Matt Berry

The Wild Robot review: This superb family film could become a classic

Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal star in what is the best feature cartoon from a major studio in years

Thu Oct 17 2024 - 05:00

Great Expectations review: Sweary, scary Dickens sounds interesting until you’re forced to sit through it

Television: Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight lays the melodrama on with a trowel in this take on Dickens, starring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham

Sun Mar 26 2023 - 22:00

‘People say it must be hard to parody Cummings and Gove. And I say yes’

Father Ted creator Arthur Mathews on his new spoof of Boris Johnson’s former adviser

Tue Dec 08 2020 - 05:00

The nine best Netflix shows to watch in August

Ozark returns, plus a new animated sitcom from The Simpsons’s creator Matt Groening

Wed Aug 01 2018 - 06:00

The pros and cons of being murderously pregnant

Alice Lowe’s new film Prevenge is a dark comedy about a pregnant woman intent on murder. The character is a "superhero", she says, "and pregnancy is her special power”

Thu Feb 02 2017 - 05:00

Another slice of Toast for Berry and Mathews

With a third TV series and a new book, failed actor Steven Toast is proving a big hit for his creators Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews

Sat Dec 05 2015 - 08:04

Netflix, All4, Vimeo, YouTube... The best TV shows to binge-watch on the web

Summer is gone and the evenings are drawing in – fear not, there's a lot of great TV out there to get you through the coming months

Sat Aug 15 2015 - 05:00

Patrick Freyne’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

Guardians of the Galaxy made me laugh, starring, as it did, a wise-cracking racoon.

Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00

The funny thing about being a girl is . . .

So, women aren’t funny, eh? We talk to four funny females playing the Vodafone Comedy Carnival to get their take on that lazy trope

Thu Oct 16 2014 - 20:15

Serious about prog: Matt Berry turns it on again

Berry’s fifth album pays homage to Tubular Bells and other prog-rock classics. People are slowly accepting him as being more than an actor and comedian, he says

Mon Jun 23 2014 - 01:00