John C Reilly is bringing Mister Romantic, his performance of love songs by Nat King Cole, Tom Waits and others, to Dublin
You can also catch Jafar Panahiâs Palme dâOr-winning It Was Just an Accident, Richard Linklaterâs acclaimed Blue Moon and talks with Ed Guiney of Element Pictures and producer David Puttnam
Richard Taylor sued Coogan and production companies over portrayal in 2022 film The Lost King
Founded in west Belfast by Michele Devlin and Laurence McKeown, the festival now attracts 25,000 visitors each year
Dreams of what might have been at 2002 World Cup still as vivid as day the Cork man stormed out
Television: Steve Coogan, who has played Partridge since the 1990s, seems more comfortable than ever being back in Alanâs boat shoes
Triumph of Steve Cooganâs great comedy character rests on his slow evolution, moments of pathos and the canny avoidance of low-hanging fruit (Brexit)
September 28th-October 3rd highlights: including The Walsh Sisters; How Are You? Itâs Alan (Partridge); and Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Roy Keaneâs clash with Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup is living history in Ireland. Audiences elsewhere might not know what to make of their square-off
Plus: Hollywood money to replace (the other) Brendan Gleeson; Pope Leoâs GAA link; and a spot of fencing at Milltown Golf Club
Coogan takes on role as Mick McCarthy with Ăanna Hardwicke playing Roy Keane
We should be flattered that, like the ginger guitar-basher Ed Sheeran, so many people yearn to be âculturallyâ Irish
Tim Key and Tom Basdenâs new film has been almost two decades in the making. Itâs well worth the wait
Stan Erraught is ideally placed to navigate this territory as a former member of 1980s band Stars of Heaven
Grandson of Irish immigrants wants to combat the âstigma and shameâ some survivors feel
From Bridgerton to The Sopranos, some actors have insisted on moments being axed â although they do not always get their way
Theatregoers were told the actor has laryngitis
Armando Iannucci and SeĂĄn Foleyâs production of Stanley Kubrickâs political satire leans into broad physical comedy
February 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
What golden specimens they are, you think, as they propel themselves across Godâs good earth like Accenture employees here to rationalise a business
Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?
Previews for January 26th to January 31st: including the return of The Apprentice, Idris Elba investigates Our Knife Crime Crisis and Noah Cosentino stars in The Recruit
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming yearâs stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitalsâ Sweepstake
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Ăanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrickâs film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
Saipan will follow the infamous 2002 World Cup feud between Irelandâs football captain and manager
Controversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World Cup
The directorâs films have often stirred discontent. With his latest political thriller, Shoshana, set in 1930s Tel Aviv, he knows he must be ready for pushback
Television: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieve
TV review: At moments The Reckoning is too awful to sit through. At the same time, Steve Cooganâs ability to recreate Jimmy Savileâs cheesy anticharm is uncanny
Television: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJâs years of sex abuse
Donald Clarke: Some documentaries stand accused as offering up sex abuse victimsâ stories as âentertainmentâ - but nobody is suggesting these films are fun
âItâs the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinkerâ
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
High Court agrees to hear two of eight challenges in late October or November
âBantzâ? The truth is Brits canât conceive of anyone not wanting to be British
Unthinkable: The original âsage-wannabesâ of Athens were considered slightly weird, a new book reveals
âThe whole history between the British and the Irish runs through meâ, says Coogan
The comedian has applied for and expects his Irish passport soon. âThatâs not a joke,â he says
Winterbottomâs latest is not completely without merit but we deserve more creative satire
Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael
End your film with shocking statistics? No way, the studio told Michael Winterbottom
Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders
Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever
Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this weekâs festival trifecta
Killing Eve, Ant and Dec among winners. Benedict Cumberbatch scoops best actor
Series review: Alan Partridge, the new Emperor of England, knows heâs naked
Ruan Pienaarâs departure proved to be key as scrumhalf made move to Belfast from Connacht
It has been on Alan Partridge and a Bradyâs ham ad. So what does the rebel song mean?
BBC One viewers treated to a stirring rendition of the rebel song on the âThis Time with Alan Partridgeâ show
London Letter: Leave-veering audiences to lose out to capitalâs output
âGuess whoâs back in the big time?â he gloats in hilarious first episode of new show
Chatshow host, returning to present âThis Timeâ, gives out his BBC email address
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
