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ALT Antonio Banderas, Dominic Sessa and Leo Woodall embrace the chaos of the kitchen in the coming of age biopic of Anthony Bourdain's early life Tony.
ALT Emilia Jones' Nancy is the object of desire for Dominic Sessa's Anthony Bourdain on Cape Cod in Matt Johnson's culinary movie Tony.
ALT Matt Johnson's Tony with Dominic Sessa and Leo Woodall examines the tension between culinary talent and a chaotic personal life
ALT Antonio Banderas unquestionably turns in the best English language performance of his career in Tony as Chef Jose.
ALT Russell T Davies' Channel 4 drama Tip Toe with Alan Cumming and David Morrissey has an explosive beginning and then seeks to explain it. But how does it compare to his previous drama for the channel It's A Sin?
ALT Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd explore the consequences of male violence in the latter's BBC and HBO drama Half Man but does it convince?
ALT After exploring the 1980s AIDS crisis and prejuduce in Its A Sin, Russell T Davies focuses on whether there really have been strives forward for the LGBTQ+ community in Tip Toe.
ALT Stuart Campbell and Mitchell Robertson play the younger versions of Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell's characters in Half Man but does the uncompromising six part drama get the tone right?
ALT Matt Damon plays Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey but why has the film struck a chord with multiplex audiences?
ALT Chris Hemsworth is a jewel thief in Bart Layton's LA neo noir thriller Crime 101 but how does the 21st century take on the genre fare?
ALT Anne Hathaway's Penelope and Tom Holland's Telemachus wait 20 years for the return of their husband and father in The Odyssey.
ALT Anne Hathaway's Penelope and Tom Holland's Telemachus wait 20 years for the return of their husband and father in The Odyssey.
ALT Jermaine Clement and Nicola Walker play friends torn assunder in Hulu and Disney+'s Alice and Steve but does the six part show have comic bite?
ALT Joel Fry is Alice's younger husband Daniel in Alice and Steve but does the actor get to properly mine his proven comic sensibilities?
ALT Yali Topol Margalith is Alice's daughter Izzy but what are we to make of her relationship with her mum's fiftysomething best friend in Alice and Steve?
ALT Alice and Steve goes for War of the Roses style rage humour but who comes out the more sympathetic character in the feud between friends?
ALT 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.
ALT Eva-Jane Gaffney, Carrie Crowley and Brid Brennan play an unlikely trio behind a village credit union heist in the ambitious Irish language thriller Aontas.
ALT Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz play unconventional neighbours in Olivia Wilde's cheeky comedy The Invite.
ALT Operating on a very tight budget, director Damian McCann shows a lot of narrative ambition in the IFTA nominated Irish language heist thriller Aontas which is available on the BBC iPlayer
ALT 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.
ALT Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder have one last season as the comedy legend Deborah Vance and her writer Ava Daniels but does the show deliver the finale we want?
ALT Ebon Moss Bachrach and Will Poulter head into the kitchen for one more season as FX's The Bear reaches a dramatic conclusion on Hulu and Disney Plus.
ALT Kaitlin Olson's DJ Vance and her mum Jean Smart's Deborah Vance go the route of a celebrity reality TV show in a bid to revitalise their careers in the HBO Max comedy drama Hacks, available on the streamer as well as Sky and NowTV in the UK and Ireland.
ALT Many filmgoers will recall Brenda Fricker's Central Park pigeon lady in Chris Columbus' smash hit family comedy sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
ALT Brenda Fricker became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar, picking up the Best Supporting Actress award for playing Christy Brown's mother in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot.
ALT One of Brenda Fricker's last screen roles was in ITV's adaptation of Graham Norton's rural west Cork comedy thriller Holding.
ALT Playing Dr Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park movies was probably Sam Neill's best known and loved movie role.
ALT Sam Neill caught the eye of many Hollywood producers as Sean Connery's right hand man in a Russian submarine in the gripping Cold War thriller The Hunt For Red October.
ALT Taikia Waititi's New Zealand comedy movie The Hunt For The Wilderpeople handed Sam Neill one of his best screen roles.
ALT Sam Neill relished played a tough Northern Irish cop in the BBC's stylish Birmingham gangster drama Peaky Blinders with Cillian Murphy.