Netflix: 10 of the best new TV shows to watch in February
Vikings is back, along with Love is Blind Season 2, plus a Kanye West documentary
Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Maradona inspired me to become a film-maker’
The soccer star was the film-maker’s first contact with spectacle, with ‘a high form of entertainment’
Dublin edge Donegal in bizarre mezzanine semi-final match
Kerry’s landslide win over Tyrone earlier in the day meant there would be no league final
Death in prison a far cry from Bernie Madoff’s ritzy lifestyle
Fraudster was serving 150-year sentence for creating world’s largest Ponzi scheme
Elizabeth Perkins: ‘In 1980s Hollywood, there were no safety nets, no HR’
The Brat Pack actor on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene – ‘It would not be acceptable today’
Sam Neill: ‘I’m not having Jimmy Nesbitt turned into sausages’
'I love my animals' ... The actor was heartbroken by the death of his chicken, Meryl Streep
Patrick Freyne: Apparently it’s normal for royals to go riding all over the place
Vanessa Hudgens reswaps relationships in The Princess Switch: Switched Again
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
John Malkovich: ‘I don’t think anybody enjoys their family dying. I liked all mine’
The actor lost four loved ones in five years. So why is he still the ‘luckiest man around’?
Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’
The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre
Gig of the Week: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival
Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year
The Pale Horse: Deliciously atmospheric Agatha Christie adaptation
Review: Her work is perfect for TV. This drama, though flawed, manages not to muck it up
Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies
Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme
Harvey Weinstein: ‘I can make or break your career. So show me your breasts’
A new documentary on Weinstein gives some of his victims a first chance to speak on camera
Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: Well, it’s not quite as bad as that
Review: The new Ted Bundy film starring Zac Efron feels like high-end telly
The smartest dumb show on TV that everybody will be talking about
The zippy saga about filthy-rich white guys is an antidote to self-serious antihero dramas
Robert Rodriguez: ‘I don’t live in Hollywood. There’s nobody to tell me I’m doing it wrong’
Alita: Battle Angel director on his guerilla approach to making the long-awaited anime film
Netflix: the 10 best new films and shows in December
Roma, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Dumplin’, The Innocent Man, Springsteen on Broadway
Nicolas Roeg: the director who took the familiar and made it strange
Few directors have made so many films that touch on the status of masterpiece
Mile 22: Mark Wahlberg in an underwhelming glob of generic pulp
Review: The fight scenes are bruising and jaw-rattling. The rest of the film in rubbish
‘U2 thought they were getting Grease. I gave them Apocalypse Now’
Aoife McArdle has made her name with videos for Bryan Ferry and U2. Her debut feature, ‘Kissing Candice’, was made for a much lower budget, and yet is far more challenging
Eight of the best TV shows to watch this week
‘Billions’ returns, Idris Elba’s new comedy series debuts and Irish couple’s wedding dilemmas
Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’
Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel
Louis CK and Hollywood’s canon of creeps
After Weinstein was outed, I made a list of every man who had harassed or assaulted me
Louis CK courts critical praise and controversy in Toronto
‘I don’t think that everybody has to come to a consensus that it’s okay’, he says of his new film, ‘I Love You, Daddy’
Aisling Bea: ‘In terms of comedy, I’m not Heston Blumenthal. I’m like ‘chips and a side’’
Stand-up comedy, acting in ‘The Fall’, writing her own show and now team leader on ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ panel show – Kildare woman Aisling Bea has a lot on
Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers
Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities
Penguins of Madagascar review: cracking jokes keep these birdbrains flying high
Birds of little brain still manage to fly fairly high in funny sequel
Bill Hader: “What I liked about the script was that he has lots of problems, but being gay isn’t one of them”
The Saturday Night Live veteran on comic timing, his acclaimed dramatic turn in ‘The Skeleton Twins’ - and what it was like to work with Justin Beiber
Secret service chief’s sacking had nothing to do with gender
Julia Pierson withheld crucial information and papered over fiascos at a vital agency
Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”
Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...
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