall review: You can’t handle the groaning court drama cliches
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- October 19, 2017, 05:00
This clunky Thursgood Marshall biopic still (annoyingly) works a crude magic on the viewer
Earth review: Why would BBC make a nature doc without Attenborough?
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- October 18, 2017, 05:00
Robert Redford has been drafted in for the big-screen voiceover. It’s all sorts of wrong
The Death of Stalin: Mortal panic with a ghastly conclusion
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- October 18, 2017, 05:00
Given the mortal terror, Armando Iannucci’s latest political satire is weirdly light on its feet
Think of a budget airline. You see? Negative publicity works
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- October 14, 2017, 05:45
A ‘PR disaster’ involving McDonald’s and Szechuan sauce will actually benefit the restaurant
Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Here I was, legs wrapped around Tom Cruise’
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- October 14, 2017, 05:00
Rebecca Ferguson on learning stunts on-set, and Michael Fassbender's incessant singing
Donald Clarke’s movie quiz: What links Steve Jobs and Bobby Sands?
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- October 13, 2017, 06:00
The only tie for an Oscar, Jack Nicholson’s signature line and other gems
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- October 13, 2017, 06:00
New this week: Two thrillers from Scandi land, another Lego go, and a tough Irishman who wouldn’t stand down
Fassbender’s charisma fails to mask The Snowman’s big problem
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- October 12, 2017, 05:00
Tomas Alfredson’s slice of Scandi noir is the kind of thriller that now belongs on TV
Loving Vincent: Wonderful, corny, weird and a little cheesy
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- October 12, 2017, 05:00
The ‘world’s first fully painted film’ animates Van Gogh’s paintings. Why?
A revolting orgy of indulgence laced with brilliance of so many images
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- October 12, 2017, 05:00
Despite the Night review: Philippe Grandrieux’s film takes us to pretentious parties and horrible porn shoots
It’s Not Yet Dark: A moving, lively story that's an example to us all
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- October 11, 2017, 05:00
This well-made documentary about Simon Fitzmaurice, who has motor neurone disease, never dips into melodrama
Star Wars trailer: Mind our good Skellig with that light sabre
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- October 10, 2017, 13:57
Rey is waving her sword dangerously close to the Kerry rocks. She’ll frighten the cormorants
Harvey Weinstein is no longer getting away with it. That’s good
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- October 9, 2017, 15:20
The film business isn’t as bad as it once was for sexual misconduct. But it’s still pretty awful
Where did it all go wrong for Blade Runner 2049?
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- October 9, 2017, 10:51
The hyped sequel has had a disastrous opening: is it all the studio's fault?
Donald Clarke: The game is up for Morrissey the reactionary
- Music
- October 7, 2017, 06:00
How did we Smiths obsessives miss the signs in the 1980s. Because they were there
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- October 6, 2017, 06:00
New this week: The return of the skinjobs, the real Arab women of Israel, and zany anime
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: are you (a) box office gold or (b) a flop?
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- October 6, 2017, 06:00
This week: A dedication from The Stranglers, Oscar on Oscar, and when Elvis met Ronan
Return to Montauk review: A cold but classy concoction
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- October 6, 2017, 05:00
Sadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best work
Blade Runner was about climate change, claustrophobia and melancholia
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- October 6, 2017, 05:00
Can Denis Villeneuve’s 163-minute sequel to Blade Runner rescue a ‘broken’ box office?
Kate Winslet, Idris Elba and a dog up a mountain. Who thought this was a good idea?
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- October 4, 2017, 05:00
The Mountain Between Us review: The two stars and a dog go for a long walk in the mountains. Who thought this was a good idea?
Blade Runner 2049: intoxicating, brain-melting alienation
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- October 3, 2017, 18:00
Review: Blade Runner 2049 is not without flaws, but it’s a marvel it works as well as it does
An 800-word tribute to 140-character tweets
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- September 30, 2017, 06:00
Don't double their length, Twitter. It’s like telling Shakespeare to ditch the sonnet structure
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- September 29, 2017, 07:00
New this week: Winnie the Pooh – the origin story, the devil’s own spaghetti western, and a Bridget Jones for the fleabag generati(...)
