2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1013+ words) More Irish than the Irish themselves: Jack Charlton, certain Anglo-Normans and, in recent years, Sarah Jessica Parker. A Donegal woman who winters in Manhattan, the Sex and the City star recently showed her palate narrowing to Irish specifications by posting…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (536+ words) “The answer is 100 per cent yes,” he replied. “The only thing is I don’t think it’s just Gen Z and Gen Alpha. I believe it’s been a societal shift.” Erika, though awful in many ways, is a convincing Gen X…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1239+ words) “There’s no such thing as a born songwriter,” Phil Coulter tells Brendan O’Connor (RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday). “It’s a craft you have to learn.” There follow tales of Coulter’s upbringing in Derry and a musical education in Belfast that was split…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (304+ words) This play by David Ireland stars Matthew Broderick as a knowing caricature of himself. The Irish-American star plays an Irish-American star, named Jay Conway, who is set to feature in a play about Ireland. Thanks to Jay’s celebrity, the entire…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (163+ words) The first 20 minutes or so of this interesting British mockumentary looks to be taking potshots at the largest barn doors with the fattest blunderbusses. Laurie Kynaston, in round glasses and woolly hat, plays Sam, a stereotypical indie film-maker. Sian Clifford,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (185+ words) Where is the film adaptation of American Idiot: A Green Day Musical? We were promised a movie based on the hit Broadway show as long ago as 2011. That project may be lost to eternal development hell. In the meantime, we…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (857+ words) Bill Oddie, who has died aged 85, was a multitalented performer who found his greatest comedy success on television with his fellow Cambridge University Footlights members Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden in The Goodies, a sketch show that combined the anarchic…...

1+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (211+ words) Death is only the beginning in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s audacious debut, a supernatural comedy that masks one of the year’s thorniest political satires with an absurd premise. What begins as deadpan class comedy steadily unfolds into an allegory about memory, power…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (311+ words) Staged in the charmingly cluttered O’Connor’s pub in Galway, Two, directed by Andrew Flynn, unfolds from behind the open-plan bar, the actors addressing us familiarly as regular customers. They are the landlord and landlady, a married couple running a pub…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (224+ words) The early years of the 21st century witnessed an explosion of gross-out, lowest denominator comedy, much of it emanating from the general direction of Will Ferrell. Humour has since moved on – and so has Ferrell, who makes his first starring role…...