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

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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Shakespeare’s classic and David Ireland’s Sadie were both staged for British TV last week, with impressive results

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Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, an existential drama set in a Romanian country manor, is exhausting and boring

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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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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 is an earnest take on a serious subject, but fails to inject the humour of its more successful predecessors such as Election and Booksmart

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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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

Netflix’s new drama Behind Her Eyes quickly takes a turn for the fanciful, with deeply mixed results

In J Blakeson’s enjoyable film, Rosamund Pike shines as a nasty predator who may have tried one scam too many