If the costumes in this confusing film about two glamorous 1960s housewives were any more heightened, you’d demand a song and dance number
Caveats and niggles ultimately don’t dent the magnanimous-natured enjoyment
Radio: Newstalk host tucks into burgers while taking on bigger issues, as Ray D’Arcy earns dad rock cachet
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Debut director Giacomo Abbruzzese merges disparate stories into a mysterious cinematic adventure
To be clear, there are no depictions of the desperate challenges homeless people face when not participating in an international soccer competition
Reporter looks back on a lifetime’s work during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Television: Switcheroo between sitcom humour and serious drama when lead’s bipolar diagnosis emerges lands as cheap stunt
Queer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitards
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Television: US academic gained unprecedented access to leadership of Provisionals in 1972
Left turns and a sense of fun abound on Sean O’Hagan’s latest askew pop effort
For their fifth album, the two remaining sisters focus on aspects of womanhood and their disdain for the music industry
Constance Keane explores interesting terrain, with pared-back production underpinning her ethereal vocal
Aoife Barry: How do we make sure that the stories Ireland tells about itself on screen are not reductive?
Gallix is a gentle melancholy guide, more analogue, older, European; Oyler is nervily digital, younger, very American in sensibility. They are equally clever
Songwriter and three-time Ivor Novello winner honoured in hometown for leaving ‘indelible mark’ on music world
Television: Rising Tides, one of RTÉ's biggest budget nature films, does not sugar coat the rate of climate breakdown and what is in prospect
New South Wales police confirm no further action will be taken following alleged ‘punch in the chops’
Suzanne Fussey was a young hairdresser when she met David Bowie. It turned into a rock’n’roll life on the road – and marriage to his guitarist Mick Ronson