Changing Rooms 2.0: ‘Can you smell my thighs burning?’ yells Laurence Llewelyn-BowenTV: The home-makeover show is back from the great crushed-velvet boudoir in the sky. Why?Thu Aug 19 2021 - 13:05
Christy’s Life on the Road: It’s a crying shame they didn’t call it The Bodhrán IdentityTV: Much like Christy Moore, this film is rambling, loquacious and brimming with charmWed Aug 18 2021 - 23:10
The White Lotus: The couch-potato equivalent of a rainy staycationTV: The hyped resort-set satire about privileged Americans is a strictly three-star affairTue Aug 17 2021 - 13:00
Lorde: ‘In my life at home, I could not be more invisible to people’New Zealand singer’s new album represents stark departure from exquisite bedroom pop of her debutSat Aug 14 2021 - 05:00
Kit Harington pulls off a surprisingly convincing Dublin accentTV: Modern Love’s second season features two stories with a cast of familiar Irish facesFri Aug 13 2021 - 00:00
What does it mean to cross the Border? After this woozy documentary I’m still not sureTV: Borderline – Four Seasons in One Day is an art-house rumination on the two IrelandsWed Aug 11 2021 - 11:29
So Captain Carter’s biffing bad guys with a weaponised Union Jack. Which is pretty BrexityTV: What If...? is Marvel though the looking glass. And perhaps a bit of an MCU stopgapWed Aug 11 2021 - 00:01
I Am Victoria: Suranne Jones is searing as a woman whose drive is corroding her soulTV: The actor has based Victoria’s struggles on her own experiences before and during therapyFri Aug 06 2021 - 09:35
Young, gay and raised to believe she was the spawn of the DevilTV: Pray Away is a devastating portrait of vulnerable people led astray by conversion therapyFri Aug 06 2021 - 08:18
The 8th: Ireland, the abortion referendum. You can feel the tectonic plates shiftingTV: This highly watchable film chronicles the Repeal side’s winning campaign of 2018Wed Aug 04 2021 - 16:30
Paris Hilton’s eyeballing a leprechaun at the supermarket. Please say she’s in on the jokeTV: Netflix’s irritating Cooking with Paris doubles down on all the cliches about the reality starWed Aug 04 2021 - 06:00
Baptiste: A persuasive Fiona Shaw is front and centre of this brooding – and sometimes confusing – thrillerTV: Given the choice between being confusing or predictable, Baptiste will opt for the former all day longSat Jul 31 2021 - 06:00
So long, The X Factor. These top Irish contestants will always remind us of youSimon Cowell’s talent show changed the world of pop music. Any maybe Ireland tooFri Jul 30 2021 - 11:21
What Hollywood lost when Chadwick Boseman diedTV: In Off Camera with Sam Jones, the trailblazer knows his career is about more than bums on seatsThu Jul 29 2021 - 23:15
A lesson in life on Earth from the anti-David AttenboroughTV: In the charming Walk That Made Me, Chris Packham show nature’s power to calmWed Jul 28 2021 - 21:00
Dermot Kennedy: Better Days – A great big Michael Flatley of a torch songWith U2 on hiatus, and Hozier working on his man bun, it’s an ideal time for Kennedy’s new singleWed Jul 28 2021 - 19:38
Love Island: It’s a bounty of begorrahs as Salma and Kaila arrive. Who’ll be the new Maura?TV: The Dubliners are joined by Matthew MacNabb, a shrug-at-destiny sort from BelfastMon Jul 26 2021 - 23:00
Jack Antonoff: ‘Irish music has had a huge influence on me – it’s steeped in celebration and sadness’Prolific producer of Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Lorde albums on new Bleachers projectSat Jul 24 2021 - 05:00
Sexy Beasts, Netflix’s animal-mask dating show, is irredeemably terribleBut as long as everyone is talking about how bad it is, maybe it’s mission accomplishedWed Jul 21 2021 - 11:52
The Dark Side of Horse Racing: Chilling footage from inside the slaughterhouseTV: Panorama reveals inhumane treatment of racehorses sent from Ireland to BritainTue Jul 20 2021 - 12:24
Nigel Farage on GB News: How did this man change the world?TV review: Farage tries to rescue GB News with critiques of refugees, wokeness and the EUTue Jul 20 2021 - 01:10
Love Island halftime review: The 2021 cast aren’t fussed about fame or money. Or loveOnce seen as highly exploitative reality TV, it is now a kind, cuddly place to hang outMon Jul 19 2021 - 00:39
Anne-Marie: ‘I had to turn to therapy to talk through what my brain was saying to me’The singer on opening up and not holding back for her new album TherapySat Jul 17 2021 - 05:00
War of the Worlds: Grouchy Gabriel Byrne and creepy Daisy Edgar Jones get under your skinTV review: This interpretation of HG Wells’s work is dour and slow, but full of mysteryFri Jul 16 2021 - 12:23
Why don’t you turn off Love Island and go play some sport instead?TV review: Cork camogie star Anna Geary tries to assemble an underage ladies football teamThu Jul 15 2021 - 22:30
