Mr Mercedes review: Brendan Gleeson brings his grizzly skills to bearBeneath the generic cat and mouse game is a picture of American masculinity and its fateful engine troubleTue Sept 19 2017 - 23:15
‘Electric Dreams’ tells us to trust the robots, not the humansTV review: Another Philip K Dick adaptation, in this boom time for paranoiaMon Sept 18 2017 - 17:53
Dublin Fringe Festival: shows to catch while you canThe latest reviews including Birdy, Everything Now, Kicking All The Boxes, Raven Eyed and MDLSXSun Sept 17 2017 - 16:00
Welcome to Pat Kenny's nation, a chilling scenarioThe Pat Kenny Show imagines the nation not as it could be, but as it is, an easily goaded, roiling messThu Sept 14 2017 - 11:13
Within Rooms review: Lost in translationThe walls in this small, over-extended production are built on weak foundationsThu Sept 14 2017 - 11:00
Dublin Fringe Festival: our guide to the best of the weekendHere is our selection of the best shows opening this weekend, and the best productions still running that we've seen so farThu Sept 14 2017 - 05:00
Frock Finders review: Boutiques propose and customers disposeIt’s hard to say how seriously RTÉ’s new show is taking its fashionable subjectWed Sept 13 2017 - 10:41
Rellik: The TV show that gives you everything back except your timeThe gimmick in Rellik is to tell a detective story in reverse. It’s not too late to back out nowTue Sept 12 2017 - 12:02
How to make a newspaper in an hourFringe review: Enter the offices of The Dublin Correspondænt and bring your controversial opinionsSun Sept 10 2017 - 02:00
Bojack Horseman: not puns or pastiche, but great comedy pedigreeThe Netflix series, which has celebrity guests fighting for a place, is in it for the long runFri Sept 08 2017 - 16:40
Tin Star: Tim Roth is stuck in the Rockies, with plenty of time to wasteTin Star plays merry havoc with chronology and character, but to no real consequenceThu Sept 07 2017 - 22:00
Peep Show boys back with barbs that rip a hole in the screenBack review: The Peep Show duo are now a fully mature odd couple, prone to looking back, in Simon Blackwell's new comedyThu Sept 07 2017 - 10:58
Dublin Fringe: 15 shows you need to see at this year’s festivalThis year’s fringe is packed with potential: here’s the ones we think will make the cutThu Sept 07 2017 - 05:00
Katie Roche: Ambitions of greatness for a woman in search of characterIn 1930s rural Ireland, Katie Roche is a young woman with notions. In 2017, this revival of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic has clearer aimsWed Sept 06 2017 - 18:53
‘It surprised me how much I fell in love with the Irish way’Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe FestivalTue Sept 05 2017 - 05:00
A Tribe Called Quest kick it at Electric PicnicHip-hop icons sound as fresh as ever on the Main Stage, while Bill Bailey tackles the DUPSun Sept 03 2017 - 17:07
It’s a quiet eruption for Friday’s EP headliners, The xxLondon trio seem slightly awed by Stradbally’s responseSat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00
EP2017: Seriously silly select appeal set to changeThere’s room for growing up, but Super Silly provide a heady mixFri Sept 01 2017 - 22:00
Electric Picnic day one best bits: 'You look so festival'Our writers on the best bits of day one at StradballyFri Sept 01 2017 - 21:00
EP 2017: There’s no place like domeA world first for EP: half a giant golf ball of soundFri Sept 01 2017 - 18:29
Narcos review: What happens when the Cali cartel goes straight?The drugs drama returns with true stories that beggar beliefFri Sept 01 2017 - 12:00
EP2017: Sun shines on Hudson Taylor’s winsome waysA singalong. A handclap. Even a new song ‘Feel it Again’ sounds vigorously familiarFri Sept 01 2017 - 05:00
Dancing with my self: Step this way for this week’s theatre highlightsOn the boards: Abbey stages 1936 play by the oft-neglected Teresa Deevy, and Stefanie Preissner directs Margaret McAuliffe’s one-woman show about an Irish dancerThu Aug 31 2017 - 11:00
My goodness, aspiring to greatnessFor the Abbey’s new production of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic, ‘Katie Roche’, the theatre turned to the trailblazing director Caroline ByrneThu Aug 31 2017 - 05:00
