Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new IrelandSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challengeShe is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowelsSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which Irish landmark appears in The Princess Bride?Plus: Which monster links Jack Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr and Benicio Del Toro?Fri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendThe Life Ahead, Martin Eden, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Two of UsFri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
The Life Ahead: It’s time to give Sofia Loren that Oscar nominationThe indomitable star’s stoic performance is the main reason to watch this Italian dramaFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey – Chaotic, exhausting and merryReview: A combination of high Disney gloop with Hamilton hip-hopFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat?Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising PaddywhackeryWed Nov 11 2020 - 06:00
Sean Connery often said it was okay to hit a woman. The obits barely mentioned itWe are never too far from a story about a celebrity with a history of domestic violenceSat Nov 7 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many official Bond films starred Sean Connery?Plus: What film won most Oscars this year, who give the Golden Globes, name a Cohen Bros sequelFri Nov 6 2020 - 06:00
Jonathan Coe: ‘All my influences were pushing me towards film and television’The novelist on his new book, being an unromantic outsider and Billy WilderThu Nov 5 2020 - 06:00
Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives onHe was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinitySat Oct 31 2020 - 15:17
US pop culture has struggled to come to terms with TrumpismThe angry pop culture of the Nixon years is better than that of the Trump eraSat Oct 31 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Maureen O’Hara was raised in which leafy Dublin suburb?Plus: playing Cleopatra, a Hitchcock no-show, Meryl and her many nominationsFri Oct 30 2020 - 06:00
There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist artSat Oct 24 2020 - 14:02
Four new films to stream this weekendOn the Rocks, Rebecca, Summer of 85, The Secret GardenFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Who never got to direct an episode of Columbo?Plus: singing Oscarless, editing Martin Scorsese, a co-director goes uncreditedFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:00
On the Rocks: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones are perfect in Sofia Coppola’s latest filmExasperated, bewildered Jones is at least the equal of her older costar in this exquisite filmThu Oct 22 2020 - 05:00
Netflix’s Rebecca: The new Mrs de Winter isn’t a patch on the first oneReview: The film is so lathered in superficial gloss the subtexts struggle to breatheWed Oct 21 2020 - 05:00
Iftas 2020: ‘My daughter’s hitting the keys, sorry.’ Tom Vaughan-Lawlor accepts best actor awardCharming domestic moments made up for the lack of red-carpet pizzazz at the virtual eventSun Oct 18 2020 - 23:46
Walking sort of like an Egyptian may not be enough any moreThe news had barely landed before social media blew its collective topSat Oct 17 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendUnsettling Wicklow-shot The Other Lamb, Sundance winner Time, harrowing Body of Water, saccharine Disney biopic CloudsFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: Who was the first filmmaker to win three Oscars for a film?Plus: In what year is the new Wonder Woman film mostly set?Fri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
Iftas 2020: Martin Scorsese, Daisy Ridley, Michael D Higgins to appear at virtual ceremonyThe Irish Film and Television Academy’s awards will be broadcast on Sunday nightFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
The Other Lamb: This is not a film designed to shake off late-Covid uneaseReview: Film is at the more austere end of the cult-movie spectrumFri Oct 16 2020 - 05:00
Body of Water: Powerful study of an eating disorderReview: Stark and unyielding throughout for those adventurous enough to dive inThu Oct 15 2020 - 05:00
Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanisticDublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuanceTue Oct 13 2020 - 05:00
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right nowThere’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you canSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic AmericanA limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravadoSat Oct 10 2020 - 05:00
The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packagesDublin Theatre Festival review: Summoning the despair of an urban space in the time of CovidFri Oct 9 2020 - 13:00
Four new films to see this weekendKajillionaire in cinemas, David Attenborough, 40-Year-Old Version, My Zoe at homeFri Oct 9 2020 - 06:00
The Movie Quiz: What is Sean Connery’s last feature role?Plus: SNL spin-offs, Marvel alter egos, the American Pie crew, Carry On castingFri Oct 9 2020 - 06:00
Kajillionaire: Miranda July’s best film to dateReview: The film is more aware of its own oddness than the director’s first two featuresThu Oct 8 2020 - 08:17
David Attenborough: ‘To continue, humans require more than intelligence. We require wisdom’Review: This ‘witness statement’ for Netflix is filled with truths worth hammering homeThu Oct 8 2020 - 05:00
Miranda July: Some people will always react to something new with derisionThe director of US high-quirk indie cinema returns with her best yet, KajillionaireWed Oct 7 2020 - 05:00
The Savoy may soon be the last big cinema in the heart of DublinCineworld shut down ... Bond postponed again ... The cinema sector is on life supportMon Oct 5 2020 - 13:30
Dara Ó Briain: ‘I get abuse from Brexiteers and Corbynistas in satisfyingly similar amounts’His new book, Is There Anybody Out There?, skilfully weaves thumping gags with raw physicsSat Oct 3 2020 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Is Stallone’s Sico knockout just a publicity stunt?The disappearance of Rocky’s robotic butler has the conspiracy censors twitchingSat Oct 3 2020 - 05:00
To be a Machine review: Experimental format well-suited to play’s core themeSelf-conscious experiments complement the exploration of transhumanismFri Oct 2 2020 - 09:38
The Movie Quiz: Which of the Magnificent Seven lived the longest?Plus: a year without Marvel, the home of Cartoon Saloon, nothing for the ladiesFri Oct 2 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekendRialto, The Boys in the Band, Eternal Beauty, The Trial of the Chicago 7Fri Oct 2 2020 - 06:00
The Trial of the Chicago 7: Plodding and pedantic reading of the 1968 riotsReview: The film fails to engage with the radicalism of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry RubinFri Oct 2 2020 - 05:00
Rialto: A searing Dublin movie that will stay in your brainFilm review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the miseryThu Oct 1 2020 - 05:00
Oscars 2021 could be the best awards season everWith big releases postponed, this awards season looks more welcoming of smaller filmsSat Sep 26 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the last line in Chinatown?Plus: Riley and Elvis, Hitchcock and du Maurier, and if it sounds like an Orson Welles flick...Fri Sep 25 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekendBill & Ted in cinemas, Enola Holmes, Miss Juneteenth and Tesla streamingFri Sep 25 2020 - 06:00
Miss Juneteenth: Nicely balanced – if somewhat clunkyReview: For all its virtues Miss Juneteenth is a bit lacking in gritFri Sep 25 2020 - 05:00
Tesla: Fascinating film detailing the ‘underappreciated’ genuis’ life and workReview: Almereyda’s efforts to steer away from standard biopic tropes is admirableFri Sep 25 2020 - 05:00
Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’The artist on cameras, John Hinde postcards and Newry during the TroublesSat Sep 19 2020 - 05:00
Cuties controversy: If you haven’t seen it, you don’t know what you’re talking aboutThe film’s arrival on Netflix prompts a typhoon of condemnation for perceived ‘child porn’Sat Sep 19 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Marilyn Monroe and a title she did withoutPlus: Blade Runner 2049 director, Marvel movies in order, actor or actress, and adaptations that kept the source nameFri Sep 18 2020 - 06:00