Brian De Palma
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Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives on
- Film
- October 31, 2020
It is just two months since Sean Connery, who has died, celebrated his 90th birthday. The appreciations will have given him some sense of how subseque(...)

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
- Film
- October 10, 2020, 06:00
Savour canny acquisitions and ambitious original productions. And catch the classics while you can. They may not be there next month. There h(...)

Sean Connery turns 90: An avatar of old-fashioned masculinity
- Film
- August 25, 2020, 15:35
It is 44 years since Sean Connery appeared as an aging Robin Hood in Richard Lester’s under-estimated Robin and Marian. There was a great deal of wear(...)

De Niro and Pacino: ‘We are very close... We have known each other a long time’
- Film
- October 19, 2019, 05:00
THE ACTORS ON FIVE DECADES OF FRIENDSHIP, SOME TIPPERARY ROOTS AND THE UNITED STATES’ ‘GANGSTER PRESIDENT’ We will eventually get Robert De Niro(...)

Knife+Heart: Unapologetically trashy gay porn thriller goes the full De Palma
- Film
- July 3, 2019, 05:00
We were saddened this week to read Paul Schrader’s description of fellow stalwart director Brian De Palma as “trite and artistically weak”. De Palma h(...)

Mother’s Day: Ten of the best and worst moms in cinema
- Film
- March 31, 2019, 06:00
DUMBO (1941) There was some competition between Bambi’s mother and the elephant’s mistreated parent for this spot, but, with the best will in the wor(...)

Event of the Week: The IFI French Film Festival
- Film
- November 10, 2018, 05:00
For all the wealth of cinema in Europe, no nation has managed to catch up with French for breadth of output or rep. The annual French Film Festival at(...)

Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?
- Film
- July 25, 2018
The lovely Anglo-American star Stewart Grainger once laconically remarked that, rather than aging into character roles, he had aged into elderly roman(...)

The World Cup is keeping the big movies out of cinemas in June
- Film
- May 23, 2018, 12:09
This week, The Irish Times will publish our much-anticipated big summer preview. You can peruse all the titles that are going to biff the box office d(...)

Let me bring you back to early 1978 and the release of George Lucas’s Star Wars. No, I haven’t got that wrong. Hard though it may be to believe, that (...)