Saturday Night Live: ‘You can take the temperature of America by watching that show’
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episode
Will Ferrell
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Will & Harper review: Will Ferrell reconnects with trans friend in this feel-good odyssey
Road trip documentary could be seen as the anti-Top Gear special. Nicer, warmer, militantly tolerant
‘Succession? I thought, I don’t want to write for a load of white men who are evil’
A career working on Succession, Veep, The Thick of It and other hit TV shows has given Georgia Pritchett a taste for finding the humanity in even the worst characters
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Four new films to stream this weekend
Irresistible, Eurovision Song Contest, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
Is this the Eurovision winner? Dara Ó Briain and, er, Russell Crowe love it
Think about Things, Iceland’s 2020 entry, is a synth-pop earworm that’s going viral
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
Donald Clarke: Why Scrooge is the gift that keeps on giving
Yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the money
Life of a stuntwoman: ‘When I had the baby, I knew it was the end of me jumping off things’
Despite being set on fire and buried, Co Wicklow woman Eimear O’Grady says she is not a thrillseeker
Netflix: the 10 best new films and shows to watch in May
Renee Zellweger stars in What/If; Knock Down the House looks at the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Dwayne Johnson: Can ‘The Rock’ save Hollywood?
The golden era of a film selling itself on its star is over – but ‘Skyscraper’ does just that
Grumpy Cat wins €571k over company’s copyright breach
Coffee owners countersued and said Grumpy Cat had not held up deal to promote ‘Grumppucinos’
Daddy’s Home 2 review: Mel Gibson edges us into inappropriate territory
‘Slap her on the caboose’: the advice an 11-year-old boy is given on how to treat girls
I want to complain about people who complain about films
Both the easily offended and the responsibly annoyed communities have lost their vim
‘Vile material’: Film watchdog reveals public complaints
Issues include ‘Satanistic’ symbolism in superhero film and cannibalism ‘sub-context’
The House: A Will Ferrell gamble that fails to pay off
This mirthless comedy feels like the result of terminal creative panic
Gael García Bernal: ‘You can’t separate art from politics’
Impassioned Oscars speech a sharp reminder of actor's political commitment
Johnny Depp is Hollywood’s most overpaid actor – again
The Alice Through the Looking Glass star tops Forbes list for second year, while Will Smith comes in at number two
Johnny Depp as Donald Trump – almost as funny as the real thing
Review: ‘The Art of the Deal: The Movie’, ‘Fortune’s Wheel’, ‘The Big Fat Quiz of Everything’
The secret to comedy improv, with Alison Spittle, Neil Curran and Danny Kehoe
Practitioners of the toughest gig in comedy talk us through the secrets of improv on this week’s Off Topic Podcast
Zoolander 2 review: a really, really, really, ridiculously average sequel
Silly jokes and A-list cameos pass the time, but it’s pretty much more of the same from Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and the rest of the gang
From barking to Bill Cosby: Hannibal Buress’s never-ending tour on the comedy circuit
A routine about Bill Cosby catapulted him up the comedy rankings, but with a host of impressive TV and film credits, and a wealth of experience earned the hard way on the comedy circuit, Hannibal Buress has a rightful claim to the US comedy throne
Stop with the C-Word. It’s June, Santa is more than 180 days away
Top 13 toys for Christmas 2015 have been released. Kate Holmquist is not impressed
World’s first cyborg artist to speak at Web Summit
Neil Harbisson has an antenna implanted in his skull so he can hear images
Film review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Blow-dried blowhard Ron Burgundy and his crew are back in a fitfully funny media satire
Video: Our man on red carpet (for the first time)
Patrick Freyne tries his luck at doorstepping the stars of 'Anchorman 2'
Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview
What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year
Crosswords & Puzzles
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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