The Muppet Show on Disney+: The humour is largely terrible – but isn’t that the point?
Television: This one-off reboot is faithful to the 1970s original, when there was no high concept, and Sabrina Carpenter provides the perfect opening night guest
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The Movie Quiz: Who has never been in a James Bond film?
Plus: What song plays under the Walt Disney logo at the start of their films?
Do you have what it takes to be a leader?
There are six basic styles of leadership and the best are skilled at several, with the flexibility to switch between them as circumstances dictate
Patrick Freyne’s top 14 shows to look out for in 2026
Including Lisa McGee’s new Northern comedy How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot and hospital drama The Pitt
Alan Menken: ‘I won the Razzie for worst song of the year just as I won an Oscar for Aladdin’
The Aladdin, Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast composer is bringing his live show to Ireland
The Movie Quiz: What is now the highest grossing Disney animation ever?
Plus: What is the only film to have won the best picture Oscar with no other nominations?
Oscars to move from broadcast TV to YouTube in 2029
ABC has televised the Oscars, the film industry’s highest honours, every year since 1976
Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+: Harry Potter for bored Marvel fans
Television: Zeitgeist has moved from young adult fiction to Romantasy, making this feel behind the times
Today’s stock market round-up: How shares fared in Dublin, London, Europe and New York
Oracle’s disappointing quarterly forecasts led to declines in some of the world’s biggest tech names
The 10 worst films of 2025: ‘Cap’, you say? Crap, more like
We gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worst
The 50 best films of 2025 – a full list in reverse order
There were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchises
The 50 best films of 2025: Materialists, Bridget Jones and Alpha make the list of numbers 30 to 21
We continue the countdown of our top-rated movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2025: No 50 to No 31
Our list again leans strongly on the cultural cinema that emerged from big festivals such as Cannes and Venice
Search for the Truth review: Might Caroline Flack have preferred be allowed rest in peace?
Television: Documentary decries tabloid hysteria over Flack’s arrest and ensuing vitriol of strangers online, but is this what she would have wanted five years after her death?
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