Jonathan Pryce

Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands

Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’

Thu Oct 24 2024 - 05:00

First image revealed of Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown

Vera Drake actor takes over from Olivia Colman for fifth series about the UK royal family

Tue Aug 03 2021 - 09:12

Prince Philip: Irascible, possibly unfaithful – and, since The Crown, so incredibly glamorous

Netflix’s hit royal drama has shaped how millions think of the late duke of Edinburgh

Fri Apr 09 2021 - 17:45

The Crown’s Charles and Diana years: A world of privilege, glamour and tension

The fourth series of the much anticipated 10 episodes was reportedly produced on a €110 million) budget

Sat Nov 07 2020 - 06:00

Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive

A $70m campaign and 24 nominations may not bring it a big night

Fri Feb 07 2020 - 16:00

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Compromised and astonishingly unfinished

Review: 25 years in the making, the hollowness of the female characters is bad timing

Thu Jan 23 2020 - 05:30

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

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10

Oscars 2020: Who will be nominated today, and who will win?

Saoirse Ronan should get a nod for Little Women. There are few other options for the Irish

Sun Jan 12 2020 - 05:00

Baftas 2020: The full list of nominations

Saoirse Ronan earns nod for Little Women as Joker leads with 11 nominations

Tue Jan 07 2020 - 09:00

Baftas 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress award for Little Women

Joker leads with 11 nods, while The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood earn 10

Tue Jan 07 2020 - 08:29

The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Sun Dec 08 2019 - 06:00

Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in December

You season 2, Noah Baumback’s Marriage Story, 6 Underground and The Witcher

Mon Dec 02 2019 - 05:45

The Two Popes: one giant leap of faith

Review: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce go full throttle in a sanitised version of the truth

Fri Nov 29 2019 - 05:00

Oscars race: who are the real contenders and who have blown their chances?

Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months out

Thu Sept 19 2019 - 11:08

Donald Clarke: Why The Crown won’t make Olivia Colman’s brown eyes blue

Neither Claire Foy nor Colman look much like the queen, so does ocular continuity matter?

Sat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00

What’s up and what’s down at the Toronto International Film Festival

Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders

Fri Sept 13 2019 - 06:00

A dull Goldfinch, two funny popes, and Scarlett Johansson’s broken marriage

Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever

Mon Sept 09 2019 - 11:15

Lena Headey: I was ‘gutted’ at how Cersei died

All tattoos and earthiness, she couldn’t be less like her Game of Thrones character

Mon Jun 17 2019 - 13:43

Anthony Hopkins: ‘I’m happy I’m an alcoholic. It’s a great gift’

Alcoholism and ambition fuelled the actor’s rise

Mon May 28 2018 - 09:04

Cannes 2018: our correspondent goes to the dogs

Cannes daily: on the last day of the festival, some inaccurate predictions and Terry Gilliam’s long-cherished project disappoints

Sat May 19 2018 - 15:55

Cannes 2018: There’s only one contender for picture of the year

Cannes daily: A shot of Kristen Stewart glancing admiringly at Cate Blanchett is causing a stir

Thu May 10 2018 - 13:22

Andy Bell: On My Culture Radar

The Erasure frontman on his cultural favourites and recommendations

Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson wow in Wonder and James Franco hits gold in The Disaster Artist

Fri Dec 01 2017 - 06:00

Cork Film Festival to screen some 200 films over 10 days

Festival will open with ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ and is predicted to generate over €2.5 million for local economy

Sun Oct 22 2017 - 10:46

Patrick Freyne: Tom Hardy’s mumbling Trustafarian hipster is the ultimate Taboo

Taboo’s a complicated man and nobody understands him but his woman, who’s also his sister. Herself is up to her old tricks. And Code Black is jumping the shark bites

Wed Jan 25 2017 - 12:10

Taboo TV review: the grime and gloss of an imperial wrecking ball

Tom Hardy, a genetic stalemate between beauty and brutishness, is picking a fight with the British empire in the BBC’s new antihero vehicle

Mon Jan 09 2017 - 05:00

Television: Wolf Hall is not your usual bodice ripper

The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’

Sat Jan 24 2015 - 01:00