All Together Now 2024 highs and lows: Barry Can’t Swim ends up bowled over, a Glastonbury bad habit creeps in From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun and a smoking-belching dragon to headliner confusion and annoying festivalgoersMon Aug 05 2024 - 10:07
Future Islands at All Together Now: Joyous hour of soul-baring indie popDad dancer Samuel T Herring is magnetic as he refuses to be self-conscious about his manic movesMon Aug 05 2024 - 08:41
The National at All Together Now: A sad-dad singalong to cherishReplacing Róisín Murphy at the top of Saturday’s bill, the band put on a performance that is more than just a showcase for diehard fansSun Aug 04 2024 - 00:23
The Mary Wallopers at All Together Now: Tub-thumpers of the first order storm through a rapturously received setMusically, the Dundalk group update The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers, while their politics are rooted in the present daySun Aug 04 2024 - 00:10
Interview with the Vampire review: Gripping, grotesque and gorily watchable funTelevision: BBC’s adaptation of Anne Rice novel does well to put daylight between itself and Neil Jordan’s 1994 caper by slowing the pulse of the storyThu Aug 01 2024 - 22:00
Batman: Caped Crusader review – Noirish reboot stays true to moody, brooding rootsTelevision review: This is old-school Batman set in a 1940s-inspired world and it is fantasticThu Aug 01 2024 - 10:59
Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy review: the funny side of a blizzard of bare bumsTelevision review: The message is that the slap-and-tickle flicks of the 1970s represented a glorious moment in UK cinemaSun Jul 28 2024 - 23:30
The Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompTelevision review: This newly decanted Decameron succeeds only in laying bare the chasm between good and bad televisionThu Jul 25 2024 - 11:30
The Body Detectives review: stark reminders of the wounds left when a loved one disappears without a traceTelevision review: Search for a man who went missing on holiday in 1984 makes for heartbreaking viewingTue Jul 23 2024 - 22:00
Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets review: ‘He had no fear of being caught’Television: Searing documentary about sex abuse allegations may forever cast Eamonn Casey in a damning lightTue Jul 23 2024 - 10:23
Lady in the Lake review: Natalie Portman casts a potent spell in eerie period thrillerTelevision: Apple TV’s latest melancholic drama has a nightmarish quality that occasionally verges on the supernatural. It isn’t for everyoneFri Jul 19 2024 - 11:00
Those About to Die review: Peeved Anthony Hopkins thrown to the lions in over-sexed ancient Rome epicTelevision: Nobody can keep their robes on for longer than 10 minutes at a time in Roland Emmerich’s splashy, trashy Amazon showFri Jul 19 2024 - 06:00
Suspect review: If you like your TV thrillers bonkers and unhinged, this is for youTelevision: Anne-Marie Duff stars in the new season of this weird Nordic-noir crime seriesWed Jul 17 2024 - 22:00
Elaine Howley: ‘It’s nice that there are many layers to the way music can find its way ... It doesn’t have to be instant’Experimental musician will collaborate with composer Irene Buckley and Crash Ensemble on an ambitious reinterpretation of her workWed Jul 17 2024 - 05:15
The Jetty review: Serial killer drama exploring grooming of young women misses the markTelevision review: While The Jetty functions as a commentary on gaslighting and victimisation of vulnerable teenagers, as a thriller it is let down by a confusing plotMon Jul 15 2024 - 22:00
Pillow Queens at Iveagh Gardens review: band’s biggest concert is a triumph from start to finishPillow Queens' performance is brimming with heavy guitars, feather-light hooks and feverishly effervescent songsSun Jul 14 2024 - 13:00
Glass Animals: ‘Our drummer nearly died. An absolutely genius surgeon in Dublin saved his life’Frontman Dave Bayley reflects on his drummer’s brush with death, the slow boil of the band’s success, his own insertion as an introvert into a chart-topping life and the forthcoming albumSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:15
