Jeremy Allen White on playing Bruce Springsteen: ‘Learning guitar was the hardest part’Preparing for his starring role in the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the actor had a moment of panic when he realised his fingers wouldn’t co-operateSat Oct 25 2025 - 05:14
Frankenstein review: Jacob Elordi is a beautiful Creature, but the film feels sewn togetherDirector Guillermo del Toro’s innovations and invented characters feel crudely grafted on to the source materialFri Oct 24 2025 - 05:08
Bruce Springsteen biopic review: Jeremy Allen White broods beautifully in Deliver Me From NowhereDirector Scott Cooper’s reflective biopic captures The Boss at a creative crossroadsThu Oct 23 2025 - 11:00
Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro: ‘Mary Shelley was a Protestant girl. I’m a Catholic boy. Big difference’ The director’s quest to adapt Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel has spanned more than 30 years, marked by false dawns and studio politicsTue Oct 21 2025 - 05:16
Four new films to see this week: After the Hunt, Ballad of a Small Player, Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man, and Souleymane’s StoryJulia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 17th, 2025Sun Oct 19 2025 - 04:57
Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man review – Compelling storytelling, elegant directionTrisha Ziff allows the former Sinn Féin president to reflect on his life and times in a documentary filmed over five yearsFri Oct 17 2025 - 04:59
Souleymane’s Story: A powerful and moving chronicle of life on the marginsBoris Lojkine’s much-decorated film follows a Guinean immigrant over three frantic days in ParisWed Oct 15 2025 - 05:05
The Leap, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an imaginative dive into the emotional world of a preteenDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gavin Kostick’s play is Fishamble’s first for young audiencesMon Oct 13 2025 - 10:52
Four new films to see this week: I Swear, Good Boy, A Want in Her and Tron: AresRobert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Jared Leto and Greta Lee feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 10th, 2025Sun Oct 12 2025 - 05:03
A Want in Her review: Daring and provocative search for a missing motherMyrid Carten turns the camera to her own fractured family in this fascinating hybrid documentary featureThu Oct 09 2025 - 05:03
Tron Ares review: Great music, but it is deja vu all over again for sequel nobody wantsFabulous styling and camera work cannot save drama about AI program that wants to become human – just like Pinocchio didTue Oct 07 2025 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week: A House of Dynamite, Re-Creation, The Smashing Machine and UrchinIdris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Vicky Krieps, Aidan Gillen and Emily Blunt feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 3rd, 2025Sun Oct 05 2025 - 04:54
‘An illusion of safety’: Kathryn Bigelow and Idris Elba on nuclear-attack thriller House of DynamiteDialogue about nuclear weapons has been nonexistent for years, says Oscar-winning directorSat Oct 04 2025 - 05:19
The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina CarrDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough CarrThu Oct 02 2025 - 11:39
Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have madeDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and witThu Oct 02 2025 - 11:05
Urchin review: Harris Dickinson’s impressive directorial debut follows a homeless addict around LondonThere’s a deep empathy running through the film, which fervently resists sentimentalityThu Oct 02 2025 - 05:05
Him star Julia Fox: ‘I don’t enjoy adrenaline any more. I just want everything to be calm and soft’Having endured trauma and instability in her youth, the New York-Italian artist and actor has since had ‘a huge revelation’Wed Oct 01 2025 - 05:10
The Smashing Machine review: Dwayne Johnson rocks in bruising biopic of MMA pioneerContemplative, careful performance in ‘anti-sports movie’ could land punch in awards seasonWed Oct 01 2025 - 05:07
Four new films to see this week: One Battle After Another, Sunphlowers, The Lost Bus and Brides Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 26th, 2025Sun Sept 28 2025 - 04:53
Brides review: Raw, compassionate chronicle of two teenage girls on a journey into extremismNadia Fall’s film is inspired by London schoolgirl Shamima Begum, who left home to join Islamic StateThu Sept 25 2025 - 05:09
Sunphlowers review: Quietly powerful Irish drama of grief and renewalAnne McCrudden gives performance of subtlety and strength in director Dave Byrne’s solid debutWed Sept 24 2025 - 05:04
Four new films to see this week: The Swallow, Steve, Girls & Boys, A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyBrenda Fricker, Cillian Murphy, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 19th, 2025Sun Sept 21 2025 - 05:00
Paul Thomas Anderson: ‘Leonardo DiCaprio talks endlessly during prep, but once shooting starts he’s all in’The director’s latest film, One Battle After Another, features three Oscar-winning actors and the impressive newcomer Chase InfinitiSat Sept 20 2025 - 05:17
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review: Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell go nowhere slowlyKogonada’s messy phantasmagoria is a hinterland for no one: a musical without musical numbers, a romcom without comedyThu Sept 18 2025 - 05:06
Girls & Boys review: Wildly impressive Irish debut features tremendous performances and a magical soundtrackDonncha Gilmore allows the film to wander romantically yet never lets the pace slackWed Sept 17 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Spinal Tap II – The End Continues, Downton Abbey – The Grand Finale, The Long Walk, and From Ground ZeroChristopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 12th, 2025Sun Sept 14 2025 - 05:01