The movie quiz: Back in the days of Oz, Wind and Kane
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- September 29, 2017, 05:27
Also: Spielberg’s early ouevre, roll call of female directors, and Andy Warhol on film
Storm in a teacup at the Centre of my World
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- September 28, 2017, 05:00
This German drama is full of pretty people doing things that were once quirky
Goodbye Christopher Robin has the subtlety and manipulation of a TV Christmas ad
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- September 27, 2017, 05:00
Simon Curtis’s take on the creation of Winnie the Pooh gleams brightly at every point, despite sitting on a bed of genuine tragedy(...)
Brimstone is no country for young women
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- September 27, 2017, 05:00
At its best, Martin Koolhoven’s western is like being caught up in one of God’s more entertaining divine rages
What do you mean you don’t own a telly? You really should
- Culture
- September 23, 2017, 06:00
Young actor Shailene Woodley committed a cardinal celebrity sin at the recent Emmys
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Name the year of the new Blade Runner
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- September 22, 2017, 07:00
Also: best picture biopics, Kristen vs Kirsten, and the first movie to rake in $100m
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- September 22, 2017, 06:00
New this week: The 1983 breakout from The Maze and Shi LaBeouf remarkably channels tennis brat John McEnroe
Borg vs McEnroe: the power and the fury
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- September 22, 2017, 05:00
‘There was a quest for perfection and meaning in both of them – I think they were both haunted by a deeper existential pain’
The Rotten Tomatoes site is blunt, but it’s not killing cinema
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- September 21, 2017, 14:00
Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villenueve is one of few film-makers to praise the site
‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expect
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- September 20, 2017, 05:00
The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn
Kingsman review: Laugh? I nearly clawed my eyes out
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- September 20, 2017, 05:00
Was the first one not bad enough? This sequel seems to think not
Oscars countdown starts here. And the Irish are in the race
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- September 18, 2017, 12:20
Several films with Irish involvement impressed critics at the Toronto Film Festival
McDonagh wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto film festival
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- September 17, 2017, 19:50
The prize for London-Irish author’s film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ raises hopes for Oscar success
Lord Hook-Hook, voice of the ‘permanently offended’
- Culture
- September 16, 2017, 06:00
George Hook, the spluttering mouthpiece of powerful but paranoid older men, falls silent
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Who was tough enough to take on Alien?
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- September 15, 2017, 06:30
Also this week: comedy triplets, a Lady and the Tramp song and Oscar by the numbers
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- September 15, 2017, 06:00
New this week: J-Law in the mother of all weird-outs and an unhinged Asian Extreme
Eddie Izzard: I like to think I kicked the trans door open
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- September 15, 2017, 05:00
The actor knows all about standing up for his principles. Can he take that to Westminster?
Victoria & Abdul review: We are barely amused
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- September 13, 2017, 05:00
Stephen Frears directs Judi Dench in passable middle-brow entertainment
Mother! A disgusting, disturbing feast for the senses
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- September 12, 2017, 05:00
Review: A ragged Jennifer Lawrence keeps this wild Gothic ride aloft
RTÉ’s ‘mutilated’ map of Ireland was a stylistic error, no more
- Culture
- September 9, 2017, 06:00
Furore over health services map saw the State broadcaster likened to the Taliban
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: name this song from Withnail & I
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- September 8, 2017, 06:00
Also this week: Daniel Day’s Oscar directors, John Ford's legendary Debbie, and a Clint Eastwood name
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘You don’t want to be followed by strangers in cars’
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- September 8, 2017, 05:00
As a sister of the Olsen Twins and a star in her own right, the actor is wary of fame
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- September 8, 2017, 05:00
'It' efficiently delivers the jolts, while mystery 'Wind River' provides more thoughtful fare
The Drummer and the Keeper review: airy, funny, optimistic and honest
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- September 7, 2017, 07:16
Nick Kelly’s deft film details the friendship between a bipolar rock musician and a teenager with Asperger syndrome
Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast - holding the trough-scoffers to account
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- September 7, 2017, 05:00
Daniel Draper’s feature-length documentary on the ‘Beast of Bolsover’ focuses on the man, but misses out on current political conc(...)
