Actor talks about Footlights, teaching, sage advice from doctor and new film After Love

Review: This fascinating and invaluable found-footage film is worthy of its title

When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming

Film review: Sky makes a complete pig’s ear of a street-hustler take on Oliver Twist

The Dublin Film Critics Circle has announced the results of its annual poll

Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland

‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan

Patricia Ryan goes on holiday in election week while knives come out in Meath East

With Dev Patel as David Copperfield, movies have caught up with theatre’s creative approach

TV review: Imagine Veep if the jokes were bunged in an airlock and blasted into the void

Review: This is maybe the best Dickens film adaptation since David Lean

Funniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and Morty

Sophisticated film set in Germany during the second World War deploys its laughter expertly and contains a message for our time

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

Review: Morris has turned fascinating stories into the first out-and-out dud of his career

The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Donald Clarke predicts next year’s best picture nominees. He used to be good at this...

25 years since Alan Partridge first appeared on screen, his creator explains why a divided nation needs him more than ever

Presenter’s shambling persona is perfect for our political moment, says Steve Coogan