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Ken Early: My friend is right, TV replays from the World Cup are different this time
Goals are almost secondary to emotion, celebrity and spectacle
Brand it like Beckham: how football’s most shameless shill is cashing in on the World Cup
David Beckham is appearing in a lot more advertisements in the US than anyone actually playing in the tournament
Severance actor Adam Scott on filming in west Cork: ‘I was the American weirdo upstairs. I loved it’
Severance star’s new film is Hokum, directed by the Irish film-maker Damian McCarthy
Dave Hannigan: Farewell Robert Duvall, unforgettable (to my family at least) as Buck Weston
He played huge roles in The Godfather and Apocalypse now, but we loved him best in a little-known soccer comedy with Will Ferrell
John C Reilly: ‘I worked with this older Irish actor one time. He was bummed out if I said anything that wasn’t the lines’
John C Reilly is bringing Mister Romantic, his performance of love songs by Nat King Cole, Tom Waits and others, to Dublin
Saturday Night Live: ‘You can take the temperature of America by watching that show’
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episode
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Will & Harper review: Will Ferrell reconnects with trans friend in this feel-good odyssey
Road trip documentary could be seen as the anti-Top Gear special. Nicer, warmer, militantly tolerant
‘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
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Four new films to stream this weekend
Irresistible, Eurovision Song Contest, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
Is this the Eurovision winner? Dara Ó Briain and, er, Russell Crowe love it
Think about Things, Iceland’s 2020 entry, is a synth-pop earworm that’s going viral
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
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Stardust
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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