Sunny review: excellent paranoia-soaked thriller based on novel by Killarney writer Colin O’SullivanTelevision: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing startWed Jul 10 2024 - 09:58
Spent review: A smart comedy that cleverly peppers a bleak picture of modern life with laughsTelevision: Michelle de Swarte is compelling as a former catwalk star who finds herself in the depths of the gig economyMon Jul 08 2024 - 23:30
House of the Dragon has finally found its roar with this jaw-dropping episodeTelevision: The Game of Thrones spin-off has finally kicked up a gear, becoming fantasy at its finestMon Jul 08 2024 - 15:00
A Lazarus Soul’s Brian Brannigan: ‘I don’t know if the world is darker now. But it feels like dark times’The Dublin post-punk band’s leader on the malign influence of smartphones, his disappointment in Nick Cave and his horror at anti-immigration protests in FinglasMon Jul 08 2024 - 05:00
The Turkish Detective review: compelling mystery stitched into this thriller makes it worthwhileTelevision review: The Turkish Detective, adapted for the screen by the BBC, is an evocative introduction to the tumult of IstanbulSun Jul 07 2024 - 22:00
Nils Frahm at NCH review: German classical ambient wizard blasts into orbit right from the startAvant-garde superstar even finds time to joke about England’s advance to the semis in Euro 2024Sun Jul 07 2024 - 10:27
Fran Healy of Travis: ‘Do not f**k with us. I’ll knock you out’The Glasgow band have been pummelled by life over the past decade. Their new album confirms as pure myth the idea of them as wet-blanket indie boysSat Jul 06 2024 - 05:15
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie review – Bill Pullman is masterful in cheesy retelling of gruesome crimeTelevision: This breezy adaptation is, for all its lack of dramatic substance, deeply bingeableThu Jul 04 2024 - 13:48
The Man with 1,000 Kids review: Would you accept a sperm donation from a raw meat-eating amateur surfer?Television: Curly-haired Dutchman Jonathan Jacob Meijer is thought to have fathered some 1,100 childrenWed Jul 03 2024 - 10:00
A grim look at a broken Britain but are we in any position to scoff?Television review: Tim Harford investigates the reasons why Britain’s economy is in dire straits but many of these systemic flaws are equally relevant to IrelandMon Jul 01 2024 - 22:00
Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno on an Oasis reunion: ‘It’s deep. It’s family. It would be great to have reconciliation’Written off at first as Oasis gone big beat, the band have, over the past 20 years, emerged as arena rockers for all seasons – as they’ll show at Electric PicnicSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:15
Taylor Swift in the Aviva review: ‘You know this but nobody does it like you Dublin’The exhilarating and riveting three hour-plus concert in Dublin 4 thrillingly confirms the US singer as an artist who comes along just once in an eraFri Jun 28 2024 - 23:17
Douglas Is Cancelled review: Downfall of a cuddly, national UK treasure is no laughing matterTelevision: Steven Moffat’s limp satire of cancel culture neglects a key ingredient: a functioning sense of humourThu Jun 27 2024 - 22:00
The Bear review: You’ll want to devour the new series of this food drama in a single sittingTelevision: Show starring Jeremy Allen White surfs largely on vibes. There isn’t much of a plot, but unwillingness to compromise makes it specialThu Jun 27 2024 - 10:30
Rishi Sunak v Kier Starmer: all the charm and grace of a duo of Daleks trapped in a portalooThe BBC’s final prime ministerial debate before next week’s UK election was as dull as an England soccer matchThu Jun 27 2024 - 06:05
All of Taylor Swift’s albums ranked, from worst to best – plus which tracks to expect at her Eras tour Dublin concertsFrom her debut LP, in 2006, to the epic, 31-track Tortured Poets Department, this is how we rate each of the star’s studio releasesTue Jun 25 2024 - 05:15
