The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Is this crowd-pleaser one of the best British films of all time?
Richard Curtis thinks so, and the melancholic, wry and character-driven comedy has already developed a cult following
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Domhnall Gleeson on nepo babies: ‘I’ve been so lucky. It’s important you can acknowledge it. Otherwise you’re lying to yourself’
The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending him
Love Actually and That Christmas writer Richard Curtis: ‘I still hope to convince my wife to watch one episode of Blackadder’
There’s little in comedy writing that Richard Curtis hasn’t done. So adapting his That Christmas children’s tales for the screen has been a welcome change
Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
Then Barbara Met Alan: A charmingly anarchic disability rights biopic
Review: You’d wish Irish broadcasters had the same appetite for social upheavals
Newton Emerson: Boris Johnson’s fate and politics of the union
In Northern Ireland the Prime Minister’s destiny is seen in the context of Brexit in particular
Starstruck: A giddy confection that helps rehabilitate the romcom
TV review: Rose Matafeo’s new show is Notting Hill for Generation Instagram
Frank of Ireland: If you like toilet humour, you’ll love Brian and Domhnall Gleeson’s new comedy
TV: The Gleesons are a lively double-act, and the scatological jokes arrive at an impressive clip
Measuring happiness matters – it’s a graph people might actually want to see
Raising levels of joy and wellbeing in society will help us achieve sustainability goals
Poll-topper: Is this a film you’d watch and rewatch?
Four Weddings and a Funeral’s director says yes. Richard Curtis, its writer, prefers... Elf
Life from the age 40 until your first hip-replacement is actually rubbish
Review: BBC’s Us tells chilling truths about what happens to relationships in the autumn of life
Beach drones, oat milk money and tax-loving millionaires
Planet Business: British Airways move to sell off its art isn’t an original
RTÉ Does Comic Relief: Normal People stars sign up for charity fundraiser
Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones to appear with Deirdre O’Kane and Dara Ó Briain on June 26th
Irishman who founded Radio Caroline and ‘changed radio forever’ dies
Ronan O’Rahilly (79) set up the pirate radio station on a ship in 1964
‘After Blackadder, for the first time in my life it was dead easy to get in the door’
Tony Robinson on Baldrick, lockdown, his socialism and why he doesn’t miss acting
Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farce
Fr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringer
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Lenny Henry: ‘When a grown-up beats you, all you think is, when is this going to stop?’
The comedian on how racist abuse and his mother’s violence shaped him as a performer and activist
‘I am completely obsessed with Irish women and feminism’
Scarlett Curtis on Saoirse Ronan, mental health and female activism
Imagine there’s no Beatles. Danny Boyle makes it easy if you try
The director on his new romcom, in which only one man remembers the band existed
Tory leadership candidates: The opium user, the buffoon and more
The Conservative party has had its first vote on a future leader. Six candidates remain
Four Weddings at 25: The film that gave us ‘That Dress’, that poem and Hugh Grant the star
Four Weddings and a Funeral was, for a while, the highest grossing British film of all time
Fawlty Towers named greatest British sitcom of all time
Father Ted, written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, came second, with I’m Alan Partridge in third
What if ‘Love Actually’ is actually not that bad?
The uneven comedy has become as much a Christmas tradition as the ire it provokes
Dylan Moran: ‘Smoking or breathing, one of them had to go’
Comedian on the ‘cult’ of Catholicism, his love of poetry and giving up fags and booze
Patrick: An agreeable kids’ film about a pugnacious pug
Review: Beattie Edmondson inherits a spoilt pooch in this live-action Disney movie
A Year to Fall in Love: like a last-chance trolley dash on Supermarket Sweep
Reality TV: Channel 4’s dating show teaches us that none of us know what we’re doing
James Bond: Daniel Craig with Danny Boyle directing confirmed for 007’s latest mission
The ‘Trainspotting’ director will take the reins on 25th James Bond film – and Craig’s fifth
The name’s Boyle ... Danny Boyle to direct next James Bond film
Daniel Craig will play the shaken-not-stirred imperial thug for perhaps the last time
Domhnall Gleeson on Peter Rabbit: `It's Peadar . . . What’s ‘rabbit’ in Irish?'
Behind the scenes at the making of the film version of the Beatrix Potter’s book – and keeping lookout for an appearance by Julian Assange
Tributes paid as ‘Vicar Of Dibley’ actor Emma Chambers dies aged 53
Actor best known for role as Alice in the long-running BBC comedy died of natural causes
Three Belfast men banned from acting as ‘paedophile hunters’
Men appear in court accused of assault, false imprisonment of BBC journalist
Domhnall Gleeson: How is he using his ‘Star Wars’ success?
He’s writing a bawdy comedy with his brother and Michael McElhatton. Who wouldn’t? he asks
Ed Sheeran at 3Arena: This is pop without the chewing gum snaps and rehab receipts
Sheeran’s audience craves traditional, the comfortable conformity and uniformity of the generic
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