TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
May 17th-22nd highlights, including Tradfluencer: The Sharon Shannon Story; Derek Mooney’s Back from the Brink; and Lucy Worsley on The American Revolution
Timothy Spall
Kate Winslet: ‘You learn to live with the changing shape of grief... I feel my mum is still around’
Kate Winslet’s directorial debut Goodbye June stars Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall and more. Here, some of the cast discuss death, grief and film-making
Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is shamelessly sentimental – but it could run and run
The bar for ‘Christmas classic’ has fallen so low that this could be a contender. It’s not the worst example actually
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
June 29th-July 4th: including 7/7: Homegrown Terror; Glastonbury 2025; and the second and final series of The Sandman
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
June 15th-20th: including Hell for Leather: The Story of Gaelic Football, Heston: My Life with Bipolar, and We Were Liars
Death Valley review: Timothy Spall effortlessly commands the screen but this BBC drama struggles
Television: Cosy crime series set in Wales is well intentioned but an odd character pairing fails to deliver
TV guide: Bono: Stories of Surrender, And Just Like That, and the other best new things to watch this week
TV highlights May 25th-30th: including Walking with Dinosaurs, Bloom, and Bono: Stories of Surrender
The Sixth Commandment: Éanna Hardwicke gives a masterclass in creepy understatement
Television: Irish actor plays the murderer Ben Field, who inveigled his way into the lives of two vulnerable older people
Can rotund characters be represented by less rounded actors?
Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers
Spencer: Kristen Stewart’s casting as a brittle Princess Diana is inspired
She balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasia
Juliet Stevenson: ‘My agent said: Go to Hollywood. I thought: I just can’t do this sh*t’
She comes to Galway next month (kind of) in an adaptation of José Saramago’s Blindness
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels
George MacKay: ‘My influences? Conor McGregor and wallabies’
After his turn in 1917, the actor is tackling the role of iconic Australian outlaw Ned Kelly
Story of Levi Roots of Reggae Reggae sauce fame to be made into film
Film will show journey from poverty in Jamaica to appearing on Dragons’ Den and building a food empire
Mike Leigh: ‘Brexit was a terrible manipulation of people and their needs’
The director on why he's telling the story of a very British massacre, disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn and avoiding 'thick actors'
Imelda Staunton: The Irish dancing teacher slapped me. I thought ‘I’m never coming back’
Oscar-nominated actor on breaking through age barriers, Harry Potter and why she hates Irish dancing
Finding Your Feet: Mix cheese and sleaze to make a Britflick
Grey pound movie just about redeemed by fine ensemble cast
Cillian Murphy as a ‘handsome banker’ in a toe-curling misfire
The Party review: The film is barely over an hour long, but shortness is the least if its problems
Poldark: He’s so fertile, I may have got pregnant watching him
The melodramatic, gripping, entertaining series is back, writes Patrick Freyne
Colm Meaney: ‘In this business, anybody who keeps their word for 7 minutes is pretty f**king rare’
The Irish actor discusses Hollywood values, playing Martin McGuinness and what it taught him about 'Dr No' Paisley
The Journey review: ludicrous retelling of McGuinness and Paisley paths to peace
There is a great movie to be made about the peace process - sadly, The Journey is not that film
Mary Minihan: It’s time to ditch ‘peace process speak’ for real answers
A decade after decommissioning, there are dead bodies on Belfast’s streets again
JMW Turner’s annual winter outing at the National Gallery
Every January Turner’s watercolours are put on show as requested in Henry Vaughan’s bequest
Gleeson and Scott win at British Independent Film Awards
Respective performances in ‘Calvary’ and ‘Pride’ recognised with male acting prizes
Artist biopics: like watching paint dry?
They certainly don’t have to be, and Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner is a shining example
Cannes comes to a close with a Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep
Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore among award winners from the Cannes Jury
Review: Mr Turner
Mike Leigh’s study of the English painter is particularly distinguished by a stunning performance from Timothy Spall
Cannes 2014: the serious, the silly and the scandalous
The main programme this year is dominated by serious, off-centre film-makers including Loach, Leigh and the Dardennes, while a welcome sprinkling of controversy accompanies a film about the late Princess Grace
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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