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Benedict Cumberbatch plays scrupulous and Southern-accented Lt-Colonel Stuart Couch

The Mauritanian: Compelling Guantanamo Diary adaptation

Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Tahar Rahim convincingly inhabit their roles in this compelling post-9/11 legal drama, based on Mohamedou Ould Salahi's real life account, ...

Movie Review • 02 Apr

Édgar Ramírez and Jennifer Garner in Yes Day

Film Review: Yes Day - It's a no from me

It's got a neat premise and plenty of potential for laughs but the latest misfire from Netflix ends up as a foamy mess of cliché ...

Movies • 11 Mar

Brendan Gleeson in The Comey Rule and Wolfwalkers

Brendan Gleeson, Wolfwalkers are Golden Globe nominees

The nominations for the Golden Globe Awards have been announced, with Brendan Gleeson among the nominees in the TV categories for his portrayal of former ...

Golden Globe Awards • 03 Feb

Brendan Gleeson among Golden Globe nominees

Watch: The Golden Globe Awards 2021 nominations

The nominees for the Golden Globe Awards have been announced with Brendan Gleeson, Wolfwalkers and Normal People all in the running to lift a golden ...

Entertainment • 03 Feb

Michael Inside numbers among the strong collection of Irish films from the IFI

IFI launches Irish films on demand

The Irish Film Institute has announced the launch of Growing Pains, a selection of films from Irish directors on its video-on-demand platform IFI@Home.

Film • 18 Jan

Paddy Slattery: I hope the cinema experience will be there as long as movies are made.

At home with... film director Paddy Slattery

Since I was in a car crash that left me paralysed at 17, I had developed a desire to make a feature film, writes Paddy ...

Entertainment • 05 Aug 20

David Lynch: All blue over Beverly Hills at present

David Lynch bides his time with LA weather reports

Director David Lynch has been issuing weather bulletins from his Los Angeles eyrie, as featured in short videos on his YouTube channel, DAVID LYNCH THEATER.

Entertainment • 03 Aug 20

Michael Jackson wanted to play Professor X in X-Men

Two of X-Men film producers have revealed that Michael Jackson wanted to to play Professor X in the hit franchise

Movies • 03 Aug 20

Pink-cropped Freddy is stalled at a half-way stage as he dreams of becoming a genuine, fully-grown wolf

100% Wolf and Freddy's dream of being all grown-up

Freddy Lupin is the young werewolf desperate to become 100% Wolf, or, if you like an awkward young teenager anxious to be fully grown in ...

Entertainment • 31 Jul 20

Arracht - Famine drama has 11 nominations

Famine drama Arracht leads IFTA Awards shortlist

The nominees for the IFTA Film & Drama Awards have been announced with the Famine drama Arracht leading the film shortlist with 11 nominations and ...

Iftas • 14 Jul 20

From left to right: KIFF Chairperson Grainne O'Donnell, screenwriter Ailbhe Keogan, and KCC Arts Officer Kate Kennelly

Kerry Film Festival opens for submissions

The Kerry International Film Festival has announced plans for the event to go ahead this year and the festival, which is in its 21st year, ...

Movies • 23 May 20

When All is Ruin Once Again: poignant admonitory note about the Earth and its ecology

When All is Ruin Once Again: A poignant warning note

When All is Ruin Again draws near to poet WB Yeats' tower at Thoorballylee, cleaving close to a poetic vision of destiny, of generations passing, ...

Reviews • 18 Apr 20

Nicolas Cage and Color Out of Space director Richard Stanley - "Nic brings a kind of danger or edginess to it that keeps me watching because I don't know what the hell he's going to do next!"

Nicolas Cage 'always wants to go further' for freakouts

Color Out of Space director Richard Stanley has told RTÉ Entertainment that star Nicolas Cage "always wants to go further" with his onscreen freakouts, and ...

Movies • 26 Feb 20

Color Out of Space is Nicolas Cage at his bug out best

With production companies called SpectreVision and ACE Pictures Entertainment, Color Out of Space is gloriously old school, stomach-churning, rib-tickling and strangely poignant, with warnings about ...

Movie Review • 26 Feb 20

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with Adele Haenel and Noémie Merlant

Breton passion in Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a cool, almost ascetic work exploring sexual repression and sexual longing - sides perhaps of the same 18th ...

Movies • 02 Mar 20

Film review: Greed is good, not great

Steve Coogan is in his element in this satire about the rise and fall of a British fashion mogul

Movies • 19 Feb 20

It's a risky climb but they're upwardly mobile: the Kim family in Parasite

Parasite: worth seeing if only for after-screen debate

Winner of four Oscars, Palme d'Or 2019 and Best Foreign Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, Parasite boldly attempts satire about Seoul's haves and have-nots.

Movie Review • 17 Feb 20

Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas talk to RTÉ Entertainment

Queen & Slim: 'The US is a built on slavery and racism'

The director of new genre-busting road movie Queen & Slim has said that the film takes a journey through many different styles, from rom com ...

Movies • 01 Feb 20

Robert Eggers - "Every day was pretty Herculean"

Brightest spark - The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers

Writer-director Robert Eggers gives Harry Guerin an insight into what it took to make The Lighthouse shine so brightly.

Movies • 03 Feb 20

Edward Rowe as Martin and Chloe Endean as Wenna in Bait

Bait - the best film you probably didn't see last year

Bait, the story of the tensions between locals and holidaying Londoners in a Cornish town, stole the hearts of many when it arrived in cinemas ...

Movies • 25 Jan 20

Major Irish movies and Charlie Kaufman for 2020 DIFF

Details of this year's Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival have been announced and the 12-day event is set to feature the best of world ...

Movies • 22 Jan 20

Ricky Gervais writing 'bulletproof' Golden Globes jokes

Ricky Gervais has said he must make sure his jokes are "bulletproof" when he takes to the stage to host the Golden Globes so they ...

Golden Globes • 04 Jan 20

Imelda Marcos - in Lauren Greenfield's film, she is 86, and engineering a return to power for the Marcos dynasty

The Kingmaker - Imelda and the 'conjugal dictatorship'

Lauren Greenfield's latest film shows how the Marcos legacy endures and is linked with current President Duterte's regime as family scion Ferdinand 'Bong Bong' Marcos ...

Movie Reviews • 19 Dec 19

Noah Jupe is utterly superb as a kid coping with life with his wayward father

Shia LaBeouf ain't clowning around in Honey Boy

Shia LaBeouf is working out his own issues in his latest oddity of a movie

Movies • 13 Dec 19

So Long, My Son - The pain imposed by China's One-Child Policy explored in Wang Xiaoshuai's masterpiece

So Long, My Son: a deeply moving Chinese drama

So Long, My Son, whose original title in Mandarin is Di Jiu Tian Chang, is an easily accessible, beautifully-wrought work of cinema whose universal human ...

Movie Review • 12 Dec 19