George Orwell is common shorthand for ‘mean people are being mean to me because they’re mean’

Film review: 1962’s Novocherkassk massacre was the ultimate betrayal of the Russian revolution

Plus: James Stewart and Hitchcock, a missing Saturday Night Fever song and Schitt’s Creek casting

Review: This sophisticated imagined conversation between Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke works hard to shake off (...)

Dear Comrades!, MLK/FBI, One Night in Miami, Stardust

Big names, Oscar contenders and everything from westerns to romcoms will hit the small screen this year

The year just gone may have been an aberration, but the Chinese film industry’s box-office challenge to Hollywood has been evident(...)

Dramas Pieces of a Woman and Two Ways Home, docs Robin’s Wish and Mother

Plus: tying the title, novels by actors, a first time song, the three wives of who?

Film review: This documentary sets the record straight on the actor’s last days

Review: Tanna Frederick is terrific in a film about mental illness that avoids preachiness

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year

Donald Clarke: You can’t beat 1981. Others will argue for 1967, 1989, 1995 or 2020. Nobody is right. Nobody is wrong

Review: Just try and stay out of the room for the excruciatingly sunny David Bowie cover

Review: This remarkable tale of innocence corrupted with a helping hand of technology

Donald Clarke: Either way, the seasonal sweets remain my nausea-inducer of choice

Movie highlights from Paddington 2 and Soul to Dunkirk and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Review: The star’s own performance is the main reason to give this movie a chance

Stirring documentary will retain a permanent place on Thin Lizzy fans’ playlists

Parasite, Uncut Gems, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Invisible Man and many more

Some US films fail to travel – Bob Clark’s 1983 comedy, however, is worth your attention

The Dublin Film Critics Circle has announced the results of its annual poll

Review: If you like Talking Heads, watch this. If you don’t, don’t

Plus: Cartoon Saloon’s features and a ‘John Hughes film’ directed by John Hughes

Wonder Woman, Let Him Go on release, Ma Rainey, American Utopia on demand

It has good villains, especially Kristen Wiig, ignored frump turned malevolent feline

Brown Bag's second instalment of McCourt-inspired tale surges with impressive recreations of Limerick

Donald Clarke: I can’t imagine Walter Cronkite or Don Cockburn doing such a thing

The Oscar-winner on playing Ma Rainey, working with Chadwick Boseman and race in Hollywood

Vouchers are not the most imaginative presents but you can be certain they will be used

Bee Gees and The Mole Agent streaming, The Racer on general release, The Prom on Netflix and limited release

Plus: 2020’s biggest earner, Brian De Palma’s non-movie, King Kong and the MCU

Review of reviews for the stage-Irish film whose trailer was eviscerated last month

Review: Non-accusatory but gruelling treatment of compromised glamour

Review: ‘I’d rather have my brothers back and no hits at all.’ Barry Gibb makes us cry

The 2020 selection is taken up with terms relating to a certain familiar menace

Julie Andrews’s song was inspired by a polio immunisation, according to its writer’s son

Wolfwalkers, Girl from Mogadishu on release, Mank on demand, Crock of Gold on both

Plus: Peter Parker’s alter-ego, best picture biopics, Harry Potter titles, Pixar’s species

Review: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallid

Review: A family entertainment set among the Cromwellian atrocities? Sounds risky

The French Connection won best picture but the non-fiction novel is largely forgotten

But the film made a star of the Danish American actor. Now he’s a director too

Plus: Withnail’s finest wine, Jack Nicholson’s iconic order, The Godfather's spaghetti recipe

Finding Jack Charlton, Possessor, Black Beauty, Train to Busan 2: Peninsula

Review: Kate Winslet voices the horse in Disney+ adaptation

But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?

He was a fascist who walked out on the family. No wonder the star had father issues

Finding Jack Charlton lays bare his remarkable connection with the Irish psyche

I cannot pretend that Hocus Pocus is any more deserving of affection now than it was in 1993

Plus: Colin Farrell credits, soundtracking The Graduate, Who Killed Bambi’s band

Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, Hillbilly Elegy, Patrick, Collective

Review: This is an absolute original that should launch a starry career

Review: One’s brain aches pondering why anyone thought this would be a good idea

The 65th outing had Pixar’s Soul, great Irish premieres and a film about cycling cheats

The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new Ireland

She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels

Plus: Which monster links Jack Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr and Benicio Del Toro?

The Life Ahead, Martin Eden, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Two of Us

The indomitable star’s stoic performance is the main reason to watch this Italian drama

Review: A combination of high Disney gloop with Hamilton hip-hop

Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising Paddywhackery

We are never too far from a story about a celebrity with a history of domestic violence

Plus: What film won most Oscars this year, who give the Golden Globes, name a Cohen Bros sequel

The novelist on his new book, being an unromantic outsider and Billy Wilder

He was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinity

The angry pop culture of the Nixon years is better than that of the Trump era

Plus: playing Cleopatra, a Hitchcock no-show, Meryl and her many nominations

Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist art

On the Rocks, Rebecca, Summer of 85, The Secret Garden

Plus: singing Oscarless, editing Martin Scorsese, a co-director goes uncredited

Exasperated, bewildered Jones is at least the equal of her older costar in this exquisite film

Review: The film is so lathered in superficial gloss the subtexts struggle to breathe

Charming domestic moments made up for the lack of red-carpet pizzazz at the virtual event

The news had barely landed before social media blew its collective top

The Irish Film and Television Academy’s awards will be broadcast on Sunday night

Unsettling Wicklow-shot The Other Lamb, Sundance winner Time, harrowing Body of Water, saccharine Disney biopic Clouds

Plus: In what year is the new Wonder Woman film mostly set?

Review: Film is at the more austere end of the cult-movie spectrum

Review: Stark and unyielding throughout for those adventurous enough to dive in

Dublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuance

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

A limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravado

Dublin Theatre Festival review: Summoning the despair of an urban space in the time of Covid

Kajillionaire in cinemas, David Attenborough, 40-Year-Old Version, My Zoe at home

Plus: SNL spin-offs, Marvel alter egos, the American Pie crew, Carry On casting

Review: The film is more aware of its own oddness than the director’s first two features

Review: This ‘witness statement’ for Netflix is filled with truths worth hammering home

The director of US high-quirk indie cinema returns with her best yet, Kajillionaire

Cineworld shut down ... Bond postponed again ... The cinema sector is on life support

The disappearance of Rocky’s robotic butler has the conspiracy censors twitching

His new book, Is There Anybody Out There?, skilfully weaves thumping gags with raw physics

Self-conscious experiments complement the exploration of transhumanism

Plus: a year without Marvel, the home of Cartoon Saloon, nothing for the ladies

Rialto, The Boys in the Band, Eternal Beauty, The Trial of the Chicago 7