Endings Beginning, Howard, Giraffe, Spaceship Earth

Plus: talking pictures’ first words spoken and the first animated best picture contender

Review: Drake Doremus’s romantic drama throws off any serious effort at structure

Review: Picture has quality of high-brow essay in austerely presented literary magazine

Stephenie Meyer has retold Twilight from the vampire’s point of view. It’s a popular ploy

From Nidge and Connell Waldron to Gretta Conroy, Rashers Tierney and Pegeen Mike

The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career

Plus: movies with Love/Hate stars, home of the highest-grossing film, between Bonds

Broken Law, Proxima and The Vigil in selected cinemas, Make Up on demand

Review: Claire Oakley’s debut navigates the worrying spaces Lynne Ramsay favours

Review: Digestible slice of Dublin life will open doors for debut director Paddy Slattery

Women over 40 are no longer relegated to tweed twinsets. It’s progress, of a sort

Joker, Spider-Man, Aquaman and the horror film Midsommar feature in complaints to Ifco

She began as an avatar of soft-focus integrity, then began to deal in more nuanced attitude

With de Havilland’s death, all sorts of connections with earlier Hollywood eras have finally been severed

The last remaining superstar from Hollywood’s Golden Age won two Oscars

American director has written a cracking memoir charting his entire career

The music press has not gone away – a handful of websites still hold substantial influence

Plus: Foxx’s flicks, order of Star Wars, the riddle of the oater, voicing with the fishes

Saint Frances, Stage Mother on release, Last and First Men, The Traitor streaming

Film review: This true-life mafioso-turned-snitch tale thinks it’s a documentary

Film review: Taboo-busting comedy with a generous spirit and a concealed polemic edge

Covid-19 failure has reignited hostilities towards stereotypically loud US tourists

Plus: keeping up with the Skywalkers and a line never once spoken in Casablanca

Clemency, The Night Eats the World, Landless, Come as You Are

Review: For all its virtues, the film becomes taken up with procedures. But it’s worth the effort

Despite its controversial aspects, this movie works well and that’s largely down to the actors

Jessie Buckley and Niamh Algar among nominees for Irish Film and TV Awards

Dark comedy from Cavan wins best Irish film as many highlights found in documentary section

The actor on capital punishment, ‘mentally compromised’ Trump and US race relations

Many are women tidied away by an industry that prefers its boats to remain unrocked

The Old Guard, Finding the Way Back, Scoob!, Black Water: Abyss

Plus: brothers & sisters of Oscar winners, playing The Exorcist, directing Stephen King

Silly adaptation of Greg Rucka’s comic about ancient immortals tees up new franchise

Review: The characters are dull, the tensions intermittent, the violent scenes confusing

Late composer was among tiny handful of film scorers whose work is instantly recognisable

Ten minutes in, the plot has already tested the allowances we make for pulp hokum

The Irish experts at expressing themselves through ironic aggression rather than sincere affection

Plus: great escape goddesses, Hitchcock's first silent/last sound film, the show still went on

Hamilton, Lynn + Lucy, The Booksellers, Inheritance

Film Review: This study of independent and antiquarian booksellers speaks volumes

The new indie comedy Saint Frances features period sex – cinema has travelled a long way

The activity of ‘stans’ online is not entirely harmless - dissenters get abused

The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing

Plus: Spot the fake Michael Bay film, performing for Bond, the month for Oscar

Review: Jon Stewart directs a witty and neatly drawn look at politics and big money

Review: Frank Beauvais meditates on movie addiction through a collage of film clips

Irresistible, Eurovision Song Contest, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

The festival, long the prime spot for new Irish features, is moving online for just one year

‘I just want to get trading. I have been sitting on my butt since March,’ says one manager

The late film-maker defined an age, made movies whole generations hugged to their bosoms

Decent folk have been complaining about bad behaviour in cinemas for many years

Unsubscribe, a no-budget flick, broke a record after two film-makers’ clever thinking

Review: Director leans too heavily towards sentimental and sensational

Plus: How many best picture Oscar nominees in 2022? Whose grandson is in Artemis Fowl?

Review: Excellent Israeli film attacks a serious subject with rigour and ingenuity

Joan of Arc, 7500, The Day After I’m Gone/Hayom Sheachrey Lechti, Resistance

Cinemas have hardly been open, but there have still been plenty of top-notch releases

Caricatures of black people fuel a culture of abuse from boardrooms to classrooms

Is Jamie Dornan better than Donal McCann? Ruth Negga superior to Brenda Fricker?

Plus: ‘Foreign language’ Oscar women, Jane Campion's films and Hunger Games stars

Review: Pete Davidson’s autobiographical script is loosely packed but has undoubted zest

Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl

Much diddly-eye ballyhoo apparently adapted from a tea towel makes it through the fug

Donald Clarke: A film you’ve probably never heard of has topped the US charts for five weeks

Plus: A tip for Benjamin, Michael Mann and Burt Bacharach, Spider-Man vs who?

Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft

Review: Well-worn yarns of Laurel Canyon music in the groovy times get another airing

Dating Amber, A Rainy Day in New York, Miss Slavic 7, Echo in the Canyon

David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland

The only true victims of the meme are gentle souls whose name is being taken in vain

Plus: Oceans of titles, new century Oscar winners, Stoned movie subjects

Review: Fast-paced documentary of a hard-edged US media showman

Review: The slightly jolting coincidences do not derail Dominik Moll’s smooth machine

The Vast of Night, Mike Wallace Is Here, Only the Animals, and The High Note

Even before Covid-19, there were signs the young faced greater challenges than their parents

Plus: What blockbuster film is still due to be released in 2020?

Director Braden Croft combines double crosses with life-threatening degradation

We rate Women Make Film, Take Me Somewhere Nice, True Fiction and The County

Review: Mark Cousins’s epic documentary is a lengthy journey worth making more than once

Donald Clarke: Streaming provides a lifeline but pressure builds on Tenet to kickstart recovery

Plus: The winningest musical decade, role-playing with Judi, famously misquoted lines

Review: Vicki Lesley’s documentary worthily tries to cover all bases but lacks punch as a result

A searing but subtle US abortion drama, plus ‘exótico’ Mexican wrestling, Portuguese spirituality, and nuclear power at a low simm(...)

Review: The film paints no sort of sunny picture of the termination procedure

Festival’s 32nd edition to revolve around streamings ticket-limited to venue capacity

Just as Newton experimented with light during the Black Death, I could experiment with the grooming habits of the Iron Age

Plus: Odd Irishman out, cut from the Oscars, Hitchcock’s heroes, directing Harry Potter

Corneliu Porumboiu serves up a corrupt cop, a femme fatale and a globe-trotting plot

Michelle Obama’s softly softly marketing movie, plus a documentary on romcoms and two very different films from a Romanian master

There’s no grit, no Hillary Clinton, and little discussion of race relations or Donald Trump

Donald Clarke: Nobody dares hug you now. The chances of a fraternal kiss are slimmer still. It’s great

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Plus: See if you can spot the odd movie out – with the titles as Gaeilge

Film suggests Diana Kennedy is culinary evangelist with gift for performative bossiness

Weinstein in The Assistant, sex’n’death in Ema, Mexican food in Nothing Fancy

Here’s some cosy TV to make confinement more bearable

Review: Ferdia Mac Anna’s flimsy, low-budget film has an ingenuous charm

Stories will need to establish whether they are set before, during or after the pandemic