Alejandro Jodorowsky: ‘I never seek money. I make films to lose money’The mysterious maestro behind ’70s head classic ‘El Topo’ is still making movies his wayFri Dec 16 2016 - 06:00
Into the Forest review: Survivalist sisters in the woodsEllen Page and Evan Rachel Wood impress in this pared-down feminist science fiction taleThu Dec 15 2016 - 15:00
The Black Hen review: Nepali drama puzzles and provokesChild actors are the stars of this impressive film set against the backdrop of civil warTue Dec 13 2016 - 17:20
Neil Diamond: He’ll say a little Christmas prayer for youAnother Yuletide album? ‘Christmas lends itself to exquisite expression,’ the songwriter explainsTue Dec 13 2016 - 00:00
Oliver Stone: ‘We owe Edward Snowden a huge debt. He’s a hero for our time’The reliably controversial American auteur spent 18 months talking to the CIA whistle-blower for his new filmSat Dec 10 2016 - 05:00
The Birth Of A Nation review: decently entertaining, but far from revolutionaryNate Parker’s Nat Turner biopic was preceded by much controversy and hoopla; in the end what we get is a rather conventional historical dramaThu Dec 8 2016 - 15:00
Life, Animated review: The power of love, and Disney cartoonsOscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams wonderful doc tells the story of an autistic boy who found his voice by immersing himself in the world of classic Disney filmsThu Dec 8 2016 - 13:15
United States of Love review: for love, read misery and unrequited affectionFour women search for love in post-Communist Poland in Tomasz Wasilewski’s bleak but beautiful dramaThu Dec 8 2016 - 12:00
I Am Not a Serial Killer review: sour, wicked and pleasingly unusualChristopher Lloyd is the spooky suspect in Billy O’Brien’s thriller about a serial killer who hunts serial killersThu Dec 8 2016 - 11:33
Sully review: Hanks and Eastwood take a flight into sentimentalityClint Eastwood brings white-knuckle action - and a tear to the eye - in his boipic of the Miracle on the Hudson pilotFri Dec 2 2016 - 15:25
Bleed for This review: Boxing drama that rises above the clichésMiles Teller as 1990s fight star Vincent Pazienza who fights his way back into the ringFri Dec 2 2016 - 15:24
I, Olga Hepnarová review: Austere biopic of a mass murdererMichalina Olszanska delivers a stunning central performance as the last woman to receive the death penalty in CzechoslovakiaFri Dec 2 2016 - 15:23
The Ticket Awards 2016 - and the Film nominees are...Irish film puts in another quality shift of work; women are way out in front in the acting stakes; and animation is getting beyond the family film ghettoFri Dec 2 2016 - 06:00
Chi-Raq's Teyonah Parris: ‘You have to be resilient to be a black person in America’Teyonah Parris, star of Spike Lee’s latest, is proudly part of a new wave of representations of the African-American experience. But ‘to be in a minority is scary right now’, she saysThu Dec 1 2016 - 06:00
The Edge of Seventeen: funny, heart-breaking and keenly observedKelly Fremon Craig’s directorial debut, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson, is the 21st-century ‘Clueless’ we’ve been waiting forWed Nov 30 2016 - 17:48
Deirdre O’Kane: ‘This year I’m going to get Christmas right. I say that every year’Back in Dublin after a decade away, the actor is hoping for a revival of the Christmas partyWed Nov 30 2016 - 00:00
The cocky Co Louth racing driver who was ‘better than Senna’The lively Louth driver who shoulda coulda been a superstar gets his own movieMon Nov 28 2016 - 05:00
Magnus review: a gloriously fun ode to the ‘Mozart of Chess’He check-mated Bill Gates in nine moves, he turned down JJ Abrams offer of a part in Star Trek - and now Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen deservedly has a movie all to himselfFri Nov 25 2016 - 15:04
Miles Teller: ‘I’m so proud of my Irish roots, it’s embarrassing’The rising star of Whiplash and Bleed For This on Irishness, boxing and clickbait - “You get scrutinised for a lot of things that are complete nonsense”Fri Nov 25 2016 - 06:00
South review: Low-key Irish drama is a real indie charmerElegant, musically themed feature proves that the best goods can come in small packagesThu Nov 24 2016 - 16:51
A United Kingdom review: A glossy account of a nasty timeThe British Empire is the baddie in this breathless true tale of love between an African prince and a British office clerkThu Nov 24 2016 - 16:50
Paterson review: Jim Jarmusch takes poetic licence to the end of the lineAdam Driver stars as a driver called Paterson from the town of Paterson in Jarmusch's latest slice of ZenThu Nov 24 2016 - 16:50
Bad Santa 2 review: You better watch out - all over againThurman Merman is still following Billy Bob Thornton’s drunken lecher around like a puppy in this belated, ho-ho-ho-hum sequelThu Nov 24 2016 - 07:11
Indignation review: Logan Lerman shines in stirring Philip Roth adaptationScreenwriter James Schamus makes a brilliant directorial debut with this compelling dramaThu Nov 17 2016 - 21:02
Your Name review: a twisty, amnesiac, body-swap, eco-disaster, aching love storyWith a constellation of plot twists amid poignant and funny observations, Makoto Shinka's star-crossed puppy love story is unlike anything in cinemas this yearThu Nov 17 2016 - 21:01
The Innocents review: brutal truth is the first casuality of this war storyHandsome cinematography and restrained direction fail to stop this second World War drama from sliding into sentimentalityThu Nov 17 2016 - 17:22
