‘Watch your step’: Steve Coogan takes Patrick Freyne backstage at Dr Strangelove
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
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The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
Andrea Riseborough: ‘I was shredding a duck and I had a moment of clarity’
She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors
Ben Whishaw: ‘I don’t find acting helps my social anxiety’
The actor talks about his off-stage shyness and his latest role in This Is Going to Hurt
‘Succession? I thought, I don’t want to write for a load of white men who are evil’
A career working on Succession, Veep, The Thick of It and other hit TV shows has given Georgia Pritchett a taste for finding the humanity in even the worst characters
Joanna Scanlan: ‘I felt like an embarrassed child running behind the elite pack’
Actor talks about Footlights, teaching, sage advice from doctor and new film After Love
State Funeral: A remarkable portrait of the aftermath of Stalin’s death
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When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming
Twist: Lena Headey is ruthless. Michael Caine is barely awake
Film review: Sky makes a complete pig’s ear of a street-hustler take on Oliver Twist
Dublin film critics reveal their best film of 2020
The Dublin Film Critics Circle has announced the results of its annual poll
Steve Coogan: ‘Come Out, Ye Black and Tans is two fingers to the British’
‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
Election 2020 outtakes: SF candidate takes a break from it all
Patricia Ryan goes on holiday in election week while knives come out in Meath East
Calm down online bores, colour-blind casting isn’t ‘woke’
With Dev Patel as David Copperfield, movies have caught up with theatre’s creative approach
Avenue 5: Armando Iannucci’s space comedy is terrible
TV review: Imagine Veep if the jokes were bunged in an airlock and blasted into the void
The Personal History of David Copperfield: Armando Iannucci delivers a minor miracle
Review: This is maybe the best Dickens film adaptation since David Lean
Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this year
Funniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and Morty
JoJo Rabbit: Hitler, the Jews and the boundaries of comedy
Sophisticated film set in Germany during the second World War deploys its laughter expertly and contains a message for our time
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
The Day Shall Come: Chris Morris’s film may be the year’s biggest disappointment to date
Review: Morris has turned fascinating stories into the first out-and-out dud of his career
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?
Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta
What will win the 2020 best picture Oscar? Probably one of these
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Steve Coogan: Why I’m bringing back Alan Partridge
25 years since Alan Partridge first appeared on screen, his creator explains why a divided nation needs him more than ever
Alan Partridge returns to the BBC in time for Brexit
Presenter’s shambling persona is perfect for our political moment, says Steve Coogan
Seán Moncrieff: Welcome to the death of satire
The likes of Trump and Boris Johnson have made it impossible to satirise politics because politics is now satire
European Film Awards: The gloriously eccentric Euro-Oscars
The big winner, Cold War, will barely scrape an Academy Award nomination
‘Cold War’ the big winner at European Film Awards
Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner’ misses out on animated feature gong in Seville
Succession: The comedy drama that’s definitely not about the Murdochs
Jesse Armstrong’s new show targets America’s rich and powerful TV barons
Police raid Moscow cinema showing banned Stalin film
Culture ministry ban comes amid renewed popularity of dictator in Russia
Russian release of ‘despicable’ Death of Stalin movie withdrawn
Satire an effort ‘to breed bad blood into social harmony reached in Russian society’ – official
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
We need more swearing in children’s books
Swearing is one of life’s most joyous and creative releases – we must teach it early
The Death of Stalin: Mortal panic with a ghastly conclusion
Given the mortal terror, Armando Iannucci’s latest political satire is weirdly light on its feet
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