Dan McGinn

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Jermaine Clement and Nicola Walker play friends torn assunder in Hulu and Disney Plus's Alice and Steve but does the six part sitcom have comic bite?
Olivia Wilde stars in and directs The Invite with Seth Rogen, a comedy feature film that shines an uncomfortable light on marriage and sexual conventions.
The fifth and final season of The Bear sees the Chicago culinary comedy drama starring Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White take a bog departure, setting most of its events over the course of one day.
Oscar winner Brenda Fricker played strong and sometimes stoic women in a range of TV and film roles from The Ballroom of Romance and The Field to Cloudburst and Holding.
Playing Dr Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park movies was probably Sam Neill's best loved and best known role.
As the US celebrates 250 years, a new Netflix docuseries reflects on the Founding Fathers and The American Experiment.
'Bad: The Song That Saved My Life' tells the story of Andy 'Guck' Rowan, a drug addict who inspired three U2 songs.
Jon Bernthal's Mikey Berzatto and Ebon Moss-Bachrach's Richie Jerimovich undertake an epic road trip from Chicago to Gary, Indiana in Gary, a one-off prequel episode to the final season of The Bear.
Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a furniture store owner who discovers a series of rooms behind a basement wall in Kane Parsons' striking directorial debut hit 'Backrooms'
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The Sheridans are back for one last outing in RTE and ITV's dysfunctional Dublin family comedy drama The Dry, with Roisin Gallagher and Ciaran Hinds leading the line. But does Nancy Harris' show end with a bang?
Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd play a boyband star and a wedding band singer who end up butting heads in John Carney's bittersweet comedy drama Power Ballad.
Emily Blunt mesmerises in Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day as Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City weather forecaster who suddenly acquires powers that might just hold the key to uncovering the truth about extra terrestrial beings.
Joseph Fiennes reprises his stage role as Gareth Southgate in BBC1's small screen version of Dear England about the former England manager's reign.
Sheridan Smith and Michael Socha are casino workers stealing from their employers in the gripping BBC1 Liverpudlian crime drama The Cage.
Michael Harte's Kylie sees the Australian singer reflect on a career and a personal life that's had big highs and lows. But how does the three part Netflix documentary compare to other celebrity portraits of recent times?
In Netflix's Legends, Steve Coogan plays a former undercover cop tasked with guiding undercover Customs officers in an operation to infiltrate criminal gangs in London and Liverpool.
The second series of ITV's The Assembly UK sees Stephen Fry facing a grilling from autistic, other neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers.
Netflix has brought Beef back for a second season with a new story and new characters but is it worth it?
Thursday was the final night for Stephen Colbert's talk show stint and also for CBS's The Late Show. So how did the final episode fare?
Steve Carrell and Charly Clive play father and daughter in HBO's campus sitcom Rooster.
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci have reunited for The Devil Wears Prada 2 which lands in cinemas 20 years after the original. While it is already a big hit, does David Frankel's fashion journalism movie stand up to scrutiny?
After a spell in a Colombian jail, Chris Walley's Jock is back on the streets of Cork with his brother from another mother, Alex Murphy's Conor in BBC and RTE's The Young Offenders. But is the magic still there?
Stephen Nolan's BBC docuseries Peelers The PSNI For Real sees the presenter accompany officers in Belfast on the beat and shines a light on the reality of policing a post conflict city.
Guz Khan and Riz Ahmed team up in Amazon Prime's Bait, a sitcom about an Anglo Asian actor aiming to be the first James Bond of Pakistani origin.
Apple TV's comedy drama Shrinking with Harrison Ford and Jason Segel has returned to our screens this year but has it eclipsed the previous two seasons?
Zendaya as Emma and Robert Parkinson as Charlie play the beleaguered bride and groom as outrage over revelations about her teenage years threaten to derail their wedding in Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama.
Ciaran Hinds and Lesley Manville play a couple in the winter of their married life who face uncomfortable facts in Polly Findlay's movie of Bernard MacLaverty's acclaimed novel Midwinter Break.
Rory McIlroy finally got to put on the coveted Green Jacket at the US Masters last year but what are the forces that shaped that triumph? Amazon Prime's Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait explores them.
Martin Clunes plays the disgraced BBC News anchorman Huw Edwards in Channel 5's grim TV movie about the scandal that toppled him and unearthed even darker truths.
Bob Mortimer is back to defend his 'LOL: Laughing Out Loud UK' crown for a second series on Amazon Prime but how does he fare?
Cillian Sullivan and Naoise Kelly lead the way in Brian Durnin's IFTA nominated Spilt Milk which tells the story of Dublin's heroin problem from the perspective of an 11 year old.
Caroline Menton, Danielle Galligan, Stefanie Preissber, Mairead Tyers and Louisa Harland are The Walsh Sisters, in RTE's six part comedy drama based on the novels of Marian Keyes about a dysfunctional Dublin family - now on the BBC iPlayer in the UK.
Cillian Murphy's haunted Brummie gangster Tommy Shelby is back in Tom Harper's Peaky Blinders Netflix spin off movie The Immortal Man but does the film justify reviving the character?
American comedy institution Saturday Night Live has ventured into British comedy with Saturday Night Live UK on Sky One but did it land its comic punches?
Paul Thomas Anderson finally broke his Oscars hoodoo with Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay wins as his movie One Battle After Another powered to six Academy Awards wins.
Brad Pitt channels his inner Steve McQueen as the maverick Grand Prix driver Sonny Hayes in the Best Picture Oscar nominated movie F1.
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another was the early favourite for the Best Picture Oscar but could its march to Academy Awards glory be derailed?
Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson were regarded as Oscar prospects at the start of awards season for their performances in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, so why did their campaign go off the boil?
If it weren't for the Oscar buzz around Sinners, there might have been a lot more noise during awards season Zach Cregger's supernatural horror mystery Weapons.
Andrew Scott and Best Actor Oscar nominated Ethan Hawke team up as the songwriting partnership Rogers and Hart in Richard Linklater's Broadway drama Blue Moon.
Roisin Gallagher is Saoirse, the writer of a hit TV police procedural who is thrust into a mystery of her own in Lisa McGee's new Netflix caper comedy How To Get To Heaven In Belfast.
Robert Duvall, who has passed away at the age of 95, will be remembered for playing Tom Hagen in the first two 'Godfather' movies and for many other roles.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are centre stage as Cathy and Heathcliffe in Emerald Fennell's reworking of Wuthering Heights but do they convince as the doomed lovers?
Claire Foy stars in Philippa Lowthorpe's H is for Hawk, a meditation on grief that is every bit as impressive as Chloe Zhao's Hamnet.
Jessie Buckley is more than in with a shout for the Best Actress award for her performance in Chloe Zhao's Hamnet.
Dennis Kelly's six part BBC1 miniseries Waiting For The Out tackles obsessive compulsive behaviour like no other small screen drama.
Chloe Zhao's Hamnet starring Irish actors Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William Shakespeare is a real contender for the Best Picture Oscar but is the critical backlash in some quarters justified?
Timothee Chalamet is a self centred table tennis Wiz in Marty Supreme but will playing a dislikeable anti hero propel him to Best Actor Oscar glory this year?
The Men's Shed phenomenon is the source of inspiration for a comedy pilot on BBC1 Shedites but does the Dublin sitcom deliver enough laughs?