Tim Allen
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Donald Clarke: Why Scrooge is the gift that keeps on giving
- Culture
- December 21, 2019, 05:00
It would be much in keeping with the tone of A Christmas Carol – the opening sections anyway – to write a grumpy column debunking it for the ages. A M(...)

Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress
- Film
- December 9, 2019, 13:18
Saoirse Ronan has been nominated as best actress in a drama at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards. The Irish actor, still only 25, picks up her fifth Gl(...)

The untold stories of Toy Story
- Film
- June 21, 2019
There’s a moment in Toy Story 4 in which Bonnie (the little girl who inherited the franchise’s central characters at the end of Toy Story 3) and her p(...)

Toy Story 4: A bolted-on afterthought to a tidy trilogy
- Film
- June 19, 2019
I guess everything is a trilogy until it becomes a tetralogy. But the first three Toy Story films really did form a tidily knotted whole. The end said(...)

Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?
- Film
- November 19, 2018, 10:46
Is it too early for a feature on Santa Claus in cinema? Well, tough. You’re getting one anyway. The decorations are up. The latest version of the Grin(...)

Helen Mirren on a motorbike? That’s a ‘grey pound’ movie
- Film
- April 18, 2018, 17:32
Look, it’s only fair. Hollywood has aimed undemanding, patronising films at kids for generations. It can only be right that older people now get their(...)

25 Christmas movies for the 25th (and other days)
- Film
- December 19, 2015
In a time when DVDs are more likely to be gathering dust in your living room than being used, there’s one subgenre of discs that often survives a cul(...)

Cui Bono? 26 old U2 albums re-enter the iTunes charts
- Music
- September 14, 2014, 20:27
Fifteen back catalogue U2 albums have re-entered the Irish iTunes albums download charts. The highest re-entry is at number five for the “Joshua Tree”(...)

Chimpanzee
- Film
- May 3, 2013, 01:00
We love the idea of Disneynature. The House of Mouse may own and manage everything from Pixar to Marvel Comics. But while there’s a bout(...)

Simply Darina
- People
- April 20, 2013, 06:00
D arina Allen is moving at quite a pace. The 62-year-old is nimbly darting up steps, through gates, over walls and across muddy field(...)