Potential new names for the Department of Arts: Smacc, Cacs, Scam and – my favourite – DoSac
Rebrand to the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport is an artless move that speaks volumes
Armando Iannucci
The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Anyone can hypothetically write Carey Mulligan into their little thing. She was top of our list’
Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the wait
Magic movies: The 25 best comedies of the past 25 years – in reverse order
From Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 years
There’s a reason why Ireland hasn’t produced a Donald Trump or a Nigel Farage yet
The far right in Ireland is run by the charismatically challenged. If someone capable of stringing a sentence together emerges, that political calculus will change quickly
Dr Strangelove in Dublin review: Steve Coogan gives a bravura performance, but the play around him falls a little flat
Armando Iannucci and Seán Foley’s production of Stanley Kubrick’s political satire leans into broad physical comedy
‘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
Alexander Skarsgard: Filming The Northman in Ireland was ‘months in the mud’
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
Review: This fascinating and invaluable found-footage film is worthy of its title
If the film's great, who cares if it's faithful to the book?
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
Donald Clarke predicts next year’s best picture nominees. He used to be good at this...
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
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
Veep review: To hell with the polls. Get back on the campaign trail, Meyer
A year ago, the scabrous comedy Veep seemed like a sour joke about chaotic US politics. Now it returns like an escapist parallel universe
Fake News Show: 'Was Spicer in on the joke? Who can tell anymore?'
Panellists compete for scores measured in clicks and spread bait on Twitter in a quiz that looks to reclaim fake news for satire
‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ voted best British sitcom of 21st century
Brendan O’Carroll show beats ‘The Office’, ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Gavin & Stacey’ in poll
Television: After the London bombings, a mother’s grief puts viewers through the ringer
Review: ‘A Song for Jenny’, ‘Fake or Fortune’, ‘Coronation Street’
John Fanning: Campaign advertising – the good, the bad, and the scurrilous
‘With a general election now less than a year away, the referendum ads raise the wider issue of the effectiveness of political advertising’
Netflix’s top 50 series
Whether it's a Netflix original like Orange Is The New Black, a British comedy like Peep Show or just completely addictive like Breaking Bad; we've listed and categorised the very best Netflix boxsets for you to enjoy.
Television: Bigotry in homophobia hotspots, and philosophy in the back seats of taxis
Stephen Fry got personal with zealots, and a timely fly-on-the-dashboard documentary ticked a lot of boxes
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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