Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit Trap
Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026
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John Bishop: ‘I went into a mad depression because I realised I was a man being told what to do by another man’
The Liverpudlian comedian on inspiring Bradley Cooper’s new film Is This Thing On?
Is This Thing On? review: A sincerely felt origin story for comedian John Bishop moved from Liverpool to New York
Director Bradley Cooper’s approach takes us closer to an improv night than a session of disciplined joke-telling
Jay Kelly review: George Clooney and Adam Sandler can’t save this Noah Baumbach movie
The film around them though with its pointless comings and goings is not up to the task
Oscar-nominated actor and Laura Dern’s mother Diane Ladd dies
Ladd starred in films including Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Chinatown
Sam Neill on living with blood cancer: ‘I’m not afraid to die, but it would annoy me’
New Zealand actor’s memoir reveals he will need chemo for the rest of his life. ‘Dying? I couldn’t care less,’ he says
Fra Fee: ‘I was completely terrified of coming out in Northern Ireland’
Cabaret star’s acting career has taken him from Tyrone to West End and LA
Cannes 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick to be shown at film festival
Up to 35,000 accredited to attend the festival this year, the biggest showing since 2019
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
Sam Neill: ‘I’m not having Jimmy Nesbitt turned into sausages’
'I love my animals' ... The actor was heartbroken by the death of his chicken, Meryl Streep
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
John Boyega says Star Wars has a problem with actors of colour. Is he right?
The London actor, who found fame as stormtrooper Finn, criticised how Disney treated non-white characters in the franchise
Zoë Kravitz on High Fidelity: ‘A lot of white men who identified with the book think it’s theirs’
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Kravitz is starring in a new TV adaptation of the Nick Hornby book
Oscars 2020: Parasite triggers great upset as cult Korean film wins best picture
Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards
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