What is the new Oscar category? Which real people has Anthony Hopkins played?

Review: Those who engage with the Cousinian vowels will find much to savour

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Donald Clarke: The 21st-century viewer wants to sink soothingly into a world they already know

Review: Sadness pervades this adaptation. What’s going on? Is there honey still for tea?

Richard Attenborough’s son will visit Skibbereen for ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’ screening

Elba is already too old, but a black, Asian or female actor could succeed Daniel Craig

‘If you always wanted a convertible and you get one then why should we demean that?’

New this week: Under the Tree, Dog Days and Pope Francis, the man

Also this week: Troy McClure's movies, Saint Peter actors, Brits at the Oscars

Review: Donal Foreman’s odd documentary of his father merges the personal and the political

Review: Wim Wenders’s lengthy interview is an eminently watchable study

Do not judge 'Star Wars' fans by this stupid campaign. Not all of them have lost the plot

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The 2020 ceremony will also move forward by nearly a month – a welcome move

Review: This bewildering film feels mercilessly edited by a studio that lost interest

In a typically frank interview, Kathleen Turner has said she would ‘shoot herself’ if she were like [unnamed very rich actress]

Always take an actor’s retirement announcment with a pinch of salt, writes Donald Clarke

Director Wim Wenders says pope answered every question ‘spontaneously and in-depth’

New film ‘Rosie’ focuses on ‘ordinary’ family staying in hotel accommodation

New this week: Sicilian Ghost Story, Ant Man and the Wasp, Teen Titans Go! to the Movies

Also, who is not an Avenger and a colourful question about four classics

There’s a certain class of person who smugly revels in their ignorance of pop culture. Not me anymore. I'm familiar with Dani Dwye(...)

This very French animation featuring very English voices is reassuringly old-school

The tiny man serves up summer’s second best superhero-as-househusband movie

New this week: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Apostasy and Hotel Transylvania 3

Also: John Travolta dancing part and a missing gospel

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director James Gunn was fired over decade-old tweets about child abuse. People may change, but their soc(...)

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Review: Tale of Jehovah’s Witnesses portrays a world of suffocation and sly indoctrination

Review: Homophobia probably made this one of Merchant Ivory’s least successful films

The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toron(...)

Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years

High-class action keeps preposterous series going as who can say no to duelling helicopters?

Proud Abba fan Donald Clarke on the music that makes Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Review: ‘It feels like an adaptation of a cult comic you’re never going to read’

Also: Paul Newman shoots some pool and a puzzling location question

New this week: Mamma Mia!, Summer 1993, Boom for Real

The Mission: Impossible star on Tom Cruise, #MeToo and taking over as James Bond

Donald Clarke on the film’s enduring legacy, literary roots and Willis’s breakout role

Review: Catalonian film is, at its core, a sad, potentially tragic tale of emotional survival

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Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun

The 2018 Fleadh was defined by some first-class documentaries. Evidence that we can’t escape our violent past came with Keepers of(...)

‘Katie’ - picture charting rise of boxer Katie Taylor - wins best Irish documentary award

The golden era of a film selling itself on its star is over – but ‘Skyscraper’ does just that

Featuring a ‘Toy Story’ marathon and the beloved ‘Up’, ‘Finding Nemo’ and ‘WALL-E’

Also: What is Michael Flatley’s new film called: Bald Eagle, Blackbird, Grebe or Thrush?

New this week: The Incredibles 2, First Reformed, Lost & Found, The Secret of Marrowbone

Review: It’s a shame Sergio G Sánchez didn’t stretch himself more in his directorial debut

The horribly intrusive #PlaneBae story kicks up awkward questions about what makes us pay attention these days

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Maverick director Liam O Mochain has spent six years, and his own money, on his new film

Review: It’s a shameless retread of ‘Die Hard’, lifting entire scenes from the 1980s classic

Review: You’ll gawp. You’ll ponder. And you’ll laugh the way only Pixar can make you

Also: How many people have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?

New this week: Mary Shelley, Whitney plus a reissue of Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter

Classic movie ‘All about Eve’ is being turned into a play with Gillian Anderson. Why?

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Review: This very British film is never entirely awful, but it’s never very good either

A poster for ‘Blackbird’ suggests the plot of ‘Casablanca’, with Flatley in the Bogart role

Review: Shot in Ireland, this is more posh Sunday telly than electrifying cinema

Review: This film broke the allegation that Dee Dee Warwick molested Whitney Houson

Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour on breaking the rules and filming on the streets of Dublin

Also: Oscar blockbusters before inflation, Hollywood RIP, and Bond sans theme song

New this week: Leave No Trace, Sicario 2, Dublin Oldschool, Patrick, The Endless

‘If five per cent say I’m lost, five per cent say It was too obvious’, that’s about right,' say directors Justin Benson and Aaron (...)

Want cultural references and a killer payoff? I am here to help you

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30-year anniversary festival moves into the newly opened Pálás cinema for some screenings

Review: Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s crafty film sits in a category all by itself

Review: There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality

Review: A new film genre seems to have grown up: the extreme survival movie

Donald Clarke: Only two Oscar nominees for best picture make our six-month review list

The screen fizzes with the talent of some of Ireland’s best actors. But it’s not enough

Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’

Also: Alfred Hitchcock’s last, Oscar winners’ dads, and a helluva long weekend

New this week: In the Fade, The Happy Prince, Ocean’s 8, Kissing Candice

Donald Clarke: What we object to at the cinema has changed. Movie ratings should too

Review: Gut-wrenching moments of tragedy in Fatih Akin’s gritty crime drama

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Review: Rupert Everett the writer-director isn’t as impressive as Rupert Everett the actor

Review: ‘Things were better during the Troubles. Now the mad ones have the run of the place’

The idea that only kids should review children’s films is even sillier, writes Donald Clarke

Also: What was the last non-sequel to top the box office for its year of release?

New this week: Hereditary, A Ciambra, Studio 54, The Sound of Music

I don’t like soccer, I only like the World Cup. Have you got that?

The ‘Happy Prince’ star on being gay, playing Oscar Wilde, and surviving the film world

Review: Gripping tale of the 1970s New York disco that foretold of the world we now live in

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Cinema-goers are flocking to the art-horror film ... then giving out about it afterwards

Review: Super Troopers belong to 2001, when Linkin Park were big and Clinton was president

Animated ‘Spiderman’ looks promising. But ‘Suspiria’, and new films from Steve McQueen and Lenny Abrahamson look breathtaking

Aoife McArdle has made her name with videos for Bryan Ferry and U2. Her debut feature, ‘Kissing Candice’, was made for a much lowe(...)

Also: The youngest ever best Oscar actress, going dame-less, and Adam Sandler – not!

New this week: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, McQueen, All the Wild Horses, The Boy Downstairs

It did not take long for the word to get twisted and turned back on the socially responsible

Review: No one in this documentary seems easy company, but it could become cult viewing

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‘Episode Five Syndrome’ has blighted film franchises from Star Trek to Rocky