I want to complain about people who complain about films
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- September 6, 2017, 10:54
Both the easily offended and the responsibly annoyed communities have lost their vim
It review: Industry-standard horror meets 1980s nostalgia
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- September 6, 2017, 07:00
This version of the Stephen King bullet stopper works on its own degraded terms
Former Fat Lady Sings frontman’s first film draws on mental health issues
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- September 4, 2017, 05:00
Nick Kelly: from plectrum to spectrum, between rock and a hard place
The great doner kebab rush of 1982
- Culture
- September 2, 2017, 06:00
Doughnuts and burritos are fads that come and go but late-night kebabs are here forever
Like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, but with Yorkshire weather
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- September 2, 2017, 05:00
Francis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching film
Donald Clarke’s movie quiz: What is the longest Pixar film?
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- September 1, 2017, 06:00
Also this week: Wes Craven, conceived Down Under, a real Oscar stumper, and who nixed Nixon?
An Irish film, a Scottish film and a Welsh film go into a bar...
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- August 31, 2017, 13:15
Moon Dogs review: This Irish-Scottish-Welsh film with a strong cast and plenty of silly costumes
Patti Cake$ review: hip-hop epic to the tune of Springsteen
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- August 31, 2017, 06:12
There are reasons to frown at the choice of a white protagonist for this movie – even if she puts in a charismatic performance
Una review: A troubling conversation about sexual abuse
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- August 31, 2017, 05:30
The two leads just about make this stagey duologue about a past crime work
It’s sensible not to screen ‘Gone with the Wind’ in Tennessee
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- August 29, 2017, 17:00
A Memphis cinema has decided the classic film is offensive to African-Americans. They’re right
Do you sit in the back of a taxi or the front (like a dangerous sociopath)?
- Culture
- August 26, 2017, 06:00
Freedom from torture of having to “make conversation” is not too much to expect when paying by the mile
Bigelow on Detroit: ‘Racism hurts everyone. It’s a human story’
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- August 26, 2017, 05:00
Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirt(...)
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
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- August 25, 2017, 10:00
Cruise flies high, Soderbergh & co get lucky, and the big man’s back in a retooled T2
The movie quiz: Are you a-Cruisin’ for a a-bruisin’ with this week’s stumpers?
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- August 25, 2017, 06:00
Also: Donald Clarke tallies Taken, Garfield, Colin Farrell and a terrifyingly toothy predator
American Made review: Tom Cruise in a Cold War ‘Goodfellas’? Count us in
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- August 24, 2017, 05:15
Another Doug Liman collaboration lets Cruise have fun with who he used to be
Steven Soderbergh said he’d quit film. So why is he back?
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- August 24, 2017, 05:00
And what is the mystery behind “Rebecca Blunt”, the unknown talent who has written his latest film?
BBC releases list of top 100 comedy films of all time
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- August 22, 2017, 14:00
The hot list throws up all sorts of funny food for thought
Logan Lucky review: Steven Soderbergh back with a bang and a clang
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- August 22, 2017, 05:30
It doesn’t all work, but the unique film-maker’s return is a qualified triumph
Jerry Lewis: ‘An undeniable genius, comedy’s absolute’
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- August 21, 2017, 09:00
Lewis followed his partnership with Dean Martin with a string of critical hits and, of course, ‘The King of Comedy’
Leo who? Anatomy of a silly-season news story
- Culture
- August 19, 2017, 06:00
From Varadkar’s Chicago caper to the Walnut Whip, non-stories are now the real news
Final Portrait review: rich detail from the life of Giacometti
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- August 18, 2017, 06:00
Stanley Tucci’s study of the Swiss artist is a rhapsody to bohemian Paris in the 1960s
Quest review: a portrait of real black lives in the Obama years
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- August 18, 2017, 06:00
Story of Christopher and Christine’a Rainey and their family struggles is gripping cinema
The Hitman’s Bodyguard review: Can Reynolds and Jackson sink much lower?
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- August 17, 2017, 06:00
Elaborate action sequences fail to cover up the cliched characters and general idiocy
The Dark Tower review: A baffling tower of pulp
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- August 16, 2017, 14:00
The Stephen King inspired film looks like a cluttered 95-minute trailer
Never say never: Daniel Craig confirms one more Bond film
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- August 16, 2017, 12:00
And when he's finished as 007? Clondalkin man Aidan Turner looks nicely positioned