Streaming
Merciful hour: Stephen Rea and Judith Roddy interviewed
The Northern-born actor and his compatriot Judith Roddy jumped at the chance to appear in Frank McGuinness’s eagerly awaited new work, The Visiting Hour
Classical Notes: Could streaming be a silver lining for classical music?
Irish classical’s response to the pandemic has given streaming viewers an idea of how good our artists are right across the musical spectrum
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Romeo and Juliet: A reimagining for screen that grips and surprises
Shakespeare’s classic and David Ireland’s Sadie were both staged for British TV last week, with impressive results
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Sound of Metal: Finding new meaning in the sound of silence
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Malmkrog: Three hours of total tedium in Transylvania
Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, an existential drama set in a Romanian country manor, is exhausting and boring
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Judas and the Black Messiah: Gritty thriller doubles as a bracing history lesson
Shaka King’s film is a cold and angry examination of the fate that befell the Black Panthers in 1960s America
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Tech View: Older viewers take the plunge into streaming
Video-on-demand services are experiencing a boom in older audiences due to lockdowns, and terrestrial stations are cashing in by broadening offerings on their players
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Moxie: Poehler blasts the patriarchy with a po-faced girl power polemic
Moxie is an earnest take on a serious subject, but fails to inject the humour of its more successful predecessors such as Election and Booksmart
Willie O’Reilly: RTÉ’s digital shutdown is a lost opportunity
The decision to dump digital audio broadcasting 15 years into this service is a poor strategic move which may have to be revisited in the future
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Once Upon a Bridge: Compelling online production bridges the gap until theatre returns
Sonya Kelly imagines the lives of the three people involved in an incident when a jogger pushed a woman into oncoming traffic on a London bridge
TV Review: Psychological thriller lurches into realms of the ludicrous
Netflix’s new drama Behind Her Eyes quickly takes a turn for the fanciful, with deeply mixed results
I Care a Lot: Horrible people meet their match in dark comedy thriller
In J Blakeson’s enjoyable film, Rosamund Pike shines as a nasty predator who may have tried one scam too many