‘No place and no people had an effect on me like Ireland’‘Pilgrimage’ and 'Punisher' star Jon Bernthal on how he got his life back on track, and shooting in Ireland, 'the most beautiful place in Earth'Thu Jul 13 2017 - 05:12
Genocidal Organ review: A dark, futuristic anime gemDespite a glossy fan-friendly package Shuko Murase’s film is demanding viewingWed Jul 12 2017 - 09:12
Sofia Coppola: ‘Colin Farrell is the thinking woman's hunk’Coppola's latest film ‘The Beguiled’ sees Dublin actor Colin Farrell stirring passions in an all-girls school during the US Civil WarFri Jul 7 2017 - 06:30
The Midwife: an uneven odd-couple dramaActing powerhouses Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve are wasted in Martin Provost’s fitful dramaThu Jul 6 2017 - 09:15
Sanctuary: a forbidden tryst with a twist in the tailLen Collin’s feature debut is a must-see knockabout comedy that takes a serious look at the rights of the intellectually disabledThu Jul 6 2017 - 07:30
'My stepfather always told me you can’t trust anyone but family'Trey Edward Shults has a gift for imagining the worst and his latest film is a horror in tune with these dystopian timesThu Jul 6 2017 - 06:22
Cars, Dunkirk, Spider-Man and more: the summer movie guideFrom blockbusters to indie flicks, here are the best releases from now until autumnSat Jul 1 2017 - 05:00
All Eyez on Me: Tupac biopic fails to live up to the hip-hop legendEdges are duly smoothly and tricky questions are never posedFri Jun 30 2017 - 12:51
Alone in Berlin: Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson offer a timely blueprint for dissentSolid performances help save Vincent Pérez’s anti-Nazi war drama from its low-budget stodginessFri Jun 30 2017 - 11:28
Steve Carell: Some people sprint to the top. For me it happened over years. I didn’t noticeThe actor on hitting every rung on the Hollywood ladderFri Jun 30 2017 - 06:30
The most enjoyable summer blockbuster has arrivedDespicable Me 3 review: Minions, manic laughs and Pharrell Williams chimes in with his boppiest soundtrack to dateThu Jun 29 2017 - 16:00
Kedi review: Truly, moggy, deeply in cat-crazy IstanbulA wonderful tribute to the Turkish port city’s love of its lucky feline inhabitantsThu Jun 29 2017 - 14:00
How the street cats of Istanbul landed on their feetIn Turkey, stray cats and humans coexist peacefully – why can’t we do the same here?Thu Jun 29 2017 - 06:00
Revolutions: a hip, lively, amiable brusier of a filmFilmed over five years, Laura McGann’s film follows the Irish women’s roller derby team from first shove to final whistleWed Jun 28 2017 - 07:30
Colin Trevorrow: ‘Be proud of everything you paint, even if Mom doesn’t put it on the fridge’Director Colin Trevorrow made the jump from micro-budget films to blockbusters. But for his latest, he’s gone back to his indie roots, and the critics aren’t pleasedFri Jun 23 2017 - 06:15
Once upon a pair of wheels: Edgar Wright on Baby Driver‘Closest thing to a British Quentin Tarantino’ on his movie about a getaway driver who loves tunesFri Jun 23 2017 - 06:00
The Book of Henry review: makes Jurassic Park seem plausibleA dying boy genius leaves instructions to catch a sexual predator – then it gets sillyThu Jun 22 2017 - 17:00
Slack Bay (Ma Loute) review: flesh-eating French class comedy is an acquired tasteJuliette Binoche heads a bizarre cast of characters in this deeply odd lampoonThu Jun 22 2017 - 13:24
Twice Shy review: walking softly on a well-trodden roadThis tale of a young Irish couple travelling to England for an abortion avoids rhetoricThu Jun 22 2017 - 07:00
The Irish movie set to spark a measured conversation about abortionYoung Irish film-maker Tom Ryan knew he was opening a can of worms with ‘Twice Shy’, which features a couple put to the test by an unplanned pregnancyThu Jun 22 2017 - 05:15
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendFrom Whitney Houston to Dublin gangsters, here are the best of this week’s releasesFri Jun 16 2017 - 05:00
Nails review: And you thought Irish hospitals were bad ...The monster in this hospital-set horror film needs to be dischargedThu Jun 15 2017 - 16:00
The sad story of Whitney Houston's bisexual love triangleWhitney: Can I Be Me? Nick Broomfield’s devastating portrait of a fatally conflicted existenceThu Jun 15 2017 - 13:58
Churchill review: Winston at his most shambolicBrian Cox does excellent work in the title role – unfortunately, often against the scriptThu Jun 15 2017 - 12:30
By the Time It Gets Dark review: The perils of putting history on filmA dark Thai event that claimed many lives is given a shape-shifting treatmentThu Jun 15 2017 - 07:00