Deaf director Eva Libertad: ‘My parents found it really hard to watch. They never knew my sister suffered like this’The Spaniard’s film is informed by the real-life experiences of her sister, Miriam Garlo, who plays the lead role, with the aim of starting a larger conversation Sat Sept 13 2025 - 05:09
Seón Simpson’s on a Tangent, at Dublin Fringe, is a touching, hilarious monologueDublin Fringe Festival 2025: An audacious navigation of the intersection of form, comic provocation and mental healthFri Sept 12 2025 - 11:31
From Ground Zero review: 22 stories told by Gazans under siegeCollection of short films highlights miraculous act of carrying on amid obliteration of normal lifeThu Sept 11 2025 - 05:08
Testo, at Dublin Fringe, is a kinetic, noisy, thrilling adventure into genderpunk and transmascDublin Fringe Festival 2025: Discombobulated by the idea of a breaststroke through a butter orgy? Buckle up for Wet Mess’s showWed Sept 10 2025 - 10:28
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale could turn an ardent monarchist into a Kneecap fanFor anyone except diehard fans, the third film from the hit TV show will feel like midseason fillerWed Sept 10 2025 - 05:06
Robert Sheehan: ‘Living in Ireland helps with everything. Everyone feels like they’ve known you forever’The actor discusses his craft, fame and cutting down forests as a ruthless emperor in Marvel Comics’ Red SonjaTue Sept 09 2025 - 05:02
Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025Sun Sept 07 2025 - 05:01
Honey Don’t! review: This queered-up take on noir cliches amounts to nothingNothing lands in the second instalment of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s unwanted lesbian B-movie trilogyThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:10
Sanatorium review: Irish film-maker’s impressive documentary about an old Soviet retreat in UkraineThe contemporary conflict wisely remains off-screen as visitors seek treatment for everything from fertility issues to psoriasisThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:06
First Look: A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s rattling nuclear potboiler, feels agonisingly realVenice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight yearsWed Sept 03 2025 - 14:20
Barbie Ferreira: ‘Even when I don’t feel confident I feign it, to control the space I’m in’The actor’s career trajectory offers the perfect blueprint for the polymath, many-platformed nature of modern youthful stardomTue Sept 02 2025 - 05:16
First Look: Julia Roberts does her best, but After the Hunt feels like a pointless provocationVenice International Film Festival 2025: Luca Guadagnino’s film is a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments of the past quarter-centuryMon Sept 01 2025 - 18:54
Four new films to see this week: Caught Stealing, Christy, Young Mothers and Little Trouble GirlsAustin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025Sun Aug 31 2025 - 05:03
Little Trouble Girls: Lush, haunting story of a repressed teen’s sexual awakeningNamed for a Sonic Youth song, Urska Djukic’s film captures the tension between virginal purity and messy adolescence Thu Aug 28 2025 - 05:03
Young Mothers review: The Dardenne brothers bring empathy to interlocking stories of underage mothers in LiègeThe Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young womenWed Aug 27 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Sorry, Baby, The Life of Chuck, Eddington and Oslo Stories: SexEva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025Sun Aug 24 2025 - 05:01
Eva Victor on pitching their debut film, Sorry, Baby: ‘It felt so personal I thought rejection might kill me’Odd as it might sound, Victor’s note-perfect script, drawn from personal experience of sexual assault, is a trauma comedySat Aug 23 2025 - 05:18
Oslo Stories: Sex review – A fitting climax to this appealing trilogyThis gentle exploration of masculinity, marriage and sexual orientation unfolds mostly through conversations between two chimney sweepsThu Aug 21 2025 - 05:03
Eddington review: Pandemic psychodrama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal is a fascinating experimentAri Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that wasWed Aug 20 2025 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Materialists, Together, Night Always Comes and Oslo Stories: LoveDave Franco, Alison Brie, Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Kirby star in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 15th, 2025Sun Aug 17 2025 - 05:00
Materialists director Celine Song: ‘How are we supposed to find love when dating is reduced to a numbers game?’Materialists, Celine Song’s new romcom, is inspired by the film-maker’s time working for an elite New York matchmaking agencySat Aug 16 2025 - 05:32
Night Always Comes review: Vanessa Kirby gives it her all, but this poverty theme park isn’t worth the entrance feeWilly Vlautin adaptation soon abandons its promising real-world dilemma as it swerves into unconvincing low-life criminalityFri Aug 15 2025 - 00:00
Oslo Stories: Love review. An understated, patient and disarming filmIn the second instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, changing a catheter proves just as intimate as spontaneous sexThu Aug 14 2025 - 05:00
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘Once you mess with your face you can’t get it back’Freakier Friday, which reunites the Oscar-winner with Lindsay Lohan, is good clean fun. But its themes mean a lot to an actor who has had her share of personal trialsSun Aug 10 2025 - 07:11
