Sean Bean

Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s film

Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowrote

Wed Oct 02 2024 - 06:39

Time review: lives of drug addict teen, in-over-her-head mother and a child killer make for riveting prison drama

Television review: Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey and Tamara Lawrance excel in season two Jimmy McGovern’s gritty series

Sun Oct 29 2023 - 22:00

TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony

Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future

Mon May 09 2022 - 10:20

Sean Bean: ‘My next show is about a 27-year marriage – which isn’t something I know about’

The actor likes to play people unlike himself: be it a prisoner or a long-term married man

Mon Jan 03 2022 - 06:00

Aidan Gillen: ‘I am trying my best to be as unhealthy as I can’

The actor on filling Donal McCann's shoes in Faith Healer and staying off social media

Sat Nov 27 2021 - 05:00

We survived Covid in Paris. Now we are coming home to Ireland

A slightly bent but not broken emigrant takes the rocky road to Dublin

Mon Aug 09 2021 - 10:00

More content sludge from a vast conglomerate? Right down my gawping tube, please

Sean Bean: ‘The mango sex scene was a new level of weirdness’

The Snowpiercer star on his character’s Trumpian qualities and a Game of Thrones prequel

Tue Apr 06 2021 - 06:00

Wolfwalkers: Cartoon Saloon has made its best film yet

Review: A family entertainment set among the Cromwellian atrocities? Sounds risky

Thu Dec 03 2020 - 05:00

The MacCarthy family: Their father survived Dunkirk, Nagasaki and a torpedoed ship. Will their pub survive Covid-19?

Daughters of Dr Aidan MacCarthy ‘gutted’ they cannot reopen Castletownbere bar

Sun Aug 09 2020 - 12:45

Netflix: the 10 best new shows and films in January

Sex Education, Grace and Frankie, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 05:59

Apple buys animated film from Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon

Studio is best known The Breadwinner, Song of the Sea and The Secret of Kells films

Tue Sept 11 2018 - 11:55

Bafta TV awards: Graham Norton and Brian F O’Byrne among winners

Molly Windsor beats Claire Foy to take leading actress while Sue Perkins highlights pay gap issue

Mon May 14 2018 - 08:21

Spoiler alert: People don’t hate spoilers . . . or do they?

Avengers: Infinity War directors have made sure the new film’s story remains a secret. But if they did tell you, would it really spoil the experience?

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00

Bafta TV awards: Sharon Horgan gets two nominations

Netflix’s muscles in on the traditional broadcasters as Black Mirror and The Crown take three nominations

Wed Apr 04 2018 - 11:35

Dark River: Gothic study of sexual abuse in rural Britain

Review: A murder ballad that meanders toward a sudden and sadly ill-fitting end

Fri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00

Patrick Freyne picks the best TV shows on the way for Autumn

Alison Spittle’s new show; David Simon in NYC; and a doc on the most famous Irish person ever: Shergar

Wed Sept 20 2017 - 13:46

Broken relentlessly maps the landscape of everyday suffering

Anna Friel is brilliant as the lead in Jimmy McGovern’s bleak drama about faith and desperation

Wed May 31 2017 - 11:00

IFTA: Frank, Patrick’s Day and Love/Hate the big winners

Tomm Moore’s animation called ‘Song of the Sea’ is the surprise Best Film winner

Mon May 25 2015 - 10:24

Lessons Love/Hate learned from US television

Get an anti-hero. Hire Aidan Gillen. Don’t be episodic. These are some of the tricks RTÉ’s drama picked up from across the water

Mon Oct 07 2013 - 01:00