Jen Hogan: There are probably few more vilified groups, in society, than teenage boys
Jen Hogan: Everyone is talking about Adolescence on Netflix, but we should also be talking about how to look after our boys
Stephen Graham
Actor
Adolescence: Why can’t we look away from Netflix’s hypnotic hit?
This Netflix drama is a hypnotic hit and its seamless ‘oner’ shot is part of the reason why
Adolescence review: A dark and often unbearable insight into the nightmarish extremes of our teenagers’ lives
Television: Netflix series starring Stephen Graham doesn’t quite land but forces us to confront bleak facts
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
February 16th-21st: including Other Voices, Ifta Awards, EastEnders at 40 and Home of the Year
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in February
Including The Kardashians, Apple Cider Vinegar, Reacher, Zero Day, A Thousand Blows and more
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama
Steve McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart is a boy’s own adventure
TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
Nightride: One-last-job yarn set in Belfast splutters over the line
Moe Dunford impresses in a thriller that just manages to keep its real-time gimmick going
Sean Bean: ‘My next show is about a 27-year marriage – which isn’t something I know about’
The actor likes to play people unlike himself: be it a prisoner or a long-term married man
Venom: Let There Be Carnage – The baddest bad movie of the year
Film: Marvel sequel might have been a blast if the exchanges were not so dull
More content sludge from a vast conglomerate? Right down my gawping tube, please
Patrick Freyne: Loki entertains, but soon all art will be sucked into the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Line of Duty: Episode 1 of series 6 explodes from the traps
Kelly Macdonald’s new character is plunged straight into action in Line of Duty’s sixth series
Donald Clarke: Why Scrooge is the gift that keeps on giving
Yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the money
The Irishman review: It’s good, but it’s no GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese’s gangster film will play well on Netflix, but it’s even better in the cinema
De Niro and Pacino: ‘We are very close... We have known each other a long time’
The Hollywood veterans are back on screen together for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Stephen Jones: On My Culture Radar
The actor on Cillian Murphy’s career, why Shane Meadows’ The Virtues is inspiring and his favourite true crime podcast
The Virtues takes us back in time, to dark happenings in 1980s Louth
Review: A startling drama from the director of This is England has a shadowy Irish storyline
Bafta TV Awards 2019: Irish actor Fiona Shaw wins best supporting actor
Killing Eve, Ant and Dec among winners. Benedict Cumberbatch scoops best actor
Helen Behan: I had impostor syndrome at the start, now I’m like a giddy child
The star of Shane Meadows’s The Virtues says she has a thirst for honest performances
Yardie: Idris Elba’s directorial debut is messy but promising
Review: Too many violent set-pieces, though well staged, are placed in no lucid context
Save Me: No one is wholly good or entirely bad
This impressive Sky Atlantic drama mixes detective story with the texture of life
Journey’s End: A serious version of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’
Review: Long camera takes give a sense of the claustrophobia of life in the trenches
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool review: An epic worthy of the title
A high-class weepie about a real-life May-December romance between actors
Get Santa review: Santy in the slammer
Jim Broadbent stars as Santa Claus in this somewhat strange holiday kids movie
Two Northern Irish films on Oscar live-action longlist
A pornographer’s obsession in ‘SLR’ and facts of life in ‘Boogaloo and Graham’ make the cut
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