Really Good Time finally release their debut album, Affirmations. Wastefellow talks trust, bananas, Rian Trench and the ...

When Darkest Hour – Churchill-themed and Brexit-shadowed – rumbled into cinemas in 2017, walk-outs were reported by the descendants of murdered Greek partisans and respectable Irish folk whose ...

I remember the day La La Land hit cinemas, ten years ago now. I was twelve, and a raging hater of musicals. I opted to not go see it on the big screen, and that still keeps me up at night. I ...

Corbucci followed Django with the lesser, on account of some racist casting, but still enjoyable Navajo Joe. Wearing a wig that made him look like Natalie Wood, Burt Reynolds stars as the titular ...

The 19th century was a time of turmoil in Europe, as the fallout from the shock of the French Revolution and the realization that real social change was possible continued to reverberate through the ...

When we slot figures neatly onto the plinths of our national pantheon, the heroic status we make often require some scrubbing before they are fit to be viewed by the public. Figures of national renown ...

Marriage is a tricky business, even in a legal sense. Victorian law treated the wife as the servant of the husband, which among other things meant that a wife killing her husband was (up until 1828) ...

Diogenes was born over twenty-four hundred years ago, which is more of a problem than historians like to admit. People didn’t keep great records back then, of course, and not much was written down. Of ...

In general, claims of a new “renaissance” can and should be treated as journalistic exaggeration, but there may be something interesting happening in the world of Irish documentary-making all the same ...

Who doesn’t love a list!? Well, this year we’re giving readers two end-of-year lists for the price of one (free!). We asked our team of film writers for their top movies of 2025, and the following ...

Samuel Morland was born in 1625 in Berkshire, the same year that Charles I ascended to the throne of England. His father was a parish rector. Young Samuel was smart enough to attend Cambridge ...