The sad, secret life of Whitney HoustonArchive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfallSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:11
Six of the best films to see this weekendQuality blasts from the past include Wonder Woman and a Fritz Lang classicFri Jun 9 2017 - 12:07
The Shack review: A vision of heaven that feels like purgatoryNot even Octavia Spencer as God can save this Oprahfied version of paradiseThu Jun 8 2017 - 12:30
Destiny: an eye-popping restoration of Fritz Lang’s classicThe film that inspired may of cinema’s greatest auteurs returns to the big screenThu Jun 8 2017 - 07:00
Teresa Palmer: ‘I got kung-fu kicked in the back’The actor has a thing about going method, whether fooling Christian Bale as a stripper, playing a kidnap victim in a tiny basement, or working inside a giant head in a supermarketThu Jun 8 2017 - 06:05
Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’ConnorMon Jun 5 2017 - 06:00
Is Wonder Woman a feminist in hot pants?Like Princess Leia or Miss Piggy, Wonder Woman is the token girl on a boy’s adventureSat Jun 3 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see on the big screen this weekendThe best film of the week is an Oscar-nominated animation that's basically social realism for kidsFri Jun 2 2017 - 05:59
Daughters of the Dust: the film that inspired Beyoncé’s LemonadeJulie Dash’s lavish, poetic film gets a welcome restoration and re-releaseThu Jun 1 2017 - 11:30
After the Storm: lightly comic with a sting in the tailA typically nuanced film from Hirokazu Koreeda about a deadbeat dad doing his bestThu Jun 1 2017 - 07:00
Baywatch: A hunk of junk that not even The Rock can rescueThis reboot of the 1990s TV show is so poor, it even messes up the David Hasselhoff cameoMon May 29 2017 - 14:05
Closeness: No film will top this drama for walkouts and jeeringAn ethically questionable scene had Cannes viewers shouting as they left the premiereSat May 27 2017 - 15:44
Bushwick review: out of step with contemporary Trumpian politicsBushwick envisages a second American Civil War in a New York boroughSat May 27 2017 - 15:33
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts: rape-revenge, motherhood and ravishing beautyCannes 2017: If you only see one feminist Indonesian Spaghetti Western this year, this should be itFri May 26 2017 - 16:18
Good Time: Robert Pattinson’s latest gets a six-minute standing ovation at CannesPattinson robs a bank for all the right reasons, but things go horribly wrong in his completely whacko new filmFri May 26 2017 - 14:29
How Nicole Kidman became the enviable queen of coolThe versatile, talented actor is blessed with impressive range and unafraid of taking risksFri May 26 2017 - 07:00
Zoe Kavanagh on the battle to bring ‘Demon Hunter’ to screenThe Irish director's determination has paid off, with accolades and a big-screen release for her feature debutFri May 26 2017 - 06:30
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul review - the wheels have come off entirelyThe film series started out just as charming as Jeff Kinney’s books, but this fourth instalment is running on emptyThu May 25 2017 - 17:00
I Am Not Madame Bovary: Gorgeous, stylised example of Chinese box-office goldDirector Feng Xiaogang is a master of observational comedy in his native land, and his humour travels with some successThu May 25 2017 - 12:30
The Other Side of Hope: a Finnish refugee crisis of conscienceFinnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s film is filled with curious oddballs, but there are also many ethical connundrums to contend withThu May 25 2017 - 11:00
Johnny Depp’s panto drunk pirate is worse than everThe billion-dollar franchise plumbs new depths of awfulness with Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s RevengeWed May 24 2017 - 09:39
Spark: A Space Tail review - a disaster of cosmic proportionsThe animation is ugly and basic, the plot is lazy, and the voice talents of Jessica Biel, Patrick Stewart and others are completely wastedTue May 23 2017 - 17:39
Charlie Hunnam: The geezer who would be kingThe King Arthur actor discusses why he won't be making a claim to be king of the Geordies any time soon, and how his bromance with Guy Ritchie set the pace for the ‘Lads of the Round Table’Fri May 19 2017 - 06:00
Inversion review: a nuanced approach to a culture rife with indignant misogynyFor the the heroine of Behnam Behzadi’s latest, the predicament is clear - no husband, no agencyThu May 18 2017 - 10:58
Colossal: Anne Hathaway returns in a dazzlingly original, and dark, fantasyHathaway plays an alcoholic loser with a strange connection to a monster levelling SeoulThu May 18 2017 - 06:15