Pearl Jam in Dublin review: A feelgood concert with heavy music and heavy themesEddie Vedder praises ‘very positive’ demonstration against suspended sentence for solider who assaulted woman in LimerickSun Jun 23 2024 - 11:41
Paul Mescal’s fashion sense: how does he get away with it?As his Hollywood career has taken off, the actor has cultivated a reputation as a daring dresserFri Jun 21 2024 - 06:00
David Puttnam – The Long Way Home review: Heart-warming exploration of an Englishman’s love affair with IrelandTelevision: Englishman’s films burn with fierce moral conviction. That same decency has informed Puttnam’s feelings towards IrelandThu Jun 20 2024 - 23:15
Harry Wild review: Jane Seymour charms as a latter-day Miss Marple unleashed on the Dublin 4 setTelevision: Harry Wild, simply through not being dire, feels like an improvement on 99 per cent of recent Irish dramaWed Jun 19 2024 - 22:35
Molly Rankin of Alvvays: ‘I still love The Smiths. No one will take them away from me’The frontwoman of the indie-pop gems on a rare appearance in Ireland, for Beyond the Pale, and music’s broken economyTue Jun 18 2024 - 05:00
House of the Dragon review: meticulous plot, stunning production values and grotesque twists at every turnTelevision: Game of Thrones isn’t cuddly but this show brings a whole new level of darknessMon Jun 17 2024 - 22:10
Why do we need a serious plane-spotting facility at Dublin Airport?Give Me a Crash Course in... Dublin Airport’s planned Aircraft Observation Facility: It would be flying in the face of reality not to have one apparently, as they are common enough elsewhereSat Jun 15 2024 - 06:00
Presumed Innocent review: frustrated Ruth Negga and confused Jake Gyllenhaal face off in distinctly un-steamy thrillerTelevision: Original Presumed Innocent with Harrison Ford was guilty pleasure but this version is just boringFri Jun 14 2024 - 05:30
Under the Bridge review: Lily Gladstone stars in true crime drama that gets under the skin of small-town lifeTelevision: Killers of the Flower Moon star doesn’t get enough to do here, but the show still feels chillingly realWed Jun 12 2024 - 16:40
The Smashing Pumpkins in 3Arena review: Scintillating, self-absorbed, inspired – and loudAt times you think this might be endurance test but Billy Corgan and crew produce victory in the endTue Jun 11 2024 - 11:46
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace review – powerful investigation of personal pain behind mother and baby homesTelevision: Dubliner Martina Evenden discovers unknown cousin while cousin finds instant extended familyTue Jun 11 2024 - 10:51
Godzilla Minus One: the monster movie that became a streaming smash hitTelevision: Two movies testament to the enduring allure of Godzilla and the giant monster genreTue Jun 11 2024 - 06:00
Lankum in Kilmainham: vast, primordial and effortlessly beautiful – just don’t mention BonoGenre-defying Dublin band leave fans holding their breath in awe with performance at In The Meadows festivalSun Jun 09 2024 - 19:17
The Serial Killer’s Wife review: Another British thriller in which a woman’s middle-class life is ripped to tattersTelevision: The drama is piled high with unpleasant protagonists and wallows in nastiness simply for the sake of itThu Jun 06 2024 - 22:00
Star Wars: The Acolyte review – Is this the Jedi jamboree we’ve been looking for?Television: The past decade have been a disorienting blur for Star Wars fans. There have been highs and lowsWed Jun 05 2024 - 11:00
Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue: ‘I got a very quick but intense focus on the Troubles in the 1980s. I was frightened, there’s no doubt’Linking back to Ireland is critical to Jonathan Donahue, singer of Mercury Rev, who occupy a special place in alternative popWed Jun 05 2024 - 05:15
Love Island review: The sun may be shining and the bodies may be bronzed but this is dreary stuffTelevision: We’re now on series 11 of this ITV fake-tan test and it’s trundling along on autopilotTue Jun 04 2024 - 11:06
