TV guide: the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
November 17th-22th: including I’m a Celebrity; Dune: Prophecy; Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars; and Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem
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Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Cillian Murphy probably didn’t expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
Denise Gough: ‘It’s only recently women get to play parts that usually go to boys’
Irish actor on her character choices, catching Covid-19 and why she avoids social media
Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dream
Patrick Freyne: Antiques Roadshow delves in second World War jingoism while cats plan our demise
Jude Law: ‘After I became a parent, I cried at anything’
As he plays a troubled dad trapped on a sinister island in The Third Day, the star reveals how the drama unlocked his deepest parenting fears
Alan Parker helped kickstart a cultural renaissance in Dublin
The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Chernobyl writer urges Instagram tourists to ‘respect’ nuclear disaster site
Spike in visitors, including someone posing in a g-string, prompts HBO writer to speak out
Chernobyl: A nuclear disaster is unsettlingly lovely to look at
Review: Under Johan Renck’s direction, these scenes are as grim as the architecture, brutal and unforgiving
Chernobyl TV drama will bring new light to 1986 nuclear disaster, says Adi Roche
Campaigner welcomes hard-hitting Sky and HBO TV series that prompted tears at UN
Lars Von Trier: ‘I am disappointed only 100 people vomited’
The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk
Sky Cinema eyes piece of the action with movies of its own
Risky move comes as streaming TV services chase the holy grail of original content
Frank McNally on a Brexit-flavoured ‘Waiting for Godot’
Soft Border, Hard Beckett: An Irishman’s Diary
Béatrice Dalle: ‘I’ve never thought I’m beautiful, but I have a power of attraction’
The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy
Seven of the best TV shows to watch this week
Anthony Hopkins plays Lear, Gay Byrne takes a trip down memory lane and Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope comes to a friendship-wrecking close
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
On Chesil Beach: Saoirse Ronan’s new film not wholly satisfying
Review: Ian McEwan’s own script cannot find a cinematic substitute for his sharp prose
In the age of surveillance, what do any of us have left to hide?
To be young now is to be hounded for personal data in exchange for trinkets and services
Television: After the London bombings, a mother’s grief puts viewers through the ringer
Review: ‘A Song for Jenny’, ‘Fake or Fortune’, ‘Coronation Street’
The Theory of Everything review: A brief history of love
This love story is as complex and deep as any of the physics covered in Stephen Hawking’s books
Audrey Tautou: Vive la différence
Since stumbling into the role of Amélie, Audrey Tautou has forged a singular career, one of the few resolutely Gallic film stars to become a global star. Her secret to success: ‘I always tried to follow my instincts
'Belle' director on women film-makers and how the zeitgeist rules cinema
Director Amma Asante's acclaimed new film is inspired by the true story of a mixed-heritage daughter of a British Royal Navy admiral
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