Harry Guerin

Multimedia Journalist

The 97th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night and will be broadcast live on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player from midnight. They will also air on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Monday from 9:30pm

Oscars: the nominees - and winners - on Sunday night

And the Oscar for the fastest 12 months yet goes to...

Movies • 02 Mar 25

Anchored by a superb central performance by Fernanda Torres, this is a film that sees the love and safety of the ties that bind tested by trauma and terror.

Brazil's 1970s dictatorship hits home in I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here chronicles harrowing real-life events in the 1970s, focusing on civil engineer and former politician Rubens Paiva, his wife Eunice, and their five children during Brazil's military dictatorship.

Movie Review • 20 Feb 25

This is relentless filmmaking from Swiss director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum

September 5: How Munich Olympics terror changed TV news

We don't realise how much of the world that we now experience can be traced back to September 5, 1972 - the date of the Munich Olympics massacre that saw 11 members of the Israeli team killed.

Movie Review • 08 Feb 25

Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a Londoner who would give Jack Nicholson's As Good as It Gets character Melvin Udall a good run for his money

Family misfortunes: Hard Truths brings it all back home

Mike Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

Movie Review • 29 Mar 25

As good an examination of a complicated hero resisting the mindset and manacles of 20th-century Ireland as any work of fiction

Edna O'Brien gets her big-screen due in new documentary

A celebration of the independent spirit, a fascinating study of hard-learned (and earned) creativity, and a reminder that we are all mired in the utter messiness of life, Blue Road... gives the late Edna O'Brien her big-screen due and then some.

Movie Review • 31 Jan 25

With The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet has delivered a film that deserves to be seen on the biggest cinema screen possible

The Brutalist is epic - but room to improve the ending

The bona fide event movie - the one you queue for, implore others to go to see, and then pay to watch again - are now the rarest of breeds. In 2023, we had two, Oppenheimer and Barbie. This year, it's The Brutalist.

Movie Review • 23 Jan 25

The 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday 2 March

Irish film talent eyeing Oscar nominations at lunchtime

The Oscar nominations will be announced in Los Angeles this lunchtime, and hopes are high that it will be another good year for Irish film talent at 1.30pm.

oscars • 23 Jan 25

If you're a big fan of, say, Before Sunrise, Jerry Maguire, The Notebook, or any other romance that screens on a loop in both head and heart, then you should play gooseberry here

Brooklyn's director returns with We Live in Time

As if there weren't enough feels from the arrival of the new year, Brooklyn director John Crowley rocks up to cinemas with this two-hander about the magic and messiness of our numbered days.

Movie Review • 01 Jan 25

25 films to see in 2025

A good start - and there'll be plenty more besides...

Movies • 04 Jan 25

A great team - (L-R) Small Things Like These director Tim Mielants and screenwriter Enda Walsh

The making of Small Things Like These

Director Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders, The Responder) and writer Enda Walsh (Disco Pigs, Hunger) discuss bringing Claire Keegan's bestseller Small Things Like These to the big screen as one of the films of 2024.

Movies • 31 Dec 24