TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week
February 24th-Mar 1st: CMAT wows Dingle in Other Voices, and Channel 4 puts juries on trial
Andrea Riseborough
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch this week
From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way
Alice & Jack review: romcom with Domhnall Gleeson and Aisling Bea has chemistry in all the wrong places
Television review: With Domhnall Gleeson, Aisling Bea and 2023 Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough in lead roles, the Channel 4 series has much going for it, but it is simply not likeable
Please Baby Please: The most confounding film of the year benefits from a never-better Andrea Riseborough
Amanda Kramer’s leather-clad, neon-bathed shakedown of gender, greasers and groaning is unclassifiable
Andrea Riseborough: Academy will not disqualify surprise Oscar nominee
Investigation discovered social media and outreach campaigning tactics that caused concern, says Academy
Oscars 2023: Uncomfortable truth is that two black women are best-actress race’s most obvious losers
Donald Clarke: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is meeting to review its rules after Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination
Here Before: A creeping sense of dread
Review: Stacey Gregg’s spooky Belfast-set psychodrama pushes all the right buttons
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
Andrew Garfield: ‘I needed to be with these freaks and lunatics’
Now starring in The Eyes of Tammy Faye the former web-slinger is tipped for an Oscar
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Starry but misfiring biopic
Benedict Cumberbatch plays yet another eccentric in this portrait of a Victorian artist
Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before wins best Irish film
From best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to know
Donald Clarke: Try going outdoors, it might not be too bad
A big screen in a park isn’t everyone’s idea of a night at the movies, but it’ll work
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
The Grudge: Tedious and mediocre horror film
Review: The original concept of the vengeful Japanese ghost gets thrashed in translation
Who are the newly invited Irish members of Hollywood’s Academy?
The Oscars body has invited 842 new members: 50% female, 29% people of colour
Gillian Anderson: Be wary, playing Thatcher is a poisoned chalice
There’s a double standard to objections about the casting. But dangers do loom
Baftas 2018: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ wins five awards
Oscar-favourite Frances McDormand named best actress ahead of Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan joins actors and activists in Baftas protest
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Emma Thompson among 190 signatories of letter demanding end to abuse and inequality
‘Being judged by your sex. We are so used to being treated as less’
Battle of the Sexes star Andrea Riseborough, who slips in and out of parts with ease, is agitated for real. She has a few points to make
Battle of the Sexes review: Game, set, match to Billy Jean
‘Male Chauvinist Pig versus Hairy Legged Feminist! You’re still a feminist, right?’
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
Doing Trump with a funny voice, the danger is he just becomes a clown
Armando Iannucci, one of the most feared satirist's in the business, takes on Stalin in a comedy of terrors
Mindhorn review: good-fun, high-concept Britcom with a bit too much plot
Julian Barrett is 1980s TV clairvoyant investigator Mindhorn called back ito action to negotiate with real-life maniac the Kestrel
The Silent Storm review: wind swept, well-chewed scenery
Everything about The Silent Storm suggests a screenplay was written entirely IN CAPITAL LETTERS. No “r” goes unrolled, no piece of furniture is unpounded
Slow West: ‘The Brits secretly all want to make westerns’
Interview: John Maclean, once of the Beta Band, set out to demythologise the western in his first film, Slow West. He’s succeeded
Olga Kurylenko: the woman who fell to earth
Former ‘Bond babe’ Olga Kurylenko insists that her days as arm candy are over; the star of new sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion is learning how to fight, and she’s loving it
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