Londoners will love Aisling Bea’s This Way Up. We might roll our eyes a littleTV review: The Kildare comedian explores the irritations and melancholy of modern lifeThu Jul 15 2021 - 19:37
Michaella McCollum of the ‘Peru Two’: ‘That’s me, owner of the world’s most infamous up-do’TV review: ‘High – Confessions of an Ibiza Drugs Mule’ is always colourful, never forensicTue Jul 06 2021 - 20:34
Ireland’s Rich List 2021: Oh for an Irish Elon Musk, whom we could envy and deride equallyThe list includes concrete moguls, widget sellers, dotcom zillionaires and a bookmakerMon Jul 05 2021 - 22:35
‘I literally begged for HSE intervention to save lives’TV review: ‘RTÉ Investigates’ probed deaths in nursing homes during the third waveThu Jul 01 2021 - 23:27
The Go! Team: ‘I want to form a supergroup with Huey Lewis and Jessie J’The band’s Ian Parton on their new album and living with Meniere’s diseaseThu Jul 01 2021 - 05:00
Belle Gibson: The Melbourne wellness guru who duped the world with her brain cancer storyTV: Bad Influencer – The Great Insta Con is a reminder to be wary of what you see onlineThu Jul 01 2021 - 00:15
Two Sophie Toscan du Plantier films, two verdicts. Which should we believe?What the high-profile new series say about the unsolved murder and its chief suspect, Ian BaileyTue Jun 29 2021 - 06:00
Love Island 2021: Episode 1 has all the fervour of an auld fella’s pub on a wet TuesdayThe biggest issue is that the ‘love hungry’ singletons aren’t attracted to each otherMon Jun 28 2021 - 23:45
Love Island 2021: Everything you need to know as the reality-TV juggernaut returnsThe feelgood series, with host Laura Whitmore, is back for the summer. Here’s what to expectMon Jun 28 2021 - 12:40
A refreshing portrait of Bray and its people, just before Covid-19 struckTV review: The big-hearted Our Town shows a new side to this corner of Co WicklowThu Jun 24 2021 - 22:30
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork. Netflix’s ‘poisonous propaganda’ series is grippingReview: It makes Sophie Toscan du Plantier the main character, and has strong views on the caseTue Jun 22 2021 - 00:01
The Handmaid’s Tale, once an urgent parable for our times, has become merely adequateSeason 4 review: Elisabeth Moss is the best thing about an only occasionally gripping seriesSun Jun 20 2021 - 22:10
Murder at the Cottage allows you to conclude that Ian Bailey was stitched up by gardaíTV review: ‘Murder at the Cottage : The Search for Justice for Sophie’ is captivatingSun Jun 20 2021 - 06:00
The Saw Doctors, 1991: ‘For about a year, you couldn’t hear anything else on the radio’In March 1991, the band hit the streets with their fathers and photographer Frank MillerSat Jun 19 2021 - 05:00
One Irish singer makes the cut for music streamer’s 100-strong ‘billions club’Spotify unveils 100 tracks that have each clocked up at least a billion streamsFri Jun 18 2021 - 15:36
Physical: Rose Byrne stars in a bleak and disdainful portrayal of the 1980sApple + has made an aerobics show but neglected to give it a pulseFri Jun 18 2021 - 15:00
Together: Sharon Horgan digs deep in a pained performance opposite James McAvoyTV review: This BBC drama is rooted in the hopes, fears and claustrophobia of coronavirusThu Jun 17 2021 - 22:30
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork – Netflix releases trailer for Toscan du Plantier true-crime series‘Can you explain to me, why is this man free?’ one woman asks about Ian BaileyThu Jun 17 2021 - 15:14
Michael Portillo’s ‘Tory meets Paddy’ history lessons are no longer a noveltyPartition, 1921 TV review: The politician-turned-railway guru has reached the end of the lineMon Jun 14 2021 - 22:35
Virtual Bono belts out the official anthem of Euro 2021 in Rome. I’ve heard worseIt’s a little before 9pm in Rome and Bono’s giant head is floating above a soccer pitchFri Jun 11 2021 - 22:30
‘I tightened the screw as tight as I could.’ Raw, moving accounts of men’s mental healthTV review: This is a gripping film about emotional challenges for young menFri Jun 11 2021 - 00:11
Loki: Cracking chemistry as Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson sling back and forth through timeTV: For Marvel Cinematic Universe’s newest chapter, think Doctor Who remade by Wes AndersonTue Jun 08 2021 - 17:00
Dermot Bannon? Sure, where else would you get him?TV: With Super Small Spaces, he’s morphing into the Louis Theroux of home conversionsSun Jun 06 2021 - 22:30
Gay Byrne ‘brought terror for some and liberation for others’TV review: ‘Dear Gay’ is a big-hearted homage to Byrne’s humanity and his RTÉ radio showWed Jun 02 2021 - 22:35
Mare of Easttown finale: The bombshell goes off with a nauseating thudTV review: Kate Winslet achieved devastating perfection in this unflinching dramaMon May 31 2021 - 22:15
