You can also catch Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, Richard Linklater’s acclaimed Blue Moon and talks with Ed Guiney of Element Pictures and producer David Puttnam
Richard Taylor sued Coogan and production companies over portrayal in 2022 film The Lost King
Founded in west Belfast by Michele Devlin and Laurence McKeown, the festival now attracts 25,000 visitors each year
Dreams of what might have been at 2002 World Cup still as vivid as day the Cork man stormed out
Television: Steve Coogan, who has played Partridge since the 1990s, seems more comfortable than ever being back in Alan’s boat shoes
Triumph of Steve Coogan’s great comedy character rests on his slow evolution, moments of pathos and the canny avoidance of low-hanging fruit (Brexit)
September 28th-October 3rd highlights: including The Walsh Sisters; How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge); and Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Roy Keane’s clash with Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup is living history in Ireland. Audiences elsewhere might not know what to make of their square-off
Plus: Hollywood money to replace (the other) Brendan Gleeson; Pope Leo’s GAA link; and a spot of fencing at Milltown Golf Club
Coogan takes on role as Mick McCarthy with Éanna Hardwicke playing Roy Keane
We should be flattered that, like the ginger guitar-basher Ed Sheeran, so many people yearn to be ‘culturally’ Irish
Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the wait
Stan Erraught is ideally placed to navigate this territory as a former member of 1980s band Stars of Heaven
Grandson of Irish immigrants wants to combat the ‘stigma and shame’ some survivors feel
From Bridgerton to The Sopranos, some actors have insisted on moments being axed – although they do not always get their way
Theatregoers were told the actor has laryngitis
Armando Iannucci and Seán Foley’s production of Stanley Kubrick’s political satire leans into broad physical comedy
February 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
What golden specimens they are, you think, as they propel themselves across God’s good earth like Accenture employees here to rationalise a business
Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?
Previews for January 26th to January 31st: including the return of The Apprentice, Idris Elba investigates Our Knife Crime Crisis and Noah Cosentino stars in The Recruit
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
Saipan will follow the infamous 2002 World Cup feud between Ireland’s football captain and manager
Controversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World Cup
The director’s films have often stirred discontent. With his latest political thriller, Shoshana, set in 1930s Tel Aviv, he knows he must be ready for pushback
Television: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieve
TV review: At moments The Reckoning is too awful to sit through. At the same time, Steve Coogan’s ability to recreate Jimmy Savile’s cheesy anticharm is uncanny
Television: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJ’s years of sex abuse
Donald Clarke: Some documentaries stand accused as offering up sex abuse victims’ stories as ‘entertainment’ - but nobody is suggesting these films are fun
‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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