‘Who actually has the power? Is it Taylor Swift – or have men just found a way to profit off the idea of a powerful woman?’Blistering punk-pop duo Lambrini Girls recorded debut album last year, when the world seemed to be at peak insanity. But the spiral continues, they saySat Jan 18 2025 - 05:15
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was a masterpiece. He forced us to look at the world in horrifying new waysTwin Peaks was one of the first dramas to demonstrate that TV could be an art form. Shows such as The Sopranos and Mad Men owe it everythingFri Jan 17 2025 - 09:29
Severance review: four heroes who twigged their work-life balance was dangerously out of whack discover something worseTelevision review: Ben Stiller’s directing of season two of Severance has the wonderfully chilly qualities of a 1970s sci-fi movie, but the purgatorial workplace drama is in danger of receiving its P45Fri Jan 17 2025 - 07:30
David Gray: Dear Life review – Lean into this raw, bumpy album. It’s well worth the effortNever mind that he’s British. David Gray might be the most consequential Irish songwriter of his generationThu Jan 16 2025 - 05:00
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked – ‘I felt so violated. I didn’t call it rape for many, many years,’ says ex-partnerTelevision review: actor Evan Rachel Wood tells Channel 4′s grim exposé rock singer Marilyn Manson raped her during filming of music videoWed Jan 15 2025 - 06:00
Peggy Seeger: ‘I met Bob Dylan before he was Bob Dylan. He came for my autograph’The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational voice of modern folkWed Jan 15 2025 - 05:15
Silent Witness review: Cosy crime drama delivers plenty of killer blowsTelevision: Back for a murderously enthusiastic 28th season, Silent Witness brings a jot of bloody consistency to an unpredictable worldTue Jan 14 2025 - 22:00
Dancing with the Stars review: Waltz by meteorologist Joanna Donnelly in memory of her mother leaves everyone in tearsTelevision: week two of DWTS 2025 sees goosebumps abound and emotions flowSun Jan 12 2025 - 21:31
Alex Kapranos: ‘I saw a guy in a band being extremely predatory with underage girls. He was exploiting his position’Franz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The band’s frontman talks about two decades in the music businessSat Jan 11 2025 - 05:30
American Primeval review: Seldom has the stench of American conquest risen so raw and hotTelevision: Grippingly gory new western does the seemingly impossible by making us see the old west in a bloody new lightThu Jan 09 2025 - 06:00
Timothée Chalamet: A Complete Unknown soundtrack review – In what world does this Dylanless Bob Dylan album make sense?Star of new biopic deserves gold medal for effort, but you can only wonder about the target audienceThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review - gripping film does not flinch from horror unleashed by obnoxious showTelevision review: The tasteless sleaze Jerry Springer paraded across the screen has long since been eclipsed by the great dumbing down of culture off cameraTue Jan 07 2025 - 06:00
Prosthetics, a body suit and a standout performance: Why Colin Farrell deserves his Golden Globe for The PenguinTelevision: Star buried his natural charm and affability under layers of latex to become the most un-Farrell-like creature imaginableMon Jan 06 2025 - 13:03
Room to Improve review: Dermot Bannon’s fancy pants design runs into a client’s wish for a lovable and liveable homeTelevision: Room To Improve turns an everyday makeover project into an engaging story and tells it with passion and empathySun Jan 05 2025 - 22:30
Dancing with the Stars review: Twists, turns and all kinds of grimaces as new judge Karen Byrne goes up against sourpuss Brian RedmondTelevision: Olympians Jack Woolley and Rhys McClenaghan are clear front-runners as RTÉ’s dance competition returns for its 2025 seasonSun Jan 05 2025 - 21:44
Irish music acts to watch in 2025: 22 to follow, from Cardinals to Yunè PinkuWho are Ireland’s rising stars? Here’s who to keep an eye on this yearSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:15
Missing You review: another hard-nosed lady cop with a scorched-earth personal life from Harlan CobenNetflix review: While the cliches are ticked off one by one, the UK-set whodunnit with a convoluted plot and soap opera-level acting is pleasing hokum from mystery writer Harlan CobenThu Jan 02 2025 - 06:00
Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville – Spasmodic shot of art rock walks the tightrope between high culture and backstreet scuzzDubliner Aaron Corcoran names debut album in honour of Manhattan club’s ethos of ‘celebrating the weird part of who you are’Thu Jan 02 2025 - 05:00
The Traitors review: riotously addictive gameshow is piled high with murder, mystery and statement capesTelevision review: Much of the fun with The Traitors from the BBC is in how seriously it takes itself. A creepy castle in the Scottish Highlands helps with the ambience, too. RTÉ will probably be set the new Irish version at Limerick JunctionWed Jan 01 2025 - 21:00
The Late Late NYE Show review: Patrick Kielty rises above some mystifying moments with a good line in take-no-prisoner jokesTelevision: Despite blink-and-it’s-over conversations with wildly mismatched guests, this New Year’s Eve special is much better than 2023’sWed Jan 01 2025 - 11:24
Dancing with the Stars 2025: Who are the contestants, when is it on and moreEverything you need to know about RTÉ’s new season of the competition for the glitterball trophyMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
Nanci Griffith: From a Distance review – harrowing account of the country music star’s life that ended in isolation and alcoholismTelevision review: While Nanci Griffith's final years were tragic, there are many heartwarming aspects to the story of a singer with low self-esteem and a poetic air who found success in IrelandSun Dec 29 2024 - 21:00
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane – The strange blend of fact and fiction around one of the last Anglo-Irish eccentricsTelevision: Much we think we know about the custodian of Slane Castle is conjured from thin air, as becomes clear in this absorbing documentaryFri Dec 27 2024 - 19:27
Squid Game season two review: Tense, bloody follow-up ticks boxes if you’re craving more Red Light, Green LightTelevision: Seong Gi-hun, the down-and-out hero from season one, is on the trail of ‘the Recruiter’, the dapper gent who searches for contestantsThu Dec 26 2024 - 08:00
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special review: Unkillable comedy’s wit is as sharp as a mouthful of Brussels sproutsTelevision: Brendan O’Carroll’s slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gagsWed Dec 25 2024 - 21:28
Indiana Jones should be on the sex offenders’ register: Some Christmas films age better than othersSome of the beloved hits of your youth have not aged well. Many were far darker than you imagineTue Dec 24 2024 - 06:30
The Young Offenders Christmas Special review: Where’s Jock? Without him, Conor’s firearm foxer isn’t quite a crackerChris Walley’s charismatic tearaway is still in prison on drug charges, leaving his best pal, the Knocknaheeny scamp Conor, flying soloFri Dec 20 2024 - 21:59
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish ChristmasIan Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noiseFri Dec 20 2024 - 11:25
Saint Etienne: The Night – Say hello to the insomniac street preachersBob Stanley, Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs return with album about chilly thoughts that race through the middle-aged mind when the lights dimThu Dec 19 2024 - 05:00
So This Is Christmas review: Beautifully made but ultimately cheerless viewing – a glimmer of hope would have been niceTelevision: We all know Christmas can be tough but this film lays it on with a trowelWed Dec 18 2024 - 22:35
Strike: The Ink Black Heart review: JK Rowling’s unlikely cult hit is a gift that keeps on givingTelevision: BBC’s sixth adaptation of author’s Robert Galbraith crime books is full of rumpled charmMon Dec 16 2024 - 22:00
From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024 The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictableFri Dec 13 2024 - 06:00
100 Years of Solitude review: A woozy, feverish watch to be savoured in bite-sized portionsTelevision: Lavish adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel is both meditative and steamy, sometimes to the point of hilarityThu Dec 12 2024 - 11:04
No Good Deed review: Even Lisa Kudrow can’t save this pre-Christmas turkey of a dark comedyTelevision: LA suburbia-set series is just too miserable to make viewers laugh. It’s like the grimmest ever season of Location, Location, LocationThu Dec 12 2024 - 07:00
Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live – An A-grade tour of the singer’s lesser-spotted B-sides and deep cutsFew cut a more fascinating figure than Amos, whose stage performances have long offered a more profound and esoteric experience than her studio workThu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00
Inside Aer Lingus review: A dull infomercial masquerading as a behind-the-scenes documentaryTelevision revivew: A potentially promising idea is wasted by a film that serves as a glorified commercial for the airlineMon Dec 09 2024 - 22:00
Paul Mescal on Saturday Night Live review: Gladiator II star skewers America’s bizarre views about IrelandTV review: Paul Mescal displays no mercy in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and brings all his Hollywood charisma to bearSun Dec 08 2024 - 11:12
Late Late Toy Show review: Patrick Kielty does not have Tubridy's hamster-on-Red Bull energy, but that's possibly a good thingMariah Carey pops up with a video message as 150-minute show reaches the finish line with a group performance of All I Want For Christmas Is YouSat Dec 07 2024 - 00:43
Who is Zach Bryan, the country music star who’s just sold out summer concerts at the Phoenix Park?Is the musician from Oklahoma the next Garth Brooks? Well, about 100,000 people will flock to Dublin for three concerts next June see the 28-year-old superstar going supernova in real-timeThu Dec 05 2024 - 14:18
Black Doves review: Keira Knightley is delightfully sweary as a devoted wife by day and deadly assassin by nightTelevision: There’s an awful lot going on in Joe Barton’s espionage romp – a surprise cameo from Galway band The Stunning’s Steve Wall, for one thingThu Dec 05 2024 - 10:00
The Young Offenders deserves better than to be dumped on RTÉ’s online playerTelevision: Handed a hit comedy by the BBC, RTÉ has once again fumbled its big punchlineWed Dec 04 2024 - 11:47
Scannal: Savita review – Heartbreaking chronicle of the medieval essence at heart of Irish healthcare systemTelevision: Sensitive and wrenching documentary series recounts the death of Savita Halappanavar after she suffered a miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancyTue Dec 03 2024 - 19:30
Ed Sheeran and Mary Robinson are right. It’s time to bin Band AidBand Aid revisionism hasn’t dropped from the clear blue winter sky. It’s been there since the startSat Nov 30 2024 - 07:07
James Vincent McMorrow: ‘I’ve been building back a version of me that made me happy rather than crying every night’The Dubliner isn’t the first name that comes to mind as a songwriter for a boy-band megastar. But working with Louis Tomlinson was just what he needed after his record-label disappoinmentSat Nov 30 2024 - 05:15
‘I wasn’t used to people in their early 20s, getting sick and dying’: The harrowing story of Aids in IrelandMemorial – The Story of HIV/Aids in Ireland review: An empathetic yet unsentimental documentaryThu Nov 28 2024 - 23:15
Ballroom Blitz review: Adam Clayton’s celebration of Irish showbands hints at the burden of being in U2TV review: U2 bassist Adam Clayton is a decent presenter and great fun to hang with, but the documentary leans too hard on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sakeWed Nov 27 2024 - 22:35
Anohni at the National Concert Hall review: A night of nourishing melancholia conjuring an ocean of warmthIn homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musician’s work the creative approach she feels it deservesWed Nov 27 2024 - 15:22
Leaders’ debate TV review: With an eye for drama, Miriam O’Callaghan pins Mary Lou McDonald and Micheál Martin to their collarsTelevision: Miriam O’Callaghan did her best to add pep to this tedious chinwag but we ended up with pure lethargyWed Nov 27 2024 - 09:58
Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Eating – how the food industry cracked the code and made us all eat moreTelevision: The big message of this show is that we should not feel guilty about our eating habits, just angry about how we got hereMon Nov 25 2024 - 22:00
The album that nearly finished U2: The story of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and its new ‘shadow’ LPHow to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb features 10 tracks from the recording sessions that made some of the band wonder if they’d have anything to releaseSat Nov 23 2024 - 05:15