Are psychopaths born or made, and can they be cured?Uta Frith tries to come up with some answers based on some deeply alarming interviewsWed Aug 30 2017 - 13:00
Game of Thrones: Cersei, not the zombie-dragon, makes us gaspSeason finale: It’s the politics, cynicism and raw emotion that make this gripping TVMon Aug 28 2017 - 22:25
R.U.R. review: May the robots rise up to meet youTo hell with humans; we’re on the terminators’ side, in NYT’s reboot of Karel Capek’s 1921 playSun Aug 27 2017 - 16:53
How do you solve the famous 'trolley problem'?A new theatre show allows the audience to vote throughout. Would you make the right decisions?Sat Aug 26 2017 - 05:00
The Mist review: Spot the anxiety amid the ham-fisted toshBundling the gravity of sexual assault into the hokum of killer fog is a mistakeFri Aug 25 2017 - 13:56
Prepare for a swell party at Jay Gatsby’s Mansion at the Gate TheatreThis week in the theatreThu Aug 24 2017 - 11:00
The State review: What has driven 1,000 UK people to fight with Isis?Peter Kosminsky’s four-part drama shows how. But what about the why?Thu Aug 24 2017 - 05:00
Welcome to the Dublin pub screening each episode of Game of ThronesHell is other spoilers among a community of GoT watchers in DublinWed Aug 23 2017 - 14:00
Valkyrien review: A Scandi drama where men live in fear of womenThe latest TV import is a dark moral satire about what desperate people will do – but don’t let that stop you from digging inTue Aug 22 2017 - 13:00
Game of Thrones review: It’ll be all wight on the nightThe penultimate episode is so gripping you half expect to see yourself listed in the creditsMon Aug 21 2017 - 22:00
Marvel’s The Defenders: the new Netflix series you might want to missTV review: Four telly superheroes join forces against a common enemy – our patienceFri Aug 18 2017 - 12:00
What happens when you remove gender from the classroom?TV review – No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? has some answersThu Aug 17 2017 - 17:57
This week at the theatreThis week at the theatre, you find robotic revolutions, a threatened Eden and other unlikely relationships.Thu Aug 17 2017 - 11:00
Quacks review: 'The bloodier the coat, the better the surgeon'The BBC’s new comedy looks like a medical marvel in the makingWed Aug 16 2017 - 12:53
Game of Thrones: Special-effects dragon out-acts Jon SnowThe beast sniffs out Jon’s Targaryen parentage in an emotional CGI encounterMon Aug 14 2017 - 21:55
‘When the revolution started, I was not political. Then people started to die’Counting Sheep began life at the heart of the revolution on Ukraine’s Maidan. Is it more than radical tourism?Sat Aug 12 2017 - 05:00
Kilkenny’s art of the possibleAs the world threatens to spin apart, this year’s arts festival concentrates on what keeps it together – just aboutThu Aug 10 2017 - 11:00
The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on CroatiaJohnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritorsWed Aug 09 2017 - 10:00
Trust Me review: Jodie Whittaker gets her first doctor’s internshipHow long will it be before Jodie Whittaker’s A&E doctor is found out? Longer than it takes for the many implausibilities of Trust Me to unravel, hopefullyWed Aug 09 2017 - 10:00
Game of Thrones: Dragon attack is an extraordinary sceneThe long-hoped-for sequence of a screeching creature and burning soldiers feels weirdMon Aug 07 2017 - 21:55
Diana: Charles ‘was all over me like a bad rash’‘Diana In Her Own Words’ documentary shows a woman fascinated by mediaMon Aug 07 2017 - 11:29
Grease: Popularity is great for high school, professionalism is better for theatreGrease has got groove, it’s got feeling. But this unctuous performance is hardly slickFri Aug 04 2017 - 15:30
Insecure review: An urban reality and a daydream escapeIssa Rae’s show grows more confident even as its heroine does notThu Aug 03 2017 - 23:00
Man in an Orange Shirt: A blameless love and a painful historyPatrick Gale’s debut screen drama is based on the compromise of his own parentsTue Aug 01 2017 - 12:00
Game of Thrones ups the sadism, the humour and the dialogueGame of Thrones Season 7, Episode 3 Review: Free of the unwieldy fantasy books that inspired it, the show is thrivingMon Jul 31 2017 - 21:55
The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern operaA lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda WalshMon Jul 31 2017 - 15:56
