Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm is hilarious in this riotous, satirical romp
Television: Story about a rich white American manages to transcend social commentary
Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – From carefree Supermac’s fan to angsty melancholy and, now, romantic yearning
Advance press described Sable, Fable as Bon Iver’s “sexiest” album yet, which is misleading. There’s a lot of romantic yearning, however, as Justin Vernon traces the arc of a relationship from infatuation to connection to contentment, a journey that he explores via blissed-out yacht rock (Everything Is Peaceful Love) and fuzzy Radiohead-style dirge rock (If Only Could Wait, a duet with Danielle Haim)
Black Mirror review: Two standout episodes in a largely dreary and predictable new season
Television: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?
The White Lotus finale review: The upbeat conclusion of this dark episode feels trite and unearned
Television: Is showrunner Mike White sliding towards sentimentality in season 3? It’s been a wild ride – but viewers may be relieved to finally check out
Safe Harbour review: Jack Gleeson and his moustache steal gangland drama from a menacing Colm Meaney
Television review: with Colm Meaney, Jack Gleeson and Charlie Murphy, Safe Harbour's top-notch cast almost covcer the cracks of laboured tale of drug dealers that isn’t Irish enough to feel genuinely homegrown
Thurston Moore live in Dublin review: Beautifully overcast set is brooding one moment, bucolic and balmy the next
The iconic indie-rock guitarist debuts his Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations suite as part of the New Music Dublin festival
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper review – Sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightful
Mike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselves
Pulse review: Plot is far from a priority in this Greys Anatomy-inspired soapy distraction
Television: It may be honkingly derivative but it sure goes down easily
Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain review – Compelling documentary never resorts to finger-wagging
Television: It would have been tempting for Dr Brian Pennie to make this film all about his own addiction story but he never labours the point
The Beatles: It’s great Mescal and Keoghan landed roles in biopics, but are we entering Fab Four overload?
The entertainment industry reckons Beatles content is as close as you can get to a sure thing in a world beset by uncertainty
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds review: How paradoxical that Victorian England’s destruction should be relayed by an Irishman
What HG Wells would think of his masterpiece as a rock opera is anyone’s guess, but audiences love it
MobLand review: Pierce Brosnan’s Irish accent is a horror for the ages. Forget licence to kill, this is more Darby O’Gill
Television: Helen Mirren’s Irish accent is another phonetic fumble, but Brosnan seems determined to scupper his national treasure status
Elton John: ‘All I want on my tombstone is to say he was a great dad’
The veteran star is a long way from burning out. As he and Brandi Carlile launch their new album, they talk about music, family and fame
Miki Berenyi: ‘The internet has sent people I know completely crazy. That is not restricted to young people’
Fans of the the singer’s early work with Lush will probably adore the new album from Miki Berenyi Trio, which is steeped in her haunting vocals, gorgeously shimmering riffs and deeply personal lyrics
Hitchhiker’s Guide offered glimpse of a future where technology would mediate almost every interaction
Sci-fi author Douglas Adams didn’t live long enough to see the technological future he foretold become reality, or how his vision influenced his most famous fan