Rosamund Pike: from Bond girl to Gone Girl to leading womanWith four leading roles this year alone, Rosamund Pike has come a long way since her casting aged 21 alongside Pierce Brosnan's BondThu Nov 17 2016 - 17:00
Hooray for Nollywood: how women are taking on the world’s third largest film industryMaking it in Nigerian film isn’t easy - just ask Tope Oshin Ogun director, producer, actress, dialogue coach, casting director and mother of four boysWed Nov 16 2016 - 17:03
American Pastoral review: Ewan McGregor takes on Philip Roth - with some successFor his directorial debut, McGregor takes on the daunting talk of transferring Philip Roth’s 1997 Pulitzer prize-winner to the big screenMon Nov 14 2016 - 12:59
The Land of the Enlightened review: spectacularly lost in AfghanistanImpressive cinematography and stunning locations can’t make up for the lack of narrative coherence in this docu-drama hybridFri Nov 11 2016 - 10:22
Reissue of the Week: Boyz N the Hood – Still vital viewing after 25 yearsFilled with trash-talking and wise words, John Singleton’s provocative, funny, Oscar-nominated debut still dazzlesWed Nov 9 2016 - 22:09
John Waters: the filth and the funny‘I started Catholic and went backwards’ - cult film-maker John Waters unpacks his transgressive-laden career ahead of his appearance at Belfast’s Queer Arts FestivalWed Nov 9 2016 - 13:00
You’ve Been Trumped Too review: and you thought you’d reached peak disgust...Anthony Baxter’s film about 92-year-old Molly Forbes treatment at the hands of Trump shows beyond doubt the contempt he holds for “little people”Fri Nov 4 2016 - 16:35
James Bowen and the tale of the cat who saved the dayJames Bowen was a recovering addict when he took in a stray cat named Bob. The ginger tom helped turn his life around, which led to a bestseller and now a major feature filmFri Nov 4 2016 - 05:28
Nocturnal Animals review: a masterclass in style and substanceA superb cast, including Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon, weaves between fantasy and reality in Tom Ford’s edgy second featureThu Nov 3 2016 - 15:13
Under the Shadow: real-world terrors and supernatural horrorsSet in war-torn Tehran in the 1980s, this fantastic horror movie plays neat feminist games with familiar ghost-story tropesThu Nov 3 2016 - 12:57
Ben Affleck’s Accountant: an autistic savant with a killer complexGavin O’Connor, director of the hit thriller, takes a realist approach to an over-the-top plotMon Oct 31 2016 - 06:00
Train To Busan review: The undead are born againEchoes of George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead ripple through Yeon Sang-ho's first-rate zombie apocalypse filmThu Oct 27 2016 - 15:00
After Love review: asphyxiating, forensic depiction of marital breakdownA family slowly and brutally tears itself apart in Joachim Lafosse’s unflinching look at a marriage coming to an endWed Oct 26 2016 - 17:00
Cumberbatch as Dr Strange: expect $1 billion at the box officeBenedict Cumberbatch dons a cape and gets in touch with his chakras in a movie that stays true to Marvel’s tried-and-tested formulaMon Oct 24 2016 - 11:32
Lupita Nyong’o: ‘You have to speak up for the world you want to live in’‘Queen of Katwe’, the Oscar-winning actor’s new film, is an ‘anthem for dreaming out loud. I want to play a role in making opportunities for people of colour,’ she saysFri Oct 21 2016 - 12:00
John Carpenter: "A lot of old-timers like to bitch... Movies are for the young"Director John Carpenter has no regrets and little time for film whingers - he talks horror and electronica ahead of a Dublin performance of his best soundtracks and musicFri Oct 21 2016 - 06:11
The Queen of Katwe review: a feelgood triumph from DisneyTremendous central performances from David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga and Lupita Nyong’o propel this lively true-life tale of a Ugandan chess championThu Oct 20 2016 - 17:00
Ouija: Origin of Evil review - everything but the haunted kitchen sinkEvery horror cliche (well, almost) is thrown into the mix in this by-the-numbers horror sequelThu Oct 20 2016 - 16:00
Trolls review: A karaoke monster mash of minuscule proportionsAnna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake lead the voice cast in an animation that’s thin on plot but bursting with perky singalongsThu Oct 20 2016 - 12:00
Ken Loach: 'Most people don’t wallow in their poverty. Most people just get by'For five decades Ken Loach has been a champion of the disposessed: ‘It’s the moments of hope that make you catch your breath,’ he saysThu Oct 20 2016 - 07:05
The Surprise review: the best euthanasia rom-com of the yearOscar-winner Mike van Diem’s first film in 18 years is a funny delight with the lightest possible hue of black comedyTue Oct 18 2016 - 12:50
Kate Plays Christine review: the anatomy of an on-air suicideThis fascinating, maddening meta-doc sets itself the impossible task of exploring the interior life of a TV reporter who killed herselfThu Oct 13 2016 - 16:27
Storks review: The truth about the birds and the beesStorks do and don’t deliver babies in this confused though lively animated filmThu Oct 13 2016 - 13:22
Lights, camera, equality action - tackling misogyny one shot at a timeFilm-makers Kate Shenton and Jessica Cameron on how the horror genre is taking on misogyny in the film industryWed Oct 12 2016 - 14:02