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Dripping lead-hot badness: John Cusack as Dutch, serial killer with impunity

Never Grow Old: John Cusack plays evil incarnate

Black as pitch, Never Grow Old is a convincing thriller set in 1849 in an American settlement ruled over by a psychopathic thug, played with consummate, unadulterated evil by John Cusack.

Movie Review • 22 Aug 19

Asier Etzeandia and Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory shows Almodóvar at his finest

Almodóvar's 21st feature, Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) is rich with reflective passages and profound encounters, mediated through brilliant cinematography and enhanced by a shimmering score from Alberto Iglesias.

Movies • 27 Aug 19

Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen on Hydra (Picture Aviva Layton)

Review: Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love

Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian woman, was a constant presence throughout the singer Leonard Cohen's life. Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love documents their relationship evenly and sensitively.

Film Review • 23 Jul 19

Schwarzenegger snaps back at Trump: 'I'm still here'

Arnold Schwarzenegger has tweeted a response to Donald Trump's statement at a social media conference in the White House yesterday where he said "Arnold Schwarzenegger ... You know what? He died ... I was there,"

Movie • 12 Jul 19

Sebastian Koch plays an SS stage baddie with cold steel in Never Look Away

Never Look Away - art and love in a divided Germany

Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) runs to over three hours and is a reasonably engaging human story but it is overly-long and flawed. The best thing in it is the enthralling stage baddie, the SS doctor, Professor Seeband.

Film Review • 08 Jul 19

The Cold Blue: a brilliant record of the lives of young American men during the Second World War in Europe

The Cold Blue: moving comradeship in wartime

15 hours, or 34 reels of raw colour footage, shot by Hollywood director William Wyler form the basis of The Cold Blue, an extraordinarily moving portrait of the bomber pilots of the Second World War which will be shown tonight, Thursday, in Irish cinemas.

Movie Reviews • 04 Jul 19

Moe Dunford "I'd rather be digging a hole in a bog"

Waterford actor Moe Dunford has no less than three films due for release at the moment. He talks to Alan Corr about suffering for his art in his latest, The Dig

Movies • 26 Apr 19

Greta will hold your interest but that's about it

Director Neil Jordan has a stab at psychodrama in his new film Greta, which is saved - and only just - by the presence of French veteran, Isabelle Huppert.

Film Review • 18 Apr 19

Jeong stopped being a doctor after Knocked Up

Ken Jeong, who is best known for playing the outrageous gangster Mr Chow on The Hangover, has explained why he left his career as a GP to become an actor.

Movie • 08 Apr 19

Ernie and Bobby Coote in The Man Who Wanted to Fly

The Man Who Wanted to Fly soars above

Frank Shouldice's charming documentary looks at the lives of two elderly brothers in County Cavan and the dream of one to fly an aircraft.

Movies • 27 Mar 19

If Beale Street Could Talk a film worth shouting about

If you're scrambling to find the time to watch all the films you've lined up for February, here's another one to add to the list. At the top.

Movie Review • 08 Feb 19

Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh in All is True

All is True - a poignant love letter to the Bard

Kenneth Branagh stars as William Shakespeare in this thoughtful and moving drama about the Bard's twilight years

Movies • 13 Feb 19

Sandra Bullock says 'Now with streaming, we have all kinds of work available'

Bullock praises effect streaming has on film industry

Actress Sandra Bullock has praised the effect of streaming of films has had on the film industry and how it has "elevated the bar".

Film • 04 Jan 19

Aydın Doğu Demirkol as Sinan in the Turkish feature, The Wild Pear Tree which runs to 188 minutes.

Reviewed: The Wild Pear Tree is a masterpiece of cinema

"We are misfits, solitary, misshapen,'' says the disillusioned young Sinan who is about to graduate from college in the absorbing Turkish feature, The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Ağacı) which is directed by Palme d'Or-winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Movie Review • 30 Nov 18

Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in Disobedience

Disobedience: another spin on the faith v lust quandary

Disobedience, from the Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio, essays a valiant spin on the business of trying to express one's sexuality within the perceived strictures of religion.

Movie Review • 28 Nov 18

Float Like a Butterfly opened the Cork Film Festival on Friday

Watch: Float Like a Butterfly opens Cork Film Festival

Rising star Hazel Doupe and the cast of award-winning Irish film, Float Like a Butterfly, opened the 63rd Cork Film Festival on Friday night.

Film • 12 Nov 18

A technical wonder that gets to the heart of the sheer scale of a very human tragedy

Peter Jackson's World War One documentary is superb

Peter Jackson's documentary about life and death in the trenches of World War One is a technical wonder that gets to the heart of the sheer scale and emotion of a very human tragedy

Movie Review • 08 Nov 18

1945: two Jewish men, possibly father and son, arrive in a Hungarian village in the dead heat of August.

1945: Recent events haunt a secretive Hungarian village

The past comes to haunt in Hungary in August 1945 when the inhabitants of a claustrophobic, strangely haunted village are made to feel the disturbing after-effect of recent crimes.

Movie Review • 17 Oct 18

A bouquet of barbed wire: Glenn Close in The Wife

Glenn Close should be Oscar-bound with The Wife

Glenn Close hides the biggest fiction of all in her marriage to a revered novelist in this blackly humorous film about reputation and deceit

Movies • 28 Sep 18

Float Like a Butterfly wins Toronto Award

Film about Irish Traveller girl wins Toronto award

Float like a Butterfly, a film about an Irish Traveller girl who is pursuing her dream to be a boxer, has won a major award at the Toronto Film Festival.

Movies • 17 Sep 18

Rhys Meyers: ''I would be known as somebody who relapses with problem drinking, not alcoholism. I don't suffer from alcoholism - I suffer from an allergy to alcohol every time I drink it"

Jonathan Rhys Meyers: I don't suffer from alcoholism

Jonathan Rhys Meyers says he is not an alcoholic but admits he suffers "an allergy from alcohol every time I drink it".

Entertainment • 01 Aug 18

George and Amal Clooney: working holiday for George

George and Amal Clooney in Sardinia for summer

George and Amal Clooney are well settled in Sardinia for the summer as George starts work on his new TV series Catch 22.

Entertainment • 02 Jul 18

Teacher Mrs McGinley and Rosa O'Reilly in Making The Grade

His & Hers director scales the heights in new film

After impressing audiences with His & Hers and Mom and Me, Irish director Ken Wardrop has taken on a different subject for his new documentary, Making The Grade. Alan Corr talks to him

Entertainment • 13 Apr 18

His & Hers director scales the heights in new film

After impressing audiences with His & Hers and Mom and Me, Irish director Ken Wardrop has taken on a different subject for his new documentary, Making The Grade. Alan Corr talks to him

Entertainment • 09 Apr 18

A Quiet Place is a thriller worth shouting about

This foot-to-the-floor four-hander is proper old school when it comes to scares, but also makes sure that your emotional investment in the characters - mum, dad, kids - is huge.

Movie Review • 03 Apr 18