Andrea Riseborough

The Oscars aren’t fair. Just look at what’s happening to Cillian Murphy

The actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?

Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:00

TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week

February 24th-Mar 1st: CMAT wows Dingle in Other Voices, and Channel 4 puts juries on trial

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 05:00

TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch this week

From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way

Sun Feb 18 2024 - 05:00

Alice & Jack review: romcom with Domhnall Gleeson and Aisling Bea has chemistry in all the wrong places

Television review: With Domhnall Gleeson, Aisling Bea and 2023 Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough in lead roles, the Channel 4 series has much going for it, but it is simply not likeable

Wed Feb 14 2024 - 22:00

Please Baby Please: The most confounding film of the year benefits from a never-better Andrea Riseborough

Amanda Kramer’s leather-clad, neon-bathed shakedown of gender, greasers and groaning is unclassifiable

Thu Mar 30 2023 - 05:30

Andrea Riseborough: Academy will not disqualify surprise Oscar nominee

Investigation discovered social media and outreach campaigning tactics that caused concern, says Academy

Wed Feb 01 2023 - 09:39

Oscars 2023: Uncomfortable truth is that two black women are best-actress race’s most obvious losers

Donald Clarke: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is meeting to review its rules after Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination

Tue Jan 31 2023 - 01:00

Here Before: A creeping sense of dread

Review: Stacey Gregg’s spooky Belfast-set psychodrama pushes all the right buttons

Fri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00

Andrea Riseborough: ‘I was shredding a duck and I had a moment of clarity’

She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors

Wed Feb 16 2022 - 05:00

Andrew Garfield: ‘I needed to be with these freaks and lunatics’

Now starring in The Eyes of Tammy Faye the former web-slinger is tipped for an Oscar

Sat Feb 05 2022 - 05:00

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Starry but misfiring biopic

Benedict Cumberbatch plays yet another eccentric in this portrait of a Victorian artist

Fri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00

Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before wins best Irish film

From best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to know

Mon Jul 26 2021 - 14:10

Donald Clarke: Try going outdoors, it might not be too bad

A big screen in a park isn’t everyone’s idea of a night at the movies, but it’ll work

Sat Jul 17 2021 - 05:00

Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list

But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?

Thu Nov 26 2020 - 14:30

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

Sat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Sat May 02 2020 - 05:00

The Grudge: Tedious and mediocre horror film

Review: The original concept of the vengeful Japanese ghost gets thrashed in translation

Fri Jan 24 2020 - 05:00

Who are the newly invited Irish members of Hollywood’s Academy?

The Oscars body has invited 842 new members: 50% female, 29% people of colour

Fri Jul 05 2019 - 08:54

Gillian Anderson: Be wary, playing Thatcher is a poisoned chalice

There’s a double standard to objections about the casting. But dangers do loom

Sat Jan 26 2019 - 05:45

Baftas 2018: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ wins five awards

Oscar-favourite Frances McDormand named best actress ahead of Saoirse Ronan

Sun Feb 18 2018 - 22:18

Saoirse Ronan joins actors and activists in Baftas protest

Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Emma Thompson among 190 signatories of letter demanding end to abuse and inequality

Sun Feb 18 2018 - 09:13

‘Being judged by your sex. We are so used to being treated as less’

Battle of the Sexes star Andrea Riseborough, who slips in and out of parts with ease, is agitated for real. She has a few points to make

Sat Nov 25 2017 - 05:30

Battle of the Sexes review: Game, set, match to Billy Jean

‘Male Chauvinist Pig versus Hairy Legged Feminist! You’re still a feminist, right?’

Fri Nov 24 2017 - 05:00

The Death of Stalin: Mortal panic with a ghastly conclusion

Given the mortal terror, Armando Iannucci’s latest political satire is weirdly light on its feet

Fri Oct 20 2017 - 05:00

Doing Trump with a funny voice, the danger is he just becomes a clown

Armando Iannucci, one of the most feared satirist's in the business, takes on Stalin in a comedy of terrors

Fri Oct 20 2017 - 05:00

Mindhorn review: good-fun, high-concept Britcom with a bit too much plot

Julian Barrett is 1980s TV clairvoyant investigator Mindhorn called back ito action to negotiate with real-life maniac the Kestrel

Thu May 04 2017 - 11:15

The Silent Storm review: wind swept, well-chewed scenery

Everything about The Silent Storm suggests a screenplay was written entirely IN CAPITAL LETTERS. No “r” goes unrolled, no piece of furniture is unpounded

Thu May 19 2016 - 17:30

Slow West: ‘The Brits secretly all want to make westerns’

Interview: John Maclean, once of the Beta Band, set out to demythologise the western in his first film, Slow West. He’s succeeded

Mon Jun 22 2015 - 06:00

Oblivion

Fri Apr 12 2013 - 01:00

Olga Kurylenko: the woman who fell to earth

Former ‘Bond babe’ Olga Kurylenko insists that her days as arm candy are over; the star of new sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion is learning how to fight, and she’s loving it