Dragon Hearts: Moving insight into a world where mortality meets dragon boat racing
Television: Documentary follows people with experience of cancer who have embraced the ancient sport
Sugababes in Dublin review: A steamroller of peerless pop and sisterhood
Founding band members Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy replace old tensions with collective joy
The Last of Us drops a bombshell for the TV ages. Did that really just happen?
Television: This is like Logan Roy’s death in Succession, or perhaps even the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones
Self Esteem on the music business: ‘It’s things like dressing rooms with only a urinal which make women give up’
For Rebecca Lucy Taylor, performing as Self Esteem has been a way of unpicking years of anger at the way the industry operates
Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way review – Understated campfire-country album crackles with songwriting chemistry
Darkness and light combine impressively on a beautiful LP on which two talented musicians coexist in harmony
Netflix applying its binge-watch formula to Jason Corbett’s killing is not a surprise
Streamer has been building its true crime franchise for a decade. But is it always a good thing?
The Stolen Girl: Bingeable, fun and instantly forgettable child kidnap potboiler with Denise Gough
Television: Irish actress plays mother of child who disappears during a sleepover in a friend’s house
The Last of Us review: Prepare to be shocked by this compelling new season
Television: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay are back as adoptive father and daughter with the show’s zombie game stronger than ever
Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm is hilarious in this riotous, satirical romp
Television: Story about a rich white American manages to transcend social commentary
Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – From carefree Supermac’s fan to angsty melancholy and, now, romantic yearning
Advance press described Sable, Fable as Bon Iver’s “sexiest” album yet, which is misleading. There’s a lot of romantic yearning, however, as Justin Vernon traces the arc of a relationship from infatuation to connection to contentment, a journey that he explores via blissed-out yacht rock (Everything Is Peaceful Love) and fuzzy Radiohead-style dirge rock (If Only Could Wait, a duet with Danielle Haim)
Black Mirror review: Two standout episodes in a largely dreary and predictable new season
Television: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?
The White Lotus finale review: The upbeat conclusion of this dark episode feels trite and unearned
Television: Is showrunner Mike White sliding towards sentimentality in season 3? It’s been a wild ride – but viewers may be relieved to finally check out
Safe Harbour review: Jack Gleeson and his moustache steal gangland drama from a menacing Colm Meaney
Television review: with Colm Meaney, Jack Gleeson and Charlie Murphy, Safe Harbour's top-notch cast almost covcer the cracks of laboured tale of drug dealers that isn’t Irish enough to feel genuinely homegrown
Thurston Moore live in Dublin review: Beautifully overcast set is brooding one moment, bucolic and balmy the next
The iconic indie-rock guitarist debuts his Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations suite as part of the New Music Dublin festival
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper review – Sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightful
Mike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselves