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Television

Film & Television

John Maguire: Spielberg’s own coming-of-age story writ large on the big screen

Introspective semi-autobiography The Fabelmans takes the audience on an insightful but painful trip down the director’s memory lane
  • John Maguire
  • January 28, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Exhausting, over-the-top Hollywood blowout bedazzles and bores by turns

Damien Chazelle’s Babylon mash up follows imagined and real-life figures of the 1920s as they try to negotiate the film industry’s transition from silent films to sound
  • John Maguire
  • January 17, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Cate Blanchett elevates Tár in a blistering portrait of power and celebrity

Todd Field’s captivating and complex thriller demands that the viewer pay close attention, but the reward is well worth the effort
  • John Maguire
  • January 13, 2023
Film & Television

John Maguire: Occult Poe murder mystery loses heart and pace as the grim story unfolds

Scott Cooper reimagines real-life historical figure Edgar Allan Poe as an unofficial recruit to help solve gruesome killings at a military academy in this Gothic detective thriller
  • John Maguire
  • January 7, 2023
Culture

Succession, Oppenheimer, and Barbie: Looking forward to the cultural highlights of 2023

The highlights of the year to come as chosen by writers Ben Haugh, John Walshe, Andrea Cleary, Tony Clayton-Lea, Sara Keating and Jordan Mooney
  • Ben Haugh,
  • John Walshe,
  • Andrea Cleary,
  • Tony Clayton-Lea,
  • Jordan Mooneyand
  • Sara Keating
  • January 7, 2023
Film & Television

Family favourites, entertainment galore and festive frights

The season’s television schedule is jam-packed with classic films, Christmas specials and intriguing once-off programmes. Here are Ben Haugh’s picks of the best things to curl up to over the holidays
  • Ben Haugh
  • December 17, 2022
Film & Television

Beautiful but bloated Avatar sequel drowning in empty mythology

It’s been 13 years since Avatar broke box office records, and with cinema audiences down and Marvel movies dominating the landscape, director James Cameron has his work cut out if The Way of Water is to recoup its huge production budget
  • John Maguire
  • December 15, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire: A sinister ‘Mary Poppins’ comes visiting in disturbing folk horror tale

A wealthy woman who seemingly has it all collapses with a mysterious illness in an intriguing, metaphoric story of the first world’s exploitation of developing nations
  • John Maguire
  • December 8, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire on film: Glass Onion is funnier but not as satifying to unpeel as the original whodunit

Bond star Daniel Craig is back as the 'world’s greatest detective’ in a follow-up to 2019’s surprise murder mystery hit, Knives Out
  • John Maguire
  • December 2, 2022
Interview

‘It’s almost like you’re hosting a dinner party, so that mix of guests is really important’

Angela Scanlon on how she’s much happier with the current series of her Saturday night chat show, why she’s a nightmare to watch TV with and how when she had the biggest job of her career, she was miserable
  • John Walshe
  • November 26, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire on film: A lyrical, coming-of-age road movie with a macabre difference

The latest film from Luca Guadagnino tells the disturbing story of a pair of ravenous addicts who need to eat human flesh in order to survive, but this is less a horror film than an outlaw romance
  • John Maguire
  • November 24, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire: One woman’s story brings home the grim realities of direct provision

Feature film and documentary maker Frank Berry presents a powerful first-person insight into humanity bowed by heartless bureaucracy
  • John Maguire
  • November 18, 2022
Interview

‘Seeing addiction and alcoholism through Shiv has been really eye-opening for me’ – Róisín Gallagher

Belfast actor Róisín Gallagher is due to hit Irish televisions screens in a break-out role as a recovering alcoholic in The Dry, a new comedy-drama that has already wowed audiences on BritBox for its honest portrayal of alcoholism
  • John Walshe
  • November 12, 2022
Film & Television

John Maguire: Exceptional performances a wonder to behold in mystical period drama

Director Sebastián Lelio’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel loses its way somewhat towards the end, but is nonetheless a gripping piece of storytelling
  • John Maguire
  • November 11, 2022
Film Reviews

John Maguire: Nighy gives powerful performance in film about life and death

Oliver Hermanus’s sublime remake of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s classic Ikiru is neither maudlin nor manipulative, despite the subject matter
  • John Maguire
  • November 3, 2022
Film Reviews

John Maguire: Östlund’s latest a furious, fearless satire on the hypocrisies of the ultra-rich

Triangle of Sadness is Ruben Östlund’s second Cannes Palme d’Or winner in a row and is centred on a gilded group gathered on a $250m luxury yacht for a cruise
  • John Maguire
  • October 28, 2022
Appetite for Distraction

What to watch this week: Dr Who still flying about with the Daleks through time and space

Nearly 60 years on from the doctor’s TV debut, Jodie Whittaker stars in a feature length episode in her last appearance in the role
  • Emmanuel Kehoe,
  • Nadine O'Reganand
  • Ben Haugh
  • October 21, 2022
The Profile

Cleese’s war on woke: the Monty Python star becomes a new voice for GB News

One of the Monty Python iconoclasts whose film the Life of Brian caused apoplexy among conservative Christians, John Cleese has become outspoken on the negative aspects of cancel culture and censorship. He now has a platform on GB News
  • Barry J Whyte
  • October 15, 2022
Film Reviews

John Maguire: A sympathetic glimpse into the short and secretive life of Emily Brontë

Director Frances O’Connor blurs fact and fiction to dramatic effect in this modern and sensitively drawn take on the physical and mental health challenges faced by the Victorian writer
  • John Maguire
  • October 13, 2022
Film Reviews

John Maguire: Pleasant period comedy is fizzy but predictable

Filmed in Ireland, Mr Malcolm’s List has plenty of wit and verve despite its unexceptional plotting
  • John Maguire
  • August 26, 2022

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